Headlines for Saturday and Sunday, January 3 & 4, 2009
- The Committee on Oversight and Government Reform has released 16
transcripts from their work summarizing the results of the Committee's
investigation into steroid use in professional wrestling. In a letter to
Office of National Drug Control Policy Director John P. Walters, Chairman
Henry Waxman requested that ONDCP examine the widespread steroid abuse and
systemic deficiencies in testing policies and practices. The documents
contain interviews with WWE Chairman Vince McMahon, WWE CEO Linda McMahon,
WWE Executive VP of Creative Writing Stephanie McMahon-Levesque, TNA
President Dixie Carter, doctors in charge of the WWE Wellness Program and
other results.
- Poll results: Do you like the JBL-HBK storyline?
Yes - 38%
No - 62%
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- Chris Kanyon announced he was coming out of retirement and again accepting independent bookings.
- TNA Wrestling ended their tour in Japan earlier today with a live show at
the Tokyo Dome, the second inter-promotional event that the company did with
New Japan Pro Wrestling. Four TNA superstars will be going home with the
gold as Chris Sabin and Alex Shelley won the IWGP Jr tag team titles by
defeating Yujiro & Tetsuya Naito while Team 3D continues to add to their
impressive list of titles as they won the IWGP tag team gold by defeating
Toru Yano & Togi Makabe.
