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Professional wrestling used to operate under the veneer of being real combat and the performers went to great lengths to present it that way.
“Mr. McMahon,” the new Netflix documentary on former WWE boss Vince McMahon, re-hashed the time 40 years ago when wrestler David Schultz twice slapped ABC News reporter John Stossel in the face amid an exposé on the business.
Hulk Hogan recalled Stossel asking him in an interview if they use razor blades to bleed.
“Man, I make a beeline to Vince,” Hogan remembered.
“I say, ‘Vince, this guy is not here to find out how popular Hulk Hogan is. He’s here to expose the wrestling business.’”
In the ABC segment, Stossel said, referring to pro wrestling, “I’m afraid I have to tell you, it is fake.”
Former WWE wrestler Tony Atlas recalled in the documentary that McMahon said, “I wish somebody would do something with that guy.”
Hogan said he had not heard McMahon say that.
The documentary then cut to Stossel asserting to Schultz that “I think this is fake.”
Schultz responded, “Do you think this is fake?” and slapped him to the ground — twice.
McMahon participated in the documentary before former WWE employee Janel Grant’s sordid allegations against him became public and afterwards declined to be further interviewed.
Before the documentary debuted, McMahon claimed it used “editing tricks” to portray a “deceptive narrative.”
In regards to the Schultz and Stossel incident, McMahon said that Schultz’s slap came from “out of nowhere”.
Asked about McMahon’s reaction to Stossel getting hit, Atlas said, “We all celebrated!”
According to Sports Illustrated, Stossel sued McMahon over the incident and the two settled out of court for $400,000 (about $1.2 million in 2024).
