Just yesterday we presented the news that Congress was planning a hearing to investigate the prevalence of steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs in professional wrestling. Now, SI.com is reporting that 14 wrestlers have been tied to a steroids/HGH pipeline. Their list of wrestlers implicated in the scandal includes Chris Benoit, Eddie Guerrero, Chavo Guerrero, Shane Helms, Randy Orton, John Hennigan, Ken Anderson, Shoichi Funaki, Brian Adams, Charles Haas, Edward Fatu, Darren Matthews, Adam Copeland, and Sylvain Grenier.As a response, the WWE recently suspended 10 wrestlers for violating the company's drug policy. MJD quite humorously pointed out the euphemism employed by the WWE to describe the suspensions as violations of the company's "wellness policy." Right, and I'm a professional sportswriter. It's good to see the WWE taking some action towards suppressing the use of illegal drugs in the sport, which has ultimately proved to be quite dangerous. It makes you wonder though, will the product suffer as a result?
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8-31-2007 @ 12:00PM
Fantasysportsmatrix said...
Gosh, I'm so surprised. Given the recent deaths of Chris Benoit and Eddie Guerrero and the strange deaths of other wrestlers in the past, this appears to just be scratching the surface. Pro Wrestling (entertaining as it is) needs for its survival to at least clean this up, since many hardcore sports fans see it as less than, ahem, legitimate. It's a moneymaker for sure, but it's got plenty of competition from the likes of UFC and boxing.
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8-31-2007 @ 12:02PM
savinbiller said...
I've been a fan of wrestling for over 20 years now. I'm wondering if the sport can honestly rebound from this as well as other events in the past that will be brought up.
Kick some ass Vince!!!
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8-31-2007 @ 10:06PM
Ebscer said...
How do you cheat in a sport in which the winner is predetermined??? Does it even matter?
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9-20-2007 @ 1:31PM
Cathy said...
HGH is not a steroid
HGH is not a steroid and the body reacts totally differently to it than steroids. Performance enhancing, especially at the pro level, can be just a sliver that makes the difference between success or failure. If an athlete can work 10% harder in the gym, last 10% longer, and recouperate 10% faster than someone who doesn’t use HGH, than that might make the sliver of difference. If the breaking ball bites a bit more or the batter reacts a nanosecond sooner, that’s the sliver we are talking about.
HGH is approved by the FDA for over the counter sales in homeopathic solutions. No doctor’s prescription is necessary. So a baseball player can use it without breaking any US laws. It’s not allowed by Major League Baseball but there is no test that will show homeopathic HGH in the body. Since homeopathic HGH oral sprays achieve 60%-80% of the same results as injected HGH, is legal, cheaper, does not involve hypodermic needles, it’s absolute idiocy that these baseball players are getting busted for HGH usage.
There are at least 30 websites, http://www.21stcenturyhgh.com is the most popular with athletes, that sell the homeopathic HGH oral sprays perfectly legally. All homeopathic remedies, whether they be for allergies, the flu, or enhanced athletic performance, are extremely gentle to the system. A good story about the misleading reports about HGH and baseball can be found here http://www.21stcenturyhgh.com/hgh-newsstories-baseball-confusion.htm
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