Former WWE Creative Talks About Andrew “Test” Martin
Former WWE Creative Seth Mates, writer for the NewsDay.com has posted an article on remembering Andrew “Test” Martin. You can read an very interesting article. You can read the entire article NewsDay.com
Which has one particular quote from Mates:
WWE can say whatever they wanted about how “The Wrestler” and other problems are indicative of how the business “used to be,” provided no one bothers to point out that how the business “used to be” ended around 2005 or 2006, if even then. But — my opinion here — I defy you to look at Test’s physique during his most recent run (and his own words in his posts from above) and tell me different.
So again, to WWE, this becomes another guy where they’ll wipe their hands of any wrongdoing and point to the fact that they tried to help him through his problems, a guy they made sure was dumped from the payroll before something like this could officially happen on their watch again.
So nothing will come of it, much like nothing came of the deaths of Eddie Guerrero, Chris Benoit, Ray Traylor, Curt Hennig, Mike Alfonso or Mike Lockwood — the other guys I worked with who died way too young.
I’m sorry, but I still don’t buy that wellness policy for even one second.
Noble as it might be for WWE to have helped Test through rehab, it would have been more noble had they not fired him after neck surgery, or encouraged what seemed to be — in my opinion — an unnatural look, or any of a million other things that no doubt contributed to his state.
WWE, once again, has blood on its hands.
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