This week's edition of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter is reporting that reigning ECW Champion Chavo Guerrero actually has two WWE suspensions on his record, not one. Unlike the other wrestlers busted in the Signature Pharmacy scandal last fall, they only sat out for 30 days, whereas Guerrero sat on the sidelines for over 60 days, so it adds up. Guerrero returned to action on November 3, 2007, which was a Saturday night SmackDown/ECW house show. That was the first scheduled WWE show a wrestler on a 60-day suspension from the Signature Pharmacy scandal would have permitted to appear on. Apparently, Guerrero's first suspension quietly slipped under the cracks some time ago. Back in July 2006, after a number of SmackDown stars went down with Wellness related issues the week before the Great American Bash pay-per-view, which caused havoc on the card, Vince McMahon made the decision to not pull future suspendees from television because he didn't want sudden suspensions to ruin his heavily-hyped pay-per-view cards. Instead, future suspensions called for wrestlers to miss a month's worth of downside pay, not to mention their pay-per-view bonus. Also, the suspendees would be pulled from all house shows for a 30-day period. The new rule allowed Randy Orton to wrestle Hulk Hogan at the 2006 SummerSlam, who was suspended in August 2006 for a Wellness Policy violation. Starting on August 13, 2006, Orton was removed from house shows for a little over a month. To save face, Orton claimed that his house show hiatus was due to him moving into a new home with his fiancée -- which is actually true -- however, he was indeed serving a suspension during this time frame as well.

Source: wrestlingattitude.com



Apparently the WWE is not near as tough as they make out to be. They suspend, but they do it when it's easiest. Also showing that they felt Jeff Hardy was expendable.

They want suspend top guys that matter to them but with all this crackdown on steroids...they felt they could make it seem that they are cleaning up the drugs so thats why jeff hardy got it.

Its not surprising though. I though the WWE was doing a good job but then i have come to realize that its low and mid card guys getting suspended. I don't see as how JH was expendable, the MITB match was great but imagine it with even more spots with jeff.

Jeff hardy is a major star in wwe but not as major as cena or hhh or batista but he is still major enough to make a good impression on congress that they are doing something about it.Jeff would be great in MITB but they could also replace him with some good guys like morrison.

Jeff may be Jeff, but he's starting to become not as important. The WWE have other potential ladder guys.

No longer is he as important as he once was.

I don't get it. WWE wants to come out strong on their drug policies, so why would they want to hide any major suspensions? I would think they'd like to announce ALL suspensions and show the world how bad ass their system is.

And Axl, nice to see you've put on some hot Canadian content into your sig I take it you liked my thread on CGS

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