Post by ravensgathering on Jul 14, 2007 10:03:55 GMT -5
They show a clip of Mr. Kennedy doing his famous introduction, they cut back to the host who says she doesn't even think he needs any other introduction after that she thinks he introduced himself very well. She talks about how he worked very closely with Chris Benoit and traveled together. She welcomes Ken. She asks him about traveling with Chris Benoit and how well he knew Chris. Ken says he wouldn't say he was one of the guys who knew him extremely well, but he did look at him like a mentor. Ken says he trained with him, traveled with him on occasion, he always talked to him and got advice from him. Ken says there were things Benoit opened up to him about.
The Host asks if Chris ever talked to him about Steroids, Ken says no he never talked to him about Steroids and it was just something that never came up. The Host mentions the posting Ken made on the website, and she says he knows he is Angry, like his profession is being misrepresented and mentions the use of steroids. Ken says one of the things going around now is these lists some saying 60 and some saying over 100 wrestlers have died over the past decade or two. Ken notes that only 5 or so of those happened to wrestlers who were under WWEs watch.
The Host says she has a list and brings up Eddie Guerrero, Brian Pillman and Russ Haas. Ken says that Russ Haas’s death was due to a genetic heart condition and he had a heart attack and died in the ring. Ken says the other two, Eddie Guerrero and Brian Pillman they were 2 guys who chose to use a lot of drugs and take steroids. He mentions that before they came to the WWE they wrestled in WCW and several other organizations and back then the lifestyle was different. Ken says they could be on the road as much as 40 days at a time. He says they were drinking till all hours of the night, taking pills to go to sleep and using cocaine to keep them awake and they did it day after day after day.
The host says maybe it was just a decadent lifestyle, and she is just a casual observer but they all see athletes in some cases Baseball players and they take steroids and then when they stop they get very small. She says she looks at WWE wrestlers and they look to her like they are taking those kinds of drugs. She asks if Ken is telling her that they are not? Ken says, They have a drug policy in place right now and they are regularly tested. He says he has been tested 5 times. He is asked if he takes Steroids and says no. Ken says contrary to popular beliefs and what some people have said their levels are bigger levels, Ken says that isn't true. They mention it being the same as the NFL. Ken says in Wrestling the outcomes are predetermined, and their levels are 4:1 Testosterone to Epitestosterone levels. He says if your levels are over you are suspended and Dr. Black [The Doctor who started this program] Will look at each case and if you have a legitimate medical reason why your levels are higher then 4:1, which there are very few reasons why you would be able to and if you don’t meet that criteria you are suspended and ultimately fired.
The Host asks if he does not think there is a steroid problem. Ken says he thinks there was at one time, but now he does not. He says the Wrestlers that you see dying he believes are from that era where Steroids and Drugs were a problem. The Host asks about Benoit, Steroids and the Toxicology reports and if he will not come back clean. Ken says he doesn't know, and obviously they found steroids in his home. He had passed the drug test and he says maybe he injected the steroids the day before he died. He says he does not think the toxicology reports are going to prove anything.
The host says Mr. Kennedy representing a new breed of wrestlers in professional wrestling and thanks him, Ken says they truly are.
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