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Are WWE playing fast and loose with their Wellness Policy again?
A strange occurrence happened soon after Evan Bourne was suspended for 30 days due to a WWE Wellness Policy violation, which is believed to have been a drug test failure for synthetic marijuana. Bourne used his official WWE Twitter account findevan to retweet the latest damning article by author...
Previewing WWE Linda McMahon's second Connecticut campaign for US Senate
Earlier today Linda McMahon, the wife of WWE's majority shareholder Vince McMahon and its former CEO until 2009, finally announced on friendly home turf that she was running for U.S. Senate again in 2012. This move has largely been expected by political and wrestling insiders ever since she lost...
Ric Flair insists his alcoholic cardiomyopathy was a misdiagnosis
Ric Flair has come up with an explanation for the bizarre turn of events where he threatened to sue Shane Ryan of Grantland.com for his recent article The Wrestler In Real Life over a claim that Flair made in his own autobiography that he is suffering from a heart condition called alcoholic...
Mike Benoit considering class action lawsuit against WWE
The answer to the question I posed yesterday "Should WWE be fearful of the NFL concussion lawsuit?" was emphatically answered by Mike Benoit today, the father of the late Chris Benoit whose son was diagnosed with chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) by Dr. Bennet Omalu after a post-mortem...
A look at the idea of a class action concussion lawsuit against WWE
I'm bumping this post up because it went up last night not long before Raw and got lost in the post-show parade of posts. As Keith noted, our friend Irv Muchnick put up an interesting piece of information in a post that looks at Keith's post from yesterday about how the NFL concussion lawsuit could...
Should WWE be fearful of the NFL concussion lawsuit?
In what has been one of the most newsworthy weeks of the year so far in pro wrestling, between CM Punk "leaving" WWE with their top title belt, Sin Cara's suspension for a failed drug test, Triple H replacing Vince McMahon as WWE's onscreen figurehead leader and Dana White's secretive meeting with...
Randy Orton has been medically cleared for WWE Capitol Punishment
As I mentioned on Wednesday, Randy Orton suffered a concussion at the WWE house show in Barcelona, Spain last weekend. Late last night, Smackdown World Heavyweight Champion Randy Orton tweeted that he passed WWE Medical Director Dr. Joseph Maroon's ImPACT test for determining concussion severity,...
Does WWE's $7,316 back taxes payment mean that their Connecticut labor audit is over?
One of the biggest news stories coming out of Linda McMahon's unsuccessful election campaign last year was the likely politically motivated but long overdue Connecticut Labor Department's investigation of WWE's classification of its wrestlers as independent contractors. Long overdue because WWE...
WWE mandates that wrestlers carry insurance, but won't pay for it
That one site with the spyware is reporting that WWE is now requiring all wrestlers to carry health insurance. In addition, our friend Irv Muchnick has a look at the situation over at his Wrestling Babylon blog. WWE, which pays for on the job injuries, will not be paying for the coverage in any...
Did the McMahons force out long time board member Lowell Weicker Jr.?
Not only is WWE infusing new blood into their creative team, they are also shaking up their board of directors. Hot on the heels of the surprise resignation of their well thought of COO Donna Goldsmith comes the less surprising news that 79 year old former U.S. Senator and Governor of Connecticut...
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