Rey Mysterio Suspended

Source wwe.com

In accordance with WWE's Wellness Program, effective Wednesday, September 2, Oscar Gutierrez (Rey Mysterio) is suspended for 30 days for a violation of the company’s policy.

dont no why but i didnt expect rey to get suspended oh well Ziggler can finally get the title im sure he would have ended up with it any way

Guess without Jeff around anymore they needed a high-profile babyface to take the fall...

Shouldn't this be his second violation? I'm certain he was one of the Signature Pharmacy chaps that got caught...

i thought this was his first its the first i've read

I seem to remember him being injured when Umaga, Kennedy and co all got suspended, so he 'got away with it', so to speak. He was off TV anyway, like Edge was, so no-one really noticed.

I'll find it, I'm sure he was one of them...

the 2nd of September? is that nex Wednesday then? that'll mean he will work the next taping and drop the strap

SmackDown! is going to be in the shit with Jeff leaving, Rey gone, Edge out injured

Nah, Rey wasn't one of the 10/12 guys who got suspended back in late 07

the big names where Umaga, Kennedy, John Morrison but can't recall Rey being one of those

Here's the article from Sports Illustrated that investigated the scandal:

SI.com: Do investigators believe any of Wilbirt's "patients" were athletes?

Llosa/Wertheim: Yes. We'd already seen his name come up in conjunction with Kurt Angle, a 1996 Olympic gold-medal-winning freestyle wrestler and now a star professional wrestler who allegedly received two prescriptions for trenbolone and one for nandrolone between October 2004 and February '05. It turns out Angle isn't the only pro wrestler alleged to have received prescriptions from Wilbirt. According to the official documents we reviewed, Wilbirt was billed for HCG and the steroid stanozolol that were sent to WWE star Eddie Guerrero in early 2005. (Guerrero died on Nov. 13, 2005, in a Minneapolis hotel room due to what a coroner later ruled as heart disease, complicated by an enlarged heart resulting from a history of anabolic steroid use.) Wilbirt also allegedly issued prescriptions for the steroids nandrolone and stanozolol to Oscar Gutierrez, whose stage name is Rey Mysterio. (Through the WWE, Gutierrez declined comment.)


http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/more/03/19/wrestlers/

And this is off the ESPN website:

Notable names linked to scandal
MLB
• Gary Matthews Jr.
• Jose Canseco
• John Rocker
• Jerry Hairston Jr.
• David Bell

Boxing
• Evander Holyfield

NFL
• Richard Rydze (Steelers doctor)


Bodybuilding
• Victor Martinez

Pro wrestling
• Kurt Angle
• Randy Orton
• Adam Copeland (Edge)
• Shane Helms (The Hurricane)
• Oscar Gutierrez (Rey Mysterio)
• Eddie Guerrero*

*Died in 2005

This is the first Wellness Policy suspension I'm actually annoyed about. Not a big fan of Ziggler and I think Rey has been very good this year. He has had the most significant IC title run in a long time.

to bad he is suspended another good SD guy gone for a time
lucky the undertaker is back

btw it is his first violation

Shame whats happened as Rey has been brilliant all year specially in his fued with Jericho.

Im not a fan of Rey but even i can admit that i am a bit gutted about him getting suspended as Taker is the only potential main event face on Smackdown.

SD has been brilliant this year so i hope with Jeff leaving, Rey suspended and Edge injured it doesnt go down in quality, but it certainly looks like that will happen, but stranger things have happened as they say.