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[El-P]

Heyman being Heyman in the post fight:

 

When he says his wife his pregnant, does he mean Rena ex-Mero ? How old is she ?

Anyway, Heyman sounds as carny as ever here. A thing of beauty.

[rovert]

Heyman being Heyman in the post fight:

 

When he says his wife his pregnant, does he mean Rena ex-Mero ? How old is she ?

Rena gave birth before UFC 100 and she is pregnant again. Brock made a joke at the press conference that she has been pregnant for 18 months. She is 42.

[El-P]

Well, good for them I guess.

[Strummer]

for those who still watch anyone feeling a bit of nostalgia watching RAW lately with all the video packages and "Let us take you back to last week.." segments?

 

it's like watching a 1988 episode of Superstars

[sek69]

The stuff I bolded below from Michael Benoit is new to me:

 

Let me just make my small contribution to the list of things that Linda McMahon was responsible for as the CEO of WWE that would point to her lack of character and integrity.

 

(1) Appeared on Good Morning America talking about my grandson’s retardation being the cause of June 2007 Tragedy. There is absolutely no documentation of Daniel having any mental disorder.

 

 

(2) Having Dr Cyril Wecht call the Georgia Bureau of Investigation in an attempt to influence their investigation of the Benoit case.

 

(3) Having a private investigator by the name of Clifford Cormany pose as my rep at the Fayette County Sheriff’s Office in an attempt to get information on the Benoit case back in July 2007.

 

(4) Having their lawyer attempt to get our lawyer to believe that Nancy killed Daniel and then Chris killed Nancy, suggesting it would be in both our best interests.

 

(5) When # 4 did not work, starting a rumor that Nancy and Chris were selling drugs out of their house.

 

(6) Failure to pay the balance of Chris’s wages and royalties due from merchandise sales up to June 25/07 to his surviving children.

 

 

Can she really call out someone questioning their character and integrity when her own lack of same is in question?

 

As someone familiar with Cyril Wecht, I would find it very difficult to believe he would do something at Linda's (or anyone else's) behest.

[Bix]

How so?

[kjh]

Here's more details for sek69 to mull:

 

Chris Benoit’s Dad to Author Muchnick, Part 2: WWE/McMahon Lawyer McDevitt and the Pennsylvania Coroner

 

Mike Benoit, father of the late Chris Benoit, has resumed his email correspondence with me. As recounted in the “Notes on Sources” in CHRIS & NANCY, Mike had stopped talking to me in the spring of 2008, in the middle of my research for the book.

 

“Both you and [WWE lawyer Jerry] McDevitt are not on my Christmas card list, believe me,” Mike wryly noted today.

 

But far more important is the substance of Mike’s new message to me:

 

Shortly after my son’s tragedy I traveled to Atlanta to meet with my lawyers. While in Atlanta I wanted to visit Dr Kris Sperry. Dr Sperry is the chief ME for Fayette County and was responsible for helping me make a decision to allow my son’s brain tissue to be examined. During my visit with Dr Sperry he told me about a call he received back in June 2007 from another ME. At the time the caller asked numerous questions about the tragedy and suggested to Dr Sperry that there was a very high probability that Daniel died first. Sperry dismissed the suggestion as he believed and shared with me at that time that Nancy died first then Daniel and then Chris. The ME at the time also encouraged Dr Sperry to test for fragile X in Daniel.

 

Fast forward February 2008 Dr Omalu is being questioned on the witness stand in the trial of Dr Cyril H. Wecht. According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Dr Wecht was charged with 41 counts including mail fraud and theft from an organization receiving Federal funds. During Dr Omalu’s testimony he is asked by Dr Wecht’s lawyer if he was the doctor that had examined Chris Benoit’s brain. Dr Omalu thought at the time “where is this going”. Dr Wecht was acquitted on all charges.

 

As Paul Harvey used to say “and now the rest of the story.”

 

It turns out, according to my lawyers, that the ME that called Dr Sperry back in June 2007 was Dr Cyril Wecht. The lawyer that defended Dr Wecht in his 2008 trial was Jerry McDevitt. Do you think that Jerry would have asked Dr Wecht to make that call back in June of 2007? Would that be considered an attempt to obstruct justice? Jerry McDevitt is a smart man and I am sure he would not do that. The fact of the matter is that the ME in Fayette County never officially confirmed the sequence of death between Daniel and Nancy. That could also raise some interesting questions and it is likely where Dr Wecht was going.

 

***

 

My analysis begins with minor corrections: Dr. Kris Sperry is chief medical examiner for the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. Dr. Cyril Wecht’s 2008 trial resulted in a hung jury, not acquittal.

 

Wecht, former coroner of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, is a story of his own. The prosecution of him was extremely controversial and included speculation that Wecht, a Democrat, had been targeted in a purely partisan fashion by U.S. Attorney Mary Beth Buchanan. Indeed, Buchanan became a poster child for widespread charges that the Bush Justice Department was politicized. After the hung-jury mistrial, Buchanan originally sought to retry Wecht, but she finally dropped the charges in June of this year after losing a key procedural ruling on evidence.

 

Jerry McDevitt was, indeed, Wecht’s defense lawyer. It gets better than that. In January 2008, Congressman Bobby Rush’s House Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection held hearings on steroids in sports and sports entertainment. Every single invited head of a sports league or union or entertainment entity testified, with one exception: Vince McMahon of WWE (husband of WWE chief executive and current Connecticut U.S. Senate candidate Linda McMahon). McMahon explained that he was declining the invitation because McDevitt was unavailable to accompany him. And that was because McDevitt was preparing for the start of Dr. Wecht’s trial.

[sek69]

Cyril Wecht may be the only person who could give Vince a run for the money in the ego department. He's good at what he does, but he's also still telling stories of how he was there to do the autopsy on JFK and once he started pointing out the wounds didn't match the official story the body was whisked away and he was practically thrown out of the room. He's also been involved in cases like JonBenet Ramsey and others where his basic point is "the official story is BS", so the idea that he would go along with Linda to try to convince the GBI is quite ludicrous. He may have called them, but it certainly wasn't on anyone's behalf. Cyril is strictly for Cyril.

 

 

 

edit: Just saw the post from kjh. I can see Wecht calling to try to fuck with the guy who testified against him, but to think McDevitt and/or the McMahons put him up to it still doesn't hold water to me. People only know McDevitt as the WWE lawyer but if you're in Pittsburgh (and you have the money), Jerry's the guy you see to avoid going to jail.

[Bix]

The murders/autopsies were more than 6 months before the testimony.

[Cross Face Chicken Wing]

Have any pro wrestlers ever missed times because of skin infections picked up from the canvas portion of the ring? I know it happens in amateur wrestling. I ask because I'm going through the Memphis set and some of the matches have the most filthy, discusting repulsive ring canvas I have ever seen. It looks like a combination of old blood, sweat, spit, vomit and God knows what else has formed a layers of gunk over the actual canvas portion.

[Loss]

There is a story in one of the '88 WONs about scabies spreading around the Portland territory because someone who had it bled on the mat in the ring.

[KrisZ]

Portland had some rough characters back then like Al Madril, Art Barr, and the like so not surprising.

[Bob Morris]

Speaking of the condition of ring canvases, I picked up a Wrestling Gold package for $5 at Kmart... one of those collections that features Smoky Mountain Wrestling. Included is SMW's Night of Legends show, featuring the Thrillseekers/Heavenly Bodies tag match, the one in which Chris Jericho broke his arm before the match and then did a massive blade job during the match.

 

At any rate, there was so much blood that it was all over referee Mark Curtis' shirt, and then Curtis works the remainder of the matches while still wearing that bloody shirt. I was thinking "wow, that's awesome" and "boy, that's pretty stupid" at the same time.

[Bix]

[KrisZ]

That is fantastic.

[kjh]

Well, Vince Russo is a fan of Lost too...

[Bix]

That's actually a Russo talking point. When J.J. Dillon would point out that X idea didn't make sense, Russo would respond with "Oh, it's sports entertainment now, so that doesn't matter anymore."

 

(Also, it still boggles my mind that people didn't get the ending. Did you miss the GIANT FUCKING EXPOSITION SCENE that fully explained everything to make sure that idiots like her got it?)

[jdw]

Dixie isn't very sharp.

 

John

[sek69]

There's something endearing about how she posts stuff like that on Facebook (and Twitter too) and doesn't seem to see any irony.

[rovert]

Great job developing the story kjh:

http://www.cagesideseats.com/2010/7/7/1557...the-severity-of

 

Raises a lot of uncomfortable questions for Chavo.

[Guest Cerebus The Aardvark]

Maybe this is well known and I just missed it, but in a bit from Forever Hardcore where Joey Styles was talking about NTR '93 he mentions the Exploding Cage tag match where the cage didn't explode. At the end of that bit, he says "it was worse than the incident I'm not allowed to mention because it doesn't exist on film anymore". Is it known what incident this could possibly be?

[rovert]

Maybe this is well known and I just missed it, but in a bit from Forever Hardcore where Joey Styles was talking about NTR '93 he mentions the Exploding Cage tag match where the cage didn't explode. At the end of that bit, he says "it was worse than the incident I'm not allowed to mention because it doesn't exist on film anymore". Is it known what incident this could possibly be?

Mass Transit incident or most likely this:

 

During a match between Tommy Dreamer and Cactus Jack, both Raven and Terry Funk interfered. Cactus tried to hit Terry with a chair that had a burning towel on it. The towel came off and burned Funk who then let the towel get into the audience. Security shot off fire extinguishers as the arena lights were shut off for an angle involving Dreamer and Raven. As you can guess, pandemonium erupted in the arena. Mick Foley discusses the incident and fans lawsuits in his first two books.

[Sean Liska]

Definitely referring to the fire incident. The aftermath from that dragged on for years.

[Guest Cerebus The Aardvark]

Makes sense that it would be that, since I knew the Mass Transit thing is all over the place. I just wasn't sure if it was that or maybe something totally random I'd never heard about.

[Boondocks Kernoodle]

How much truth is there in Heyman's story that the Beulah/Kimona kiss got ECW kicked off every station it was on? In WWE's ECW book he says that MSG network didn't let them back on for six months, but I was watching ECW on MSG back then, and it was definitely on that entire time.