source: Wrestling Observer Newsletter
— Regarding Jimmy Wang Yang’s suspension, he recently failed a drug test and was suspended for 30 days as a result on Monday, June 9. It is believed that he did not fail for steroids, although the company doesn’t release information on what the wrestlers fail for. Internally, Yang’s suspension was not a major topic of conversation, at least compared to the suspensions of William Regal and Jeff Hardy. Also, when word got out that day, talent feared a possible drug test on the horizon. As it turns out, the Raw wrestlers were drug tested later that day in Oakland. Yang was the sixth drug suspension of the year following Derrick Neikirk, Neil “Chet the Jet” Bzibziak, Jeff Hardy, Afa, Jr., and William Regal.
— As noted earlier, D-Lo Brown (Accie Connor) signed a deal with WWE to rejoin the company. The word going around in recent months was that Vince McMahon wanted more African-Americans on television, so Brown’s impromptu signing when he last had a dark match ten months ago likely had something to do with this. McMahon has been looking to obtain some more African-Americans talent for a few reasons. Ratings have gone down in that demo, they’ve lost some talent what with the departures of Booker T, Lashley, Kristal Marshall & others in the past year, not to mention the whole Michael Hayes racism controversy.
— Former WWE U.S. Champion MVP was interviewed by the Brisbane Times in Australia today. In the interview, MVP discusses life before becoming a wrestler, which included a prison term for armed robbery and kidnapping at the age of 16. After serving nine years in jail, he was able to receive a work release and started training as a wrestler, while doing bodyguard and bouncing work to support himself on the side. The article notes that he tries to help other prisoners turn their life around. “You send a guy to prison, you put that black mark on him and he gets out he can’t live anywhere, can’t work anywhere, his options are extremely limited. I’d like to show people your options are limited but you need to have the resolve within to overcome,” MVP explained.
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