God bless DX!!
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.
You don't like Edge?
I'm thinking ECW buys some time with a sentimental favorite. Sandman? Tommy Dreamer? Please, please not Terry Funk (unless he does his Chainsaw Charlie act again...)
Sandman perhaps? Bring back Al Snow? I really don't know who they could get except perhaps Big Show. But the ECW fans won't like it one bit.
Won't be Terry Funk, I agree. You're right - that's the way to go but the roster is thin in regards to a championship caliber guy. Those two are pretty much it, but they are weak choices in 2006.
SciFi must be mad. Vinnie Mac must be furious. I say Edge as WWE champ and hotshot Cena as the ECW champ that the ECW crowd loves to hate!
You're right. I vote for Lance Storm, but I am a fan of his and I like the idea of a great technical wrestler who is very serious about only one thing: CANADA! HAHA!
Oh snap, Cena as champ - most hardcore ECW would have a HORRENDOUS fit over that...and just the sort of thing that Vince would do (cause Vince has control of ECW now, dontcha know)
Screw all of that DX just did one hell of a job with Melina's ring entry.
It is the sort of thing Vinnie Mac would do.
Unless, of course, he has a prescription for them.
Wow. What a notion. A professional athelete with a prescription for pain medication. Never in a million years would I have thought anyone in that profession would need those.
Wait a minute...
Orlando Jordan not Jones, sorry. Lance Storm, no he's not ECW. I know he's been there in the past but it just doesn't work that well. Chris Benoit perhaps when he comes back? The thing about the ECW champion is they've got to be a dirty player. Cena is really too much of a pretty boy to go over in ECW ever for a long period of time. Edge, perhaps. Would give them a chance to break the Edge/Lita storyline as that's getting old.
Genius! It would have to be a package deal with Al and Head...
I wonder if they'll get the hammerlock like the Palm Beach county DA put on Rush.
Leni
What happened with Orlando Jones? I don't keep up with the behind the scene happenings.
Released back in May
No kidding. As Ross said - The TIVO's are going to get a workout tonight. ;0)
Al Snow is on the ECW page, but has yet to be in any noticeable on-air capacity yet.
God bless DX!!
Damn right and I don't have TiVO bummer!
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