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Wow.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/conten...32a93f3ac8898f3 Did any cable systems suddenly move USA around?

If there was a glitch like that, though, it would probably be decent sized news, and it probably wouldn't be as big as the number dropping by 26%.

That's old style "WWE is the universe" thinking. We've had that already. How's it working out? Whatever WWE does to fix this has to be outside Raw as we know it. Simply adding in concepts that have already been done or names that have already been worked won't do it. We need a new Monday wrestling template with a new creative czar, new voices to hear each week, maybe even a new Monday show not called Raw. That's what 2.5 means. If you sincerely believe that John Cena vs Rod Strong with Rod going over would pop the Raw ratings, then you are hallucinating. That or you're really, really unintelligent.

yes, countless times, like those episodes of Donahue and Larry King circa 1993 - that's at least um... TWICE! And all of the times he's been interviewed since during every story that's hit the mainstream, you fucking idiot. He's media's go-to guy for wrestling.

1. Name another industry where your superiors make fun of you publicly for getting off drugs. 2. So basically, every journalist is a bad person because they make money reporting on bad things? 3. 2.56% of SNL performers died from drugs or suicide. Someone else dig up the Wrestlemania percentage, I can't it's a hell of a lot higher. 4. The stupidity of most of you is nauseating.

The Wrestling Observer Newsletter has been mentioned on TV countless times, though.

Bob Ryder compared the death rates of SNL and wrestling. 7 of SNL's 117 cast members/featured players have died in 32 years. 2 from drugs, 1 was murdered, 1 cerebral hemorrhage possibly tied to a history of migraines, 1 committed suicide, and 2 died from cancer. It's a bullshit argument. Meltzer is a reporter who gets close to some of the subjects on his beat. He's proud of the work he does, and also hates it when people get details that he put out wrong. Of course he should promote the newsletter. At the very least, Meltzer was close to Pillman, Candido, and Guerrero.

He was also surprisingly complimentary towards WWE for someone who is meant to have this fierce anti-WWE bias. It was a very good piece, which I think a lot of people should read. It was a really good read. I've loved a lot of Meltzer's coverage throughout this whole Benoit ordeal. I also don't believe he has an anti-WWE bias but rather this story blowing up makes his life is a lot more interesting, his profile and readership higher. I don't necessarily think he wants to bring down Vince but he'd have the time of his life covering it while it happened. Yes, I'm sure Meltzer LOVES IT when his friends & acquaintances die.

Well then, I think congress should investigate and push for regulation of comedy entertainment. I mean, look at the number of deaths of talent affiliated with Lorne Michaels? SNL encouraged the drug problems of John Belushi, Chris Farley, Chevy Chase and Robert Downey Jr. I mean, Chevy Chase was hooked on pain pills because those damn writers kept writing him to fall down the steps on every episode! I wouldn't be surprised if SNL was somehow responsible for Gilda Radner's cancer or the Phil Hartman murder suicide. Dana Carvey's heart condition? I'm sick and tired of my favorite comedians dying! Mitch Hedberg and Richard Jenni are the last straw! This business chews you up and spits you out. And we all know that fans respond to comedians more who are on drugs! They get the biggest laughs! YOU HAVE TO DO DRUGS TO BE FUNNY and get a push! I don't care if comedy isn't a sport! Comedians need to be tested state to state by athletic commissions to ensure they are clean! Wow, Bob Ryder posts here? I hope you choke to death on Abyss's semen.

Umm, the cover story of Monday's issue was about the MMA failures and how to deal with the problem in both MMA and wrestling.

If we are then okay...I really had no idea what your point was.

Are you implying that Petey Williams DOESN'T look roided up? He totally does. It's really, really obvious. It's really obvious for all of the former Team Canada, between their physiques and the fact that whoever their source is gives them nasty stuff that destroyed their hairlines really fast. ROH has a bunch of guys who are really obviously roided up. Tank Toland (duh), B.J. Whitmer, Brent Albright, and Austin Aries (though he has shrunk recently) stand out. I'm sure there are a bunch more. Note everyone whose backs are broken out from the same icky steroid source. Also, all of your WWE "little guys" were really obviously on steroids at various points so I'm not sure what you're trying to say anyway.

Kurt Angle and Joey Matthews still would've been fired without the policy. WWE was generally pretty vigilant about trying to help painkiller & street drug addicts post-Pillman.

So... Will WWE rack up lots of overtime with the shredder, or is it pointless to do so unless Aegis Labs does the same?

Yes, the Michael Vick story, which has been leading.

$39,000 downside, a continuation of the OVW salary. Says who? If he said it in an interview, he's lying, as wrestlers do professionally. A $5 million year would be up the with the biggest money year of any wrestler in history, and I doubt Cena is up there. A lot of guys ARE skirting the tests and using other people's urine, because, y'know, they can't afford the best steroids or find a mark doctor who will give then a scrip. If Angle died, more people would be defending WWE because it's known they tried to help him.

Well, this is kind of my point, if someone's heart was red flagged, wouldn't that take them off the road? Were there even any specifics of the cardio testing in the original public policy?

Has anyone ever actually gotten any sort of heart test done? You would think there have to be some guys with badly damaged tickers that would've been caught by now.

It was all testosterone cypionate. Also, no, he was getting 10 months' worth every 3-4 weeks FOR A YEAR.

No, he failed steroid tests and only had internet prescriptions.

DIFFERENT STEROIDS DO DIFFERENT THINGS AND DON'T ALL MAKE YOU BULKY. Undertaker's skull has grown eerily and he mysteriously developed 6 pack abs at 42 years old on the road to Wrestlemania while working his roughest schedule in years. How do you explain that? Also, Kurt Angle, for all of his problems, never failed a drug test for excessive painkillers. His failure was for the steroid decadurabolin. His prescription had expired, so he failed the test. Plus, y'know, Benoit was prescribed TEN MONTHS' WORTH OF TESTOSTERONE EVERY THREE TO FOUR WEEKS. PAY ATTENTION FOR CHRISSAKES.

Since not everyone in WWE can afford HGH (and I'm sure nobody's doing The Clear), it would catch A LOT more guys than it is now.

What type of idiotic strawman argument is that? Do you just expect the NFL to magically invent a test that can detect The Clear? It took DECADES to develop a test for HGH, and all they have so far is a blood test that only detects it immediately after the subject has injected it.

WWE puts pressure on wrestlers to use steroids and has a horrible policy to curtail abuse, though.