It is not surprising that other wrestlers will blame the wrestling organization for the steroid scandals and steroid related deaths of most wrestlers. It is an easy scapegoat for some wrestlers to put the organization like the WWE or TNA for the rampant steroid use in the sport. In our previous report, Mr. Kennedy already aired his side on what his views on the Wellness program of the World Wrestling Entertainment. He was not happy how the WWE conduct its steroid testing program.

Now, another personality form the wrestling arena gave his negative comments on the status of the WWE and the professionals wrestlers. Jim Cornette said in a podcast that wrestling business is on its worst after 25 years. Right now, wrestlers are addicted to drugs and they are somehow being pressured to take performance enhancing drugs that will make them more acceptable in the WWE. Today’s wrestling is based more on the looks of the wrestlers rather than their abilities.

He made as an example the case of Andrew Test Martin who was found dead in his home in Florida. The death of the wrestler was blamed on steroids and other prohibited substances. Cornette assumed that “Test” resorted to drugs just to be back in the WWE.

The following statements were qouted from the pwtorch.com. In the article, Jim Cornette believes that the steroid related deaths in WWE can be blamed on McMahon since there were few jobs that they can offer to the wrestlers and the need to be big and look great.

“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. 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.”

“This business has turned into something that eats its young. When he (Martin) got fired from WWE, I understand John Laurinaitis saw a picture of him when he was really jacked up and bigger than ever and that’s when they hired him. The hiring practice falls right in line with what Vince McMahon likes. They looked at a picture of a guy who’s jacked up and muscular and said, ‘Oh, we have to hire him back.’ The only difference from when they didn’t want the guy to when they wanted him was the steroids.”

And on Cornette’s view if the professional wrestlers should also share some part of the blame, he said no even if they have a personal choice to take or not to take steroids.

“It’s not the guy’s fault. The wrestlers want to do what they feel they have to do - what is demonstrated they have to do - to get a job in their chosen profession. They (WWE) always seem to go back to hiring guys when they look great, then they tell them, ‘oh, by the way we do drug testing, so get off the stuff,’ but half the time the reason the got the job is because they were on the stuff.”

“The huge crowds that wrestling used to draw on a regular basis where a bunch of guys were employed and making a living in this business has been constricted down to the big circus show of Vince McMahon. TNA is struggling to try to compete as the only national competition. There are fewer people making a living in professional wrestling now than ever before.”

“You’ve made guys either steroid freaks or they’re addicted to pain pills because you have to hit each other five times as hard to get the same response. Instead of having a 30-year career, they have a five-year career, maybe if they make it. Just as they get a taste of stardom, they lose their jobs because the writers don’t have anything for them.”

With these remarks from Jim Cornette, we are sure that Vince McMahon will retaliate and will defend WWE and his wrestlers. For the readers and fans, we know what is the reality in the wrestling world. So whatever they say, everybody in the sport should do their part to address the problem and they should not blame other people for the current status in WWE or TNA.

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