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 LOVE the idea of DX coming back!
IMHO, I just don't see that workin out.
Could they get away with bringing Matt Hardy into ECW?
Sandman can't wrestle. Something about a disability.
Styles and Gertner partnered as well as Gorilla Monsoon and Bobby "the Brain" Heenan.
I'm sure he's a nice guy. But you don't get a "shot" at the championship in Studio Wrestling. It's either written in the script, or its not.
If you accussed the press of being workaholics, you'd be accusing innocent people.
Orlando Jordon is an open bi-sexual and has been released (sort of related, sort of not related reasons).
You really don't want to see the proof of his open bisexuality.
Didn't matter, they fired him, and he is an open bisexual.
He's talking about the company giving him a shot, meaning they think he can increase ticket and merchandise sales and ratings.
Fire RVD? For that? You got to be kidding. They let that steroid freak Test back into ECW, but a bag of weed = firing?
I don't know - he's had a lot of time off, but you never really do get the severity of some of these injuries because, well...because...look, I don't know how to put this, but it's because sometimes those rasslin' commentators fib to us.
OK, so call me "Mr. Cynical"...
Rumor is he was released because his boyfriend wasn't of legal age.
I kind of agree, but disagree. How is it that 2 guys who were on the cover of High Times magazine weren't nailed by the wellness progam before this? I mean, Mercury is in rehab and Chris Masters got nailed for 'roids. I tend to believe they are only catching the violators they want to catch.
ECW is in trouble, big time. Paul Heyman has no control over ECW, it's all Vince's deal. He's not letting ECW be ECW and that's why by September, the new DVD will be "the rise and fall and rise and fall of ECW".
And don't get me started on Edge and the buffet of STDs known as Lita. Don't cheat on your wife, but especially not with your best friends girl.
I'm not sure what the vicodin possesion charge is, but his pot possession charge amounted to a $100 fine. I find it bizarre they'd strip RVD because of that, when they let a guy like Randy Orton hang around, wven when he took a dump in a fellow employee's purse.
Falls Count Anywhere: Test Def. Tommy Dreamer via pinfall
Test came out to the music that is being used for his promos on SciFi. He also got freaking HUGE. There were "steroid" chants all around. Tommy came out to a great reaction. They actually started out with a lot of stalling--Test kept on showing off his new physique and tried to goad Tommy into a pose down. Tommy eventually obliged and showed us his biceps--which got a huge roar from the crowd. Tommy grinned and said "Hey, they like me!" It then became a total brawl, but the Falls Count Anywhere stipulation barely came into play. Tommy did some classic ECW spots, like accepting beer from audience members and spitting it at Test, but that's about it. He teased taking Test into my section of the crowd, but Test grabbed him and crotched him on the railing.
After a whole lot of brawling (in the ring), Tommy took a chair from an audience member, but Test nailed a really bad looking big boot and sent the chair into Tommy's face (I can't remember if he used another finisher after the boot--perhaps someone else sending a report will) and got the pin. Test was practically booed out of the building. Dreamer got a "Thank You, Tommy" chant.
That will be true if they keep putting out shows that rival dirt-poor regionals. McMahan probably has the speech blaming Paul E. for ECW's failure already written.
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