12 WWE Booking Mistakes Vince McMahon Made Personally
6. The WBF
So, yeah...the best time for a steroid-laden professional wrestling company to get into the non-kayfabe world of steroid-assisted weightlifting is when there's a federal government investigation regarding steroids in the wrestling company owned by the man now getting into weightlifting... Weightlifting competitions are shoots, which when WBF attempted at develop pro-wrestling style characters for each WBF BodyStar made the company just feel like pro wrestling without the ropes. WBF BodyStars and WWF Superstars appearing on Family Feud certainly didn't help things either. By the time Lex Luger was set to debut and McMahon had decided to bill the WBF as "steroid free" in 1992, the bloom was definitely off the rose. A worked, gimmicked and steroid-free bodybuilding federation? Really Vince? Apparently...
Besides having been an independent professional wrestling manager for a decade, Marcus Dowling is a Washington, DC-based writer who has contributed to a plethora of online and print magazines and newspapers writing about music and popular culture over the past 15 years.
