Separated at Birth: The Big Show

Aside from the Bigelonian tats on the Auction Hunter, Ton Jones is a dead ringer for Paul "Big Show" Wight.

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Backyard Modern Art Depiction of the Macho Man's Funeral

Brilliant artistic representation staged by childhood friend Baktonious.

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Macho Sadness

At least one paper in this country has shown proper respect as the Trentonian appropriately puts the death of Randy Savage frontpage, above the fold.

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Are You Wooooo! University Material?

Bless my sister for sending me this awesome commercial.

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Blue Crow Law In Connecticut Threatens Democracy

Ol' Blue doesn't live in Connecticut, but if he did he may have a hard time casting his vote for Raw's next General Manager on Election Day. You see, thanks to union thugs and the party machines up in Connecticut, Blue can't wear his causal WWE attire to the voting booth for fear that it would be seen as campaign activity in favor of Mr. McMahon's wife, Linda, who is running for US Senate.

This is clearly some kind of Nexus plot to continue their rampage over the WWE, but unlike John Cena, you can't tell Blue what to do without getting a little bit of disrespect thrown back at you.

In protest of this bigoted policy, Blue plans to get all liquored up Stone Cold-style and go on voting rampage in precincts throughout the nation on Election Day. How can you spot Blue? Well he'll be in one of his favorite t-shirts of course:

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Ric Flair Gets Iced Like Only Ric Flair Can

Woo.

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HHR alum talks to WWE Superstar John Cena

We can say we knew Illuminati back when he was just Fat Willard, blogging on this website and doing link dumps. Now, look at him, all grows up and interviewing famous athletes.

Check out his interview for EgoTV with WWE superstar John Cena.

And we were just kidding, we don't want to say we knew him at all.

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LeBron's Heel Turn: It's Just Too Sweeeeeet!

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Acting 101: Linda McMahon Compares WWE to Ronald Reagan, Stops Short of Challenging Nancy to Bra & Panties Match

Not sure if she's trying to win over right-leaning primary voters or piss them off, but according to Politico, "At a Q & A in Waterbury, Conn...a questioner at a campaign event told McMahon: "You have shown yourself to be less virtuous...when you do condone your husband onstage cavorting, in a sexually explicit manner, with other women."

McMahon, in turn, pointed out that Ronald Reagan's acting gigs didn't determine how he would govern.

"If he had played a standup comedic person who did slapstick, do you think that's how he'd operate in the presidency?" McMahon asked.

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How Bill Goldberg's Career Took Him from Lynching Country to Inclusion on Famous Jewish Sports Legends Leaflet

Celebrity Apprentice "star" and former WCW world champion Bill Goldberg was inducted into the National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame Museum this past Saturday.

While his dad called the idea of a Jewish wrestler "oxymoronic as the phrase 'fresh frozen jumbo shrimp,'" while reflecting on his career in light of honor, Goldberg did little to dispel numerous stereotypes - both of Jew and Gentile.

Jew:

Goldberg said he wasn’t looking to make a statement when he started wrestling. He was looking to make money.

"The truth of it is my lawyer called me and told me the money I made from football was going to run out,” he said. “I had to find something else to do."

Gentile:

Many of his early competitions were in the South. One night, in the middle of a show, fans started chanting his name, and Goldberg realized that something special was going on.

"Here I am, this 300-pound guy named Goldberg, and they’re chanting my name. They’re chanting ‘Goldberg, Goldberg’ in the middle of lynching country."

What a mensch.

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Vince and Linda McMahon's Sexy B*tch

No, we are not referring to Vince's guns, but rather the 47-foot "Sexy Bitch," sports yacht that she and Vince dock in Boca Raton, FL according to a Stamford Advocate article on "The running of the rich: Is wealth changing Connecticut politics?"

As we've pointed out before, Linda is running for US Senate.

From SB Nation's Caged Seats:

No, the Connecticut media hasn't discovered that Vince is cheating on his wife with one of the WWE Divas. "The Sexy Bitch" in question is the name of Vince McMahon's ostentatious 47-foot long sports yacht docked in Boca Raton, Florida, which was revealed in an article by the Hearst newspapers after Linda McMahon refused to answer a questionnaire about how she spends her wealth.

Unsurprisingly, the Rob Simmons campaign was quick to bash her lack of transparency.

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Hulkster Believes in Saints, Brother.

I'm confident in the Saints too, but six points is all the Colts will score, Hulkster? I hope that Saints secondary has been saying their prayers, taking their vitamins, and believing in themselves.

HULK HOGAN, Wrestler
New Orleans, 35-6. New Orleans has an amazing new energy this year, both as a team and a city. They survived Hurricane Katrina, and if they could survive that, they can survive anything.

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Linda McMahon's "Family-Friendly" WWE

Just Because One Employs Porn Stars Doesn't Make One a Pornographer.

Bill & Hill?

We mentioned in August that now-former WWE CEO Linda McMahon had tossed her hat into US politics. In September we posted her first ad. Since that time, she has positioned herself among front-runners for the Republican nomination in Connecticut to run against embattled incumbent Chris Dodd.

As her campaign has taken shape, critics argue the WWE has scrubbed its image to inoculate her from criticism over its traditionally racy content (while McMahon herself rarely even mentions her company by name on the trial).

One of those more notable critics is former 'rassler "Superstar" Billy Graham. From the Hartford Courant last month:

Superstar Billy Graham is speaking out against the woman he says made millions from the violence, sexual exploitation, blood and excesses of professional wrestling. What outrages him particularly, he says, are recent attempts to sanitize the wrestling mega-enterprise whose sexy women wrestlers once performed in "lingerie matches" and were still posing nude in Playboy as recently as 2008. He views this toning down as a huge act of hypocrisy — an attempt to graft a family-friendly face onto a business that has been anything but.

What's head-scratching, then, is the Fed's decision last week to bring the 2008 Playboy Magazine Model of the Year, Jillian Beyor (who wrestling sites are claiming - read: gossiping - "appeared in a few adult themed fetish video shoots back in 2007 under the name Brianna"), as one of their renowned Divas.

"El Placer Di Viver" must be Spanish for "Family Edition."

Beyor shares esteemed company with Sable, Chyna, Torrie Wilson, Christy Hemme, Ashley Massaro, Maria Kanellis, and Candice Michelle as Diva/Playmates.

If the soft-core rumors are true, with Michelle, she shares the distinction of hitting Diva/Playmate/Porn Star trifecta.

Michelle was fired back in June for not looking "Diva-like." With the overall toning-down of the television product, one must wonder, however, whether it was a politically motivated move to distance the company (and thus, the candidate) from a porn star. And conversely, why they'd bring on Beyor.

Getting back to Michelle, under the name Mackenzie Montgomery, Michelle appeared in over 60 hardcore porn films and scenes before and during her time as a WWE Diva, specializing in bondage films (including classics Gagged and Frightened!, Bare Breasted Bondage Girls, Hand Gagged!, and Guys And Girls: Ropes And Gags. The impressive resume reads like an RS Video order.



Why does this matter?

Well, it just seems disingenuous of candidate McMahon to 1. Distance herself for the company that's afforded her the luxury of self-financing her campaign; and 2. pretend it's something it's not.

(Then again, she's running for the US Congress. Lies and mistruths are part of the game I suppose.)

From Politico's Josh Kraushaar ("A Smackdown Against Linda McMahon"), "McMahon has played down her professional background on the campaign trail, and dismisses the criticism of the WWE, calling it family-friendly entertainment."



You want a seat in the US Senate? Start by being truthful about your own company. Everyone knows its reputation anyway. Hell, they can just check the YouTubes if they're unsure: If it's not the above Playmates getting down and dirty on the programs, you can always catch 10 minutes of simulated sex between two of the fighters.

But relax, Linda. People will understand that it's just "sports entertainment." Embrace it. It's not like you're peddling this smut to kids.

Oh wait, maybe you are.

Anyway, your real liability is this guy:

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Separated at Birth: Odalay!

Today on Jim Rome, Junior Seau paid homage to former WCW, nWo, lWo, Filthy Animal, Konnan.

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Oooooh Yeeeeaaah: Inappropriate Macho Man Moments

I could watch this 500 times and laugh harder each time.

Oooooooh Yeeeaaaaah!

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Web Redemption 2 Girls, 1 Cup Reaction Demi Moore Picture

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From The D.C. Bureau: Feel the Madness

From Special Agent Blue Pulaski: "This is why I'm facebook friends with the Macho Man, he posts classics."

BETTER THAN THE BEST!

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It's True, It's True: Olympic Hero Kurt Angle Stalks, Harrasses, Uses HGH, Arrested

Pittsburgh Post Gazette:

Mr. Angle, 40, of Moon, was arrested around 7:50 a.m. in the parking lot of a Giant Eagle supermarket in Robinson, where his girlfriend, Trenesh Biggers, had taken refuge, according to a police affidavit. She told police she'd obtained the PFA around 6:20 a.m. after Mr. Angle abused her, and he was stalking her outside a Starbucks shop in Robinson, where she was using a computer to send e-mail.

According to an affidavit: "In addition to the PFA violation, Mr. Angle also was arraigned on charges of harassment, possession of the human growth hormone Hygetropin, and possession of a syringe to use the controlled substance, police said. Mr. Angle told police the drug is prescribed to him legally."

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Linda McMahon Mulling Connecticut Senate Run

Linda McMahon, Chief Executive Officer of World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc., or more commonly known as Vince McMahon's wife, is said to be looking into running in the 2010 Republican primary for the chance to challenge incumbent Chris Dodd according to CongressDaily PM.

We found video of Linda talking about what changes she'd like to bring to the US Senate.

I think readers will approve.

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Wooooooo! Chad Ochocinco Resurects the 4 Horsemen

While it may be the worst version of the famed wrestling faction ever assembled (this side of Romeo Paul Roma and Mongo McMichael), props to #85 for taking the initiative to reform the classic heel stable.

The trio become the first 3 black Horsemen ever. Unconfirmed sources indicate that the members will be initiated in by taking Arn Anderson gordbusters for a 4 minute period.


Carson Palmer was slated to round out the group, but allegedly declined in order to form a tag team with TJ Houshmandzadeh, infuriating Ochocinco.

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The Real Rock-N-Wrestling Connection

Vince McMahon and Hulk Hogan are widely credited for mainstreaming professional wrestling by taking the "sport" national and away from regional promotions generally associated with the National Wrestling Alliance.

A major factor in bringing the form of entertainment to the masses was by associating its promotions and events with popular celebrities of the era. This was never as evident as the early-80's WWF "Rock N' Wrestling" connection that was prompted by the appearance of manager (and Mario Mario portray-er) Captain Lou Albano in the iconic rocker Cyndi Lauper's Girls Just Wanna Have Fun video.


Lauper went on to feud with her cynematic step-father by partnering up in the Fed as Wendi Richter's manager (with Albano siding up with octogenarian heel extroidinaire the Fabulous Moolah). Promotional wiz McMahon ran with it, and soon he was rolling out 80's-era celebs at the first Wrestlmania in 1985, featuring WWF personalities in 3 other Lauper videos and animating his already cartoonish athletes into "Hulk Hogan's Rock N' Wrestling" series.

Truth be told, the WWF was as un-Rock N' Roll as it was the antithesis of professional wrestling itself.

Legendary grapplers, many of whom VKM would later scoop up into his own promotion, were getting into blood fests and fist fights that would make any self-respecting real rocker blush, all the while taking their cues from not only 70's super groups, but also Southern rock legends and hair metal glam rockers.

It's easy to point to this influence with the obvious types, including the Midnight Rockers and the Rock N' Roll Express.


Another obvious influence was due to the fact that unlike the WWF, they were smaller, regional promotions and not widely televised. Wrestlers in the NWA and other territories were able to use well-known licensed songs as their entrance themes. Most remember the intimidating Road Warriors coming to the ring with Black Sabbath's Iron Man blaring.

A more recent example is the now-WWF owned, once Philly-based Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) whose superstars throughout the mid-to-late 90's came out to just about every well-known metal song ever written. Eventually, ECW signed a national deal and had to opt for original tunes. (A great list of ECW themes can be found here.)

While Vince and Hulk and the WWF take credit for the Rock-N-Wrestling connection, there were a great number of non-WWF wrestlers who took their images, names and gimmicks directly from real rock and roll royalty - and did it much more convincingly.

Below are our favorites.

Bad Company, I can't deny. Bad, Bad company, Till the day I die

Tag Team: Bad Company (AWA): Pat Tanaka & Paul Diamond (Manager Diamond Dallas Page)
Inspiration: Bad Company

Are you worried what your friends see?
Will it ruin your reputation lovin me 'cause Im a dirty white boy?

Wrestler: Dirty White Boy (USWA, Smokey Mountain)
Inspiration: Dirty White Boy (Foreigner)

Are you tough enough to still remember me?

Tag Team: The Fabulous Freebirds: Michael PS Hayes, Terry Bam Bam Gordy, Buddy Roberts, Jimmy Garvin (AWA, NWA, UWF, WCCW)
Inspiration: Freebird (Lynyrd Skynyrd); The Fabulous Thunderbirds

Young wrestler, the subject of schoolgirl fantasy

Wrestler: Sting (UWF, NWA, WCW)
Inspiration: Sting

I've got to run to keep from hiding.

Wrestler: Midnight Rider (NWA): After Dusty Rhodes was suspended by the NWA, the masked Midnight Rider burst on the scene to feud with Ric Flair, fooling no one.
Inspiration: Midnight Rider (Allman Brothers Band)

Boogie Woogie Man from Tennessee, yeah baby.

Wrestler: Jimmy "Boogie Woogie Man" Valiant (NWA)
Inspiration: The Boogie Woogie Man (Albert Ammons); Boogie Woogie Country Man (Jerry Lee Lewis)


Finally, we'd not be doing our readers any justice if we didn't mention some of these later-year non-WWF Rock N' Rock ripoffs.

The Boy Band Legacy

Tag Team: 3 Count (WCW)
Inpiration: NKOTB, 'N Sync, Backstreet Boys

He'd be no worse a lead singer for the band than Gary Cherone

Wrestler: "Heavy Metal" Van Hammer (WCW)
Inspiration: Van Halen

Race & Culture Wars

Stables: No Limit Soldiers: Master P, BA, Chase Tatum, Konnan, Rey Mysterio, Jr., Swoll, 4x4; The West Texas Rednecks: Curt Henning, Bobby Duncum, Jr., Barry Windham, Kendall Windham, Curly Bill (WCW)
Inspiration: Master P

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