My second show as Producer
It also features my highlight, Transmission Zero One. This week is my screed on the use of steroids.
Just to clear up on things. unlike many who turned into Baseball fans when news broke out that that 22 out of 30 failed drug tests were from MMA, my screed was more for the health of the fighters. I've seen too many fall to the needle and the pill, I don't need to see anymore in a legit sport.
Thursday, July 26, 2007
Thursday, July 5, 2007
Spinning the WWE way.
I believe there are many of you out there in other fields of combat sports who maybe intrigued by the Benoit situation. A lot of you might not be, but those who are please read further.
Right now, in terms of this case, besides the arrest of Benoit's personal doctor, this has been a very slow news week. While prominent wrestlers have come out and spoken up about the pro wrestling industry, the media is dead set in framing the way they http://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gifwant this case to go.
Right now, we're going to put that aside and look at how the WWE is controlling things with the media.
Last week, we had WWE put out an "anti-steroid" press release to the media. While it's normal for WWE to send press releases saying that they were anti-steroid and that their "wellness policy" is working, this was totally the wrong time to do it. Especially when the tox report hadn't come out yet. So now they have Jerry McDevitt, their lawyer, doing damage control
Speaking of damage control, The WWE gave warning that they'll be testing soon. So the next couple weeks, everyone is going to try to clean everything up for the "surprise Wellness test". Keep in mind, this will be a fixed test. They are going to try the best they can to make it look like they're making effort instead of making one in the first place.
So after the next couple weeks, they will have a list of those who didn't "pass". There will be three types of people.
1.) People that pretty much floating around. These are people who are on the roster that are more or less there. No one has any "story" for them, they mostly put on great matches on the "D" shows and some who have been put back in the farm for seasoning. They'll release them under the guise of "Wellness". and then when everything theoretically "cools down", they get brought back in.
2.) People that management or Front of House doesn't like. This is a perfect way to get rid of people that pretty much go against the grain on how you're supposed to act within the business. This can go anywhere from logically asking questions so one can better carry angles to something extreme as say.....just the look of your face or what school you came from. Or the very extreme of getting Pop more then an established figure made by the company.
3.) People they can't cover anymore. These are the guys that constantly fail and because the situation they're in, just cut all ties if not to show they're "doing their job", then to make sure he's as far away as possible in case the wrestler expires.
Now is everyone under the 'scope. No. I do believe that out of the whole roster.....seven guys will just go through the motions, maybe take a small pay cut. I take that back, six guys. One guy's made no matter what.
But the rest of the roster is under the knife. Clean or gassed. And then they'll say "See! We're doing something about it! We're drug free!"
Wash, rinse and repeat for a couple months and the WWE will be nusense free. It'll be logic free. But it won't be steroid free. Especially if the the test they're taking has a 10:1 testosterone/epitestosterone count to aim for. How is this so bad you say?
Athletic commission levels are 4:1
WADA (World Anti-Doping Alliance) levels are 6:1
And if they get caught, they can whip out a doctor's note stating "testosterone replacement therapy"
10:1 is replacement therapy?
Anyways, they'll keep doing this until either the heat on them dies down or....I don't know....they run out of people.
And then it'll be business as usual.
Like nothing had happened.
For those of you reading this, I don't want that to happen. The days of "but they're just pro-wrestlers" are over. The days of ignorance is over. There needs to be heavy reform called from both inside and outside of the industry. Either call your athletic commissions and tell them to search for ways to regulate or bar and ban the WWE for good from the state. Send them a message that human lives are not cogs to the great MacMahon machine and unless they change or reform, they are no longer welcome.
This constant spin must stop and it must stop now.
Right now, in terms of this case, besides the arrest of Benoit's personal doctor, this has been a very slow news week. While prominent wrestlers have come out and spoken up about the pro wrestling industry, the media is dead set in framing the way they http://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gifwant this case to go.
Right now, we're going to put that aside and look at how the WWE is controlling things with the media.
Last week, we had WWE put out an "anti-steroid" press release to the media. While it's normal for WWE to send press releases saying that they were anti-steroid and that their "wellness policy" is working, this was totally the wrong time to do it. Especially when the tox report hadn't come out yet. So now they have Jerry McDevitt, their lawyer, doing damage control
Speaking of damage control, The WWE gave warning that they'll be testing soon. So the next couple weeks, everyone is going to try to clean everything up for the "surprise Wellness test". Keep in mind, this will be a fixed test. They are going to try the best they can to make it look like they're making effort instead of making one in the first place.
So after the next couple weeks, they will have a list of those who didn't "pass". There will be three types of people.
1.) People that pretty much floating around. These are people who are on the roster that are more or less there. No one has any "story" for them, they mostly put on great matches on the "D" shows and some who have been put back in the farm for seasoning. They'll release them under the guise of "Wellness". and then when everything theoretically "cools down", they get brought back in.
2.) People that management or Front of House doesn't like. This is a perfect way to get rid of people that pretty much go against the grain on how you're supposed to act within the business. This can go anywhere from logically asking questions so one can better carry angles to something extreme as say.....just the look of your face or what school you came from. Or the very extreme of getting Pop more then an established figure made by the company.
3.) People they can't cover anymore. These are the guys that constantly fail and because the situation they're in, just cut all ties if not to show they're "doing their job", then to make sure he's as far away as possible in case the wrestler expires.
Now is everyone under the 'scope. No. I do believe that out of the whole roster.....seven guys will just go through the motions, maybe take a small pay cut. I take that back, six guys. One guy's made no matter what.
But the rest of the roster is under the knife. Clean or gassed. And then they'll say "See! We're doing something about it! We're drug free!"
Wash, rinse and repeat for a couple months and the WWE will be nusense free. It'll be logic free. But it won't be steroid free. Especially if the the test they're taking has a 10:1 testosterone/epitestosterone count to aim for. How is this so bad you say?
Athletic commission levels are 4:1
WADA (World Anti-Doping Alliance) levels are 6:1
And if they get caught, they can whip out a doctor's note stating "testosterone replacement therapy"
10:1 is replacement therapy?
Anyways, they'll keep doing this until either the heat on them dies down or....I don't know....they run out of people.
And then it'll be business as usual.
Like nothing had happened.
For those of you reading this, I don't want that to happen. The days of "but they're just pro-wrestlers" are over. The days of ignorance is over. There needs to be heavy reform called from both inside and outside of the industry. Either call your athletic commissions and tell them to search for ways to regulate or bar and ban the WWE for good from the state. Send them a message that human lives are not cogs to the great MacMahon machine and unless they change or reform, they are no longer welcome.
This constant spin must stop and it must stop now.
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