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Wrestling stars busted in Hanging Rock (RVD, Sabu, & Drugs)
Ironton Online ^ | 07/03/2006 | Kirsten Stanley

Posted on 07/03/2006 6:43:01 PM PDT by HitmanLV

HANGING ROCK — Two wrestling superstars from Extreme Championship Wrestling and World Wrestling Entertainment may be tough in the ring, but they didn’t have enough muscle to escape drug charges after being stopped Sunday night by the Ohio State Highway Patrol.

Robert Alex Szatowski, aka WWE and ECW champion Rob Van Dam, and Terry Michael Brunk, aka Sabu, also a former ECW champion, were pulled over on U.S. 52, near Patrick Street in Hanging Rock at about 10:15 p.m. The two were apparently driving from their performances at the Big Sandy Superstore Arena earlier in the evening.

According to the OSHP, Szatowski was initially stopped for speeding. When troopers approached his vehicle, they smelled marijuana and performed a search. Troopers found the wrestler in possession of 18 grams of marijuana and five Vicodin, prescription pain pills. Brunk was charged with possession of drug paraphernalia and also had nine pills that were not immediately identifiable, but were known to be controlled substances, according to the OSHP. Both were cited and posted bond at the scene.

Szatowski, of Battle Creek, Mich., has had a long, successful career with both the WWE and ECW. In addition to being the current champion of both, he has been intercontinental champion six times, hardcore champion four times and has been a part of several championship tag team duos.

He is scheduled to wrestle tonight on WWE Raw and is also wrestling Tuesday night to retain his WWE and ECW titles during the “Extreme Rules Match” on the Sci-Fi channel.

Brunk, who lists his hometown as Bombay, India, on the WWE Web site, has also had a successful career with the ECW, earning world heavyweight championship titles two times and tag team championship honors three times.

Both Brunk and Szatowski are scheduled to appear at 10 a.m. Thursday in Ironton Municipal Court. Both wrestlers won their matches last night in Huntington, W.Va. Van Dam defeated the Big Show and Sabu defeated Justin Credible.


TOPICS: Local News; Sports
KEYWORDS: 420; borracholibre; ecw; rvd; sabu; wrestling; wwe; wwf
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To: Nate505

I think the problem is first, RVD was the standard bearer for the company-- he needed to handle himself better.

Second, the vicodin is important because wrestlers have been dropping like flies and they're trying to address that.

If the WWE found a way to cut down on their hellacious travel schedule, they'd really get to the heart of the painkiller problem, I think... But I wonder how they can.


101 posted on 07/04/2006 6:32:39 PM PDT by mjolnir ("All great change in America begins at the dinner table.")
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To: NewRomeTacitus

I'm sure he does, whch sucks, because the first reports were that Vinnie Mac was going to let Heyman and Tomy Dreamer have pretty much free reign, with Vince having ultimate veto power. However, that turned out to not be true. Considering the hatred Steph has for Paul E., I'm not surprised. If Paul E. ever goes to TNA, that would be excellent. THe smartest thing Vice can do is just get out of the way. Some of Paul's earlier angles were very controversial, and not bad. I could've done without the whole Beulah/Kimona/Tommy Dreamer angle, but that whole thing with Raven, Sandman and Sandman's son was really well done.


102 posted on 07/04/2006 9:23:50 PM PDT by chae (R.I.P. Eddie Guerrero He lied, he cheated, he stole my heart)
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To: chae

EWWWWWW!


103 posted on 07/04/2006 10:08:03 PM PDT by Cheapskate ('Hey there brotha, who you jivin with that cosmic debris?" F.Zappa)
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To: Texas Eagle

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1543681/posts

That's the link to the live thread of the Monday Night Raw they did in Afghanistan for our troops. I suppose that all the soldiers who enjoyed it were drug-addled as well?


104 posted on 07/04/2006 10:16:51 PM PDT by chae (R.I.P. Eddie Guerrero He lied, he cheated, he stole my heart)
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To: chae
that whole thing with Raven, Sandman and Sandman's son was really well done.

It was done so well that McMahon stole it outright (Eddie Guerrero, Rey Mysterio and his son Damien), but Vince's version only ticked off the fans who considered both men to be faces.

How unfortunate that an industry possessing so many devoted fans is largely in the hands of a megalomaniacal creep who has no respect for the athletic aspects of his cash cow. That the fans continue watching and attending DESPITE being subjected to his endless stream of "creativity" (focused mainly on posteriors and bathroom functions) is quite remarkable.

105 posted on 07/05/2006 9:59:42 AM PDT by NewRomeTacitus
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To: NewRomeTacitus
I think Vince actually hates the business & in some twisted way is bent on destroying it. He knows it's not what we want, but it's just about the only show in town. There's no competition anymore. That just about lets him do whatever he wants. He knows we don't want "diva searches" or an aging Torrie Wilson with a bottle of mustard or Candice Michelle & her worn out act.He knows most of hate his "club". But he also knows there are a lot of us who love wrestling so much that we're willing to take the few decent scraps he throws at us.

The guys don't have any real leverage like they used to. It might encourage a few of the prima donnas but I don't think it's good for the business as a whole. If they're not happy about all they can do is go to TNA. But it looks like Jarrett has a death grip on that belt everytime I've checked it out. I'm not sure that promotion is any better.

106 posted on 07/05/2006 10:32:47 AM PDT by Sue Perkick (...heavy strings, tune low, play hard and floor it. Floor it. That's technical talk....)
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To: MikefromOhio
LOL. I didn't know wrestling fans were so thin-skinned.

My advice: Take a long drag on a good doobie or blow it out yer ear.

107 posted on 07/05/2006 4:22:51 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all.)
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To: Texas Eagle
My advice: Take a long drag on a good doobie or blow it out yer ear.

I can't even tell you the last time I watched pro-fake-wrestling. It's probably well before the last time YOU watched it. What I was commenting on is that you can ALWAYS count on someone of YOUR ILK to come by and paint with a broad brush. I'm sure it goes over well in your echo chamber, but it doesn't fly with the rest of the world.
108 posted on 07/05/2006 4:25:45 PM PDT by MikefromOhio (aka MikeinIraq - Foreman of the NAU - Tancredo's Fans = The Deaniacs of 2008)
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To: MikefromOhio
Ohhhhhhhh. So you're beef is against people who make broad brush blanket statements.

Sounds like a personal problem to me.

109 posted on 07/05/2006 4:30:40 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all.)
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To: Texas Eagle
Ohhhhhhhh. So you're beef is against people who make broad brush blanket statements.

Sounds like a personal problem to me.


Well as you've been identified as one who makes such statements, the problem is yours, not mine.
110 posted on 07/05/2006 4:41:09 PM PDT by MikefromOhio (aka MikeinIraq - Foreman of the NAU - Tancredo's Fans = The Deaniacs of 2008)
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To: HitmanLV

Smoking the bud had his gas peddle foot go thud.

Speed kills!


111 posted on 07/05/2006 4:45:44 PM PDT by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: MikefromOhio

Okay. You win.


112 posted on 07/05/2006 4:46:15 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all.)
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To: Texas Eagle

About time you realized it too.


113 posted on 07/05/2006 4:47:10 PM PDT by MikefromOhio (aka MikeinIraq - Foreman of the NAU - Tancredo's Fans = The Deaniacs of 2008)
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To: Sue Perkick; chae
You're exactly right - Vince is a silver spooner who (not so) secretly despises the legacy his father left him. Your mention of the "divas" illustrates that well: when Vince almost killed it off by firing most of the talented women wrestlers for vapid eye-candy he lost interest and turned it over to Stephanie. She brilliantly hired Dean Malenko and later, Fit Finlay, to turn the airheads into athletic actors able to successfully pull off the illusion (remember Lita doing a moonsault onto the edge of the announcer's table neck-first?).

The resulting quarter-hour ratings bump up from the better matches brought this back to Vince's attention...and he promptly put Dave Finlay back on the active roster (Yeah!) but left the women without any knowledgeable veterans guarding their interests or safety. Bottom line - some lady's going to get crippled and V.K. McMahon will be directly responsible.
114 posted on 07/05/2006 4:51:54 PM PDT by NewRomeTacitus (Nashville's fireworks show included our orchestra playing Flair's theme song. Whooo!)
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To: NewRomeTacitus

FYI: Reports are out saying Justin Credible and the Sandman were pulled over inthe same area as well, it's apparently a known speed trap.


115 posted on 07/06/2006 3:44:01 PM PDT by chae (R.I.P. Eddie Guerrero He lied, he cheated, he stole my heart)
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