Nancy Grace turned the focus at this point to Penny’s story, and what her little five year old son, Chase Durham, said on Johnny Grunges birthday. (He said to his mom, “Mommy can we go to heaven and visit daddy on his birthday?”) Penny told Nancy Grace that the reason that they had this new picture of Grunge was because she had to take it from Chase. But when she did, she had to tell him not to crumple it up. But he didn’t really care about that, because what he said next to his mom was very touching. “But mom, I’m trying to give daddy a hug.”
(Note: at this point the show went to a commercial and they played a clip of Penny on the show the other day. In the clip she says and I quote “This is my chance to speak out against these doctors. These doctors are nothing more than suburbanite drug dealers.”)
Nancy Grace announced that congressional hearings into professional wrestling may come as soon as Sept.
Nancy asked Marc Mero if he regrets being this lighting rod for slander from the current wrestlers in the WWE, and his response was no. He said that if what he’s doing can save lives, and that he would do this till the day he dies. “And I want to make one thing abundantly clear, I DO NOT, hate the wrestling business. I love it.”
In response Finlay had about the same reaction as that he had with Brian Alvarez. He said to Mero, “You’re not part of this business anymore. You haven’t been for eight years.” (My opinion: This next part was a slap in the face of Penny Durham) “We make enough money to afford health insurance and retirement benefits. If you’re going to go spend hundreds of dollars on a wrist watch, then obviously you don’t know how to manage your money, something that my parents taught me when I was very young.”
A question was posed by a caller, “The feds found numerous boxes of steroids in the Benoit home, and I would like to know if he was selling them to other wrestlers.” To this Finlay had this to say, “I know nothing about Benoit selling drugs to other wrestlers. I can tell you this. I knew Chris Benoit very well and this was not the Benoit that I knew. My heart and prayers go out to the families of all involved. I fell that this all points back to the WWE and all of wrestling in that we’re getting a bad brake because of these rouge doctors. And it’s not just wrestlers. Its football players and baseball players as well. You cannot blame us. Our job is to entertain the fans.”
Mero interjected that he feels that this is not just a problem in the WWE but in the entire industry. Mero and Finlay got into a major argument, which was stopped by Nancy Grace who just went off on Finlay and Marc Mero.
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