Raw "Wellness" Tests

Tyler Durden

Well the axe had yet to fall on anyone with the "wellness" tests not being back until late last week and as of yet......no news!!

However, in the interests of being morbid and keeping things interesting (!) who would your money be on if you had to pick 3 members of the Raw roster that "failed" the tests??

Any of them on the SummerSlam card??

zapphnath

Nitro's a meth freak and Milena is his crack 'ho'. (Probably not, but I can't stand either of 'em).
And Rick Flair, at the very least, has acid flaskbacks every time he brings a mic to the ring.

airr233

Well, Nitro and Melina would have failed since they were part of the Smackdown tests when Joey Mercury failed his thus the breakup of MNM.

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Tyler Durden

There is a reason there haven’t been any suspensions or anything on Raw. Everyone passed. Honestly!!

There have actually been a couple of tests and no one has failed. Lance Storm had a theory on Figure Four Daily that was as good as any. The Smackdown crew got tested first. Several guys, including Lashley, had liver enzyme issues. Lashley was retested a week later, and even though his liver enzyme level had been “dangerously high�, in the retest he was back to normal.

The Raw side wasn’t tested until AFTER Lashley’s second test result came back. In other words, the Raw crew basically got a two week warning to get off whatever they had to get off to get back to normal, and since it only took Lashley a week, they basically had a bonus week.

In other words, after Smackdown got tested, you’d have to have been fantastically stupid to have failed. Nobody in ECW failed either. The word is that nearly everyone has gotten off everything with the exception of marijuana, which the company is not going to test for.

Mr. Kennedy

This figures, SmackDown is the "B" show so WWE used them to warn the RAW wrestlers.
What would have happened if John Cena or Triple H had tested positive?

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Tyler Durden

Well my comments last week obviously need correcting!!

There were RAW drug tests failures, several of them in fact, including Randy Orton.

Basically, test failures used to be public knowledge within the company because if you failed a test, you were off TV for 30 days. The writers had to know because shows had to be re-written, the wrestlers had to know because programs and opponents were changed, etc.

However, once all the Smackdown guys failed and Great American Bash got totally fucked up, Vince McMahon made the decision to change the policy. Now, the first failure is 30 days without pay and the second failure is 60 days without pay. No word on whether or not a third failure is still termination.

Back in the day, Scott Hall failed dozens of tests and was never fired!! The guys will have their road expenses paid for (the irony!) if they work house shows, but that’s it.

Orton got pulled from house shows the last two weekends which is how he got fingered for failing (and many in WWE, including some very high up, were unaware of his suspension even after word got out on the Internet).

Depending upon where you are on the card, this can really bite you in the wallet. Rob Van Dam, for example, apparently lost five figures during his 30 days off in July. So anyway, now that nobody is being taken off TV, nobody has to know who failed and things are being kept super quiet.