Wrestler Lex Luger departed the WWF's main rival, World Championship Wrestling (WCW), to co-host WBF BodyStars—a weekly WBF television series that aired on USA Network. [13] Luger was interviewed during WrestleMania VIII to promote the WBF, and was scheduled to make a guest appearance posing at the 1992 WBF Championship on June 13 in Long Beach .

The World Bodybuilding Federation (WBF) was a bodybuilding organization founded in 1990 by Vince McMahon that lasted until 1992. It was a subsidiary of Titan Sports which owned and operated the World Wrestling Federation.

2023年2月25日 · Vince McMahon and Titan Sports launched the World Bodybuilding Federation in 1991, promising to revolutionize the sport and present it “as it was meant to be.” However, scandals and poor decision-making proved too much for the upstart WBF, and it would soon leave McMahon millions of dollars lighter in the pocket. Here’s how it all went wrong.

2016年1月7日 · The superstars of the World Bodybuilding Federation (WBF) do battle with the superstars of the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) in this Tug of war challenge from 1992. WBF Team: Jim Quinn,...

In an effort to get the WBF more exposure, the WWF was cross-promoted with the WBF for viewership by placing WWF stars in a "guest-star" role on the WBF program. Efforts to gain an...

2025年2月19日 · The purest bodybuilding fans would reject the WBF, due to the association with the WWF. Wrestling fans might find the posing routines of bodybuilding boring. The WBF should have followed a model similar to the American Gladiators and the WWF. Bodybuilders could compete in various physical events.

2017年2月1日 · Vince McMahon, the owner of the WWE, then known as the WWF, McMahon had hoped to capitalize on the lack of media presence in the sport and start his own...

In a year that would see the WWF clear out a number of wrestlers for drug violations, Vince also made the smart move to close down his World Bodybuilding Federation (WBF). McMahon had hired bodybuilder Tom Platz to oversee a new magazine (Bodybuilding Lifestyles), and also invested in a new supplement called ICOPRO.

2017年8月8日 · In the first of a three part series, we look at the brief life of the World Bodybuilding Federation, an organisation financed by wrestling mogul Vince McMahon that tried to take on Joe Weider’s formidable stronghold on the sport. While the WBF ultimately failed, its influence on the sport cannot be underestimated.

2014年11月8日 · Back in September of 1990, at none other than the Mr. Olympia weekend in Chicago, the World Bodybuilding Federation was born in a press release stating that the new organization would “revamp professional bodybuilding with dramatic new events and the richest prize money in the history of the sport.”