04.08.2004, 14:31
Folgend mal die Zeugenvernehmung von Terry Bolea ( Hulk Hogan ) im July 1994 durch den General Staatsanwalt.Ich denke das duerfte interessant sein und man bekommt einen anderen Blick auf einen Hulk Hogan und der WWE.
Quelle:
http://www.hack-man.com/Wrestling/NewsAr...roids.html
Government: When did you first work in the WWF?
Terry B: Late 78. I worked for capital for a couple of years. I was gone for three years. I came back at the end of 83.
Government: Have you used steroids prior to the WWF?
Terry B: Yes.
Government: When did you start?
Terry B: The middle of 76.
Government: What sort?
Terry B: Injectables and orals. Anabol, decagabril, testotosterone. I used deca the most.
Government: Describe steroid use in the WWF back then.
Terry B: It was common.
Government: Give a percentage.
Terry B: 75 to 80 percent.Maybe more.
Government: Did you see them in the locker room?
Terry B: Yes
Government: Did you use them there?
Terry B: Yes.
Government: Did you know Zahorian while you were in the WWF?
Terry B: Yes.
Government: Who was he?
Terry B: He was a commissioned Dr for the state of Pennsylvania that came to taping in Allentown and Hershey.
Government: What else was he known for?
Terry B: For wrestlers to get substances. Steroids.
Government: What else?
Terry B: Sleeping pills, diet pills, Tylenol 3 and 4.
Government: How did he distribute?
Terry B: People came to see him during TV tapings and asked for what they needed.
Government: Did he take blood tests?
Terry B: Yes.
Government: Did he follow up on the wrestlers?
Terry B: Asked if I was okay.
Government: Did he give you whatever you asked for?
Terry B: Yes.
Government: What did Zahorian have with him?
Terry B: A medical bag with instruments and two tackle boxes with drugs.
Government: Was Vince McMahon ever in the arena when Zahorian was there?
Terry B: Yes.
Government: Have you ever heard any slang for steroids?
Terry B: Juice, gas.
Government: Ever hear Vince McMahon use them.
Terry B: Not that I can remember.
Government: Did Vince McMahon ever order from Zahorian?
Terry B: Yes.
Government: Do you recall when?
Terry B: When we discussed steroids on the set of "No Holds Barred".
Government: Did you learn if steroids were new to Vince McMahon?
Terry B: He knew what they were.
Government: Ever discuss steroids with Jay Strongbow?
Terry B: Yes. Talked about Zahorian and getting steroids for his son.
Government: Did you ever get steroids from Vince McMahon or Emily Feinberg?
Terry B: I called Emily Feinberg on the road and told her to place an order for me.
Government: How many times?
Terry B: 10 or less times.
Government: How would you get steroids through Emily Feinberg?
Terry B: Go by the office and pick them up.
Government: Who paid for the steroids from Emily Feinberg?
Terry B: Most of the time I wrote a check or used cash. There were times that I picked up steroids that were not payed for becuase I gave steroids to Vince McMahon, so they were payback.
Government: How common was it for you to use steroids?
Terry B: Very common. Wrestlers used them. I had a prescription.
Government: Who did you learn through that Zahorian was in trouble?
Terry B: Pat Patterson said Zahorian was under investigation, dont use or call him.
Government: Did Patterson tell you not to use steroids?
Terry B: No.
Government: What did Vince McMahon say?
Terry B: Don't use or call him.
Government: Do you see this document? Is this your signature?
Terry B: No.
A sidebar is called. After the side bar the judge tells us that juror who looks like Flip Wilson has to give his keys to a court officer becuase his wife locked herself out of the house. The whole courtroom starts laughing. I noticed Hulk Hogan never changed from his solemn expression.
Government: Did you carry steroids on the road?
Terry B: Yes
Government: Why did you use steroids?
Terry B: To heal injuries, to keep on going, the schedule was tough. It gave an edge. For bodybuilding. When I first started it was to get big and gain weight.
Government: Ever wrestle in Nassau Coliseum?
Terry B: Yes.
Government: The statements that you made to the press about steroids were truthful?
Terry B: No.
The female defense lawyer starts asking questions.
Defense: We've never met before Mr. Bolea?
Terry B: No.
Defense: Never spoken?
Terry B: No.
Defense: For a period of time while you were in the WWF you did not wrestle at the Meadowlands.
Terry B: Don't know.
Defense: Does this refresh your memory?
Terry B: No.
Defense: You stopped steroids in 89?
Terry B: Around then, maybe a little bit after.
Defense: You and your wife have two children?
Terry B: Yes.
Defense: July 27, 1990 is the date of birth of your last child?
Terry B: Yes
Defense: Did you and your wife, in 1989, decide you would not be on any drugs?
Terry B: I would wind down and come off.
Defense: Did you use steroids after October 1989?
Terry B: Yes. We had an argument about her getting pregnant while I'm on drugs.
Defense reads GJ testimony of Hulk Hogan.
Defense:When was the last time you used steroids?
A: About 4 to 4 and a half years ago. It was 9 months before our daughter was born.
Defense: You had steroids delivered to the homes of other people in the names of other people?
Terry B: Yes.
Defense: Dave Brower?
Terry B: Yes.
Defense: Was it practice that after a WrestleMania there would be a hiatus?
Terry B: Sometimes.
Defense: You try spending as much time with your family when you are not on the road?
Terry B: Yes.
Defense: You and your wife moved to Florida after July 1988?
Terry B: Yes.
Defense: After WrestleMania 5, do you remember being in Florida for a period of time.
Terry B: No.
Defense: TCA would make travel arrangements for you by charter?
Terry B: Yes or I would call myself.
Defense: Always arranged by Titan?
Terry B: Yes.
Defense: Do you remember the issue of Titan paying for the charters?
Terry B: No.
Defense: Do you recall this letter April 11, 1989 where it talks about the issue of who would pay for a charter from Michigan to Tampa?
Terry B: I don't recall it.
Defense: Did you live in Florida at this time at this address?
Terry B: Don't know.
Defense: You owned it?
Terry B: Yes.
Defense: Was your mail forwarded from there to CT?
Terry B: Yes.
Defense: Do you recall picking up a package at Titan in April 89.
Terry B: No.
Defense: Do you remember Jim Stewart delivering steroids from Titan to you at an arena?
Terry B: No.
Defense: Any orders placed to Zahorian by you were for your personal use?
Terry B: Yes.
Defense: Would you distribute steroids?
Terry B: No.
Defense: Which you beleived steroids were legal?
Terry B: Yes because I had a prescription.
Defense: Do you remember Dr. War from Canada, Dr. Pannovich from Denver, Dr. Liebowitz from NY?
Terry B: Yes, except for Dr. Pannovich.
Defense: Had other doctors dispensed steroids to you between 85 and 89?
Terry B: Yes.
Defense: War?
Terry B: Yes
Defense: Liebowitz?
Terry B: Yes.
Defense: Pannovich?
Terry B: Don't remember.
Defense reads Terry B's Grand Jury statements which said that all four doctors including Zahorian wrote him prescriptions.
Defense: Did you get deca from Ponnavich?
Terry B: Yes.
Defense: Did you try and use steroids legally?
Terry B: Yes.
Defense: Did you get a doctor to see you beforehand?
Terry B: Not so much that, just made sure that I had a prescription.
Defense: Did you get steroids in gyms in the 70s?
Terry B: Yes, 70s and 80s.
Defense: Once you started wrestling for large organizations like the AWA and Japan you starting seeing doctors for steroids?
Terry B: Yes.
Defense: It was better to get from a doctor because of the quality?
Terry B: Yes a concern in the gyms would be that they might be fake.
Defense: Today in 1994 you have more knowledge of steroids than in the 80s?
Terry B: Yes.
Defense: If you had this info back then would you not have used them?
Terry B: That might have been the case.
Defense: Were steroids common for athletes in other professions?
Terry B: Yes.
Defense: Did Titan give you your own locker room?
Terry B: Yes
Defense: At Hershey?
Terry B: Yes.
Defense: You perferred to be with the people you wanted other than the extras?
Terry B: Yes.
Defense: Before you performed, you liked to be in private?
Terry B: Yes.
Defense: Do you remeber the photo of you, Vince McMahon, and Zahorian shown at Zahorian's trial?
Terry B: Yes.
Defense: Do you remember when it was taken?
Terry B: No.
Defense: It was common to have photo taken with scores of people?
Terry B: Yes.
Defense: Do you have any knowledge of being in a room with Zahorian and Vince McMahon while discussing steroids?
Terry B: No.
Defense: Vince McMahon never directed you to take steroids?
Terry B: Never.
Defense: It was your choice and decision?
Terry B: Definitely.
Defense: Other wrestlers take steroids?
Terry B: To my knowledge, yes.
Defense: Ever hear Vince McMahon tell a wrestler he should take steroids?
Terry B: No.
Defense: Do you recall any conversations with Vince McMahon where he implied a wreslter should take steroids?
Terry B: Never.
Defense: Were advances for performances given out by agents at every performance?
Terry B: Yes. It was deducted from their payment.
Defense: Ever hear at any WWF event any agent say, "the Doctor's here, anyone want an advance?"
Terry B: No. Just "does anyone want an advance".
Defense: The other wrestlers, not you, had to pay for their hotel rooms and meals?
Terry B: Yes.
Defense: It was one town to another, night after night?
Terry B: Yes.
Defense: 30 days at a time or more?
Terry B: Yes.
Defense: The reason for an advance was so wrestlers could pay for expenses?
Terry B: Yes.
Defense: Ever heard of riggs?
Terry B: Yes
Defense: Is riggs slang for hyperdermic needles?
Terry B: Yes.
Defense: It is not known commonly as steroids and needles?
Terry B: No.
Defense: So riggs are not steroids.
Terry B: No.
Defense: Ever heard of a roid rage?
Terry B: Yes.
Defense: In your 12 or 13 years of use did you ever experience a roid rage?
Terry B: No.
Defense: Ever see Vince McMahon have a personality change known as roid rage?
Terry B: No.
Defense: Is it fair to say wrestlers are aggressive?
Terry B: When performing.
Defense: Being on the road, when the wrestlers were offstage were they boisterous?
Terry B: Not all.
Defense: Did some party?
Terry B: Yes.
Defense: Did they get into trouble?
Terry B: Sometimes.
Defense: Did you ever the make the connection of steroids usage and the wrestlers being boisterous at a hotel or bar?
Terry B: Never.
Defense: Vince McMahon wanted the wrestlers to be in good physical shape?
Terry B: Yes.
Defense: He acts upon those words himself?
Terry B: Yes.
Defense: Have you worked out with Vince McMahon?
Terry B: Yes.
Defense: Did he try to work out as hard as you?
Terry B: Yes.
Defense: Ever heard the term bigger than life at WWF?
Terry B: Yes.
Defense: What did you take it to mean?
Terry B: Reference about me and how success had taken us by surprise and it was larger than life.
Defense: Reference that the character was bigger than life?
Terry B: Yes.
Defense: Was it code word to take steroids?
Terry B: No.
Defense: To create public appeal you need a character?
Terry B: Yes.
Defense: You view yourself with 2 identities, Hulk Hogan and Terry Bolea?
Terry B: Yes.
Quelle:
http://www.hack-man.com/Wrestling/NewsAr...roids.html
Government: When did you first work in the WWF?
Terry B: Late 78. I worked for capital for a couple of years. I was gone for three years. I came back at the end of 83.
Government: Have you used steroids prior to the WWF?
Terry B: Yes.
Government: When did you start?
Terry B: The middle of 76.
Government: What sort?
Terry B: Injectables and orals. Anabol, decagabril, testotosterone. I used deca the most.
Government: Describe steroid use in the WWF back then.
Terry B: It was common.
Government: Give a percentage.
Terry B: 75 to 80 percent.Maybe more.
Government: Did you see them in the locker room?
Terry B: Yes
Government: Did you use them there?
Terry B: Yes.
Government: Did you know Zahorian while you were in the WWF?
Terry B: Yes.
Government: Who was he?
Terry B: He was a commissioned Dr for the state of Pennsylvania that came to taping in Allentown and Hershey.
Government: What else was he known for?
Terry B: For wrestlers to get substances. Steroids.
Government: What else?
Terry B: Sleeping pills, diet pills, Tylenol 3 and 4.
Government: How did he distribute?
Terry B: People came to see him during TV tapings and asked for what they needed.
Government: Did he take blood tests?
Terry B: Yes.
Government: Did he follow up on the wrestlers?
Terry B: Asked if I was okay.
Government: Did he give you whatever you asked for?
Terry B: Yes.
Government: What did Zahorian have with him?
Terry B: A medical bag with instruments and two tackle boxes with drugs.
Government: Was Vince McMahon ever in the arena when Zahorian was there?
Terry B: Yes.
Government: Have you ever heard any slang for steroids?
Terry B: Juice, gas.
Government: Ever hear Vince McMahon use them.
Terry B: Not that I can remember.
Government: Did Vince McMahon ever order from Zahorian?
Terry B: Yes.
Government: Do you recall when?
Terry B: When we discussed steroids on the set of "No Holds Barred".
Government: Did you learn if steroids were new to Vince McMahon?
Terry B: He knew what they were.
Government: Ever discuss steroids with Jay Strongbow?
Terry B: Yes. Talked about Zahorian and getting steroids for his son.
Government: Did you ever get steroids from Vince McMahon or Emily Feinberg?
Terry B: I called Emily Feinberg on the road and told her to place an order for me.
Government: How many times?
Terry B: 10 or less times.
Government: How would you get steroids through Emily Feinberg?
Terry B: Go by the office and pick them up.
Government: Who paid for the steroids from Emily Feinberg?
Terry B: Most of the time I wrote a check or used cash. There were times that I picked up steroids that were not payed for becuase I gave steroids to Vince McMahon, so they were payback.
Government: How common was it for you to use steroids?
Terry B: Very common. Wrestlers used them. I had a prescription.
Government: Who did you learn through that Zahorian was in trouble?
Terry B: Pat Patterson said Zahorian was under investigation, dont use or call him.
Government: Did Patterson tell you not to use steroids?
Terry B: No.
Government: What did Vince McMahon say?
Terry B: Don't use or call him.
Government: Do you see this document? Is this your signature?
Terry B: No.
A sidebar is called. After the side bar the judge tells us that juror who looks like Flip Wilson has to give his keys to a court officer becuase his wife locked herself out of the house. The whole courtroom starts laughing. I noticed Hulk Hogan never changed from his solemn expression.
Government: Did you carry steroids on the road?
Terry B: Yes
Government: Why did you use steroids?
Terry B: To heal injuries, to keep on going, the schedule was tough. It gave an edge. For bodybuilding. When I first started it was to get big and gain weight.
Government: Ever wrestle in Nassau Coliseum?
Terry B: Yes.
Government: The statements that you made to the press about steroids were truthful?
Terry B: No.
The female defense lawyer starts asking questions.
Defense: We've never met before Mr. Bolea?
Terry B: No.
Defense: Never spoken?
Terry B: No.
Defense: For a period of time while you were in the WWF you did not wrestle at the Meadowlands.
Terry B: Don't know.
Defense: Does this refresh your memory?
Terry B: No.
Defense: You stopped steroids in 89?
Terry B: Around then, maybe a little bit after.
Defense: You and your wife have two children?
Terry B: Yes.
Defense: July 27, 1990 is the date of birth of your last child?
Terry B: Yes
Defense: Did you and your wife, in 1989, decide you would not be on any drugs?
Terry B: I would wind down and come off.
Defense: Did you use steroids after October 1989?
Terry B: Yes. We had an argument about her getting pregnant while I'm on drugs.
Defense reads GJ testimony of Hulk Hogan.
Defense:When was the last time you used steroids?
A: About 4 to 4 and a half years ago. It was 9 months before our daughter was born.
Defense: You had steroids delivered to the homes of other people in the names of other people?
Terry B: Yes.
Defense: Dave Brower?
Terry B: Yes.
Defense: Was it practice that after a WrestleMania there would be a hiatus?
Terry B: Sometimes.
Defense: You try spending as much time with your family when you are not on the road?
Terry B: Yes.
Defense: You and your wife moved to Florida after July 1988?
Terry B: Yes.
Defense: After WrestleMania 5, do you remember being in Florida for a period of time.
Terry B: No.
Defense: TCA would make travel arrangements for you by charter?
Terry B: Yes or I would call myself.
Defense: Always arranged by Titan?
Terry B: Yes.
Defense: Do you remember the issue of Titan paying for the charters?
Terry B: No.
Defense: Do you recall this letter April 11, 1989 where it talks about the issue of who would pay for a charter from Michigan to Tampa?
Terry B: I don't recall it.
Defense: Did you live in Florida at this time at this address?
Terry B: Don't know.
Defense: You owned it?
Terry B: Yes.
Defense: Was your mail forwarded from there to CT?
Terry B: Yes.
Defense: Do you recall picking up a package at Titan in April 89.
Terry B: No.
Defense: Do you remember Jim Stewart delivering steroids from Titan to you at an arena?
Terry B: No.
Defense: Any orders placed to Zahorian by you were for your personal use?
Terry B: Yes.
Defense: Would you distribute steroids?
Terry B: No.
Defense: Which you beleived steroids were legal?
Terry B: Yes because I had a prescription.
Defense: Do you remember Dr. War from Canada, Dr. Pannovich from Denver, Dr. Liebowitz from NY?
Terry B: Yes, except for Dr. Pannovich.
Defense: Had other doctors dispensed steroids to you between 85 and 89?
Terry B: Yes.
Defense: War?
Terry B: Yes
Defense: Liebowitz?
Terry B: Yes.
Defense: Pannovich?
Terry B: Don't remember.
Defense reads Terry B's Grand Jury statements which said that all four doctors including Zahorian wrote him prescriptions.
Defense: Did you get deca from Ponnavich?
Terry B: Yes.
Defense: Did you try and use steroids legally?
Terry B: Yes.
Defense: Did you get a doctor to see you beforehand?
Terry B: Not so much that, just made sure that I had a prescription.
Defense: Did you get steroids in gyms in the 70s?
Terry B: Yes, 70s and 80s.
Defense: Once you started wrestling for large organizations like the AWA and Japan you starting seeing doctors for steroids?
Terry B: Yes.
Defense: It was better to get from a doctor because of the quality?
Terry B: Yes a concern in the gyms would be that they might be fake.
Defense: Today in 1994 you have more knowledge of steroids than in the 80s?
Terry B: Yes.
Defense: If you had this info back then would you not have used them?
Terry B: That might have been the case.
Defense: Were steroids common for athletes in other professions?
Terry B: Yes.
Defense: Did Titan give you your own locker room?
Terry B: Yes
Defense: At Hershey?
Terry B: Yes.
Defense: You perferred to be with the people you wanted other than the extras?
Terry B: Yes.
Defense: Before you performed, you liked to be in private?
Terry B: Yes.
Defense: Do you remeber the photo of you, Vince McMahon, and Zahorian shown at Zahorian's trial?
Terry B: Yes.
Defense: Do you remember when it was taken?
Terry B: No.
Defense: It was common to have photo taken with scores of people?
Terry B: Yes.
Defense: Do you have any knowledge of being in a room with Zahorian and Vince McMahon while discussing steroids?
Terry B: No.
Defense: Vince McMahon never directed you to take steroids?
Terry B: Never.
Defense: It was your choice and decision?
Terry B: Definitely.
Defense: Other wrestlers take steroids?
Terry B: To my knowledge, yes.
Defense: Ever hear Vince McMahon tell a wrestler he should take steroids?
Terry B: No.
Defense: Do you recall any conversations with Vince McMahon where he implied a wreslter should take steroids?
Terry B: Never.
Defense: Were advances for performances given out by agents at every performance?
Terry B: Yes. It was deducted from their payment.
Defense: Ever hear at any WWF event any agent say, "the Doctor's here, anyone want an advance?"
Terry B: No. Just "does anyone want an advance".
Defense: The other wrestlers, not you, had to pay for their hotel rooms and meals?
Terry B: Yes.
Defense: It was one town to another, night after night?
Terry B: Yes.
Defense: 30 days at a time or more?
Terry B: Yes.
Defense: The reason for an advance was so wrestlers could pay for expenses?
Terry B: Yes.
Defense: Ever heard of riggs?
Terry B: Yes
Defense: Is riggs slang for hyperdermic needles?
Terry B: Yes.
Defense: It is not known commonly as steroids and needles?
Terry B: No.
Defense: So riggs are not steroids.
Terry B: No.
Defense: Ever heard of a roid rage?
Terry B: Yes.
Defense: In your 12 or 13 years of use did you ever experience a roid rage?
Terry B: No.
Defense: Ever see Vince McMahon have a personality change known as roid rage?
Terry B: No.
Defense: Is it fair to say wrestlers are aggressive?
Terry B: When performing.
Defense: Being on the road, when the wrestlers were offstage were they boisterous?
Terry B: Not all.
Defense: Did some party?
Terry B: Yes.
Defense: Did they get into trouble?
Terry B: Sometimes.
Defense: Did you ever the make the connection of steroids usage and the wrestlers being boisterous at a hotel or bar?
Terry B: Never.
Defense: Vince McMahon wanted the wrestlers to be in good physical shape?
Terry B: Yes.
Defense: He acts upon those words himself?
Terry B: Yes.
Defense: Have you worked out with Vince McMahon?
Terry B: Yes.
Defense: Did he try to work out as hard as you?
Terry B: Yes.
Defense: Ever heard the term bigger than life at WWF?
Terry B: Yes.
Defense: What did you take it to mean?
Terry B: Reference about me and how success had taken us by surprise and it was larger than life.
Defense: Reference that the character was bigger than life?
Terry B: Yes.
Defense: Was it code word to take steroids?
Terry B: No.
Defense: To create public appeal you need a character?
Terry B: Yes.
Defense: You view yourself with 2 identities, Hulk Hogan and Terry Bolea?
Terry B: Yes.