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March 2009
October 12, 2008
Dolph Ziggler (Nick Nemeth), will go on the suspended list for 30 days due to violating the WWE Wellness Policy. This
is his first violation.
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June 9, 2008
SmackDown's Jimmy Wang Yang (real name James Yun) has been suspended 30 days for his first violation of the WWE Wellness
Policy.
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May 20, 2008
World Wrestling Entertainment has suspended performer William Regal (Darren Matthews) for 60 days for his second drug
violation.
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March 11, 2008
WWE has suspended Jeff Hardy for 60 days, for his second violation of the company's Drug policy
His first suspension under the company's drug policy came in late July 2007. That suspension was for 30 days.
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February 2008
Dave Meltzer is reporting that Scott Hall and Ron Simmons have taken WWE's offer for all former and current employees
to enter rehab.
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November 3, 2007
Chris Masters has been suspended 60 days for WWE Wellness Policy violation. It is his second suspension.
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Harry Smith, who just debuted on the main roster for the WWE, has been suspended 30 days for violation of the WWE Wellness
Policy.
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violation of WWE Wellness program
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These superstars have been suspended and have been confirmed. They are:
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Edge, he's out with injury.
Gregory Helms, he's also out with injury
Charlie Haas, 30 days
John Morrison, 30 days
Mr. Kennedy, 30 days
William Regal, 30 days
Funaki, 30 days
Umaga, 30 days
Chavo Guerrero, 30 days
Chris Masters, either 30 or 60 days
UPDATED LIST: WWE program's drug offenders public knowledge): Randy Orton (in August 2006 for failing a drug test due to steroids;
continued receiving packages from Signature Pharmacy until February 2007, but wasn't suspended again because he had to wrestle
John Cena for the WWE title at Unforgiven 2007 and WWE felt that he had "already served his time;" also, openly
smoking marijuana backstage at a show in March 2006 was a behavioral suspension and didn't count as a strike), Joey Mercury,
Rene Dupree (two-time offender), Kurt Angle, Rob Van Dam (due to a drug possession arrest), Kid Kash, Ryan Reeves, Ryan O'Reilly
(call-up to ECW roster relinquished), Balls Mahoney (for painkillers), Drew "Festus" Hankinson (when in developmental
in late 2006), Andrew "Test" Martin (later fired), referee Chris Kay (two-time offender, later fired), Jeff Hardy
(two-time offender), Chavo Guerrero (may be a two-timer, as he returned as soon as 60 days passed in November 2007), Chris
Masters (two-time offender, later fired), Edge, Funaki, Gregory Helms, Booker T (two-time offender), Charlie Haas, Mr. Kennedy,
Umaga, William Regal (two-time offender), John Morrison, Gene Snitsky (apparently a drug failure as his name never came up
during the Signature Pharmacy scandal), Harry "DH" Smith, Derrick Neikirk (later fired), Neil "Chet the Jet"
Bzibziak (later fired), and Afa, Jr. (for attempting to cheat on a drug test with a realistic prosthetic penis). By my count,
that's 29 Wellness Policy offenders (at least that we know of) and at least 34 individual drug suspensions, so the WWE spokeswoman
was being truthful when she said that there have been over 30 suspensions in the policy's history.
-- Starting on November 1st of last year, WWE tweaked the Wellness Policy so that all future drug failures would be publicly
announced by the company. Before then, WWE never publicly announced drug suspensions, and the only way to find out about them
was through insider wrestling websites. Since that time, there have been a total of seven Wellness Policy violations; Harry
"DH" Smith, Chris Masters, Derrick Neikirk, Neil "Chet the Jet" Bzibziak, Jeff Hardy, Afa, Jr., and William
Regal. Seven months in, it averages out to about one WWE drug suspension per month.
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