David Schults

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David Schults is a retired professional wrestler who billed himself as Dr. D. He gained his biggest notoriety in 1984 after assaulting 20/20 reporter John Stossel.

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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 twice, knocking him to the floor. Stossel filed a lawsuit against the World Wrestling Federation over this, and settled out of court for $400,000.

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. He also has made a career as a professional bounty hunter as well.

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 against McMahon at the trial. Vince McMahon was found not guilty of most charges.

In a shoot interview Wayne Ferris (The Honkytonk Man) claimed that Schults had the initial idea for Wrestlemania. Ferris alleges that Schults told Hulk Hogan about the concept, who then passed it on to Vince McMahon.