[fidèle]

Are you implying that McMahon was not in the limo when it exploded?

You know, I think McMahon would do well to clean up his organizations. He should stop looking at the bottom line and instead take a look at his people.

Everyone knows there is no way to get a body like Luger or Steiner unless you use steroids. No amount of physical exersize will do that. McMahon knows this as he has admitted to using steroids.

These wrestlers have no union. They are free to make their own choices, of course, but an organization should care a little bit more about its employees than that.

I guess when you are blinded by greed the only thing that matters at the end of they day is money.

Pathetic.

[tsowellfan]

He took it to the gutter for sure. I liked it when the good guy was the American flag waver and the bad guy was the one whose nationality was of the nation that was the enemy of the times... Iron Shiek, the russian guy...

I guess PC helped kill that

[Sue Perkick]

Roddy Piper screamed that for years. Nobody ever listened. Vince has such a monopoly on wrestling the guys don’t really have anywhere else to go. They have no leverage. There’s TNA, but they can’t pay the way Vince can.

[HitmanLV]

Vince instituted a wellness policy and it has had some teeth - Kurt Angle’s issues led to him being dismissed, for example. After being caught with some MJ, RVD was suspended for a while. Randy Orton has had many behind the scenes screwups and has worked through suspensions (that is, continuing on tv but suffering loss of pay).

The policy is not perfect, of course. But Vince isn’t their father, either. Clearly there is a lot of travel and pressure with the schedule and all. The competition to look good under those circumstances leads people to steroids. The stresses lead to a variety of drugs - painkillers, mj, cocaine, and more.

But you can make a comparable case for the tv and movie business. In fact, you can make a comparable case for many large, powerful law firms, or wall street companies. The bigwigs in those industries aren’t directly responsible, and neither is Vince.

It pains me to come to Vince’s defense, since the guy is a lowlife. But fair is fair - he can’t be considered any more responsible for these problems than any other bigwig. While it doesn’t take him entirely off the hook, it just places it in context.

As for insurance, the premiums for a pro wrestler must be astronomical. I don’t blame Vince at all for not making it his problem. Performers are independent contractors. Vince does offer a nice health plan for his employees. I know - interviewed at WWF back in early 1990 for a staff position. If anything, the health plan is probably better now than it was back then.

I went to law school instead.