Wrestling News Thread

[Big Boss Man]

The Club has a new member: Enzo Amore.
Katie Vick is actually Glenn Jacobs in a costume.
a Machine is going to make his AWA debut on SmackDown
The real reason Roman Reigns was suspended it that he was snorting cocaine off Cage ass.
The BWO has a new member: Brother Nero.
There is going to be a segment where Russo is making out with Sabu and Courtney Cox.
Snitsky is going to be murdered by Carlito, bro.

I legit LOLd at the Russo, Sabu and Courtney Cox thing.

There is going to be a segment where Russo is making out with Alberto del Rio.
Big Cass is going to win the WWE Divas Championship on Starrcade.
Under the mask of Mr. America lies Ahmed Johnson.
CM Punk will return to the WWE by turning face, making Pat Patterson sucking Virgil dick win the NXT Championship against Yujiro Takahashi.
Tye Dillinger will turn face against James Storm because for the love of Mankind.
The Dudleys has a new member: Sami Zayn.
There is going to be a segment where Russo is making out with Big Show and Steve-O.

Lucha Underground next big thing: Reid Flair portraying an egyptian pharoah reborn, whose only desire is to kill. He wins the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship by beating Dolph Ziggler using Cody Rhodes dick as a weapon.
Vince has a new idea for Sunny: His manager now is Michael Cole.
Sabu is going to win the WWE Divas Championship on Battlebowl.
The Greatest Wrestler Ever, The Creator of Hulkamania, Hulk Hogan is actually a peanut.
Ahmed Johnson is going to win the WCW Cruiserweight Championship on World War III.
The dark match of Battle of Los Angeles is now composed of a Judy Bagwell on a pole match of David Flair against Hideo Itami for the World Heavyweight Championship
The next wrestler to do porn will be Rey Mysterio. His partner will be the rotting corpse of Alex Riley.

Bret Hart framed Benoit.
The dark match of RAW is now a shoot match with a big ass script. Natalya against Michelle McCool and Taker son against Queen Elizabeth with Michael Schumacher on a pole.
CM Punk will return to the WWE by turning tweener, making Mil Muertes win the WWE United States Championship against Sin Cara.
Titus O'Neil is going to make his AWA debut on Sin
On his deathbed, Vince McMahon reveals that Bret didn't screw Bret. Actually, Seth Rollins screwed Bret.
Cesaro is going to do a new pipebomb: I don’t hate you, Ricky Steamboat. I don’t even dislike you. I do like you. I like you a hell of a lot more than I like most people in the back. I hate this idea that you’re the best. Because you’re not. I’m the best. I’m the best in the world. There’s one thing you’re better at than I am and that’s kissing Paul Ellering ass. You’re as good as kissing ass as Jay Lethal was. I don’t know if you’re as good as Jeff Cobb though.
Your 2027 Royal Rumble match winner, a peanut

Owen Hart is actually a certified g.
Enzo Amore new tag partner and catchphrase: This is Nikki Bella, and he's armbar, and you can't teach that.
The next wrestler to do porn will be Apollo Crews. His partner will be the rotting corpse of Jerry Lawler.

The next wrestler to do porn will be Shane McMahon. His partner will be the rotting corpse of The Rock.
Jeff Cobb is going to make his AWA debut on World War III
Terry Funk framed Benoit.
Enzo Amore new tag partner and catchphrase: This is Giant Gonzalez, and he's a genetic freak, who is not normal, and you can't teach that.
The TNA gimmick for John Cena: Melissa Santos
There is going to be a segment where Russo is making out with Jerry Lawler.
Giant Gonzalez is actually an elephant.

Enzo Amore new tag partner and catchphrase: This is Cage, and he's a big giant fart, and you can't teach that.

On his deathbed, Vince McMahon reveals that Bret didn't screw Bret. Actually, Jim Cornette screwed Bret.
Enzo Amore new tag partner and catchphrase: This is David Flair, and he's the responsible for the death of WCW, and you can't teach that.

There is going to be a segment where Russo is making out with The Greatest Wrestler Ever, The Creator of Hulkamania, Hulk Hogan.
Enzo Amore new tag partner and catchphrase: This is Dave Meltzer, and he's a peanut, and you can't teach that.
There is going to be a segment where Russo is making out with EC3 and David Arquette.
There is going to be a segment where Russo is making out with Razor Ramon and Angelina Jolie.

Enzo Amore new tag partner and catchphrase: This is Heidenreich, and he's a walrus, and you can't teach that.

There is going to be a segment where Russo is making out with Dana Brooke and The Backstreet Boys
Andre the Giant will hold the TNA X-Division Championship for 369 days, only to drop it to Pele.

[Dr. Zoidberg]

SI.com: A definitive ranking of the top 101 wrestlers of all time

[Bandit]

Watching the Olympics, I giggle at one of the US interviewers for NBC named Steve Corino. The real Steve Corino would try to finger the winner's anus, so it's good it isn't him.

[Bandit]

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) - A week before it is scheduled to be sold, Gawker Media Group might be working toward a resolution with a longtime nemesis.

According to the Wall Street Journal, the company is "engaged in preliminary talks" with Hulk Hogan regarding a settlement over the $140.1 million invasion of privacy judgment that was awarded to the former professional wrestler earlier this year.

That judgment is what drove the company toward Chapter 11 bankruptcy and an auction that is scheduled for next week.

The impending sale marks the end of an era for Denton, who founded Gawker Media 14 years ago. Since then, the company's properties -- Deadspin, Jezebel and Gawker.com, among others -- have been the home of some of the most respected (and controversial) writers on the internet.

Gawker's era of independence had already come to an end in January, when Denton sold a minority stake in the company to Columbus Nova Technology Partners as an extra layer of protection against the Hogan lawsuit.

But next week's auction still carries a sense of finality that has not been lost on Denton or his staff.

Gawker Media writers have declared the next five days to be "senior week," and will celebrate the company's run with special stories and reminiscences.

On Wednesday, Denton will host "a celebration of 14 years of independent journalism" at Gawker's headquarters in Manhattan.

"Our own narrative has been a Gawker story in itself: dramatic, and public," Denton said in the party's invitation.

Neither Denton nor a representative for Hogan responded to multiple requests for comment.

If the reports of a potential settlement are true, the timing might suggest that Gawker is trying to clean up its books ahead of next week's sale. As part of its Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing earlier this summer, Gawker will be sold in a court-administered auction next week.

Digital publisher Ziff Davis submitted the opening bid for Gawker and its assets, setting the floor for the auction at $90 million.

In a statement Sunday night, Gawker seemed to downplay the significance of the latest reports, noting that the two sides have previously tried -- at times at the behest of a judge -- to reach a settlement, but to no avail.

"We've been hearing these rumblings many times over the years when the judge ordered settlement discussions, and you know where we are now despite that," the company said.

Hogan, whose real name is Terry Bollea, sued Gawker in 2012 after the company's flagship site published a portion of a video showing the wrestler having sex.

The two sides went to trial in March; it ended with a jury in St. Petersburg, Florida, awarding Hogan $140.1 million for economic and emotional damages.

The jury found Denton personally liable for $10 million, and the judgment forced the company to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in June. Denton himself filed for bankruptcy protection last week after he was denied in his efforts to stay the staggering judgment.

Looming over the saga is Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel, who revealed in May that he has funded Hogan's lawsuit against Gawker, along with other suits.

Thiel, who has been the subject of unflattering coverage by Gawker's family of sites for years, described his legal crusade as a matter of "specific deterrence."

"I saw Gawker pioneer a unique and incredibly damaging way of getting attention by bullying people even when there was no connection with the public interest," Thiel told the New York Times.

Thiel's involvement in the litigation suggests that perhaps he, and not Hogan, is the most relevant player in any settlement negotiation.

In an interview on CNBC last week, Denton declined to say whether he has had any recent discussions with Thiel.

"If I had, I couldn't say," Denton said.

[Bandit]

Univision bought Gawker. Get ready to see the Mil Mascaras sex tape.

[Dr. Zoidberg]

@DeathToAllMarks, @SenorLARIATO and some of the other people posting wrestling gifs on Twitter have been suspended.

[Dr. Zoidberg]

-- According to MMA insider Front Row Brian, CM Punk and Colt Cabana are no longer friends, and the two former WWE talents are no longer following each other on Twitter.

Brian notes, in the Tweets below, that Cabana apparently attended a WWE Raw taping, and went backstage and took photos with people, which angered CM Punk as he is amidst a defamation lawsuit with WWE Dr. Chris Amann.

For those who don’t remember, back in February 2015, Amann filed a defamation of character lawsuit against both CM Punk and Colt Cabana, stemming from comments the two made on an episode of Cabana’s “Art of Wrestling” podcast.

Punk reportedly feels Cabana attending a WWE Raw event and going backstage and taking photos hurts Punk’s defense in the case, and Cabana’s actions have apparently cost him his friendship with Punk. As noted, Dr. Chris Amann is seeking $1 million in compensatory damages as well as an undetermined amount of punitive damages in the lawsuit.

[Bandit]

Punk is an idiot. If Colt became a patient of the doctor, that would be one thing. What does him visiting the place he used to work for matter? He was there visiting friends, not hanging out with Vince and Stephanie.

I guess he thinks he doesn't need him since he has his new MMA buddies, but they won't last once he's cut from UFC.

[Dr. Zoidberg]

Colt hasn't said anything about it on Twitter yet. Maybe he's saving it for a podcast.

[Big Boss Man]

I thought Colt and Punk were super BFFs at one point. From what I've heard they weren't the best of buddies before Colt turned up backstage at a WWE show. Maybe Punks distancing himself from the biz, although I assume he's still buddies with Joe. Ironic really as somewhere down the line I think if the MMA thing don't work out he will back in the wrestling biz. Not necessarily with WWE but maybe in Japan or back in ROH. I've been watching the Evolution of Punk thing and he' kinda polarizes opinion, on one hand when he's meeting with fans and a make a wish recipient he seems like a cool guy yet when you hear stories like him falling out with Colt you have a different viewpoint. Nonetheless, as a long time MMA fan I'm one of those who don't fall into the anti-Punk category. I'd like to see him win actually and we see a super fight like against McGregor. He went up to 170 to fight Nate and Punks fighting at 185 so maybe try could do a catch weight fight. For the trash talking alone it would be worth it.

[Bandit]

Punk seems like an okay guy. He's just not phony, so if he's in a bad mood when he meets fans or doesn't like somebody he works with he makes it clear.

But he's being ridiculous if the Colt story is true. If he's telling the truth that he had staph and WWE and their doctors said deal with it, I doubt a judge or jury is going to throw that evidence aside because his friend was backstage at a WWE show a few hours.

[Suplex]

Punk has said many times that loyalty means everything to him. Why didn't Cabana just meet up with his friends after the show? Clearly, it will have no bearing on the lawsuit but it is a very tacky thing to do given the situation. Cabana probably thinks the lawsuit is a joke but then again he doesn't have a million dollars at risk. Also, I doubt it was just this one incident that ended their friendship (if this twitter rumor is even true).

[Dr. Zoidberg]

Dave's Guns:

[Bandit]

And keep in mind Dave is a year or so younger than my parents and doesn't take roids. He has good genetics (well, not hair so much anymore, but he did have a glorious mullet once.)

[Dr. Zoidberg]

It was a lovely mullet.

[Dr. Zoidberg]

Wrestling Legend Scott Hall -- Booted from Airport Bar for Calling Bartender a Bitch

ONE DRINK TOO MANY?

Pro wrestler Scott Hall was disqualified from a T.G.I. Friday's for being drunk, rowdy and disrespectful to the bartender.

A witness tells us Hall was at the Friday's in the Atlanta airport on Saturday ... drinking Coors Lights and tequila shots. He allegedly hit on the bartender and called her a bitch, and that's when trouble started brewing with the bartender's father ... who was at the bar.

We're told Hall didn't believe the guy was really her dad, and a manager stepped in and asked him to leave -- when he refused, someone called cops.

Law enforcement sources tell us officers responded to the intoxicated person call. They recognized Hall as his former wrestling alter ego, Razor Ramon ... shook his hand and calmed the situation. You can see in the video though, Scott didn't want to give up his beer easily.

We're told Scott left without further incident and no police report was filed.

Hall has a history with booze and drug abuse, but has said he's been sober recently. We've reached out to his rep.

Source: TMZ

[Dr. Zoidberg]

Lord Littlebrook passes away at 87 years old

[Bandit]

We wish to extend our best wishes to the former NWA and ECW World Champion and WWE Hall of Famer Terry Funk.

He had to end up leaving Saturday night’s House Of Hardcore show in Philadelphia after he felt dizzy. He was going to be in Tommy Dreamer's corner during the main event.

Tommy Dreamer has said that Terry has been dealing with serious health issues. He also probably should have not flown out to the show as he was advised not to by doctors. He told the House of Hardcore fans at the 2300/ECW Arena that this might be his final night in that arena, and he didn’t want to leave the ring, but he wanted to say farewell to the “greatest fans in the world.”

Fans who attended have gotten the impression this maybe his final retirement speech. The reaction was amazing from the crowd and the fans in attendance were sitting crying with Tommy Dreamer. Best wishes, and get well soon Terry Funk.

[Dr. Zoidberg]

Here's the video of it:

[Dr. Zoidberg]