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TNA did drug testing several weeks back and wrestlers did fail tests, were told that they had failed tests, and there was no disciplinary action nor suspensions over at least some if not all of the failures. The basic message is people are still doing what they were doing, and there were people concerned after the testing because some knew they would fail. The monitoring of the testing was also said to not be at WWE level, where you have someone watching you and your pants have to be below your knees and shirt above your nipples to make sure you aren’t sneaking someone else’s urine into the testing.Un-be-fucking-lievable. This company defines bush-league. Why have the drug tests if you weren't going to do anything about them? Maybe that's what gets people to go into that festering sinkhole of mediocrity-at-best.
TNA will not compete with the WWE until they have a drug policy that doesn't involve finding talent a better dealer if they fail. Stoned workers are sloppy workers, and given what tripe they've been producing on the storyline department, their writers should be subjected to random drug tests as well.
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it does get kind of hard to support a company like this when guys like Jeff Hardy and Kurt Angle are so clearly abusing drugs, and the people around them seem to either not care, or not notice it. I recently read Jeremy Borash tweet about how "cool" it was when he saw Angle pop his rib back into place and go wrestle. That's "cool?" That's fucked up, and I wouldn't let one of my friends destroy themselves like that.
ReplyDeleteAre you insane? Of all the things you pick on TNA about, you pick on them for drug testing? Do you REALLY think that WWE is trying to crack down on drugs *cough*steroids*cough*??? Especially when the owner is a 67 year old juice head??? Really??
ReplyDeleteNo one's doing anything about drugs, the WWE testing policy is only there because congress was breathing down their necks. It's like no one cares about their performers anymore.
ReplyDeleteBut the WWE's Wellness Policy, while flawed, is a step in the right direction.
Yeah, I forgot steroids were the only drugs that wrestlers abused. Yep. And yep, like drug testing and making an example of the Chairman of the company is ever going to happen. AH HAVE SEEN DA ERRA OF MAH WAYS~! ...pause... NOT
ReplyDeleteThe fact is that while the WWE has a flawed Wellness policy, it's still one that is way better than the "nothing" it had before and the "nothing" that TNA has now. Select guys like Trips may not be subject to it, but your selective memory is galling and dishonest. Fact: Randy Orton, Jeff Hardy, Ken Anderson (back before he fell out of favor with the company) and Rey Mysterio all got suspensions that were wellness related. Fact: Umaga and Carlito were both FIRED because of their refusal to go to rehab to clean up from painkiller addictions. Fact: Matt Hardy's abuse of somas was a major concern and a huge reason why the painkiller has now been banned.
So yeah, in light of all the facts in place, I will call out TNA's laughable ignorance of positive drug tests and won't be surprised if any of their chronic drug abusers (and Rob, I have to disagree with you here, I think Angle's cleaned up his act for the most part nowadays) drop dead in the next year.