David Schults is a retired professional wrestler who billed himself as Dr. D. He gained his biggest notoriety after a 1984 incident involving 20/20 reporter John Stossel. 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 20/20 is an American television newsmagazine broadcast on ABC since June 6, 1978. ... John Stossel John Stossel (born March 6, 1947) is an American television journalist for ABC. Stossel graduated from Princeton University with a BA in psychology in 1969, and was a member of Princeton Tower Club there. ...

At the time Schults was working as an employee of the World Wrestling Federation. His encounter with Stossel happened while Stossel was backstage doing a story about professional wrestling's secrets. During an interview Stossel told Schults that he thought pro wrestling was fake and Schults' response was to slap Stossel, knocking him to the floor. Stossel filed a lawsuit against the World Wrestling Federation over this, and settled out of court for $400,000. World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. ...

Although he has consistently maintained that World Wrestling Federation officials told him to hit Stossel, Schults was fired, but unlike many industry insiders believe, it was not because of his actions against Stossel. Rather, Schults was fired for challenging Mr. T to a fight backstage at a WWF show at Madison Square Garden. He wrestled for a time after this billing himself as "Dr D" David Schults in an effort to build back his career using the incident as a gimmick.^{[citation needed]} This was short lived and he retired from professional wrestling soon after. This article is about the actor. ... Madison Square Garden, often abbreviated as MSG, known colloquially simply as The Garden, has been the name of four arenas in New York City, United States. ... In professional wrestling, a gimmick is slang that refers to a wrestlers on-screen personality. ...

Schults briefly reappeared in the spotlight in the early 1990s when Vince McMahon was accused of illegally distributing anabolic steroids. Schults was called as a witness to testify at the trial. Vince McMahon was found not guilty of most charges and everything David Shults accused McMahon of was determined to be untrue by the jury. Vincent Kennedy McMahon (born August 24, 1945) is an American wrestling promoter, occasional professional wrestler, on-screen personality, and former play-by-play announcer. ... Chemical structure of the natural anabolic hormone testosterone, 17b-hydroxy-4-androsten-3-one. ...

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