Every WWE Wellness Policy Violation Ever
All the suspensions, fines and firings brought on by WWE's controversial in-house testing...
The devastating death of Eddie Guerrero in 2005 and unthinkably horrific actions of Chris Benoit in his final hours two years later were not - wholly at least - the entire reason WWE implemented a wellness policy that involved the regular testing and monitoring of its main roster as well as the care of those that had worked for the organisation before.
"Two words: Public Relations" was Vince McMahon's rather succinct assessment during a late-2007 Oversight and Government Reform Committee investigation following 'The Crippler's crimes and demise, but the number of wrestler deaths through the various ills of the industry and its associated vices had grown so vast by this point that even as a PR exercise, it was almost too late. It's existence ever since seems to have subdued that tide, at very least.
The number of suspensions has generally dropped year on year from the hedonistic highs of its early days too, suggesting that regular testing might be helping or at least regulating the actions of many that feel forced into medicating themselves due to their line of work. "Wellness" long left the lips of an audience that used to associate the term entirely with steroid or pill abuse - the more the company can encourage a healthier way of living, the closer the policy becomes to fulfilling a McMahon's original draconian brief...
63. Kurt Angle
'The Olympic Hero' was suspended for 30 days around July 2006 in the policy's infancy. He elected to gamble on a move to TNA that serve it and take WWE's rehabilitation suggestion.