Total Non-stop Action Wrestling, the second largest wrestling promotion, behind WWE is noted not to have a wellness policy.

TNA must seriously consider establishing a wellness policy as media would normally turn to WWE every time a wrestler gets busted for steroids or drug use.

There are number of reasons why TNA should have a wellness policy. It includes getting the message across that steroids and other performance enhancing drugs are not tolerated in professional wrestling.

TNA gives the impression of offering an open door for anyone using steroids, PEDs and painkillers.

Ex-WWE wrestlers involved in steroids issue usually enter TNA after being released from WWE. This creates a very negative impression on TNA.

Having a wellness policy improves TNA’s credibility, as more viewers become attracted to the company. Many wrestlers also prefer to work in a company with a clean and honest reputation to avoid their reputation from being tarnished in return.

A wellness policy is also one means to control future “accidents” or deaths in the future. Several wrestlers have wasted their life over drugs, stars such as the late Andrew “Test” Martin or Curt “Mr. Perfect” Henning.

Finally, media would less likely criticize pro wrestling if wrestlers come out clean. Nobody wants pro wrestling destroyed just because of controversies such as wrestlers getting caught from using steroids.

From Bleacher report:

Even I have called TNA out on some of these issues but something that grinds my gears about TNA, and something that strangely no one has brought up, is that they have yet to establish a wellness policy.

As of right now, TNA has no wellness policy at all, not even one in basic form.

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Saturday at Pittsburgh, police arrested American professional wrestler Kurt Angle for harassment, violation of a protection order and illegal possession of a prohibited substance.

Angle was arrested by the police at a mall parking lot where he was found harassing his girlfriend who was inside a local coffee shop. According to her sworn statement, she earlier obtained a protection order, an hour and a half earlier, after they fought last Friday. However, Angle violated the protection order when he allegedly kept circling the parking lot and kept staring at her while she sat inside a coffee shop.

Police also discovered Hygetropin inside his car. According to Angle, the human growth hormone was obtained with a doctor’s prescription.

He faced multiple charges of harassment, violation of the order of protection, illegal possession of drugs and paraphernalia and driving under a suspended license. Because of this incident, he was a no show at the Total Nonstop Action event held at Orlando, Florida.

Angle is also an actor and a 1996 Olympic gold medalist. He joined World Wrestling Federation (WWF) in 1998 until 2006. After that, he joined Total Nonstop Action Wrestling. He is the current TNA World Heavyweight Champion.

According to ABC7 News:

MCKEES ROCKS, PA — Pro wrestler and Olympic gold medalist Kurt Angle has been arrested on charges of possessing a human growth hormone and violating an order of protection in suburban Pittsburgh.

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Contrary to previous reports that Vince McMahon did not encourage the use of steroids, it seems that the selection process for wrestlers in the World Wrestling Entertainment had everything to do with the use of the banned substances. Jim Cornette, veteran commentator, promoter and booker for wrestling, expressed his sentiments over the condition of what wrestling has become today.

He says that wrestlers are forced to get into drugs because their professional career relies heavily on their physical appearance – powerful built, extremely muscular and vicious. The only way to achieve this is if they inject anabolics.

From PWTorch:

Cornette views Andrew “Test” Martin as an example of a wrestler being re-hired because he has a certain look and not for any additional talent he could bring to the table. Cornette says Martin probably felt the need to look a certain way, which required use of steroids.

“As far as Test goes, it’s a tragedy that a guy is 33 years old and is gone because he got involved in professional wrestling,” Cornette said recently on the Who’s Slamming Who podcast. “In the old days, everybody was a cowboy and if they did drugs, they did it for recreation because they were making too much money. That’s almost easier to take, to me, than guys feeling like they have to do drugs to keep a job or they have to do drugs because their bodies are so broken down from the style that they get addicted to them.”

Cornette also gave an analyzed that because of the decrease in job opportunities for professional wrestlers and the pressure of giving the audience hardcore entertainment had them turning into drugs. As in the case of Martin who got fire and was re hired because he looked bigger and more muscular, that is after he used steroids. Vince McMahon has to accept the fact that wrestling is a dying business and careers in WWE are short lived especially for the newcomers.

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Steroid use is widespread in the area of sports, especially in the field of wrestling where bulk and strength matter. However, wrestler Kevin Nash said that steroids have lost its popularity especially now that people are not too concerned of the body types they see on TV. Does this mean that the steroids era is about to end?

Decades ago wrestlers found the need to use steroids because TV viewers always rooted for the one who look bigger and stronger but that is not the case anymore. Even Vincent McMahon, promoter for the WWE, doesn’t, and had never, encourage the use of these substances.

From PWTorch.com:

“That was just the era and the look,” Nash said about past steroid use in WWE and WCW. “No promoter told us to take them. Vince never mentioned them. We did it to compete.”

Nash admits he used steroids while wrestling, but he was given a top spot in WWE alongside Shawn Michaels in the mid-1990s because he was clean for WWE’s drug tests.

“I was lucky,” Nash said. “I was the biggest guy that was clean. At that time, bigger was still better. I was in the right place at the right time.”

WWE ended its drug testing policy in 1996 when McMahon felt he couldn’t compete against WCW. Nash says the constant testing took its toll on wrestlers and the company financially.

“We would have an afternoon show at The Spectrum in Philadelphia and they would test us,” Nash said. “We would then go to Hershey (Penn.) that night and they would test us again. After one year of killing the company, they finally got off us.”

In an interview with Bristol press, with the recent controversy in the Major League Baseball about Alex Rodriguez admitting to steroids use and Roger Clemens facing perjury, Nash said the government should focus more on the financial state of the country especially now with the ongoing recession.

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Linda McMahon is not only Vince McMahon’s wife. She is the CEO of the World Wrestling Entertainment, and she had also been called for questioning by the  U. S. Congress with regards to rampant anabolic steroid use in professional wrestling. Linda McMahon’s interview was far more useful than the highly criticized Vince McMahon testimonial. In fact, Linda gave a very interesting comment about Ted Turner, one of America’s most prominent businessmen.

From AOL Sports:

“(W)e had put into place a pretty significant drug policy which he refused to put into place,” Linda McMahon told the investigators, “so (Turner) had a lot of opportunity with some of our top stars, Hulk Hogan being one of them who went with him at that time.”

Later, an investigator asked, “Do you think their lack of drug policy had anything to do with talent moving to WCW?

McMahon answered, “I think it could have, yes.”

Obviously, gone are the days when the then-WWF strongly showed their support for steroid testing policies. From what Linda McMahon pointed out, Turner didn’t openly promote the use of steroids in order to gain more wrestlers. He just kept a blind eye on wrestlers using steroids. It’s no wonder that Turner was able to lure a lot of individuals into joining professional wrestling in the mid-90s. It wasn’t just the smell of money that attracted them; it was the opportunity to get away with steroid use in a profession where you’re looked upon as the next action hero.

Maybe the congress didn’t waste its time getting Linda McMahon’s testimonial, but the question really is: Why didn’t they get one from Ted Turner himself? With such an obvious lead Linda had given then, it makes you question the committee’s efforts in getting behind the steroid action in the world of wrestling.

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It was just recently when Rep. Henry Waxman revealed the wide use of performance enhancing drugs in WWE and TNA. It was only recently when various wrestling officials have been interviewed about this issue. Vince McMahon, the chairman of the World Wrestling Entertainment Board of directors and also a major shareholder, was one of those important figures who spoke up. Unfortunately, not everyone was contented at how he addressed the matter, such as Rich Twilling, who wrote in his article:

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First of all, it quickly became annoying every time Vince claimed he did not understand the questions being asked or said things like, “I do not know where you are going with this.” After Vince’s horrible display of dialing a telephone during the Million Dollar Mania giveaways on Raw, I figured he was out of touch and despite being a great business; he probably was not the sharpest knife in the drawer.

However, for Vince McMahon to pretend he does not know everything going on in his company is ridiculous. Jason Powell and I have discussed Vince’s short term memory on Dot Net Weekly, but come on. Vince’s display was ridiculous, pathetic, and at times humorous. You wonder sometimes if the guy has an ounce of class in his body. In fact, when asked why he pays for rehabilitation programs for former wrestling employees, he responded with, “Two words: public relations.” It almost makes you wonder if he has the annual Tribute to the Troops because he knows the show will make him a public relations darling.

Twilling is very bothered by the fact that McMahon is refusing to answer questions on his own steroid use and pretending not to know anything about the rampant use of these drugs in wrestling. There are many factors that would make you think whether McMahon was lying or not. First of all, he could have just easily said “No, I didn’t use anabolic steroids” if he knew it was the truth. Second, he becomes overly defensive when addressed with the issue. Third, the way he answered seemed like he was putting on a show, just like in regular wrestling matches.

The Oversight Committee shouldn’t be content with the information they get from McMahon. Wrestling is his game and wrestlers, his people. Of course he would do everything to protect them. He isn’t called “the boss from hell” for nothing

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UFC mixed martial arts fighter Justin Levens was found dead along with his wife in their Laguna Niguel condominium in California. Authorities believed it was a case of murder-suicide although investigation is still ongoing to determine exactly the nature of the crime.

“Nothing has been ruled out,” said Orange Country Sheriff’s spokesman Jim Amormino.

The bodies of Levens, 28 and his wife Sara McLean-Levens, 25, were discovered around 2:30 pm Wednesday by the mother of McLean-Levens, saying she got worried when she had not heard from her daughter for five days. When she saw the bodies, the woman dialed 911 for help. The bodies were believed to be in the home for at least a few days.

Orange County Superior Court records indicated that Levens was convicted in 2003 of spousal injury.

His last fight was scheduled July this year, but he was banned before the fight for testing positive for oxymorphone, an opioid analgesic.

This case has spawned suspicions that the crime was caused by roid rage, a term used to refer to aggressive and violent behavior of anabolic steroid users. However, there has been no concrete indication that Levens was abusing steroids.

According to the report of LA Times, no suicide note was found but authorities recovered a handgun at the scene. Police also found huge amounts of pain killers and anti-depressants at the condo but not anabolic steroids.

It has been compared with the Chris Benoit double murder-suicide which was alleged to have been caused also by roid rage. However, people who are involved in the case, including Benoit’s father, linked the wrestler’s murderous behavior to dementia which was believed to be caused by repetitive head concussions

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“Mad Dog” Mike Bell, brother of Chris Bell, writer/director of the highly acclaimed steroid documentary Bigger, Stronger, Faster*, dies at 37. The cause of death is yet undetermined as results of a toxicology report are still pending, according to Poughkeepsie Journal.

Mike was a former pro wrestler for World Wrestling Entertainment and Extreme Championships Wrestling. He was also a football captain at Arlington and also played at the University of Cincinnati on scholarship.

Mike and the whole Bell family – brothers Mark and Chris, and parents Rosemary and Sheldon – were featured in the steroid documentary which tackled anabolic steroid use within the family as well as in American sports.  The film world premiered in January at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival and garnered great reviews.

It was through the film that the public had come to know of Mad Dog’s problems with recreational drugs and alcohol. Prior to his death, he had attempted to stay sober according to Chris. Mike had been living at a sober community in Orange County, Calif., at the time of his death.

“He had decided it was time to clean up his act,” Chris Bell said. “He was 60 days clean and sober and that was a first for him. For our family, it was a big accomplishment for him.”

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A former wrestling coach in Virginia, who has been running from the law for many months, is now back behind bars to await his trial.

Ben Walter Hunter, 40, is now facing 31 criminal counts in Lancaster County, including steroid distribution and child abuse. Hunter was indicted by Rockingham County grand jury in January 2006. Said indictment was based on the allegation of a Lancaster boy whom Hunter had reportedly molested in April 2005.

Hunter, however, was allowed to post bond and visit his parents in Oklahoma. He never came back to face his crimes.

It was only on Oct. 10, 2008, Hunter was apprehended in Phoenix, Arizona. On Nov.17, he was returned to Virginia to face his crimes.

His capture was largely due to the “America’s Most Wanted”, where he was featured several times. A background on Hunter’s case from “America’s Most Wanted” site:

Lancaster County cops and the Virginia State Police say Hunter was a volunteer wrestling coach who turned his attention to one of his young wrestlers. He told the boy that if he wanted to be a state champion, he would need to step up his efforts.

According to investigators, Hunter convinced his victim to take supplements in order to enhance his physical strength. Police determined the so-called “supplements” were actually anabolic steroids.

Police say Hunter cultivated a friendly relationship with the boy’s father, and in this way, had unfettered access to the child. At one point, he even gave the family a computer — a seemingly generous gift. But cops say the real reason for the gift was so he could stay in close contact with the boy.

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With the Summer Olympics in Beijing fast approaching, Chinese anti-doping officials are cracking down on athletes using anabolic steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs.

The Chinese state press has reported on Wednesday that eight of the host country’s athletes have been found of taking banned substances.

Two of the banned athletes were with the China’s national team including backstroke specialist Ouyang Kunpeng and wrestler Luo Meng, according to the Titan Sports Weekly. Ouyang’s lifetime ban from swimming was announced last week.

The athlete’s coaches also received lifetime ban.

According to the same paper, six other athletes at the provincial level have also tested positive for PEDs. All six – two divers, two track athletes, a swimmer, and a weightlifter – are banned from participating in China’s National Games next year.

First time offenders like the 25-year-old Ouyang usually get two-year ban. However, with China hosting the Games on August 8-24, Ouyang’s case could be an effective deterrent to use of illegal substances like steroids and human growth hormone.

Zhao Jian, deputy director general of the China Anti-Doping Agency, explains why some athletes resort to using steroids and other banned compounds.

Zhao says there is a raised expectation from Chinese athletes to perform better because China is the host country. There are also some other factors that come into play that pressure athletes to take risks.
“Because Chinese athletes are competing in front of loved ones, they want to show their best performance with good rankings. This kind of pressure is motivation for athletes to do well, but some of them might take other risks and that’s what we worry about,” he said.

Chinese sports officials have consistently expressed they would rather win no gold medals at the Games than have a single doping case. Consequently, all Chinese athletes selected for the Beijing Olympics will be tested for steroids and other PEDs. Violators will be strictly and publicly punished, Zhao warned last year.

Anabolic steroids, anabolic-androgenic steroids or AAS, are a class of steroid hormones related to the hormone testosterone. They are particularly of interest to athletes because they are known to enhance stamina and physique. However, anabolic steroids can also cause some side effects on users, which include virilizing symptoms on females and gynecomastia on males.

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