From: isbell@osiris (Andy Isbell)
Subject: Re: CBS Evening News & Now It Can Be Told
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 14:30:46 GMT

ac985@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Joel Tscherne) writes:

I just thought I'd add a few comments to Joel's post.  I enjoyed the Now it Can
Be Told show, mostly because it confirmed most of the stuff I've been hearing
on the net.  They had interviews with Bruno, Barry O, Rita Marie(?) (the only
woman referee ever in the WWF), another former referee (male), and the former
announcer (damn, I'm terrible at remembering names.)  I generally tend to take
shows like this with a grain of salt, but if even half of what these people are
saying is true, Vince gets my vote for Ultimate Slime-mold from Hell.

>NICBT (I'm not going to keep typing it) was more interesting because we
>got different people, including former referees (both male & female).
>The guy I'm sure was from Canada (I was shocked because he didn't say
>'eh' after every phrase :)) and he basically said the same thing as
>Barry O and others.  

I was shocked that his accent sounded a lot like Roddy Piper's. :-)  No real
revelations in his statements.  (Other than Piper doesn't really sound
Scottish.)

>The female ref claimed Vince raped/abused her.  She
>stated that the reason she didn't say anything before was that she
>didn't want her parents to know (both are now deceased).

This was, in my opinion, the most disgusting part of the show.  If her story is
true, Vince is as slimey as his hair.  I think she said the incident happened
in Vince's limo.  Vince told her he could really do a lot for her career, and
that he knew she had a daughter and needed to work (she was either divorced
or widowed, I think.)  He then unzipped his pants and forced her to
go down on him.  When she tried to stop, he told her she had better satisfy
him, or he'd make sure she never worked in the business again.  He then
satisfied himself through intercourse.  After the incident, she said she only
worked three or four more times as a referee.  Her reasons for coming forward
now were the thing about her parents that Joel mentioned, and with everyone
else coming forward about sex scandals in the WWF she felt it was time.

>What was most interesting was hearing what kind of stuff Titan was doing
>to try to keep the story from airing.  They had an interview with Tom
>Cole (the ring boy who was recently re-hired), but were not allowed to
>show it.  

Geraldo's closing statements were about the legal issues going on over the
show.  He had a handfull of letters and legal stuff from WWF, Titan, and Tom
Cole's lawyers.  He read a few lines from the letter from Tom Cole's lawyer
which Geraldo said provides some of the most compelling evidence of what is 
going on in the WWF.  It said something about the severe emotional trauma Cole
was going through after being sexually abused for such a period of time.
Somehow, the letter failed to mention the large sum of money Cole had received
to keep his mouth shut. 1/2 :-)

>It sounds to me like Geraldo might continue on the story, so you might
>want to keep track of his regular show just in case.

>No mention at all of the steroids stuff...

He might be saving this for a later show.  He had plenty of stuff to fill a
half hour show without even mentioning steroids.

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