Credibility

gimmick

Since the Benoit tragedy the noise coming from the media and non fans have been basically "told you all along, they are all juice monkeys". Now in the mean time, Edge has gotten injured and was replaced by possibly the least talented and least credible 'performer' ever seen to wear a title in the 'Great' Khali. We have also seen in the last few weeks Snitsky, the picture of an angry steroid user, getting a push on WWEs flagship show. These two instances alone are not going to allay the medias pursuit to expose steroids as a major infleunce in pro wrestling.

Now, we all know the WWE have a wellness policy since the death of Eddie Guerrero, but again, since the death of Benoit, this has been shown to be a sham. Basically a fella can be taking whatever the hell he wants as long as he has a valid prescription. Benoit himself had a valid prescription, but was reckoned to be taking months worth of pain pills in the space of a small few weeks. Fellas who havent had such a prescription have been shown the door, namely Renee Dupree and Test.

Test is a prime example of a guy who bulked up in order to get the push. Unfortunately for him , he just never really had the look, talent nor charisma to get anywhere (and Snitsky does????). But where does he end up immediately? TNA, the haven of the WWE reject, a company who have no wellness policy, and have been lucky that they have not had a major scandal as yet. Now if the media even relaised TNA existed they would have a field day, seeing the likes of Kurt Angle, Scott Steiner, the aforementioned Test etc going on and on taking what they please with impunity.

Even come of the big leagues and look at ROH. I was shocked and dissapointed to see the amount of Bacne on the wrestlers when I was in Liverpool a few months ago, which plainly suggested that the fellas there are no more adverse to using performance enhancing and body building drugs than anyone else in the industry.

To finish, and Ill try and find a link to this again, but recently Vince sent Johnny Ace to some bodybuilding grand prix to find new talent. All they had to have was the look - 6'3+ and 250lbs+. Is this the reason fellas are taking such drugs, because they know that despite their talent they wont get a chance becuase they are not the required size?

So, has wrestling lost all credibilty, much like professional cycling with the obvious and now publicised use of stimulants and enhancers?

For all the above reasons I would have to say yes, it has lost whatever credibility it had.

Vince135792003

I think cycling has more credibility than wrestling because for the first time it appears cycling as a whole is saying "Yes we have a problem and we want to fix it". While in wrestling the basic message coming out is "Everything is fine. Media please go away".

ShawnRaven

gimmick wrote:

Test is a prime example of a guy who bulked up in order to get the push. Unfortunately for him , he just never really had the look, talent nor charisma to get anywhere

I wouldn't say he NEVER had it. He got pushed pretty heavily in his debut year, had one of the best matches of the Summerslam 99 PPV with Shane while Rock v Billy Gunn stunk up the joint! He actually did have the look to be pushed when he joined, juicing up really wasn't required for him. Now he just looks bloated. Big problem with Test was that he got stuck in the tag team shuffle for too long that nobody cared. Albert? Scott Steiner? Seriously, would you care? And why!

Once the Test/Steph angle died, unfortunately so did the rest of his career.
VR!

Fozzy

Vince likes big guys, that can't be denied. Unfortunately WWE is the only promotion outside of Japan that has tv time and pays very good. It's the place most wrestlers aspire to work. When they see non-talented guys making big money and becoming famous simply because they're big, it puts them under pressure to be big. I wouldn't blame Vince for starting the trend of pressurising guys to take steroids, but he sure does do a lot in allowing it to continue. At the moment I think it all comes back to WWE and their continued pushes of big guys with little talent. And WWE have been dire in their dealings with the media recently, they lose credibility practically every time someone from the company does an interview or they do a press release