Kennedy blasts Poffo, Warrior, Mero in Benoit coverage
The fasting-rising star in the entire sport of pro wrestling has come out guns-a-blazing against certain “frustratedâ€? ex-wrestlers currently making the rounds on various talk shows in light of the Chris Benoit double murder/suicide. In addition, Mr. Kennedy, on his own web site – located at Ken-Kennedy.com — also takes the media themselves to task, categorizing Bill O’Reilly, Nancy Grace and Geraldo Rivera as “so-called reporters,â€? who provide a platform for “goofsâ€? and “silly bastards” like Lanny Poffo, Ultimate Warrior and Marc Mero to, “makes all of us (active WWE wrestlers) look like a bunch of babbling idiots who are all addicted to steroids, drugs, alcohol, etc.â€?
Kennedy blasts Poffo, Warrior, Mero as “silly bastards”
“Please GOD, I’m just BEGGING for someone who has actually wrestled in a WWE ring in the past decade besides Jericho, Bret Hart, John Cena and Ted Dibiase to come forward on one of these shows and tell the world what’s really going on,â€? states Kennedy. “For these goofs, like Lanny Poffo? Ultimate Warrior? and Marc Mero???!! to repeatedly act as “experts” and “wrestler advocates” on the current situation is like having a frustrated ex-jock who rode the pine bench throughout his high school sports career give advice to Brett Favre on how to improve his game!â€?
Kennedy goes on to state that the climate in today’s WWE is vastly-different than it reportedly was 10-years ago, and defended the outfit’s drug testing.
“Most of the “expert”, frustrated ex-wrestlers that they’ve had on the show came from an era where everyone wrestled every day and then went out and partied like rock stars until dawn, drinking copious amounts of alcohol, smoking cigarettes and marijuana, snorting cocaine, taking fistfuls of pills, and injecting massive amounts of steroids. They would take pills to go to sleep, snort coke or take speed to get up and do this day after day after day! This would not be even remotely tolerated in today’s environment.,â€? says Kennedy.
“We have a strict drug policy in place. The WWE’s wellness program was designed and instituted by the same doctor who implemented the NFL and the NBA’s substance abuse programs. Contrary to what somebody recently said on one of these “tabloid” shows the WWE’s allowed levels are exactly the same as the NFL.â€?
For the complete rant, go to Ken-Kennedy.com
- Mr. Mal
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July 14th, 2007 at 1:35 am
“makes all of us (active WWE wrestlers) look like a bunch of babbling idiots who are all addicted to steroids, drugs, alcohol, etc.�
Well, if the shoe fits….
July 14th, 2007 at 10:10 am
Indeed. Mr. Mal also found it curious that Kennedy — while blasting these ex-wrestlers for not truly knowing today’s game — somehow is an expert himself on things that were going on ten-years earlier, and that he’s SO certain it ain’t like that anymore . . . odd. Kennedy’s been in the game maybe five-years, all told, and in the WWE for about three.
July 14th, 2007 at 3:34 pm
Look, I’m no huge wrestling fan anymore… but I have NO idea who Ken Kennedy is. So who is he to bad mouth someone like the Ultimate Warrior who had much more mainstream exposure and popularity than this goof will ever have. I don’t care what the Ultimate Warrior’s rep may be like in wrestling circles but for this guy to liken himself to Bret Farve and the Warrior to a ‘High School’ athlete who ‘rode the pine’ is simply laughable. Am I way off base here?
July 14th, 2007 at 7:57 pm
Maybe not WAY off-base, but — in all reality — Mr. Kennedy is truly the next big thing in wrestling, if he isn’t already. He has a buzz around him right now akin to Stone Cold back around 1996 or so, just before he got HUGE.
Ultimate Warrior, regrettably, has made a complete ass of himself with homophobic lectures and other manic ramblings on his website through the years, rendering him a complete buffoon — even in the eyes of his former fans. This go without saying that his last stint in WCW against Hulk Hogan was a complete write-off, and essentially killed the company. No one takes him seriously anymore — and Kennedy shoudn’t either.
July 15th, 2007 at 12:44 am
Well my point was regardless of what The Warrior HAS become, at his height he filled the Skydome (Granted with the aid of the Hulkster) which I’m sure is much more than someone in wrestling could hope to do today let alone Ken Kennedy. It’s just his comparison of him being Brett Farve and the Warrior a ‘never wuz’ is what I found off base. The Warrior despite being a moron DID it all (Short of having a Gary Coleman type cartoon)… what has this guy done?
July 15th, 2007 at 1:08 am
Mr. Mal sees your point, Hawkboy. Believe me. To be honest, I didn’t even hear what Warrior said specifically. Something about there being a difference between steroid USE and steroid ABUSE.
Regardless, speaking of the Ultimate Warrior - who DID, no doubt, sell out arenas few could match in the history of wrestling, even for a short time, he still did it - as Mr. Mal’s trainer — the legendary Fabulous Kangaroo Al Costello, rest in peace, Al — once told him: “Ultimate Warrior does so many steroids his dick is going to fall off by the time he’s 30.”
Thankfully, some things even the most EVIL of eyes cannot (and DOES NOT) want to see . . .
July 15th, 2007 at 1:11 am
Incidentally, see this story here, Hawkboy, for Mr. Kennedy’s greatest achievement thus far in the WWE. He was all set for a big push after this — possibly even a run with the World Title — but was injured shortly thereafter. He is just now getting back in the ring.
http://www.wrestlersramblings.com/index.php/wrestlemania-23-money-in-the-bank-ladder-pics/