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.
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.
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.
EWWWWWW!
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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?
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.
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.
My advice: Take a long drag on a good doobie or blow it out yer ear.
Sounds like a personal problem to me.
Smoking the bud had his gas peddle foot go thud.
Speed kills!
Okay. You win.
About time you realized it too.
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.
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