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I hope some of this gawker money ends up going towards john graziano's medical bills.

Matt Fowler at IGN had a great tweet earlier wondering if Terry Bollea will share any of the money he won today with Hulk Hogan.

He's just a SMW baby face?

Hulk Hogan won't even put over the legal system.

Now...what was the question?

FTFY

Dirty Orange Boy

He was really nice to me as a kid but I'm like super white

It should be noted that it feels like all of those Baker and Van Fleet accomplishments should have an asterisk because they have been in school for approximately 13 years.

The term SMW baby face somehow reminds me of when I met Cactus Jack at a SMW house show. He wasn't allowed to sign autographs unless people bought something. For folks that didn't look like they wanted to part with 20 bucks for one of his old WCW shirts, he suggested picking up the autographed Tammy Sytch 8 x 10s. I may not be exactly right in remembering what he said, but it was something to the effect of, "Only 5 bucks. Great ass shot." I didn't really have a point in sharing that, except to say I like sites where such stories can be shared. So, where were we? Oh yeah, Hogan. Seriously, I think by the time I hit the post button, he'll have already been offered to buy in to 3 promotions. Not so seriously? Him and Bushwhacker Luke vs ReDragon at ROH Final Battle 2016.

Octagon, the Chuck Norris movie, had ninjas in it. Octagon was named after that movie, and his mask is supposed to be a ninja face (the white part is the skin showing around the eyes) Pentagon was created as his Black Tiger. He was supposed to be an enemy ninja that studied the five angle style instead of the eight angle style Octagon mastered. You may still think the name doesn't make sense but you just aren't used to the true lunacy that would come from Antonio Pena's ideas. This is mild shit. So there were a couple Pentagons, Pentagon Black, and a thousand Mini Pentagons, but only one Pentagon Junior, who isn't related to any of them.

Coming off the juice when returning to WWE did not help Bubba Ray and D-Von in the long run.

If only IWA Kokusai was still around, Grandpa could form a trios team with the Geezer & the Scalper and then feud with Goro Tsurumi. Failing that a Ganko Pro special might work too, they've run some tribute style shows with the likes of Goro Tsurumi and I believe Ryuma Go before his passing.

TNA would like to announce the 30 man Gawker Guy Memorial Battle Royal this year at Bound For Glory.

Much Ado About Nothing is not only the very best movie Joss Whedon has ever made (by a HUGE margin), it's also for my money the best nontraditional Shakespeare adaptation ever made, with Kurosawa's Ran being the only other one that even comes close. It is a completely fucking brilliant work of cinema, perfect in almost every way ("almost" being that, like every modern version of Much Ado, it's got little idea of how to make the entire Claudio/Hero subplot not come off as the most disgustingly misogynistic thing ever, which is Shakespeare's fault in the first place). It's easily one of my favorite films of all time, period. Aw HELL no. X-Men 3 was garbage. Garbage script arc, garbage dialogue, garbage character derailment, garbage performances from most of the actors (I've never seen Patrick Stewart or Ian McKellen putting so little effort into any other film), and totally garbage fight scenes. Its combination of arbitrary retcons and shock-for-shock's-sake deaths for several main characters were actively insulting to the entire franchise; there's a good reason why the entire last scene of Days of Future Past was entirely devoted to the theme of "don't worry, THAT fucking movie never happened". In comparison, Age of Ultron was just mediocre and repetitive and not-as-good-as-the-last-one, with a few genuinely really entertaining sequences which I mentioned above (and I'd argue X-Men 3 had precisely zero really entertaining sequences, aside from the throwaway joke when they capture Multiple Man (but even THAT was illogical when you think about it; how'd Magneto convince him to willingly go back to prison?).

First two days of this tourney are the best basketball of the year for me.

Fifteen years ago today, the final WCW PPV aired:

Hogan got laid and paid a nine figure paycheck. THAT is how it's done, Buff Bagwell.

Dixie carter has now left 2 messages for the Hulkster in regards to a sweet investment deal. And 12 messages about investing in TNA.

True art provokes such questions.

This is odd. EDIT: Oh man, death match of the year! ---------- I dig the Taurus match around the 18 minute mark.

Coke dealers everywhere are celebrating today.

In unrelated news, Jimmy Hart just called Hulk Hogan with an idea to bring back Wrestlelicious.

I got you, fam.

Did every taping this week involve Gail losing a match because Maria distracted her?

When you start throwing around terms like "You're so in the tank", you left the realm of "discussion" behind you.

Prince Puma's character is supposed to be flat. He is the embodiment of Lucha Underground's appeal to tradition what with him being a descendent of one of the ancient Aztec tribes in they are chasing a belt made out of cursed Aztec gold. His role is more symbolic and plot driven than character driven. His role is to be the vessel for the audience to get behind without knowing too much of the plot and it is easy for them because Puma is not involved in the Ancient Aztec stuff or at least from "Mexico", he does not have much involvement with Dario Cuerto and is not a direct opponent to his schemes(Dario's more obsessed with corrupting Faces and Puma being a more neutral character than an outright goody two-shoes, I guess he does not really care), and is not really fighting the "Darkness" of Lucha Underground. His goal is simple: he wants to be the best and be champion outside of a Mil Muertes who wants to commit as much violence as possible and a Catrina who seems to be more powerful when she around Aztec gold. Even his feuds are not as mythic compared to a Fenix vs Mil Muertes instead of more symbolic in wrestling terms. His feud of Cage was supposed to reflect two vastly different sides of wrestling, WWE big man land vs Luchadore style of wrestling. A flat character is not necessary a bad thing in wrestling since we do have Sami Zayn's and Daniel Bryan's in wrestling who are less surreal and larger than life. Prince Puma serves that role in Lucha Underground while reflecting the moral ambiguity of the promotion as even he had Konnan's interference to win most of his matches. Sometimes it is good to have the Narrator in order to make Tyler Durden look more dynamic or it is good to have Steve Rogers to make everyone else more dynamic. He is the ace in which is apparent when you just look at him and what he can do in and just outside of the ring. In a WWE ring, Prince puma would be in the same position as Adrian Neville as the spot monkey, but Prince Puma being one of the top faces involved in so much of the plot around Lucha Underground evokes that the promotion is completely different from the mainstream.

The VV gimmick rules.

And poor, poor Doug Williams. Nobody even remembers that it's called "the Chaos Theory" anymore.

I personally draw the line at someone actually acting on their horribly offensive beliefs. Yeah, Hogan said some racist shit, but so does my grandfather. Old people are like that. By all accounts, Hogan has never actually mistreated anyone because of his bigotry, and I've never heard any stories about AJ doing anything more than spewing hateful language. They're both assholes, but not so much that I can't enjoy their work. But I also understand if other people feel more strongly about them than I do.

I had a blast watching tonight. You can count on CMLL for good wrestling most of the time but when they combine good wrestling with stuff actually happening it makes for a much better overall product. Even the crappiest match tonight had something happen at the end which sets up next week and is a fresh match-up with lots of possible outcomes (UG vs Ciber). My favorite match was Volador/Negro. Negro is an absolute legend. What 56 year old tries a super frankensteiner and takes a sunset flip bomb to the floor? THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU OLD MAN? Loved the shots of both Casas' daughter & Volador's son. Mexico vs Japan was a good match & Rush/Maximo told a great story. They really put Rush over huge not even giving Maximo a win (Rush got DQ'ed in first fall). That's rare for CMLL as even in matches like Casas/Parka or Maximo/Kamaitachi where the outcome is never in doubt they tend to do the generic 50/50 match going 3 falls. The only disapointment I'd say was the opener where they really worked an awful match considering what their goal was & then Soberano came out of the match injured. I wouldn't say the work was bad, although it wasn't close to great. It was just the total package came off bad as they went too long which annoyed the crowd & were doing nearfalls/big drama selling in a match that just needed to be in and out with lots of exciting spots. Things are happening in Mexico. If you follow the news in addition to just the results you better strap yourselves in for an exciting upcoming week or two.

We've had two pretty fantastic days of ball...super entertaining tourney so far.

I kind of like io9. I think that was getting rolled into gizmodo or something though.

Well Bubba was right. The tape was gonna make a lot of money. Just not for him. Seriously though good for Hulk. Gawker is a piece of shit website and their editor sunk any defense they had when he went up on the stand was acting like the dick that he is. I mean he had the balls to say in open court that if he got a sex tape of President Obama and Michelle, it wouldn't be that important to run. On the serious side this gonna get appealed. He won't actually get that $115 million. But he'll still own the website when this is over....DUDE.

Hijo de Parallelogram

When I was 19 I went to the local boys and girls club and signed up for judo. Everyone was cool except for this 130 pound yellow belt. Most of the people were trying to take it easy on me and not rough me up too much, but he threw me around like a rag doll. At the time I was about 180 lbs. of pure bred American beef and was in better shape than I was in when I was a high school running back. So one time he goes for a Tomoe Nage, which looks like this... As a yellow belt, this wasn't a throw he was good at. So when he put his foot on my hip, I hooked his leg under his knee and hit that bitch with a fisherman's suplex.

https://twitter.com/GIVEBENTHEBOOK/status/634788845075087360 Pentagon, Jr. retweeted my Tweet and the LU account liked it. Or vice versa. Or some combination of those. I don't remember. My point is that you should consider Pentagon's sweet ride here as canon. Print this out and stick it in the front of your Lucha Underground comic. Bayley isn't being driven around in a Cero Miedo-mobile by a vampire pope. She's just walking around, trying to sidestep creepy old men in ugly shirts asking for hugs.

Just think: Cornette had a dream job with WWE. He got to live in his hometown, run and book their developmental territory and largely avoid the political BS. But yet, despite all of that, he still fucked it up.

Hulk Hogan now has fuck money again.

Was one of them emo-looking and another a big samoan? And was the other homeless?

Negro Casas hitting a senton on Dick Togo on WWF TV.

Was one of them emo-looking and another a big samoan?

I'm honestly unsure of who would win an MMA fight between Rogan and Punk. I'm leaning towards Joe.

My money's on the Godfather.

Edge and Christian taking the piss out of everything wrestling is awesome.

I would have loved that Sami-Shinsuke announcement so much, if I didn't fucking know about it a month ago.

This is kinda making me want to dig out my copy The best thing about having modded N64 and an imported Dreamcast was playing the japanese wrestling games. #gg2000

He kinda mirrors Walt in that regard. He really does have the best intentions in the beginning, but he's consumed by being good at something, that he takes the wrong path in life.