After decades of the Cold War, the overall smugness of Putin, and most recently the invasion of Georgia, it was about time that somebody had the guts to stare into the great red eyes of Mother Russia and tell them that they don’t scare him! But who would have thought that man would be Wayne Gretzky?
How many times do you have to tell people that professional wrestling is staged before it will sink in? THE BLOG OF HILARITY passes on a short item from Houston TV station KHOU on WWE head honcho Vince McMahon apparently being injured by a falling set on RAW on Monday night…except that, considering the WWE, it was all staged. Watch for yourself:
As BOH’s Chris notes: it would be a bit more convincing if the set had actually fallen directly on McMahon; it didn’t even really look like it had hit him — he just wound up under it somehow.
You may have heard or seen this week that the commissioners of the major professional sports leagues were back in front of Congress (again?!) to try to explain what their leagues were doing to control the use of steroids and other PEDs.
One of the “commissioners” invited to speak was the WWE’s Vince McMahon. That apparently means members of congress consider pro wrestling to be a major league professional sport. And of course, they’re dead-on! Read more…
The HUFFINGTON POST picks up word from the PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS that former news anchor Alycia Lane may be back in front of the cameras again - for the WWE.
Lane and Philly radio jock Chris Booker were seen together in the Wachovia Center crowd during Monday night’s ‘WWE Raw’. The next day, Booker said on his show that Vince McMahon had offered Alycia an on-camera job with his wrestling outfit. A WWE spokesman said he couldn’t confirm the offer.
WHERE’S GEORGE MITCHELL WHEN YOU REALLY NEED HIM? The CALGARY SUN has a piece covering the new book by pro wrestler Bret Hart. Since they broke up Gorilla Monsoon and Bobby Heenan, the greatest on-air comedic pairing in *sports* history, we haven’t have much use for Vince McMahon’s steroid-fueled human cartoon.
But Hart’s book proves there is some entertainment value left in professional wrestling - at least outside the ring. Some highlights from the autobiography:• “One night in Oklahoma City, he picked up the wife of a state trooper. Her husband was a regular user of steroids and the pair went back to his room where she expertly injected Bret with steroids before having sex.”
• “Bret tells of one party where he entered a room to find a mound of cocaine on a table. He snorted two lines. Bret says doing that cocaine earned him the trust of other wrestlers, some of whom saw him as just a promoter’s son.”
• “Bret says his match against Davey Boy Smith in Wembley Stadium in England was his greatest bout. His book reveals that after a summer of taking crack, Davey was completely out of it and Bret had to whisper instructions to him the entire match.“And finally, we find out where Kobe Bryant might’ve got the idea for that million-dollar makeup ring to wife Vanessa: “Bret started an affair with a waitress in Newark, N.J., which Julie uncovered after finding telephone bills. … Days later, Bret bought a 23-room mansion — perhaps in an attempt to placate Julie, and his own guilt.”
And those *highlights* don’t even include Hart’s brother Owen dying during a match in Kansas City. That’s also the only one of Hart’s stories that we can actually confirm (not that we’re complaining).
