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#1 WWE wrestler David Schultz assaulted a reporter backstage at Madison Square Garden for believing that wrestling is fake

The slap heard round the world

David Schultz didn't do much of note in WWE, but he will forever be remembered for an incident that took place backstage at the historic Madison Square Garden, in 1984. The incident took place on December 28, 1984, and involved 20/20 reporter John Stossel. When Stossel told Schultz that he thought the wrestling business was fake, the latter hit him on the head twice. The incident garnered huge media coverage, and Schultz later claimed that Vince McMahon had told him to take liberties with the reporter.

I did what I was told to do. Vince McMahon told me to blast him and tear his a** up and to stay in character and be Dr. D. When I went out that door I did not know who John Stossel was. I made John Stossel (because) nobody knew who John Stossel was and after that night and that TV show and after all the whining and crying this guy did, crying like a baby he goes on Barbara Walters saying he (Schultz) beat me up. But John Stossel last year on a TV show said his injuries were neurosomatic. That means that after he got his money he didn’t hurt anymore.

The reporter filed a lawsuit against WWE following Schultz's attack, with the matter being settled out of court for $280,000. Schultz never managed to become a top star in WWE but did well for himself in other promotions. He was inducted into the Stampede Wrestling Hall of Fame in 1995.