[Spoilers] Something mysterious is happening with Drew McIntyre

by David Bixenspan on May 6, 2010 9:32 PM EDT in WWE

Tuesday night at the taping of tomorrow night's episode of Smackdown, Drew McIntyre was "fired" and stripped of the Intercontinental Title because he attacked Matt Hardy in some sort of vicious manner.

Today, Dave Meltzer chimed in with an update on F4WOnline.com...kinda...

Here's what I know about the Drew McIntyre situation. Well, we don't know anything. As of earlier today, creative didn't know. Several higher ups didn't know.

A wrestler being mysteriously written off TV has of course fueled speculation that he failed a drug test, but so far there's no actual indication as to what's going on. Officially, if he did fail a drug test, WWE policy says that it has to be announced publicly, but there has been plenty of cynicism about the consistency of the rule's enforcement since it was instituted a two and a half years ago.

Maybe people wouldn't be so cynical about it if the first publicly announced failure didn't go down the way it did. WWE had announced that all drug test failures would be revealed publicly starting on November 1, 2007. D.H. Smith, who had just been called up to the main roster, was announced as having failed a test almost immediately after the rule went into effect. It then came out that he actually failed the test over a month earlier, making it clear that his suspension was delayed so the company would look tougher on drugs.

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he just got married.

honeymoon.

Kenny Powers.

by y2jayjk on May 6, 2010 10:30 PM EDT reply actions

From WWE’s corporate website: Q. Does WWE announce WWE Talent that have been suspended under the Talent Wellness Program?

A. Yes. It is WWE policy to publicly release any suspensions under this program, as well as the names of WWE Talent, including developmental talent, who are being suspended.

So are you suggesting Bix that WWE would really be silly enough to break their publicly released Wellness policy while Linda McMahon is running for Senate? I suppose that I could buy that the company is so paranoid about bad publicity that they would fail to publicly disclose Wellness policy failures, even though it tempts fate that a pesky journalist would find out and make a stink about it. And they did fail to disclose that Umaga was fired for refusing to go to rehab after failing a drugs test, until they were pressed on the issue by the UK Sun, so it’s not like they haven’t tried to hide drug test failures before. I still think it’s a bit of a stretch though.

by Keith Harris on May 7, 2010 6:50 PM EDT reply actions