Linda McMahon “Disrespects” Lance McNaught

Upon his death, Linda McMahon was asked about Lance McNaught, which elicited the terse, glib response, “”I might have met him once.” That is not sitting well with McNaught’s father who was planning to grieve quietly until hearing that response, and is now coming out fighting for his son’s dignity by saying that McMahon is “disrespecting” his son. Harley McNaught’s recollections are different from the candidate’s, “I’ve been with him on two different WWE functions where she came up to him and knew him by name. She disrespected him. She disrespected my family.”
The elder McNaught had joined with his son months earlier, accusing the McMahons and WWE for not caring for Lance, saying that they were trying to avoid embarrassment. “After he gets out of rehab, what is it now?” “He embarrassed you? Is that what it is? Don’t tell me that you care about these people,” said Vince McNaught about his son’s dismissal.
The man who once performed for the WWE under the name Lance Cade has openly admitted that his long career in the business of professional wrestling, and its aftermath, had led to his addiction to steroids and painkillers.  McNaught was gasping to get out the word about steroid use in the WWE by recounting the day he was encouraged to take steroids ”It was right in front of the (announcer’s) desk at the (Louisville, Ky.) Davis Arena, and our little talk was, ‘Lance, you’re going to have to make the decision if you want to change your body, if you know what I mean, or keep going through this.’ And that’s when I made the decision, and in six weeks – go look at the … tapes. … From January of ’03, fast forward to March of ’03 and look at the change in my body.”
 And McNaught made it clear that steroid use was not confined to a few, proven by simply looking at the growing sizes of modern-day wrestlers, “We’re not dumb. We know who’s using and who’s not.”
While steroid use was common among many WWE wrestlers, according to McNaught, it paled in comparison to the post-wrestling addiction to pills that would alleviate a life of pain. Addiction to painkillers is a unique product manufactured by a career in professional wrestling, and it is the common thread in just about all the human tragedies faced by WWE. As the father of wrestler Chris Benoit aptly put it, “The use of painkillers is almost an occupational hazard in wrestling…”