One professional wrestler called it "big government at its most evil."
"This legislation is a knee-jerk reaction to the Chris Benoit tragedy," wrestler Mark Henry said at a public hearing Wednesday in Atlanta on a proposed bill that would subject World Wrestling Entertainment to state regulation.
Henry was referring to the former WWE star who killed his wife and 7-year-old son in their Fayetteville home before taking his own life last summer.
"That was one man's struggle against drug abuse and mental illness. It had nothing to do with wrestling," said Henry, one of about 80 members of the state's wrestling community who turned out to object to Senate Bill 413...More?
source: ajc.com
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