Former WWE and WCW star Lance Storm has posted the following blog over at StormWrestling.com, explaining why he is choosing not to do the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, despite being nominated:

“The first flaw is that a lot of people taking up this challenge are just doing creative videos of themselves dumping water on their heads as a vanity project to get attention and pat themselves on the back for all the good they are doing, despite not donating a single penny. The excuse or denial here is “Well at least we are creating awareness, look at the national donations, they are way up”. Way to pass the buck. I’m sure you’re individual video was the one that made the difference. For those who did in fact donate or are pacified with the “I’ve created awareness” we then have the second flaw.

What is the ALSA doing with all of this money? The truth is the vast majority of the money you are donating is not going towards research and finding a cure for ALS. The numbers are disputed somewhat. I’ve heard people claim as low as 7% is going towards research and the ALSA claims that number is closer to 27%. Lets for the sake of convenience and benefit of the doubt, use 25%. Three quarters of the money you donate to help find a cure isn’t going where you want it to. Most of it is going towards “Awareness and Education”, which could be translated to be read “Advertising and Promotions” to ensure more money gets donated so they can again put only one quarter of it towards what they are claiming it’s for in their promotion and advertising. It is a deceitful cycle that keeps a lot of people employed earning great livings while delivering very little of the money donated to the cause they are promoting. To this we offer ourselves the excuse, “Well 25% is better than nothing, that is still a lot of money, and someone has to run these charities” To this I offer you the popular concept of cutting out the middle man. Why are we donating to these Charity groups that only deliver a small percentage of our donations to the research groups? Why not donate directly to the people that are actually doing the work, the people trying to discover treatments and cures?

This is the third and final flaw. The reason we don’t donate directly is because then we would discover that the portion of our donation that isn’t going towards salaries and advertising, that 25% that we think is actually doing good, is going into the pockets of Big Pharma. Yes the pharmaceutical companies are getting your money. You are giving your money to some of the biggest, richest, most profitable companies in the world. You are helping cover the cost of their research and development programs to allow them to make higher profits. You are not financing new research, this is research they are already doing. This is how they make their money after all. They create new drugs to treat diseases, and when they find a new treatment they patent it and sell it back to you at a huge profit.

Think about that for a minute. Millions upon millions of dollars are being GIVEN to a company to help find a cure or treatment of a disease and if they find a cure/treatment, the people you GAVE that money to will then patent that cure and sell it back to you at a huge profit. Wait…What…profit? I thought we donated to Charity, a non-profit organization. Oh right that’s another reason why we don’t donate directly to the people doing the research if we did they wouldn’t be able to claim it as a non-profit or a charity, and they are creating these drugs with the sole intention of making profits, hundreds or millions of dollars in profits. Yes your good intentioned donations, or at least the part that isn’t going towards salaries and advertising, that huge 25% of it, is going towards increasing the profit margins of some of the richest most profitable companies in the world. Doesn’t that make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside.”

A thousand times

Even though he's right in what he's saying, he's coming off as anti-charity lately. With this and the whole issue of him not retweeting a stream for a charity in Canada a few weeks ago, he hasnt made too many people thrilled with his comments.

Nigahiga said it best, if it wasn't for the dumping the ice over people's head thing it wouldn't have gotten the attention if someone just had talked about donating the money. Yes it's a trend but it's doing something amazing. Last year The ALS association made a few 1000's. This years with the ALS ice bucket challenge it's made over Millions of dollars.

people are fucking retarded. If something is a trend, the no life morons HAVE to hate on it, regardless of the reason. Get over yourselves, fact is, this has gotten a lot of exposure to what ALS is. And sure, there are a few people that don't know what it is, but there are a lot more that have learned what it is because of this. There is no harm at all in the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, and thanks to that, ALS has gotten tons of donations. But there's always that group of no-lives that have to hate everything that's popular just because they want to sound smart. Once again, get over yourselves.

Wouldn't it have been easier to just say "my blood is ice anyway, so I wouldn't feel it."

^^ It's the hipster mentality

^ lol

It really is, and it pisses me off. Something's a trend or popular? I hate it because I'm too smart for society's antics!

the desire to feel smarter then everyone else and in the end makes you look like a dickhole

Not to mention stupid, as most of those people fail to look at the facts and just try to sound smart - which ends up making them look stupid.

wouldn't shock me if Lance looked like this now

Fuck Lance Storm.

Damn Lance.