Sex, Lies, and Headlocks by Shaun Assael

Author:Shaun Assael [Assael, Shaun]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 978-0-307-75813-2
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
Published: 2010-11-02T16:00:00+00:00

1. Any good feelings didn’t last long. Within a year, Cole found himself released from the WWF once again. When he went to collect unemployment, he says the WWF fought the request, with Linda personally attending the seventh and final hearing in which he finally received benefits.

2. This quote was part of an exhaustive chronicle of the trial published by Dave Meltzer in the August 1, 1994, edition of the Wrestling Observer.

NINE

THE PRESS HAD A field day attacking Hogan during his appearance at McMahon’s trial. A tabloid television show, A Current Affair, breathlessly reported on a letter that O’Shea had written to the trial judge, accusing Vince of ordering an employee to substitute his own blood for Hogan’s during an HIV test. But the story didn’t have legs. The public was already tired of it. The man known to the public as Hulk Hogan hadn’t wrestled domestically in more than a year. He was well into his transformation as a TV action star.

His latest vehicle, Thunder in Paradise, was a run-through-the-blender mix of Baywatch and Knight Rider, with Hogan starring as R. J. “Hurricane” Spencer, a former Navy SEAL who spent most of the hour catching waves, bad guys, and looks at his costar, the supermodel Carol Alt. Hogan couldn’t have been happier. He was being paid handsomely and didn’t have to travel to a different town every night. The show was shot on a beachside set at Disney World in Orlando, about an hour from the twelve-thousand-square-foot French-style country estate he was building out of the bricks of demolished European castles.

The set was also a few blocks away from MGM Studios, which Eric Bischoff, the thirty-seven-year-old new leader of WCW, was scouting as the new location to film his television shows.

A black belt martial artist with high cheekbones and fashionably long hair, Bischoff was a handsome up-and-comer in the Turner Broadcasting orbit. Unlike most of those around him, he dressed in khakis and sneakers instead of jeans and work boots and carried himself with an air of corporate worldliness. He came to WCW from Verne Gagne’s American Wrestling Association, where he’d parlayed a job as a salesman into an on-air role as Gagne’s right-hand man. From there, he’d tried to get a job at the WWF but was given short shrift, so he sent an audition tape to WCW and was hired as an announcer for its low-rated Sunday night show. In the year and a half that he’d been in Atlanta, he’d sized up the competition and realized that he had as much to offer as any of the candidates vying to replace Cowboy Bill Watts. So he presented himself as the person who could wipe the southern yolk off WCW and make it a national entertainment company. After he came to an interview with illustrated storyboards showing his vision for a new, futuristic look, Bill Shaw was impressed enough to vault the newcomer over the more senior candidates who wanted the job of executive producer.

It was a

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