Dead wrestler's father blasts McMahon, WWE

[ccharles000]

Harley McNaught was planning to stay silent and grieve. Then he saw what Linda McMahon said about his dead son.

McMahon, the former CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment, was asked last week about the death of McNaught's son, who wrestled for the WWE as Lance Cade and who had struggled with an addiction to painkillers before being released by the company, then dying earlier this month of heart failure.

"I might have met him once," McMahon said as she insisted that the company could not be blamed for deaths of its employees outside the ring.

That response has left Harley McNaught and his son's other survivors furious.

http://theday.com/article/20100826/NWS12/308269378/1018

[pipoman]

1. These guys die young because they choose to abuse their bodies..

maybe that doesn't feel good to the families, the same families who watched as their loved ones busted chairs over their heads and pumped up on the 'roids, yet did nothing, or were unable to do anything to stop the self destructive behavior. I can let the families have their grief, but blaming McMahon for the poor decisions of the loved one is a bit disingenuous, no?

BTW, why is this in GDP?

[Jennicut]

2. Oh, this is just another death in a long line of them. The McMahons have a history

of using wrestlers and basically treating them like trash. Linda McMahon said she "might" have met this young man once but his father said she came up to him twice at different functions for WWE and knew his son by name. She really loves the dollars these guys bring in but when they get hurt and then take painkillers she and her husband simply drop them like yesterday's news. I don't want her as my Senator and this is just one of the many reasons.

[Alcibiades]

3. Compare this to the outrage over Clemens

Clemens is an asshole. Maybe he used steroids to bulk up, maybe he used them as an anti-inflammatory to lengthen his career. Maybe he lied about it, but, let's face it, if every Bush official who lied to Congress had been indicted, they would all be in prison.

The point is, no matter what the problem of steroids and other drugs in MLB, it does not even begin to compare to the problem in the WWE.

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