Ring Boys

The ring boy scandal is a sex scandal in the World Wrestling Federation centered around allegations that ring announcer Mel Phillips (1941–2012) had recruited teenage boys for the purposes of sexual exploitation during the late 1980s and early 1990s. The scandal, which came at a time of turmoil for the WWF—the promotion was suspected of supplying illegal steroids to their wrestlers at the same time—resulted in the dismissal of Phillips, Terry Garvin and, temporarily, Pat Patterson in 1992.