Sound Off Extra - THE VINCE MCMAHON STEROID TRIAL (Dark Side of the Ring Review)

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🗓️ 2 November 2021

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Solomonster reviews the Dark Side of the Ring season finale on the Vince McMahon and George Zahorian steroid trials, with the United States government trying to send McMahon to prison for conspiring to distribute steroids to his wrestlers. He talks about why their case was so weak, how a lucky tip to Linda McMahon likely saved her husband from going to prison and her confidential memo to Pat Patterson that wasn't covered here, the hilarious testimony offered by Nailz on the witness stand, why Jerry McDevitt was the star of the episode and more. Visit http://ridge.com/solomonster and use the code SOLOMONSTER for 10 percent off your order!

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0:00.0	This week's Dark Side of the Ring was the season finale on the Stereoid Trials for Dr. George Zahorian and
0:07.9	Vincent Kennedy McMahon for all the talk about these
0:12.6	Dark Side episodes all how they make Vince McMahon out to be the devil
0:16.7	They finally do an episode on the guy and he comes out of it looking rosier than probably any other episode they've done
0:23.3	I
0:24.6	I enjoyed it though. I thought it was the best episode of the season either this or the Grizzly Smith one
0:29.6	This one wasn't nearly as heavy or disturbing as the Grizzly Smith one which I kind of appreciated
0:35.3	We didn't get any really heavy stuff here on this episode
0:38.2	The star of the show was easily Vince's attorney the legend himself
0:43.0	Jerry McDevitt who's
0:45.2	Represented him for the better part of 30 years and has never given an interview on camera
0:50.4	Like this one before so it was a nice coup for the producers to get him to sit down for this
0:56.3	The man came off, you know calm cool collected
0:59.9	He was slicing up the government's case with the the precision of a skilled surgeon
1:04.6	Or the chef at a Hibachi restaurant. I love that they got the warlord for this
1:10.6	The man has a
1:12.9	He's got a way of you know, it's funny when I think back to that era
1:17.6	Late 80s early 90s WWF the warlord probably would be I would say top three on the list along with someone like the ultimate warrior
1:27.5	Who would walk around and just be a giant glowing neon sign for steroids use at the time
1:34.1	But every interview that I've ever heard with him
1:36.2	He comes across as a nice dude very down to earth pretty open about what guys were doing back then
1:42.0	Warlord was hardly the only man doing steroids in that company at the time
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