Kevin "Nailz" Wacholtz was fired from WWE in 1992 when he throttled Vince McMahon during a dispute over pay. Immediately thereafter, though, Nailz turned the tables on his victim -- he accused McMahon of fondling him (once in Madison Square Garden, and once in Vince's office immediately preceding the assault). Earl Hebner, who claimed to have seen the attack, said that there was no fondling. Though nobody was present during the supposed MSG incident, it's a safe bet that Nailz was concocting the lies of a disgruntled employee. The story doesn't end there, though. With a series of lawsuits between the two parties -- and allegations on Nailz's part that McMahon had told him to take steroids -- the grappler was called to testify at McMahon's steroid trial in 1994. Nailz reiterated his accusations on the steroids, but his testimony was seen as so self-contradictory (not to mention having been punctuated with an angry shout of "I hate Vince McMahon's guts!") that it was ultimately considered damaging to the prosecution's case. The jury did not believe Nailz (except about the guts-hating, of course), and McMahon was found not guilty.
Scott Fried is a Slammy Award-winning* writer living and working in New York City. He has been following/writing about professional wrestling for many years and is a graduate of Lance Storm's Storm Wrestling Academy. Follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/scottfried.
*Best Crowd of the Year, 2013
