I for one have had enough. Day in and day out for many months now, I’ve had to sit at home and listen to all the rhetoric about Linda McMahon running for the US Senate. I thought to myself, there’s a lot that can be said about the McMahon family, some good some bad, but regardless of the fact, someone has got to put a stop to the bullshit surrounding steroid, and the deaths of professional wrestlers, in regards to the McMahon family. I`m Bobby L. Horne AKA Sir Mo Formerly of a Tag team known in the old WWF as Men on a
I’m only gonna address a couple of things, As a former employee of the McMahons, I was never asked or told to use steroids. It was never suggested to me, that I had to if I was going to keep my job working for them. Vince McMahon gave me and my friends an opportunity of a lifetime. Did he give us all that he could have as far as the machine? No I would disagree, but he did give us an opportunity and I’m grateful for that. Did Vince McMahon or anyone else in his family ever say Mo, you have to drink alcohol every night, and take prescription pills to get you through? No it never happened and was never said to me by anyone in that company. I’m 43 years old, and I’ve spent the better part of 22 plus years falling on my back, beating myself up, and for what, because anyone who has ever stepped in a wrestling ring knows that it in itself is a drug. It’s as addictive as any marijuana or cocaine. And when the lights go out, you feel like life for you is over. So what do you do? Me, I sat in my room for hours at a time, and cried and ask why I couldn’t do it on that level again. I even felt like committing suicide, I was so addicted to wrestling. To this day, I’m on kidney dialysis, and still cry because I can’t just jump in the ring and perform.
There is something about that feeling of having those fans eating out of the palm of your hands, and screaming your name that makes you wants to do it forever. I would have worked for Vince for free as long as I could have been able to perform, it wasn’t about the money, and it still isn’t, just that adrenalin rush you get when you break that curtain. I know someone is gonna say who the hell is he, well I’m someone who worked there for 3 years and lived the life, and I experienced the same things that everyone else has - the good, the bad the ugly. I may die tomorrow from kidney failure, but it won’t be because Vince McMahon or anyone in his family asked me to or even suggested I use steroids, or partake in any illegal drug use, or excessive alcohol consumption. And if you don’t think you can wrestle in pain and not use pain killers, then I say you have no threshold for pain. I broke my right leg in March of 1995, had major surgery on it. On Sunday, cut my cast off after an 11 day break, taped up my leg and ankle and I went back to work. Not because Vince McMahon told me to, or threatened to take my job, but because I loved the business that much, and I done it without the use of alcohol or pain killers.
Anyone who doesn`t believe that, well if you can find my former tag team partner, ask him, if ever there was a time he was proud of me, ask him about the week we worked matches with the likes of Davey Boy and Lex Lugar with broken leg and ankle. I performed and with a clear head and mind. Vince McMahon never knew I even broke my leg; because I never told anyone.
The night after I got out of the hospital I called JJ Dillon and told him, I sprained my ankle, just to give myself a few more days to recover after the surgery. But I went back to work. Why because that’s what we do, we are workers and we love this business and that’s why we do what we do.
Finally before I end this column, I want to say this, Linda McMahon my hat is off to you. Any woman that can put up with what this business has to offer, and all the scandals and innuendos and still come out with a smile has my utmost respect. Linda McMahon running for the Senate is no different than Arnold Swarzeneggar running for governor of California America
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