I was online and also came across an old episode of Donahue which was covering the subject of steroids and sexual harassment in the WWF in 92. I was too young to know any of this was going on back then. It was certainly surprising seeing Vince McMahon appearing on Donahue to defend himself and his company. Vince's expressions were pretty funny and he didn't lose his temper which surprised me. Bruno Sammartino, Dave Meltzer, Superstar Billy Graham, Barry Orton and quite a few others. Most of these people came off very well except for Billy Graham he came off a bit incoherent.
One guy, I think his name was Murray Hodgson claimed he was hired to be an announcer and signed to a two year contract but was fired into his second month after refusing homosexual advances by Patterson. Vince said he was fired because he sucked as an announcer and couldn't make the transition from radio to TV. Hodgson found it hard to believe Vince didn't know any of this type of sexual harassment was going on when Patterson was like his right hand man.
Barry Orton claimed he was fondled between two higher ups and Terry Garvin pleaded to perform oral sex on him.
This guy who had a radio show that covered wrestling claimed that the midget wrestlers were all let go and not used anymore because one of them stood up to Patterson's sexual advances. All kinds of crazy stuff.
So Pat Patterson was mostly behind this? What happened in the trial? How did Vince beat all this? How was Patterson hired again if caused WWF so much legal problems?
It all comes as a shock to me as I had never really heard these things before.
Bruno also mentioned that Vince Sr. blacklisted him in the business for a while. Why did this happen? Wasn't Bruno the first WWWF champion, so it surprises me that Vince Sr. would've blacklisted him.