Orton, other wrestlers linked to probe of pharmacyAssociated Press
Eleven professional wrestlers, including the WWE's Randy Orton, have joined the list of athletes linked to a nationwide steroids investigation.
Notable names linked to scandal
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How is Chris Masters not listed. That guy looks like a walking roid factory....
I figured to see Masters and possibly Bobby Lashley on the list.
This is shocking.
So will suspensions be involved? Both Edge and Randy Orton are on the WrestleMania card, they are top-tier RAW superstars whose absenses could proably hurt RAW if they were suspended.
Chris Masters was put on hiatus because he did have a drug problem he needed to clean up before returning to WWE.
Rey Mysterio doens't seem like the druggie type, that is a surprise.
So are they trying to say that Eddie Guerrero was not so "sober" for four years like we all thought?
Pro-wrestlers use steroids?
Actually, if you compare Mysterio today to Mysterio of 1996, the difference is pretty amazing.
He had to bulk up to be able to work the "WWE style". You don't see him fly nearly as much as he used to do.
Actually, if you compare Mysterio today to Mysterio of 1996, the difference is pretty amazing.
He had to bulk up to be able to work the "WWE style". You don't see him fly nearly as much as he used to do.
The changes in Eddie Guerrero were pretty significant too.
Edge's response, through his myspace, to the SI story:
Dear Blogees (did I just create a word?)
If you are reading this blog and it sees the light of day, than that means that an article has been written by a Sports Illustrated writer that states I received HGH from a pharmacy in 2003. So, I'll cut right to the chase like I always do. It's true. However, it's not exactly breaking, earth shattering news. It's actually old news. I admitted to this on national television in Canada in 2004 on Off The Record. When host Michael Lansberg asked me if I'd ever taken steroids, without consulting me before the show, I was perturbed, but answered without hesitation, "Yes, I have."
In hindsight, I'm glad he asked the question. It got it out in the open and anyone who follows my career or supports me already knows this information about me. I won't try to defend my actions. I took them when coming back from my spinal fusion neck surgery when I was told by doctors that it would help the bones grow back around the screws and plate that were now inserted in my neck. I'm not glorifying. I'm not condoning. Just telling you why I decided to take them. I took blood tests, consulted doctors, read up, studied them, got prescriptions, and decided to do it. That's pretty much it folks, but I wanted you to get my response straight from me and not through the words of another write. Now as I'm sure most you can tell, I don't take steroids and haven't in a very long time, long before the WWE drug testing wellness policy was implemented. Hell, I barely see the inside of a gym anymore, let alone take performance enhancing substances!
So, in closing, to the columnist (not the Sports Illustrated columnist, but actually another one) who said a "roided up thing called Edge" was at the NHL ALL Star Game a few weeks ago, in 2003, this may have been true. Now, not in the least, as my random urine tests, which have always been negative will attest. I guess I'll take the fact that he thought I was as somewhat of a compliment. To the fact that I've been lucky enough to have been gifted with a 6 foot 5, 240lb body naturally. And finally made it to the top of my industry last year on my own, clean as a whistle. To those, like that columnist and any other naysayers that will hold my past against me? I've made mistakes. Will do so again in the future I'm sure. But I won't hide from them. If you're reading this, you know that's not my style.
Until next time, from everybody's favorite, clean urine,
Edgemiester!
WWE.com responds:
A Statement From World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc.
March 19, 2007
All of the allegations set forth in a recent SI.com article mentioning WWE predate the initiation of WWE