Hypocrite Nation

Wrestling is a sport chock full of liars, cheaters, and hypocrites. And being that we love to expose people for who they really are, we figured it's about damn time we started documenting these frauds.

This will eventually grow to become an extensive list of anything and everything hypocritical that goes on in wrestling. This is no longer the 80s and 70s, when wrestling folks could lie all day and nobody would notice. This is the dawn of the Internet age, and we're going to publicly expose lies as truth so that nobody gets taken for the fool.

If you've got more to add to this list, then by all means, please contact us.

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Steroids? Me???

The news keeps unfolding every week about major name after major name having purchased steroids and/or growth hormone from all sorts of doctors and pharmacies. Quite frankly, we can't even keep track of the names and the news. But isn't it something how these guys like Ken Kennedy, Rey Mysterio Jr, Chavo Guerrero, and William Regal have all made comments in the media that have come back to bite them in the ass? How about Batista, who insists he's clean, but has somehow become the Incredibly Shrinking Man ever since Vince told all the guys to get off the juice?? It's one thing to use steroids quietly in order to do what you think is necessary to get or keep your job. It's another to go out of your way to make comments to the media that wrestling doesn't have a drug problem, or that drugs are an 80s thing, or whatever. WWE got away with breaking the rules for so many years, and now they are finally going to pay the price. Ahh, how sweet it is.

LESSON: Steroids a terrible thing and no one does them anymore... unless documented records turn up proving that you purchased them for years.

Let Go of That Choke

As you may know, Renato "Babalu" Sobral was fired by UFC for not releasing a choke hold until several seconds after the fight was stopped. Dana White blasted Sobral for doing that... yet BJ Penn received no reprimand when he did the same thing to Jens Pulver at the Ultimate Fighter 5 Finale. Dana's excuse for that inconsistency was so incredibly pathetic, and we still don't know what his reasons really are.

LESSON: Choking your opponent after the fight is stopped is wrong and grounds for termination... unless you're a star like BJ Penn who has the ability to draw money, in which case you can do it and not get in trouble.

Racism Against White Men is OK

Boy, you wouldn't believe the outpouring of negative emotion whenever there is a racist angle in wrestling (the Ron Simmons/Lex Luger angle in 1991, the Booker T/HHH angle in 2003, the Mexicools gimmick, the Latino World Order gimmick, the Zeus character, etc). But say racist things about the white man? No one says a peep.

Case in point: Konnan, on a live TNA PPV last year, said he would never take orders from "no white boy." When I heard this, I immediately imagined what would happen if JBL had said the exact same thing on SmackDown but replaced the word "White" with "Black."

Had that happened, you'd see long, scathing columns from supposed poster boys for racial equality such as Todd Martin and Wade Keller. Where were the letters from those guys when Konnan made his racist remark?

Nowhere, that's where.

In fact, Todd Martin wrote the following in his blog:

"But angles portraying historically demonized minorities can exacerbate that discrimination and lead to real harm. And it's thus perfectly rational to be more concerned about the portrayal of some forms of discrimination than others."

Uhh, ok Todd, so it's perfectly rational to condone discrimination against white men. Got it. No wonder the LA Times hired you. Oh, and I'm glad you don't consider crimes initiated by angry white men (Columbine and all those other school shootings) "real harm."

We used to like Todd, and he has always been nice to us, but his comments on this topic really disgusted us. Answer me this, Todd: Is it right or wrong what Konnan said? Simple question with a simple, obvious answer.

How about when Andy Wang, the guy on Ultimate Fighter 5 who refused to take down his opponent, and lost his fight handily for it, said that fights break out whenever you put a "bunch of crazy white people" in a house?? Imagine if Jens Pulver said something similar if all the TUF participants were black? Say the season had 9 black men and one white guy, and a fight broke out between two black men. What if Jens had said, "What do you expect when you put a bunch of crazy black people in a house together?" Not only would UFC be kicked off the network, but also Jens would be fired (not that this ever would've aired), and UFC would have trouble finding another network. But if it's a comment about white guys? Spike says, "Haha, that's funny, let's air that clip of Andy saying that."

LESSON: Racism is a horrible, terrible thing... unless it's racism against white men. Konnan, Andy Wang, and everyone else can say racist comments about white men, and not only will no one care, but executives at Spike TV will think it's funny. Haha.

Cornette and Russo, Sitting in a Tree...

For many years, Jim Cornette would badmouth Vince Russo at every opportunity. It was great! Long before any of us knew the real Russo (you know, in late '99 when we all hoped he'd be WCW's savior), Cornette was on radio shows telling everyone what an idiot Russo was and how he'd be a monumental failure. Even we believed Russo's hype and were willing to give him a chance.

Before long, we saw the truth and Cornette was completely vindicated. Russo ruined WCW not once, but twice. This was the same man who supposedly built the WWF into the success it became in the late 90s?

Cornette's tirades against Russo continued for many years, and it was always gold. Whether it was on radio shows or shoot interviews, Cornette's rants on Russo were always worth pages and pages of memorable quotes. So it was with glee when we learned that Cornette joined TNA, because with him there, it would be impossible for Russo to come back, right? Or so we thought.

Lo and behold, Russo becomes a born again Christian and re-joins TNA for the umpteenth time. It wasn't too long ago that Cornette exclaimed, "If there was a God, Vince Russo wouldn't be in the wrestling business." Now, they are working together, in the same company, in the same room, and possibly, on each other's laps.

Granted, Cornette is probably miserable and wanting to hang himself. He did threaten to quit if Russo came back, but never did. Then it was reduced to they can work together, but not be in the same room or interact directly with each other. Soon enough, they were in meetings together, and now, Russo writes Cornette's lines. Hell has now completely frozen over.

We understand Cornette's need to make a living. He's one of our all-time favorites, and we respect him more than almost anyone. But jeez, have an ounce of dignity, and either quit TNA now, or demand that Russo leave. Russo is killing TNA (again) at a time in which they have a golden opportunity (2 hours on prime time on cable TV). Cornette should be booking TNA, and Russo should be booking ice cream socials for some church in Marietta, GA. After all that smack talking Cornette did to Russo, we have yet to hear an explanation for how and why he is able to work with him now.

LESSON: Cornette thinks Vince Russo is an idiot who knows nothing about the wrestling business... but he'll act in horrible skits written by Vince Russo, participate in booking meetings with Vince Russo, and somehow stay in the same room as Vince Russo without ripping his head off his shoulders.

Do As I Say, Not As I Do

Isn't it nifty how Stephanie McMahon is supposedly cracking down on drugs in WWE, yet her husband is sporting at least 50 to 75 pounds more muscle than he was 10 years ago. Man, I'd love to know what changes he made in his diet to get results like that. I guess he must've changed his diet during that period when he got all soft and flabby because he was trying to conceive a child with Stephanie (I wonder what was in his diet that he removed that could possibly have affected his sperm count??).

LESSON: Performance enhancing drugs are grounds for termination... but only for certain people (ie, anyone except HHH).

Don't Jump the Gun

You remember when Chris Benoit killed his family, and steroids were found in his house, that WWE issued an immediate media statement decrying the media's "roid rage" theories?? Keep in mind this was just a couple of days after the killings, and all WWE cared about was shooting down the theories that dare suggested Benoit was using steroids. Jeez, not sure why anyone would theorize that when authorities found mountains of steroids in his home...

But WWE was so quick to shoot down that theory, yet when it came out that Daniel Benoit may have had Fragile X Syndrome, WWE jumped all over that theory like Dusty Rhodes on a buffalo wing platter. WWE, which had just hours earlier scolded the media for jumping the gun on roid rage, was now jumping the gun on how Daniel's special needs may have caused turmoil in Chris and Nancy's marriage. Nice.

If the media were pricks for suggesting roid rage, then how are WWE not pricks for suggesting Fragile X? Oh, here's one more thing: DANIEL BENOIT PROBABLY DIDN'T EVEN HAVE FRAGILE X AT ALL.

Oops.

Yes, the one guy who claimed he talked to Benoit about his son's autism had since passed away, and all of Daniel's teachers were saying he showed no symptoms of Fragile X, and that his mental development was just fine.

But wait a minute... wasn't WWE and resident ~~liar~~ lawyer Jerry McDevitt just saying that Daniel's Fragile X was causing all sorts of marital turmoil??

Or, more likely, wasn't WWE trying to DEFLECT THE ROID RAGE theories onto something less likely to make WWE seem like all their guys are jacked up on illegal drugs??

Bad move, Jerry. You and the company you represent ended up looking so damn foolish. Unfortunately for you, Nancy and Chris never once mentioned Fragile X to any of their close friends and family. That doesn't mean Daniel didn't have Fragile X (we'll never know that answer for sure), but it does mean that you guys jumped the gun on a story just like WWE accused the media of doing with roid rage.

The only difference was, Benoit was proven to be on steroids, and no one knows what mental problems Daniel really had, if in fact he was autistic, and all signs show he was just fine.

LESSON: It's not ok to jump on a story and accuse Benoit of roid rage and insinuate that all wrestlers are on steroids... but it's perfectly ok for WWE to jump on a story that was never proven to be true, and likely is not true, simply to deflect the blame and truth from themselves. But hey, that's what lawyers do for a living.

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