Former WWE Star Banned, Benoit News & Notes, RAW, More
DailySlam.com recently conducted an interview with Sandra Toffoloni, the sister of the late Nancy "Woman" Benoit. Toffoloni has founded an organization dedicated to researching the effects of steroid abuse on the brain and the body called "The Nancy and Daniel Benoit Foundation," which is located at NBDFoundation.Org. She spoke out on the foundation, as well as her sister. She also puts a rumor to rest regarding Daniel. She said: "My nephew Daniel was not sick. He did not have Fragile X, or any other disease or deformity. He was shy, like his Dad, that is all. he was not injected with HGH or steroids or any such thing. This is what's true, we have his medical records as proof and have already made a press statement the general media has chosen to ignore."
Irv Muchnick sent in the following yesterday: I recently filed a complaint with the Connecticut Freedom of Information Commission to compel the Stamford Police Department to release the video of its interrogation last summer of Matthew T. Greenberg – a hapless University of Connecticut student whose Internet mischief has landed him the sobriquet of "the Benoit Wikipedia [link: www.wikipedia.org/] hacker." Pull up a chair while I explain. For the complete column today at SLAM! Wrestling on canoe.ca, Canada's leading interactive news site, go to https://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Wrestling/.
Former WWE star Mark Jindrak (now known as Marco Corleone), Shocker (former TNA wrestler), El Terrible and El Hijo del Texano were all suspended for one year by the Tijuana commission because they did spots in a match where all pulled down the trunks of the other, which the commission doesn't allow, reports the Wrestling Observer Newsletter. As a result, the wrestlers will be unable to compete in wrestling events taking place in Tijuana, Mexico for one full year.
AM RAW will air an hour earlier, at 1AM ET, on Sunday August 10th, 17th, and 24th, due to Olympics coverage on the USA Network.