Chris Nowinski spoke with The Hill about WWE's rebuttal to his comments on NECN last week.
In response to WWE's claim that "It is very dubious that he ever had a conversation with Lance Cade much less Lance Cade confiding to a total stranger that he used painkillers and steroids," he said:
"They don't think I've ever met my 2003 tag team partner in the WWE developmental system who I worked with in Cincinnati and Louisville in 2002-2003 almost daily and saw regularly while working with WWE until 2007? Linda [McMahon] can spend $24 million on a campaign, you'd think they could hire a decent PR person...I can never prove I had that conversation with Lance because Lance died when he was 29 years old," he said. "They want to call me a liar -- the person who can confirm it is dead after he worked for them for [almost a decade]."
Re: "He states WWE suggested that its performers take steroids. However, at no time does he ever state that it was suggested that he do so." he replied:
"The point I was making was that they reward people who take steroids."
With regards to WWE's claim that "Chris Nowinski did not reveal, as required, that he suffered previous concussions before signing his contract with WWE," his response was:
"[I] was unaware that I had a concussion history until the last one."
And as far as the claim that "His comments that WWE talent perform in matches 200 days a year is not factual. In 2009, the average active roster talent performed 135 days," he "said there's a difference between the average number of days a wrestler works and the range" and noted that:
"Not every talent performs 200 days a year. I may have rounded up."
He is not an enemy that WWE wants to have.