10 Most Alarming Ways WWE Rewrites History
2. The Government Had It In For The McMahons
One of the most tasteless on-air moments in WWE history was Stephanie McMahon trying to equate the United States Government going after her family to 9/11. Thousands of people dying horribly and unexpectedly is nothing compared to a boss being taking to court for allegedly telling his employees to get on steroids.
It all started with a man who supplied wrestlers with steroids named Dr. Zahorian, who turned over the records of his Federal Express shipments to the government. Dozens of wrestlers from Roddy Piper to Hulk Hogan to Vince McMahon himself had received shipments from him. So the thing is, they all took something illegal from the same guy, so it's not really the United States government making things up just to get at the owner of the World Wrestling Federation for absolutely no reason like it's often presented.
Hell, Hogan, Piper and Vince all admitted they took steroids! In the end, Vince was acquitted, meaning there wasn't quite enough proof to send him to prison. It’s now framed that he was found innocent, and that the whole case had no merit to it and that poor Vince “beat” the government.
All it really was, though, was egotism to a disturbing degree.