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Business Wars

Wondery

History, Business, David Brown, Management

4.6 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

It’s the dawn of the 1990s and Vince McMahon’s WWF is the king of wrestling. But trouble’s brewing: a steroids scandal is about to deal a body blow to the WWF and its family-friendly reputation.

The scandal will leave WWF stuck in damage control mode as it fights to stem the losses from falling TV ratings, ticket sales, and pay-per-view buys.

Meanwhile, Ted Turner’s trying to get World Championship Wrestling fighting fit with help from a former Pizza Hut regional manager, a self-proclaimed Cowboy, and a back-up announcer who wants to bring wrestling to Disney World.

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0:00.0	Hey, prime members, you can listen to Business Wars ad-free on Amazon Music.
0:04.8	Download the app today.
0:07.6	Business is battle.
0:09.1	On Business Wars, we learn what it takes to win by looking closely at ambitious battles
0:13.8	like the one in our latest series, WWF versus WCW.
0:18.1	And our new book, The Art of Business Wars, gets to the very heart of each conflict,
0:21.8	unearthing all the valuable lessons.
0:23.9	Go to Wondery.com slash the Art of Business Wars to order your copy now.
0:29.6	Go on Wondery Plus to listen to Business Wars one week early and ad-free in the Wondery
0:33.6	app.
0:34.6	Download the Wondery app in your Apple or Google Play mobile app store today.
0:39.8	A listener note, this episode originally aired in 2019.
0:45.0	It's March 1990, and Dr. George Zahorian is treating one of his regular patients in
0:56.0	his Harrisburg, Pennsylvania office.
0:58.9	Like many visitors to Dr. Zahorian, this patient is a wrestler, 400 pounds of steroid
1:05.6	inflated muscle.
1:07.4	The wrestler looks at the chubby, bespectacle doctor and pleads for help.
1:12.6	Doc, I'm about to go out on tour in Europe for weeks.
1:16.2	I'm going to need a load of steroids and painkillers to get me through.
1:20.7	Dr. Zahorian nods, understandably.
1:24.4	In 1977, the Pennsylvania Athletic Commission made him the house doctor at WWF's weekly
1:30.1	TV shoots in Allentown.
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