WWE Star Gregory Helms Discusses His Side Of The SI.com Steroids Story

WWE star Gregory Helms posted the following response to the SI.com steroids/HGH story today on his MySpace.com blog:

"Now, before I clear the air, I wanna ask a question? If you get hurt and a doctor prescribes you a medicine/drug and therapy to help you and you take it, did that become wrong somewhere? Did I miss a meeting? No need to answer because apparently the answer is yes. Apparently pro wrestlers never get hurt and if they do they aren't allowed to get treatment. So anyway, here's the story, several years ago I had hurt my knee and was advised by 2 different doctors to undergo this particular therapy. I didn't ask for it, hell, I didn't even know about it, all I knew is that I didn't want to have to have surgery. Not to mention that I would like for my life after wrestling to be as painless as possible. I won't be able to wrestle forever and I would hope that I'm entitled to the best quality of life availalbe (sic) to me when that time comes. I would like to think that it's well in my human rights to take whatever a doctor tells me to if it helps my condition and relieves my pain. Isn't that what everyone goes to a doctor for? Shane Helms committed no crime and did absolutely nothing illegal. And that is a FACT!!! Trust me, there are a million ways to get any kind of legal or illegal medicine/drug you want. However, I was under the assumption that going thru a doctor, getting treatment and therapy for a totally LEGAL medicine was the right way to go about dealing with this particular injury. And this injury that might have led to surgery had I not taken the therapy that I did. It's strange how that part of the story was conviently (sic) left out! Besides, look at me! I'm not 300 lbs of muscle, the biggest I've ever been is 215, I'm not abusing ANYTHING other that the abuse my body takes doing the job I love. Hell, I didn't even drink alcohol until I was 27.

Now I get that this "reporter" was just doing his job and was only using certain names from his list to sensationalize the article. And I guess it makes it sound more colorful to use the name Hurricane although I haven't been The Hurricane in almost 2 years now. Hell I guess this guy can pretty much get away with saying whatever he feels, I honestly don't know. I don't know him and I don't even deal with that particular Doctor anymore either. And if that Doctor did anything wrong himself, as long as it didn't involve me it shouldn't concern me or be directed towards me.

Am I making an excuse? Not at all. Making up an excuse would be admitting that I did something wrong or illegal. I did neither. I'm just a guy that has torn his body to shreds for the job he loves. And there are times that I've had to do to the hospital and get different kinds of medicines/drugs/whatever to help me heal. I'm not Wolverine, I can't heal from every injury instantaneaously (sic). I get hurt! And I'll get hurt again. I've said a million times, I never got into wrestling for the fame or the fortune, I got into because I genuinely love it. I put 100% of my heart into it and unfortunately my body pays the price. That's not a complaint, that's simply . . . reality."

Helms' blog also discusses his recent bout with the flu and how he toughed out his illness while wrestling Chris Benoit on Smackdown. Helms noted that his illness hadn't been reported and questioned why websites only focused on the negative aspects of the business, writing, "Now strangely enough but not surprisingly at all, this story didn't make any of the wrestling news websites. I guess making wrestling or wrestlers (especially me) look good is something they don't like to do much anymore, there's no "HITS" off of good news ya know? :) It boggles my mind when I think about how much exposure these "enemies of pro-wrestling" get off of pro-wrestling websites. How many years have I been on the net giving countless hours of myself to my fans? How many hosiptals (sic) and schools have I visited to help under priviledged (sic) kids and wounded soldiers? How much money have I donated to various charities for no other reason than to help. All of these things are neglected by these websites yet they all jumped on this story just to drum up attention. Makes me wonder if this BLOG will receive as many posts?"

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Note from Mike: When it comes to negative aspects of wrestling getting more attention online, Helms does make his points well. At the same time, what he's discussing is certainly not exclusive to wrestling or even the Internet, but the media in general.

I can only vouch for PWInsider.com but we've written and mentioned a number of things that those around the business have done out of the kindness of their hearts many a time. Unfortunately, many of the positive things that are done by WWE, their performers (and other entities in the business) are overlooked because those gestures of kindness are done quietly and privately and not for media attention, so we often don't hear about them. Let's also not forgot WWE's "no media" rule for websites like ours. It's not like we can call anyone in Stamford, CT on record for comment about anything, negative or positive. I'd love to have that relationship with them, but they chose several years ago to close those doors.

I do agree with Helms that charitable acts should never be ignored. Positive things about performers should be written about when they occur. However, at the same time, the "negative aspects" he refers to cannot be glossed over by any media entity claiming to present fair and balanced coverage, because anything positively written would be meaningless.

You can read Helms'entire MySpace.com blog entry (and I advise you do) by clicking either link.

source: pwinsider.com


at first i was a bit concerned about the amount of wrestlers named in the investigation but after reading the comments from edge and helms i think the whole thing is being blown out of proportion

Not surprising though that the media focuses in on wrestling. I mean, we wouldn't actually want to deal with the steroid problem in the so called "real" sports now would we?

sports illustrated should focus their investigations in sports that steroid use actually changes the outcome of it