Because he has the trust of wrestlers and just lets them talk, Mike Mooneyham of the Charleston Post and Courier can be an indispensable primary source for their apparently straight-faced malarkey. Last week it was Batista, master of the torn triceps, decrying a “witch hunt” and making a comical and garbled defense of the WWE wellness policy. (See the November 25 posts on this blog.) This week it’s Ken Kennedy. See http://www.charleston.net/news/2007/dec/02/mr_kennedy_endures_pitfalls23762/.
Kennedy was all over the place in late June and early July, denouncing anyone — especially former wrestler Marc Mero — who dared take the position that Chris Benoit’s double-murder-suicide raised flags about the wellness policy. Kennedy said he personally had quit steroids long ago “because I knew that having a job with the WWE was way more important than the 10 pounds of extra muscle that the steroids gave me.”
Unfortunately for Kennedy and WWE, the Benoit toxicology report would show that, just two months after passing his wellness policy test, he had ten times the normal level of testosterones — which might have had something to do with the fact that Dr. Phil Astin was prescribing him a ten-month supply of steroids every three to four weeks.
And Kennedy himself would soon soon turn up on the Signature Pharmacy client list and lose his opportunity to be Vince McMahon’s storyline bastard. Instead, he got a 30-day suspension, and he and his erstwhile daddy got carbohydrates on their faces.
But Kennedy is undaunted. “How was I supposed to know my doctor’s a quack?” he says of his online steroid orders.