By Wade Keller, Torch editor

Again filled with unnecessary vitriolic credibility-endagering exaggerations and assumptions, Phil Mushnick undercut his cause in his article about Eddie Guerrero's death in today’s New York Post. Excerpts:

-"It's hard to keep a body count on pro wrestlers, under the age of 40, who have died sudden, steroid-aided deaths in the last 20-25 years. Vince McMahon does not contract the Elias Sports Bureau to keep track. But that industry-wide number must be closing in on 100."

-" But as pro wrestlers drop dead - four, five, six a year - they hardly make a sound."

- "Last week McMahon exploited Guerrero's death to make ratings hay with his NBC-TV partners, first on McMahon's hideously desensitizing USA Network show (USA is now owned by NBC) and then through a speak-no-evil memorial on MSNBC."

He then went on to write to a realistic summary of why so many wrestlers die (although not nearly his exaggerated figures). He wrote:

" It works like this: The wrestlers know that their bosses want over-the-top muscle. They know that there's an implied, industry-wide directive to be on or to get on the juice. They know that they have to be on the road many weeks at a time, without any medical coverage or sick days. Miss a show due to illness or injury and you miss a payday. Often, one or two misses and you're fired. So the cycle begins. Steroids to get and keep the job, barbiturates to kill the pain and get some sleep, stimulants to get through the next gig. That's why pro wrestlers are found dead in their hotel rooms."

Mushnick was one of the most persistent writers in covering the scandalous allegations made against WWE in the early '90s regarding drug abuse, sexual misconduct, and cover-ups and lies. He also closely wrote about the government steroid trial against Vince McMahon in 1994.

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