Pat Patterson touched ring boys and Vince let him back?

[fukkyalifestyle]

What kind of dirt does Pat have on coke boy sheesh.

World Wrestling Federation Vice President in charge of talent, Pat Patterson and booking assistant Terry Garvin resigned Monday amidst a scandal that could threaten the very future of the company.

Patterson, who is generally considered one of the six or seven most influential men in the pro wrestling business, along with Garvin, one of his long-time assistants, announced their resignations following allegations of sexual misconduct by two former ring attendants, an ex-front office employee and charges made a few weeks back on the Wrestling Insiders radio show by former preliminary wrestler Barry Orton.

The allegations of two former ring attendants, both of whom were underage at the time and one of which is planning to file a lawsuit within a few weeks according to an article in this past Wednesday's New York Post, were the first stories of this nature to actually make the mainstream news. WWF owner Vince McMahon was furious about the charges, particularly those made by Orton, because he felt that because of Patterson and Garvin's gay lifestyle, they would be unable to defend themselves against the charges even though both claimed they were innocent of any wrongdoing. McMahon said both felt by staying with the company it could have a severe negative impact on the company. Thus, according to McMahon, both men offered their resignations.

McMahon on Tuesday denied all of the charges against both Patterson and Garvin. He said that Garvin totally refuted the charge made by Orton and McMahon was upset at Orton and those in the media for bringing up an incident from 1978. He was also upset with charges by a former employee in regard to Patterson as ridiculous and claimed the employee, Murray Hodgkins, who he called a certifiable lunatic, was fired because he couldn't do his job properly. He noted that Patterson has been in the wrestling business for 30 years and in that time hadn't had any allegations brought against him and claimed the various sources complaining both in regards to Patterson and Garvin and also Hulk Hogan weren't credible.

McMahon did admit that Hogan didn't tell the complete truth on the Arsenio Hall show but denied he had anything to do with what Hogan said except he told Hogan to tell the truth. He said he was devastated when Hogan didn't tell the complete truth. McMahon was also critical of WCW Executive Vice President Kip Frey's new steroid policy and of the wrestling newsletters reaction to the policy saying the only valid policy is involuntary testing if one is serious about the subject. He also denied knowing about any new letter sent to employees last week as was reported in last week's Observer even though one part-time employee claimed he received a letter last Monday with a release form to sign making himself available for steroid and drug tests that was mailed the previous Friday. McMahon was also defensive of his own steroid testing program, which he claimed was far better than that of either the International Olympic Committee or the National Football League. He'll release his written policy to the media shortly, and, provided they dig themselves out of this current hole, he'll hold anabolic steroid symposiums with Dr. Mauro DiPasquale (who is generally considered the leading expert on beating steroid tests in the Western World) of Canada to educate the media to the subject. In addition, McMahon, after many false starts, implemented steroid testing to his World Bodybuilding Federation performers with a blood test taken a few days back (the WWF wrestlers didn't have blood tests taken and the procedure for the bodybuilders will be more stringent than that of the wrestlers) and urine tests to be taken sometime this week. According to other sources in bodybuilding, McMahon told the bodybuilders they would be tested five times between now and the 6/13 WBF championships in Long Beach and if the levels of steroids in the bodybuilders' systems didn't continually decline in every test than they would be suspended. McMahon said that he didn't think the current testing procedures used for the wrestlers were good enough, particularly when it came to the WBF competitors and said that everyone in the Long Beach contest will be off steroids in their final preparation phase. In a related development, the contract between McMahon's most highly publicized and highly-paid bodybuilder, Lou Ferrigno, was severed on Friday. Ferrigno is claiming to still be with the WBF and simply taking time off to repair a hand injury which will result in him missing the WBF championships which were basically being promoted as a match-up between himself and last year's champion Gary Strydom. However, that isn't the case and sources close to the WBF said it was because Ferrigno balked at drug testing, a story McMahon didn't confirm. McMahon did say he expected Ferrigno to wind up with the rival Weider organization. McMahon admitted losing Ferrigno was a major marketing blow to the fledgling WBF.

Patterson, who came to work for the WWF in the late 1970s as a wrestler and upon his arrival, sold out Madison Square Garden four times in title matches against then-champion Bob Backlund, was considered one of the all-time great workers during his 24-year career. He was particularly well known in Northern California where he was the area's leading drawing card in the early 1970s. His tag team combination with Ray Stevens is one of the most famous duos in history, and perhaps with the exception of the Road Warriors, they were the only team to hold both the NWA and AWA world tag team titles during their career. Patterson was eventually moved into an office role after serving as a color commentator on television and becoming a part-time wrestler. After leaving the ring in 1985, he eventually took over as the second in command (behind McMahon) as far as talent and booking in the WWF after the firing of George Scott. Garvin, who was also an active wrestler during the 60s and 70s, part of a famous wrestling family with "brother" Ron and "brother" Jimmy (neither of whom he was actually related to) eventually held office positions with several promotions after retiring. He was working for Bob Geigel in Kansas City seven years ago when he made the move to the WWF.

The resignations came just a few days into what will almost certainly be the most critical period ever for the WWF. There have been several allegations of steroid and other drug use, sexual harassment and sexual abuse that will be breaking in several newspapers around the country and on the ABC television show 20/20 television over the next two weeks.

Most of the major creative and talent decisions all along have been made by McMahon, who for all real purposes was the booker even though most in wrestling referred to Patterson as such. But Patterson was clearly his second in command for years and heavily involved in all creative angles. The loss of Patterson and Garvin will be a void and most likely J.J. Dillon will become in charge of the administrative end of the talent coordination

 

[fukkyalifestyle]

Part 2

Years of lies and deception caught up with Vince McMahon in what had to be a week the likes of which he has to hope he'll never have to live through again.

A series of wrestling scandals, from Hulk Hogan's lies about steroids, to claims of homosexual harassment of the wrestlers all the way to the charge of WWF executives sexually abusing underage ringboys went from the front page of newspapers around the country and even as far as England, all the way to People Magazine, Larry King Live on CNN and the syndicated Phil Donahue show.

On Monday, the one charge that threatened the merchandising future of the multi-million (not billion) dollar Titan empire was settled in a most bizarre turn of events. Tom Cole, the 20-year-old former ringboy from Utica, N.Y., who claimed he was sexually harassed or abused at various times by all three WWF officials who are no longer with the organization, Pat Patterson, Mel Phillips and Terry Garvin, received $70,000 for two-years back-pay plus was given a multi-year contract to return to his former job as a ringboy. The settlement occurred just before a lawsuit was to be filed and before a taping of the Phil Donahue show where Cole was asked to be a guest. The fact a deal was made was no surprise because of the amount of bad publicity this case would have brought against Titan, but the nature of the deal was. The most bizarre aspect came after the Donahue show, when Cole and his older brother Lee, who had been befriended and had depositions done for their lawsuit by Barry Orton, Billy Graham and Bruno Sammartino, turned on them saying that of the panel on the Donahue show, only one guy cared about them and that was Vince McMahon.

Cole's charges, which were first reported in the New York Post, by Phil Mushnick, went attributed in a devastating front page story in the San Diego Union-Tribune by Jeff Savage last Wednesday. Entitled, "Sleaze no illusion in world of wrestling," the story detailed drug abuse, both anabolic steroids and recreational, sexual harassment and the most damaging claims of sexual abuse. Many newspapers around the country made reference to it as the week went on and it led to a national television feature Thursday night on Entertainment Tonight with Orton, Billy Jack Haynes and McMahon. It was also covered nationally Thursday night on ESPN Sports Center. The story had quotes from Cole and Chris Loss, two of the three ex-ringboys who came forward with claims of sexual abuse while minors working for Titan Sports. Cole said that while on tour with the WWF in 1985 at the age of 13, an employee would film Cole with a video camera while fondling his feet and masturbating. "He had a foot fetish," Cole said. "He would play with all the young boys' feet for hours at a time." Loss was 16 when he began working as a ringboy in Niagara Falls in 1989. He said the same employee cited by Cole "accidentally" stepped on his foot when he met him, and then when he said his foot hurt, the employee took off his shoe and began rubbing. "Boys are getting propositioned and played with all the time," Loss said. "You sort of put up with it because you can make a lot of money." Cole also claimed he was grabbed in the genitals numerous times by a second WWF official and the harassment continued unabated until he was fired in February of 1990 after rebuffing an advance from a third official. In that incident, Cole said he was driven to the official's house where he was asked to smoke marijuana, snort cocaine and have homosexual sex. When Cole rejected his advances, the official refused to take him home, so Cole slept in the WWF official's van in the driveway. He was fired the next day.

The same day, in an item entitled "Taste Test" in the Village Voice, it detailed the claim of Murray Hodgson about his two meetings with Patterson. Hodgson was hired in July of 1991 to announce for both the WWF and the World Bodybuilding Federation (in fact, he's the announcer on the first WBF championships videotape). In court papers, Hodgson said that on July 29, 1991, Patterson approached him at a wrestling television taping and asked, "So you're the new guy? .

So what do you taste like?" Hodgson replied, "You've got the wrong guy." Patterson: "Not if you want to keep your job, I don't. Think about it." On August 20, Hodgson was fired. On August 29, Hodgson met with McMahon and after the meeting, Patterson was waiting for Hodgson when he came out of McMahon's office and allegedly said, "Wouldn't listen to me, would you?"

The next day, Steve Planamenta sent out a press release saying: "The San Diego Union has published a story containing serious inaccuracies about alleged widespread wrongdoing in the World Wrestling Federation. We do not believe the charges in that newspaper to be true and we are so outraged that we have asked our attorneys to determine what legal action might be appropriate. However, as a responsible corporate citizen, we recognize that even false allegations must be investigated, and we will continue to do so. The WWF promotes good family entertainment. We are incensed that anyone would accuse us of behavior not in keeping with this philosophy. While we are not immune to human error, we rigorously enforce corporate polices regarding employee practices and behavior in keeping with the high standards demanded of a family entertainment company."

Let's see now, serious inaccuracies about things we don't believe are true but we're going to investigate accusations we've already determined are false.

On Thursday in the New York Post, a page seven story with a front page tease was headlined "Boy Sex Scandal Rocks Wrestling." The story repeated the claims from the San Diego story the previous day and included items from a letter to the Observer from Tom Hankins (see letters pages) which was written because Hankins was outraged when reading the 3/9 Observer where McMahon denied Orton's charges.

...

No matter what anyone thinks of Vince McMahon personally, he has to be respected for a great deal of business and marketing acumen. Along the way of building Titan Sports into a company that grosses in excess of $125 million per year (those $1.7 billion figures quoted on every media news report and even in very respectable newspapers are ludicrous beyond belief), McMahon has made a lot of enemies. But even his enemies would probably admit that he isn't stupid. Yet, after watching the Larry King Live, I had to shake my head in disbelief. Yes, it's the sexual abuse and sexual harassment that have put the company under fire more than Hogan lying on Arsenio did. But without the lie, the climate wouldn't have been created to give those who want to speak out publicly against McMahon and Titan a forum. Without the media already examining the company because of the steroid issue, nobody would have paid a rats ass worth of attention to Murray Hodgson. If nothing else, a smart person would learn from their mistakes. Even though dishonesty is an inbred part of any wrestling promoter, one would think McMahon learned something from this debacle.

Instead, throwing caution to the wind, he decided to trade wits with Bruno Sammartino and Barry Orton and play the denial game. Was McMahon so bent on personal satisfaction of a momentary illusory "victory" over two men he hates that he repeated the mistake that put him in the position in the first place? Apparently he was. Certainly whatever credibility of his previous claim that Hogan acted on his own in his decision to tell "the truth but not the complete truth" on Arsenio went right out the window when McMahon did the same thing.

His experience and composure on television in some ways saw him run rings around Sammartino and Orton. But his lack of honesty was so outrageous, that if it was a debate, Sammartino would have won by an early disqualification. Calls to the Observer generated about 65 percent thinking Sammartino got the better of McMahon. But of the remaining 35 percent thought McMahon completely wiped the studio with Sammartino. Friends who weren't wrestling fans (thus probably not as adept as seeing through McMahon), seemed to score it closer to 55-45 with Sammartino still having the edge. Considering King, who clearly went on the show uninformed about his subject, seemed to favor McMahon and as a host joined McMahon in accusing the accusers, those percentages were surprising since the public generally believes whomever the host sympathizes with.

The going on cold speaks volumes for King professionally since his office staff spent two hours on the phone with me that morning to give King background information. It appeared he didn't bother with that information and instead got stuck on the subject of why nobody had come forward until this point. As a television performance, Orton, who was on via telephone, came off poorly to the point King cut him off midway through the show. Problem with Orton, was he was so worried about having credibility and being completely honest that he explained things in such great detail. For a television show looking for quickie sound bites, that's not how things are done. But this wasn't a debate. The only possible thing McMahon appearing on King would do for Titan Sports would be if he could diffuse the issue. Even for those who thought McMahon ran rings around Sammartino and Orton, let alone the majority who didn't, they would admit when the show was over, the issue was stronger than ever.

 

[Riley Escobar]

He was "tight" back in the day with HBK too

 

[fukkyalifestyle]

Part 3

Some specific McMahon lies, misleading statements and outright distortions:

*He wasn't given a chance to respond to the various newspaper stories - First off, every newspaper reporting on this contacted McMahon. And he talked to several reporters before their stories but avoided directly answering the significant questions and chose not to talk with others. Hogan, who several stories were written about, wouldn't talk to anyone.

*He never even heard rumors of sexual misconduct in his organization until he read about them in the last two weeks - There is no way he couldn't have heard rumors. One upstate New York radio host who promoted towns for the WWF in 1984-85 phoned me and said he'd heard the specific stories about two of the departed men and was warned by wrestlers about them seven years ago. Maybe McMahon didn't know specifics (more on this point later), although even that seems to be iffy. Probably he knew, but I can accept maybe not. Hodgson first made his charge in September of last year. Jeff Savage of the San Diego Union first contacted Steve Planamenta about the story back on Feb. 9 and called almost every day for a month to get responses that never came back. Savage also phoned Terry Garvin (and spoke a few times with his wife) at home, Mel Phillips (and spoke with Phillips' family but never Phillips) and Pat Patterson (who he did speak with) weeks ago detailing the various allegations and got furious responses and hang-ups with demands never to call back in each case

*Claimed there was never even one allegation of misconduct ever made about any of the parties involves in all their years in wrestling - McMahon admitted, as was reported by Mushnick in his brutal column Wednesday entitled, "WWF's Defense Just More Lies," that Phillips was fired four years ago "because Phillips' relationship with kids seemed peculiar and unnatural." Midget wrestler Lord Littlebrook claimed Sunday he had written a letter to McMahon making a claim against one of the employees who resigned and never heard back from McMahon. Tom Hankins noted on Donahue that after his incident with Patterson he did call to complain to McMahon but never got through.

*McMahon also claimed Phillips had never been an employee of Titan Sports although he had worked as "an occasional laborer" - Technically correct since Phillips, as are all wrestlers, technically not company employees but independent contractors contracted with the company. However, the occasional laborer has been a regular ring announcer for Superstars of Wrestling for some time. In fact, a New Jersey athletic commissioner called John Arezzi's radio show and said that in Phillips' announcers license, he listed the Titan office address as his home address

*Tried to switch the issue by saying that while sexual harassment is prevalent in our society, so is homophobia, to give the idea that there is no truth to these allegations and it is simply gay bashing - There is at least one wrestler who spoke out (who wasn't on the Donahue panel) that I believe simply was gay bashing. However, who, my friends, has done more to teach homophobia to children that Vince McMahon with his gay stereotypical characters, all of whom worker as heels, educating youngsters that gay bashing is a positive trait since all their heroic babyfaces do it when matched with an effeminate heel

*Claimed Murray Hodgson's complaint has been legally dropped and that he never worked for the WBF - In fact, while technically the lawsuit is not a sexual harassment lawsuit but a wrongful termination lawsuit, as anyone who saw Donahue knows, Hodgson has hardly dropped the allegation. Hodgson, in fact, is the voice of the WBF on its premiere videotape. Hodgson went on King's radio show later Friday night and claimed that almost every word as it regarded to him that was said earlier on television was a lie

*Said Hulk Hogan never denied using steroids on Arsenio Hall - A totally misleading statement because Hogan issued a complete denial with the exception of taking a therapeutic drug that had a form of a steroid in it

*Said nobody in the WWF is on steroids - While use is clearly down, saying nobody is ridiculous. McMahon didn't learn one thing from the problems created on the Arsenio Hall show because he did almost the exact Hulk Hogan lie. For a guy who wants people to believe that Hogan said what he did on his own and that he wanted Hogan to tell the complete truth, he sure didn't practice what he preached. That particular statement was the most disappointing thing to me about the entire show. For a guy who openly complained about the way Kip Frey's policy was received, maybe he should have read that morning's Atlanta Constitution and realized his own p.r. errors. That paper quoted Johnny B. Badd as saying, "We're really trying to get guys off the gas. We realize now we've made a mistake." Frey was quoted as saying, "We want to send the message that we have athletes who have made the choice not to use steroids. Most of our guys have used them previously." Read that last sentence. No subterfuge. No misdirection. No lies. Just the truth.

*Said he wasn't negotiating a settlement with Tom Cole and called the various charges "bunk" - On Monday, a settlement had already been reached, which according to Alan Fuchsburg, Cole's attorney in Mushnick's Wednesday column in the Post, McMahon will make a full and sincere admission that the sexual misconduct claims made by Cole are true. Of course, if this deal was really struck and McMahon agreed to the admission, both before the Donahue taping, then why didn't McMahon say so on Donahue and admit some of the charges were true? The two sides had begun talks the previous Tuesday although it wasn't until Sunday that McMahon told Cole he believed him, with the Donahue show just one day away. According to Fuchsburg, with tears swelling his eyes McMahon said he, too, was abused as a child, and offered him the job as restitution and saying the offending parties are all history. Fuchsburg was adamant about McMahon being a changed man, however Cole's previous attorney, Tom Pachura said, "Tom Cole has secured the position as the king's pawn. He's the court jester and he doesn't even know it. But if he's happy, that's what you want to do as a lawyer, make your client happy."

But what is the issue? There is no simple issue. Of course there is steroids, pro wrestling's ongoing and never-ending scandal. Use started 20 years ago, but pressure on promotions didn't really start until the Zahorian trial last June. But that's been pushed into the background by the sleaze stories. But the problems of Titan Sports today have largely been created by the dishonesty in regards to the steroid issue. As we wrote just a few weeks ago before this media blitz began, the officials of Titan Sports never fully understood just how much the steroid lies had destroyed the company's credibility. Hopefully, they know now and have learned from it and the company will do an about-face. But as McMahon showed Friday on Larry King, this is a company that has been so inebriated with its marketing success that it doesn't have the capacity to learn from its mistakes. If a few reporters did work to break a similar story on the NFL, whether true or not, the NFL has maintained enough credibility that reporters and the public would believe its spin of the truth. With McMahon, his quotes in the various newspapers were more for comic relief in between the staggering charges.

Sexual harassment. How prevalent is it? First off, I believe Barry Orton's story about the two incidents that happened back when he was 19 years old. Orton alleges one incident occurred with Garvin, who was then both wrestling and promoting in the West Texas territory, on a six-hour trip from Amarillo to Albuquerque, Garvin started propositioning him over-and-over again. Another time in a car on a road trip he claimed he was in the back seat between Patterson and Garvin and he alleges they were grabbing at him and he ran out of the car. According to his sworn deposition, "It wasn't a like a rape situation. It was more of a teasing type thing. But, you know, they were trying to overpower my will." Orton said when he got out of the car, his pants were all ripped in the crotch area. Orton was so outraged by McMahon denying his stories in regard to the claims about incidents involving Patterson and Garvin that he took a lie detector test based on his deposition in the prospective lawsuit with Tom Cole which detailed the incidents. He passed with flying colors. According to a report prepared by Anthony De Sio, President of Colt Protective Security, Inc. of Las Vegas, "After complete testing and careful analysis of the polygraph charts, this examiner is of the opinion that Mr. Orton was truthful and there were no deceptive reactions to the relevant questions asked." Lie detectors are not close to 100 percent accurate nor are they admissible in court. However, by agreeing to take the test, and making it public to myself and others in the media beforehand (and with one media member present while he took the test), he put himself in the position for his entire credibility to be destroyed as a result of a nervous reaction. The willingness to take the test meant more to me than the actual results.

But those incidents happened in the late 1970s when the two men involved didn't even work for Titan Sports. However, when Orton worked for Titan Sports, they were executives, the booker and his assistant. Did they hold those incidents against him and did that stifle his career? Did they promote others who did favors above him? Those are the two relevant questions. Even Orton only claims one name as a wrestler who did favors. The wrestler was far less talented than Orton and also was only given a minor push, but is still with the organization while Orton was let go. I spoke to one major wrestling personality who had nothing to do with the show but coincidentally was in the city later that night. He rebuked Orton's complaints, said the guy wouldn't have been a main eventer no matter what he did. Then I brought up a comparison with the other wrestler. The question is, do you think Orton not performing sexual favors as compared with someone who allegedly did with less talent, that when the time came, who was given better treatments as far as number of bookings and which of the two was kept and who was let go when crunch time came? The performer agreed in that specific instance Orton had a valid point. However, I myself have a problem with the term casting couch that has been used in the media. That paints a picture that the wrestlers in the WWF perform homosexual acts and sleep their way to the top. It just ain't so.

There were several other instances brought out, including a claim that the WWF stopped booking midget wrestlers because Karate Kid (Chris Duby) didn't accept a sexual advance by one of the departed officials. Maybe true, but when Karate Kid and midget booker Lord Littlebook (Roger Brooks) went through the story, I wasn't convinced. It seemed to me that they were reading something into something that wasn't there. Then again, Duby was very nervous on the air which makes one less believable, but perhaps I was reading dishonesty into something that was just nerves.

Sexual abuse of minors? A totally different and terribly emotionally charged issue. Part of the emotion of this issue is that the alleged incidents involved male-to-male. The fact is, sexual abuse by male wrestlers on females is hardly uncommon although no less legal and seemingly a lot less emotionally charged. If a select few employees of the company were involved in this, and the resignations and the recent agreement with Tom Cole seem to indicate an admission of this, how much should the owner of the company and the company itself be held responsible? I have a lot of mixed feelings here. First off, I know Vince McMahon and Pat Patterson and have talked with both frequently. I haven't talked with Terry Garvin in years, but used to talk with him at least once a week years back. I don't know Mel Phillips at all. It's one thing to think they put together a PPV show that wasn't very good. It's even one thing to sometimes, or even often, disagree with their business ethics. It's a totally different thing to try and ruin someone's life or their business. If the stories weren't completely convincing, the damage toll created with a false accusation was too much. But there were just too many stories and too many corroborations, particularly in such a closed business. Here is my feeling. If these were isolated incidents, or maybe not even isolated, unbeknownst to McMahon, and they are true, and the offending parties are truly history, then it's over and done with. If McMahon knew about them all along and did nothing, and it can be proven, his should have a lot of explaining to do. If he had something to do with overtly covering up previous incidents and it comes out, they're finished. Knowing the way the wrestling business operates, nothing is out of the question. But getting enough evidence to print the truth isn't always easy. I can't buy for a second that McMahon had never even heard rumors since they were fairly prevalent in the business. But in his defense, it would be a horrible company and a horrible society if someone could be fired just because someone started a bad rumor about them. If he heard a rumor but had no significant evidence and did nothing, the president of the company is not to blame. Yes, Vince McMahon is dishonest and if lying was a crime, he'd be serving seven life terms. But lying isn't a crime.

If McMahon's reputation was one of honesty, he could pull it off here and people would believe him. If he had said he had heard rumors but you can't fire someone on rumors, even with his reputation, that would be a believable story. But never heard even one rumor?

 

[Beautiful Bobby Eatin]

Patterson is a sexual predator. This has been a known fact to everyone involved with wrestling and anyone who reads the sheets.

 

[fukkyalifestyle]

Patterson is a sexual predator. This has been a known fact to everyone involved with wrestling and anyone who reads the sheets.

I actually got this from reddit thread called dirt sheets lol

 

[fukkyalifestyle]

wow so randy ortons cousin said pat tried to blow him and he bounced. makes you wonder bout any guy in the business now especially randy and the rock

 

[fukkyalifestyle]

@R=G thoughts? comments? confessions?

 

[R=G]

lol

 

[fukkyalifestyle]

lol

That's it?

 

[Killer Instinct]

A sexually deviant male who engages in sodomy is also a sexual predator.
Never would have saw it coming.

 

[fukkyalifestyle]

disgustya

 

[fukkyalifestyle]

Vince bringing up Randy's cousin who pat tried to blow to randy

 

[fukkyalifestyle]

when pat tried to blow vince

 

[Killer Instinct]

The same day, in an item entitled "Taste Test" in the Village Voice, it detailed the claim of Murray Hodgson about his two meetings with Patterson. Hodgson was hired in July of 1991 to announce for both the WWF and the World Bodybuilding Federation (in fact, he's the announcer on the first WBF championships videotape). In court papers, Hodgson said that on July 29, 1991, Patterson approached him at a wrestling television taping and asked, "So you're the new guy? .

So what do you taste like?" Hodgson replied, "You've got the wrong guy." Patterson: "Not if you want to keep your job, I don't. Think about it." On August 20, Hodgson was fired. On August 29, Hodgson met with McMahon and after the meeting, Patterson was waiting for Hodgson when he came out of McMahon's office and allegedly said, "Wouldn't listen to me, would you?"

The story had quotes from Cole and Chris Loss, two of the three ex-ringboys who came forward with claims of sexual abuse while minors working for Titan Sports. Cole said that while on tour with the WWF in 1985 at the age of 13, an employee would film Cole with a video camera while fondling his feet and masturbating. "He had a foot fetish," Cole said. "He would play with all the young boys' feet for hours at a time." Loss was 16 when he began working as a ringboy in Niagara Falls in 1989. He said the same employee cited by Cole "accidentally" stepped on his foot when he met him, and then when he said his foot hurt, the employee took off his shoe and began rubbing. "Boys are getting propositioned and played with all the time," Loss said. "You sort of put up with it because you can make a lot of money."