Hall Of Fame Airing On USA Network; ECW Rating; WWE Pulls Randy Orton From Media Appearances; Gregory Helms Comments On SI Steroids Story
WWE will air a one hour special covering the 2007 Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony on the USA Network. The scheduled airing is Midnight EST on Saturday 3/31. There was a rumor another airing could occur the afternoon of 4/1 or later in the week. Nothing has been substantiated about the 2nd airing at this time.
ECW for 3/20/07 scored a 1.6 rating this week.
WWE has pulled Randy Orton from all scheduled media appearances. WWE has not provided any real public reason behind the move. It's obvious that it had to do with the Sports Illustrated article revealing Orton's Steroid Da Jour. WWE fails to realize that sooner or later, Orton will be confronted about the use and abuse. Unless they plan on never allowing him to do a media appearance again. In my opinion, they are probably trying to figure out a bull**** story as to why Orton took them. And once the story sounds good and Orton is prepped, you'll see him magically appear on interviews once again.
Gregory Helms posted the following comments on his Myspace page regarding the recent Sports Illustrated article linking him to the steroids scandal:
Now, before I clear the air, I wanna ask a question. If you get hurt and a doctor prescribes you a medicine/drug and therapy to help you and you take it, did that become wrong somewhere? Did I miss a meeting? No need to answer because apparently the answer is yes. Apparently pro wrestlers never get hurt and if they do they aren't allowed to get treatment. So anyway, here's the story, several years ago I had hurt my knee and was advised by 2 different doctors to undergo this particular therapy. I didn't ask for it, hell, I didn't even know about it, all I knew is that I didn't want to have to have surgery. Not to mention that I would like for my life after wrestling to be as painless as possible. I won't be able to wrestle forever and I would hope that I'm entitled to the best quality of life availalbe to me when that time comes. I would like to think that it's well in my human rights to take whatever a doctor tells me to if it helps my condition and relieves my pain. Isn't that what everyone goes to a doctor for? Shane Helms committed no crime and did absolutely nothing illegal. And that is a FACT!!! Trust me, there are a million ways to get any kind of legal or illegal medicine/drug you want. However, I was under the assumption that going thru a doctor, getting treatment and therapy for a totally LEGAL medicine was the right way to go about dealing with this particular injury. And this injury that might have led to surgery had I not taken the therapy that I did. It's strange how that part of the story was conveniently left out! Besides, look at me! I'm not 300 lbs of muscle, the biggest I've ever been is 215, I'm not abusing ANYTHING other that the abuse my body takes doing the job I love. Hell, I didn't even drink alcohol until I was 27.
Now I get that this "reporter" was just doing his job and was only using certain names from his list to sensationalize the article. And I guess it makes it sound more colorful to use the name Hurricane although I haven't been The Hurricane in almost 2 years now. Hell I guess this guy can pretty much get away with saying whatever he feels, I honestly don't know. I don't know him and I don't even deal with that particular Doctor anymore either. And if that Doctor did anything wrong himself, as long as it didn't involve me it shouldn't concern me or be directed towards me.
Am I making an excuse? Not at all. Making up an excuse would be admitting that I did something wrong or illegal. I did neither. I'm just a guy that has torn his body to shreds for the job he loves. And there are times that I've had to do to the hospital and get different kinds of medicines/drugs/whatever to help me heal. I'm not Wolverine, I can't heal from every injury instantaneously. I get hurt! And I'll get hurt again. I've said a million times, I never got into wrestling for the fame or the fortune, I got into because I genuinely love it. I put 100% of my heart into it and unfortunately my body pays the price. That's not a complaint, that's simply . . . reality.
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