WWF vs WCW - Bulking Up | 2
Business Wars
Audible
4.6 • 13.5K Ratings
🗓️ 11 September 2019
⏱️ 30 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 Add Free on Amazon Music. |
| 0:04.6 | Download the app today. |
| 0:07.0 | It's March 1990, and Dr. George Zahorian is treating one of his regular patients in his |
| 0:18.6 | Harrisburg, Pennsylvania office. |
| 0:21.3 | Like many visitors to Dr. Zahorian, this patient is a wrestler, 400 pounds of steroid |
| 0:28.1 | inflated muscle. |
| 0:29.9 | The wrestler looks at the chubby, bespectacle doctor and pleads for help. |
| 0:35.2 | Doc, I'm about to go out on tour in Europe for weeks. |
| 0:38.7 | I'm going to need a load of steroids and painkillers to get me through. |
| 0:43.2 | Dr. Zahorian nods, understandably. |
| 0:46.8 | In 1977, the Pennsylvania Athletic Commission made him the house doctor at WWF's weekly |
| 0:52.5 | TV shoots in Allentown. |
| 0:54.9 | He's been playing Dr. Feel Good to the wrestling community ever since. |
| 0:59.8 | Even though the WWF kicked him out in 1989, he's still the go-to guy for wrestlers in need |
| 1:06.4 | of a fix. |
| 1:09.7 | Dr. Zahorian unlocks his medicine cabinet and pulls out box after box of medication. |
| 1:15.3 | OK, I'll help, but only because I trust you will be careful out there. |
| 1:20.1 | I hear the FBI is watching wrestling very closely. |
| 1:24.5 | Dr. Zahorian hands over more than 2,000 pills, including Halsion, Xanax, Vykident, and |
| 1:31.6 | more. |
| 1:32.6 | Boxes of syringes, vials of testosterone, $25,000 of performance enhancing drugs and painkillers, |
| 1:41.0 | enough to last a lifetime. |
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