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Jerry Lawler Attempts To Pronounce Michael Hoomanawanui's Name, Fails

Some New England Patriots players attended last night's WWE Raw broadcast from the Dunkin' Donuts Center in Providence last night. Jerry "The King" Lawler reported that among them was a "Michael Hoomawanyueye." He must be the backup kicker....

Looks Like Joe Theismann Isn't Watching <em>Monday Night Football</em>, Either

Shawne Merriman's WWE Tryout Didn't Go So Well [Update]

Former Chargers and Bills LB Shawne Merriman has been busy since retiring earlier this year. Last month he showed up at WWE's Performance Center in Orlando, which serves as both a wrestling school and training facility. Though Merriman showed off his bruises from getting in the ring, everyone downpl...

Dead Wrestler Of The Week: Chris Benoit

Excerpted and adapted from The Squared Circle: Life, Death, and Professional Wrestling (Gotham Books). For the Dead Wrestler of the Week archive, click here....

Bid On This Awesome Velvet Painting Of "Macho Man" Randy Savage

I'll be honest: I had reservations about posting this phenomenal eBay listing of a black velvet painting of "Macho Man" Randy Savage and Miss Elizabeth in the style of Gustav Klimt's The Kiss, because I'd like to score it cheap for myself. But the creator of this masterpiece deserves to be compensa...

Anchor Inserts Pro Wrestlers Into Sportscast—Can You Catch Them All?

Via Awful Announcing, this is WHAS-Louisville's Adam Lefkoe livening up a sportscast by inserting the names of pro wrestlers. Sometimes they're subtle. Other times, not so much....

Here's Toronto Mayor Rob Ford Beating Hulk Hogan At Arm Wrestling

This really did happen this morning at Fan Expo in Toronto. Rob Ford, who smokes crack cocaine, somehow didn't trip on his shoelaces as he removed his jacket and rolled up his sleeves. And while there's no way to know for sure, I kinda think the Hulkster took a dive....

WWE Leaker Strikes Again To Spoil (Some Of) SummerSlam

For five straight pay-per-view events, a Reddit user named "Dolphins1925" revealed the results of every single WWE match before they aired. But with WWE now aware that it has sprung a leak, last night's SummerSlam was our first chance to see if he could do it again....

WWE Wrestler Announces He's Gay

Not a gimmick, not an angle (yet!), and done in the least showy way imaginable....

“Fan” Jumps Into WWE Ring, Hits Randy Orton In The Balls [Update]

I'm having a hard time deciding whether this is real or fake, which means WWE has done its job well....

Former Pro Wrestler To Be Charged With Murder

Brian McGhee, a wrestler who spent two years in the WWE system, was arrested last night in Tampa in connection with the stabbing death of a woman believed to be his girlfriend. ...

Can Diamond Dallas Page Save Wrestling's Walking Dead?

Diamond Dallas Page needs to make some phone calls. He's sitting in a high-backed chair at the head of a gigantic, cherry-wood table in the dining room of his home in Smyrna, Ga. He calls this his Sons of Anarchy room, because the table reminds him of the one the bikers in the television show sit ar...

The WWE Needs Better Wardrobe People [NSFW]

The Bella Twins have apparently been part of WWE for almost seven years. You'd think in that time, they'd find outfits that don't leave nipples exposed for minutes at a time. That is, unless the slip was intentional....

The Marlins will host "Legends of Wrestling Night," featuring 15 current and former grapplers who increasingly stretch the definition of "legend." [Biz of Baseball]...

Ric Flair Issued Arrest Order Over Failure To Pay Spousal Support

Pro wrestling legend Ric Flair owes his estranged wife more than $32,000 in spousal support, has been held in contempt of court, and now a judge in Mecklenberg, N.C., has issued a order for his arrest. Wooooo!...

A Redditor Has Been Leaking WWE Outcomes [Update: WWE Response]

In February on r/SquaredCircle, Reddit's pro wrestling forum, one poster kicked off a "prediction series," asking users to pick who they expected to win at that week's Elimination Chamber pay-per-view event. The winner was a user named "Dolphins1925," who posted just minutes before the start of the ...

Dead Wrestler Of The Week: “Maniac” Matt Borne, AKA Doink The Clown

When Matt Osborne died on Friday, the news rang out far and wide. Fox Sports: "Report: Doink the Clown dead at 56." TMZ: "Doink the Clown Pro Wrestler Dies at 55." New York Daily News: "Ex-WWE wrestler Doink the Clown dead at 55." The implication was that the role had overtaken its actor. As this s...

The Greatest Doink The Clown Story Ever

Former wrestler Matt Osborne—aka Doink the Clown—died a few days ago. Justin Halpern, bestselling author and co-creator of the upcoming Fox sitcom Surviving Jack, told us this story about working with Doink way back in 1998. Halpern believes the Doink mentioned here is Osborne, but given that Doin...

Hey, It's 15 Years (And A Day) Since Mick Foley Got Thrown Off A Cage

In keeping with our inability to notice anniversaries until it’s too late, we’d like to point out that it was 15 years ago last night that Mankind and the Undertaker faced off in one of the most memorable and brutal wrestling matches of all time....

Matt "Doink The Clown" Osborne Has Died

Matt Osborne, a wrestling lifer who will forever be known as a symbol of the WWF's cartoonish early-'90s era, was found dead this morning in Texas. He was 57....