Chris Benoit and family found dead

Well no fucking shit.

 

The six falsest words in the English language: WWE's independently administered drug testing program.

 

I guess techincally he could have shoved steroids down her throat until she choked

 

Why is the WWE, essentially, defending steroids? How dare you, sirs, sully the good name of steroids by linking them with these monstrous acts!



(we know why, of course, but it's more than a bit intellectually dishonest.)

 

This is nothing but damage control by the WWE.

Steroids played a huge part in this senselessness, pure and simple. And I don't believe for a minute that someone with that chiseled of a body was not on steroids.

 

Next thing you know, WWE is going to claim that all of its wrestlers, including HHH (with torn quads on both legs), Snitsky, Bobby Lashley and others got their bodies by hard work and good eating. And the zits all over Snitsky's back is just puberty.

 

Wrestling fans -- and I was among you at one point, briefly -- would you support this product if the athletes were less defined, less monstrously muscular? Would the massive fan base at large?

That is, of course, to set aside the separate issue of grueling travel and performance demands leading to painkiller dependence.

 

Wonder how many WWE lawyers spent time on that statement today.

 

The biggest reason why I no longer followed wrestling like I once did was all of this McMahon-steroid bullshit.

I followed wrestling long before steroids was a common word. Harley Race, Terry Funk, Dory Funk Jr., Jack Brisco -- tell me those guys took steroids. And every one of them were considered the best in the business.

Pro wrestling got along fine without steroids. But now that the younger generations have been captivated by the John Cenas and Bobby Lashleys of the wrestling world, going back is likely not an option. Every time I show my son video of my childhood wrestlers he thinks they're boring.

 

I would, but I've been a fan for around 21 years.

Problem is, it's Vince McMahon setting the bar. And he loves bodybuilders, going so far as trying to create his own Mr. Olympia with the World Bodybuilding Federation, which makes the XFL look like the printing press as durablity goes. So you get guys like Chris Masters and Snitsky and Bobby Lashley joining your Triple Hs and Batistas. Even John Cena, a "small" man by wrestling standards, is built like a brick shithouse. If you're not superbuilt, you'd better be supersized. Otherwise, why bother. The closest thing they have to a normal looking guy is Trevor Murdoch (and that ain't saying much). Hell, even tiny Rey Mysterio has serious definition.

Characters carry the day, and that's why Austin, Rock and Cena are the success stories. But they wouldn't get the chance if they didn't have the look, and to McMahon, that means muscles. And that's the source of the Nile.

 

I would throw CM Punk and Jeff Hardy into that mix ... well, not so much the normal part, but they don't have much muscle definition.

But Hardy has had other drug problems due to painkillers and other crap ... after putting his body through high-risks moves. Got him released from WWE, then hired back after a brief stint in TNA.

 

So Vince is the bottom-line problem. When's he scheduled to die?