9. Signature Pharmacy Scandal
After Eddie Guerrero died in 2006, the WWE created the Wellness Policy, to protect themselves and their talent from poor health, drugs and controversy. The following year another major star died, under horrific circumstances, and everyone jumped to blame steroids. The second wrestler (more on the Canadian Crippler later) was being drug-tested, so that can’t be a problem, right? Unfortunately, he was included in a list of twenty WWE wrestlers who’d purchased various drugs banned under the policy, from Signature Pharmacy, as recently as four months before his death.
Edge, Randy Orton, Booker T and Batista were all also amongst the names listed as having bought from Signature. Mr. Kennedy, a man who’d been tapped to be portrayed in storylines as the bastard son of Vince McMahon, lost his place in the story due to the suspension he was given. Kennedy spent time speaking in interviews about how the Wellness Policy, makes it impossible for wrestlers to take the drugs it was now known he was buying, which made him and the policy look like a joke. The company and twenty of its performers looked horrible in one fell swoop at a time when they were desperately trying to rehab their image.
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