More Names come up in Astin Probe

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Bob Holly, Rey Mysterio, Marcus Bagwell, Lex Luger, Mike Durham, and Chris and Nancy Benoit...all of their records have been ceased.

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Lawyer: No plea deal at this time for wrestler's doctor

That's the title of an associated press article you will find behind the cut:

ATLANTA (AP) - A lawyer for the personal doctor to pro wrestler Chris Benoit said today his client has no plans at this time to plead guilty to improperly
prescribing medication to two other patients, but he didn't rule out the idea down the road.

Manny Arora, Doctor Phil Astin's attorney, told The Associated Press today "There will be no plea of this unless that is the appropriate thing to do based
on the case, and we have no evidence that that is the case."

A federal magistrate judge today scheduled a pretrial conference in Astin's case for July 19th and asked both sides to, among other things, "confer regarding
the probable disposition of the case." The judge also wrote that he wants the sides to come to the hearing prepared to discuss the "probability of disposition
of the case without trial."

Arora said that is a standard request by a judge. He said he needs documents and other evidence gathered by federal prosecutors before moving forward in
the case. Arora suggested he may ask for a postponement of the hearing if he doesn't get some materials before then.

He said "I can't talk about a disposition until I actually see what the evidence is."

A spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's Office, Patrick Crosby, declined to comment today on whether that office would consider a plea deal in the Astin case.

Astin was charged last week with improperly prescribing medications to two patients, but not Benoit. More charges are possible later. Astin pleaded not
guilty at his first court appearance.

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Astin being investigated for over prescribing medication to Johnny Grunge?

This thing just keeps opening wider and wider. This part won't have too much impact on WWE necessarily but Dr. Phil Astin's life is getting harder these days.

The Atlanta Journal Constitution reports an investigation is under way in to the role Astin may have played in the death of Mike Durham, AKA Johnny Grunge.

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Wrestlers in Astin Indictment named?

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TMZ published it earlier but has since removed the story.

The names reported are Rey Mysterio and Mark Jindrac for those too lazy to click the top link.

After a conversation with Ric and Euan yesterday (which none of you will ever hear, and trust me it is better for our souls that way) I would've guessed MJ was Marty Jannetty.

I will say this much, I don't know why TMZ removed the story and really it doesn't matter entirely because they're not the first and won't be the last place to use those names specifically.

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Oh yeah, you knew this was coming...

other wrestlers may have had ties to Benoit's doctor

Is he going to deny prescribing them steroids too? I ask only out of concern for the well being of...me. You see, if he denies this enough I'll start to run out of things that the CARE team can also deny.

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Dr. denies prescribing steroids for Chris Benoit

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While we're denying stuff, Euan denies that he likes mustard and I deny the existance of the sun. Ric Gillespie denies being lazy and Art Shimko denies ever making any reference to drugs.

Dana White denies hating Frank Shamrock and Great Khali says: "sakdgzcbzryiqwtradgfhbvcxbngfasdgh"

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It sucks to be WWE today

Rather than link to each of the bad news items one by one, dave has a roundup

and press conference notes

At this point, I don't think the question is whether WWE is fucked. I think the question is, how fucked is WWE going to be?

This may seem harsh, but you know what I think? I think that any thing bad that happens to the WWE or the industry as a whole as a result of all this is richly deserved. How long did the industry go unnoticed and unchecked...and make no or minimal and fony efforts to fix itself? The industry has taken advantage of going under the radar for so long, and they used that fact to allow for lots of bad things to occur and now its time to pay the bill.

I don't know what the fallout is going to be, but I do strongly believe fallout is coming.

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Report: Chris Benoit received 10 months worth of steroids every 3-to-4 weeks

Fox News broke the story detailed here

This is going to get uglier once people start asking basic questions like...where do you suppose 10 years worth of steroids went to in the coarse of a 12 month period?

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