| Date: 07/12 | 11:16 PM |
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Ken Kennedy is doing what he does best in WWE - stirring up the pot. In a recent diatribe on his personal website Kennedy lashed out at ex-WWE wrestlers giving media interviews about drugs and steroids. Marc Mero was one of Kennedy's favorite targets of throughout his rant. "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! It's ridiculous, insane, and it really makes me sick that these so called reporters like Bill O'Reilly, Nancy Grace, and Geraldo Rivera, call upon these silly bastards who are bitter and frustrated that their careers have ended to represent the WWE which of course makes all of us look like a bunch of babbling idiots who are all addicted to steroids, drugs, alcohol, etc."
Since then both Marc Mero and Steve Blackman appeared on the Abrams Report on MSNBC and directly addressed Ken Kennedy's comments and also those of Shane 'Hurricane' Helms, who had called Mero a failed former star trying to cash in on the Benoit tragedy. Here's an excerpt from the 411 recap that describes Mero's reaction.
"Mero responded by saying that Kennedy has only been in wrestling for two years and that of course he won't speak out against the company that is paying his bills. Mero said that he was not kicked out of wrestling, he chose to leave in 1999 even though he had three years left on his WWE contract. He said that guys are walking away now in light of the deaths, even mentioning how Rey Mysterio has been linked to steroids."
Mero neglects to mention that he had a run in TNA Wrestling over the last three years, so he hasn't exactly "walked away" from professional wrestling himself - in fact he only left when friend Dusty Rhodes was no longer with the company or able to get him a push on television. Steve Blackman called in during the show and said that these new guys don't know them and don't want to be associated with drugs and such. That's all well and good, but Kennedy's point is equally valid in regards to Steve Blackman - he doesn't seem like a guy who represents any level of achievment in professional wrestling or someone who would be "in the know" about what goes on in WWE today.