Jimmy Rave Says He Was An "Addict"

[Celgress]

Jimmy Rave: 'I Was A Complete Drug Addict' In TNA
by TNAWrestlingNews.com Staff on 08/27/2011 - 06:42 PM

Jimmy Rave is the latest wrestler to paint TNA Wrestling as a haven for drug abuse as he revealed in an interview this week that he was 'a complete drug addict' during his second stint with the organization, which occurred from August 2007 to February 2009.

Speaking to The Road to Mania Blog (http://maniaweekend.blogspot.com/), Rave said of his run as a member of The Rock 'n Rave Infection with Christy Hemme and Lance Hoyt: "My 2009 run, I was a complete drug addict to be honest. I didn't give a damn about wrestling because I just cared about scoring more pills and numbing myself. Which people probably could notice about what kind of shape I was in and how I looked and even my wrestling."

Rave returned to Ring of Honor following his dismissal from TNA (which was as a result of creative no longer having plans for him rather than his prolonged drug abuse), but it would not last. ROH cut ties with Rave in September 2009 due to his major addiction to drugs. He explains what he did next.

"In turn, I went to rehab, got a job as a director of a Wellness Center, and I now help people realize they throw everything away that they love when they start abusing drugs," Rave said. "My first run was amazing though. I learned so much and had the greatest times of my life there. I love the ROH product and a lot of the boys there have been my closest friends since I was 19."

Dustin Rhodes, who is known as Goldust in WWE, made a similar claim in his 2010 autobiography, Cross Rhodes: Goldust, Out of the Darkness, as he revealed that he was severely addicted to painkillers during the same time frame in TNA; he was taking close to forty pills a day while performing as the split personality character Black Reign in 2007 and 2008. The second generation wrestler's issues with drug abuse culminated in April 2008 as he called WWE to take up their offer for rehab following a three-day binge. He remained locked away in a drug rehabilitation center for thirty days.


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[Krimzon]

So that's why he was the drizzling s***s during that run. I knew he had more ability & passion than what he was showing. It honestly came off like he didn't give a s***. Now I know why.

In regards to Goldust, I have no idea how any human being can take around 40 pills a day and live. That is just staggering.

[MrBRulzOK]

First Black Reign and now Jimmy Rave.

I'm curious to hear if there was anyone else who was driven to such extremes while working in TNA.

Well never mind then. I need to learn to read things more closely.

[anticonscience]

So I assume that job running the rehab center is full-time so he's retired from the ring? It's probably for the best so he doesn't fall back into the pills but at the same time it blows that he had to retire so young

[Allie Kitsune]

Aug 27, 2011 19:58:26 GMT -5 Krimzon said:

So that's why he was the drizzling s***s during that run. I knew he had more ability & passion than what he was showing. It honestly came off like he didn't give a s***. Now I know why.

In regards to Goldust, I have no idea how any human being can take around 40 pills a day and live. That is just staggering.

I actually liked The Rock & Rave Infection.

The "Shit, we just don't care" attitude seemed like it fit the gimmick, to me.

[Michael Coello]

Jimmy Rave is the latest wrestler to paint TNA Wrestling as a haven for drug abuse as he revealed in an interview this week that he was 'a complete drug addict' during his second stint with the organization, which occurred from August 2007 to February 2009.

Speaking to The Road to Mania Blog (http://maniaweekend.blogspot.com/), Rave said of his run as a member of The Rock 'n Rave Infection with Christy Hemme and Lance Hoyt: "My 2009 run, I was a complete drug addict to be honest. I didn't give a damn about wrestling because I just cared about scoring more pills and numbing myself. Which people probably could notice about what kind of shape I was in and how I looked and even my wrestling."

Uhh, he didn't say that about his run with the Rock N Rave, he said it of his run in ROH.

maniaweekend.blogspot.com/2011/08/interview-with-jimmy-rave-of-rampage.html#more

TJ: While you probably received the most national exposure from your time in TNA, your arguably most celebrated time in your career was during your stints with Ring of Honor. Were there any big differences between your two different runs with the company? What were the reasons for you suddenly leaving the company in 2009?

JR: There was a huge difference between the two times I was there... My 2009 run, I was a complete drug addict to be honest. I didn't give a damn about wrestling because I just cared about scoring more pills and numbing myself. Which people probably could notice about what kind of shape I was in and how I looked and even my wrestling. ROH officals saw that and rightfully said "hit the road". In turn, I went to rehab, got a job as a director of a Wellness Center, and I now help people realize they throw everything away that they love when they start abusing drugs. My first run was amazing though. I learned so much and had the greatest times of my life there. I love the ROH product and a lot of the boys there have been my closest friends since I was 19.

[biafra]

Yeah, someone putting words in his mouth he did not say.

[Michael Coello]

Aug 27, 2011 20:02:13 GMT -5 anticonscience said:

So I assume that job running the rehab center is full-time so he's retired from the ring? It's probably for the best so he doesn't fall back into the pills but at the same time it blows that he had to retire so young

It says in the article he's working for Rampage Pro Wrestling out in Georgia.

[Krimzon]

You mean to tell me that a tabloid site twisted words of an interviewee to fit their own agenda? My good sir, surely you jest! And I'll call you Shirley if I want to!

[Apricots And A Pear Tree]

Yeah he was not addicted to drugs when he was in TNA,just Guitar hero.

[Kash Flagg]

Which is worse.

[unoriginalalex]

Glad to hear he is doing well.

[Wolf Hurricane]

Aug 27, 2011 19:58:26 GMT -5 Krimzon said:

In regards to Goldust, I have no idea how any human being can take around 40 pills a day and live. That is just staggering.

I don't even want to know what kind of pain or tolerance you'd have to have to take twenty, let alone double that. But it's possible. It's amazing what the human body can tolerate for the sake of pain remediation or for a high.

[donners]

So he was a drug addict for six months in RoH and they didn't notice either?

[Crusty Ruffles]

Aug 27, 2011 20:09:12 GMT -5 Michael Coello said:

Aug 27, 2011 20:02:13 GMT -5 anticonscience said:

So I assume that job running the rehab center is full-time so he's retired from the ring? It's probably for the best so he doesn't fall back into the pills but at the same time it blows that he had to retire so young

It says in the article he's working for Rampage Pro Wrestling out in Georgia.

He tweets a lot about that. I think it's the most steady for him right now. He just had a match with Davey Richards a couple weeks ago that got really good praise.

[mcmahonfan85]

Aug 27, 2011 20:05:05 GMT -5 Michael Coello said:

Jimmy Rave is the latest wrestler to paint TNA Wrestling as a haven for drug abuse as he revealed in an interview this week that he was 'a complete drug addict' during his second stint with the organization, which occurred from August 2007 to February 2009.

Speaking to The Road to Mania Blog (http://maniaweekend.blogspot.com/), Rave said of his run as a member of The Rock 'n Rave Infection with Christy Hemme and Lance Hoyt: "My 2009 run, I was a complete drug addict to be honest. I didn't give a damn about wrestling because I just cared about scoring more pills and numbing myself. Which people probably could notice about what kind of shape I was in and how I looked and even my wrestling."

Uhh, he didn't say that about his run with the Rock N Rave, he said it of his run in ROH.

maniaweekend.blogspot.com/2011/08/interview-with-jimmy-rave-of-rampage.html#more

TJ: While you probably received the most national exposure from your time in TNA, your arguably most celebrated time in your career was during your stints with Ring of Honor. Were there any big differences between your two different runs with the company? What were the reasons for you suddenly leaving the company in 2009?

JR: There was a huge difference between the two times I was there... My 2009 run, I was a complete drug addict to be honest. I didn't give a damn about wrestling because I just cared about scoring more pills and numbing myself. Which people probably could notice about what kind of shape I was in and how I looked and even my wrestling. ROH officals saw that and rightfully said "hit the road". In turn, I went to rehab, got a job as a director of a Wellness Center, and I now help people realize they throw everything away that they love when they start abusing drugs. My first run was amazing though. I learned so much and had the greatest times of my life there. I love the ROH product and a lot of the boys there have been my closest friends since I was 19.

cut them some slack, they were probably doing something important like checking TNA's Facebook likes to bother to fully read what they are reporting on

[mcclanahan]

ok, why are they trying to make it look like TNA made him an addict...he had a problem before going there and after he left, he's recently gotten clean and wants to go back to TNA and ROH...and personally I wish him luck with that...infact I hope all of Jimmy Rave Approved gets a shot with ROH or TNA (though I doubt they'd be as good of a stable in TNA...if they were allowed to stay together)

[dpg]

They could have been a bit more subtle in their alterations.

[Bram wants to 'urt you]

A friend of mine was hit by a car as a child, with the result that he a) had a steel plate in his skull and b) used to get blinding (literally, his eyesight would become so blurred that if he was driving at the time he had to pull over to the side of the road) migraines.

The doctors told him to take 2 x 500mg paracodol (a painkiller combining paracetamol and codeine, the strongest available "over the counter" painkiller in the UK at the time, maybe still) every time the migraines flared up. He would regularly take over 20 of these a day. He did ask the doctors about this, as the maximum recommended dosage for these is 8 in a 24 hour period, and no more than that for four days consecutively, due to the addictive nature of codeine, and they simply said that, in his case, the excessive tablet use and potential risk of addiction compared to the pain he was in made it alright for him to take them in such quantities.

Just thought I'd share that.

[Legion]

Although clearly TNA aren't responsible for the addictions of either man, as they had the issues before and obviously after, TNA clearly do F all to stop or stamp out this sort of thing if both were there so long and were so addicted.