Andrew Lutzke
This is a Fanfest question and answer session from 2011 with two of the more infamous workers of the 1980’s Eddy Mansfield (who exposed the business on 20/20) and David Schultz (who attacked 20/20 reporter John Stossel).
Dr.D still wants to fight and is more than willing to comply if anyone asks.
Schultz touches on how he was one of the first stars who jumped to the WWF when Vince started the expansion in 1984.
Mansfield chimes in and goes over how Hogan screwed Schultz over.
Eddy says he won the NWA rookie of the year award two years in a row.
These two teamed in the south and Mansfield is grateful that Schultz taught him so much.
Schultz’ word is his gospel, and Eddy and other wrestlers knew he could be trusted.
Ole Anderson was a mean son of a bitch and he blackballed Mansfield in the early 80’s.
Mansfield is glad Ole is wheelchair bound.
McMahon paid better than any other promoter, that’s why he was able to scoop up talent.
The NWA was built around a handful of promoters making a ton of money and the wrestlers getting whatever leavings remained after the promoters got their take.
John Stossel was warned by Mansfield that Schultz would shoot on him if he asked him if wrestling is fake.
Vince McMahon told Stossel to go to Schultz to ask about the legitimacy of the sport to set him up to be struck so McMahon had an excuse to fire Schultz.
Mansfield exposed the business on 20/20 because he was sick of promoters screwing over the wrestlers.
McMahon told Schultz to take care of Stossel, then thanked Dr. D after the attack.
Schultz went to Japan to let the heat cool down and Inoki set up an angle where Schultz slapped a promoter there. Once the Stossel trial began, the Japanese reporter attack was used against Schultz by the prosecutor to show his violent tendencies.
Ole Anderson was supposed to be the guy exposed on 20/20 as a crooked promoter, but ABC decided the WWF was a far sexier option to investigate.
Mansfield claims he was running shows from Universal Studios in the early 90’s and Eric Bischoff wanted to become business partners. He even offered to send Sting to Mansfield’s promotion to help seal the deal, but Eddy turned them down.
Eddy claims he turned down a million dollar book deal because he didn’t want to betray his coworkers locker room trust.
(Mansfield has been talking for seemingly 15 minutes straight here, with barely time for a peep from Schultz between Mansfield filibusters)
Ole Anderson told 20/20 that Vince’s business was a better story than digging through the NWA’s finances.
Schultz’ biggest regret is that he didn’t hit Stossel harder.
Dr. D wants to meet Vince Jr. in a dark alley to settle their issues.
Stossel had to ask Dr. D multiple variations of questions before finally riling Schultz up enough to strike him. 20/20 edited the piece.
The Funks and The Shiek called Mansfield before the 20/20 piece aired to warn him that Ole had sent the ABC crew to the WWF instead of after Anderson.
Schultz told Vince to take advantage of “Hulkamania” they should run an event called “Wrestlemania”. Vince then took the idea and ran with it, giving Schultz zero credit.
Jerry Jarrett was a piece of garbage.
Verne Gagne tried to toss Schultz out of the building when Dr. D gave notice that he was jumping to the WWF.
Promoter Herb Welch broke Schultz in. Schultz shot on the other workers because he didn’t know any better so Welch had to smarten him up.
Schultz had to shoot on a few guys over the years and give them a dislocated shoulder or knee injury to settle them down when they tried to put one over on him in the ring.
Paul Boesch paid well in Houston and was a pleasure to work for. Joe Blanchard was a great promoter too until his son Tully messed up the promotion.
Hogan shared roids, cocaine and pot with a lot of the locker room.
Hulk would sweat like crazy from all the drugs in his system.
Schultz is still a bounty hunter in between working as an engineer overseas.
Dr. D won’t go in bars because drunks think they are tough and everybody wants to fight, only to sue after you whip their ass.
Mansfield is now a TV producer. His brother in law works with Jerry Bruckhimmer and Eddy has produced over 4000 hours of TV. He has won several awards along the way. (IMDB has very little info on him other than the 20/20 piece, so he may be lying.)
Stu Hart was a good promoter. The Owens were nice but they didn’t like big guys as workers.
The Fuller Family brought Schultz and Mansfield in to try and prevent Ron Garvin and Bob Roop from overtaking their promotion.
Eddy rants for the 33rd time about promoters not paying the boys a fair wage.
Schultz was reprimanded for working stiff with Steve Lombardi. Vince told Schultz he wasn’t scared of him, but Dr. D told him he better be.
Schultz tried to come after Mr. T off script and that was what led to McMahon firing him.
Mr. T was kicked out of the locker room by Schultz because he wasn’t a worker.
TNA hired all the same guys that sunk WCW, and then they wondered why they struggled to make money.
The WWE needs to take the mantra “shut up and wrestle”. Promos should be two minutes long and all the writers should be fired.
Schultz will rub his shirt before he starts throwing fists. Just a fair warning if you ever get in a fight with him.
Bruiser Brody and Schultz beat the tar out of one another in stiff matches.
Mansfield liked to bump all over the place. Schultz was great athlete for a big man.
Brody being stabbed and killed on orders from a promoter is a great tragedy.
Eddy repeats himself for the 56th time in 90 minutes about Ole Anderson.
Buck Robley was the best booker in wrestling in Mansfield’s opinion.
Final thoughts: I was greatly intrigued to hear from two of the more controversial figures in wrestling, but overall this didn’t deliver on too much info, mainly because Mansfield had 3 talking points he repeated for 90 minutes. I regretfully suggest you avoid this one.
