Ryan Reeves - Suspended in July 2006. His suspension was reportedly due to steroids. After being a contestant for Tough Enough in 2004, even though he had never wrestled in a match, WWE signed him to a developmental contract in 2005. He was in WWE's developmental system for a little over a year, but he never made the main roster. He was released last January alongside a slew of other talent who the company didn't see much of a future in. At the time of his suspension, he was one of the most jacked guys under contract to WWE. He is 6'2" and billed as being 275 pounds -- pretty much all of rock solid muscle. Furthermore, if you type in the username he uses for his MySpace page and e-mail account (which he uses to take indy wrestling bookings) at Google.com, 'silverback247', one of the search engine listings points you to a site called www.Steroidology.com. The website is an information website on steroids and bodybuilding. Under the Anabolic Steroids discussion forum on the site, there is a post by Reeves. A person under the username 'supergirl' talks about going to one of those Fitness conventions. Reeves does a post asking the girl if she can send him her picture. He uses the same e-mail address he takes wrestling bookings with, so it's obviously him. The post took place three years ago this weekend, just before he did Tough Enough 4. As if that isn't enough, just after his suspension, Reeves formed a tag team in OVW with Jon Bolen (who has since been released) called "High Dosage." It is unknown if Reeves is still wrestling as his name hasn't come up on any indy wrestling shows to my knowledge.
Ryan O'Reilly - Suspended in September 2006. There were plans to call O'Reilly up to the ECW roster in October of last year, but those plans were nixed when he failed a Wellness Test. He was going be in a tag team with with fellow DSW wrestler Derrick Neikirk. The two worked a few ECW house shows that summer as a tag team. O'Reilly is still under contract to WWE and is currently in WWE's Florida developmental territory.
Balls Mahoney - Suspended in September 2006. Mahoney was suspended for 30 days following a failed drug test. According to reports, the ECW wrestler had indications of the painkiller, Demerol, in his system. Despite the suspension, Mahoney wasn't completely taken off the road as he continued working television, just not house shows. After the liver enzyme deal broke out, which ruined a number of matches for the Great American Bash in July 2006, Vince McMahon made the decision to dock pay from all Wellness Policy violators for however long the suspension would last, while keeping them on the road in the meantime. McMahon wasn't fond of the suspensions ruining ongoing storylines, so that's why he made his decision. Violators would continue to work television, but be kept off house shows.
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