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