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Meltzer is reporting Brooke Hogan has been fired from TNA.

Yes, and it is an awesome match.

Me and my cousins wrestled no ring matches all the time. I've also been known to wrestle a trampoline gimmick.

Like giving presents to kids.

As I've mentioned once before, it turns out that the original PIRANHA is really packed with awesome character actors. Just a huge amount of history there. They pop up and disappear at a startling rate. I'm guessing this is a Joe Dante thing. And for the pampered coke-addled Sean-Cassidy worshipping fools of the "Me Generation" packing the 1978 drive-ins they were just a bunch of funny-looking "geezers" and "crazy beardos" But if you look past that you see deep careers that stretch back across a century. So, here is the second installment in a series I'd like to call "AWESOME ACTORS HIDDEN IN THE CAST OF PIRANHA" Maybe even more amazing than last time's entrant Richard Deacon is the subject of installment #2: Keenan Wynn Early on in PIRANHA there is a frankly bizarre scene between two old grizzled drunken hillbillies that does nothing but 1) creep out the viewers and 2) set up one poor old dude so that later when he dangles his feet in the water and gets them eaten off, we will have some context for where we are and where the evil Piranya are. Here he is in PIRANHA about to be eaten: Once again, Joe Dante has given us a great crazy guy with a great crazy-guy face. In 1978, that's all he was, right..."some old-timey dude from central casting...probably a homeless guy who collects cans on the studio lot." Bullshit, junior. It turns out that this is Keenan Wynn, one of the most storied film actors of the 20th century, racking up 276 credits on IMDB. That, as we all learned recently, is the same number as Christopher Lee. So, this man is worthy of a few minutes of your time. He didn't always look like a crazy old prospector. But when he did, he was exceptionally crazy and prospective: Looks a bit like Eli Wallach from THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY, no? Enough so that he scored a role in Sergio Leone's 2nd greatest movie, ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST as the hapless sheriff outwitted by, well everyone: When Sergio Leone comes calling, you know you have a great face. But unlike Richard Deacon, who played the same type over and over, Keenan Wynn underwent an incredible transformation over his career. He began like this: as a dashing, Noel Coward-ish, Cole Porter-y MGM pretty boy. That, in itself was an attempt to distance himself from his father, the famous Vaudevillian Ed Wynn, who worked with Buster Keaton, and The Three Stooges and hosted a hit variety show on both radio and early television. <----------Keenan's Dad Our Wynn, whose given full name was...check this shit...Francis Xavier Aloysius James Jeremiah Keenan Wynn...set out on a different path. But cursed with a receding hairline and looking old for his age, he pretty quickly settled into the role of MGM's go-to heavy, starting out as the "bad aristocrat" and then "the mean military guy" and eventually "the batshit crazy wildman" You can trace his career path in the thickness of his moustache. From pencil-thin and aristocratic: to bushier and authoritarian (here as Colonel Bat Guano in DR. STRANGELOVE OR HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB): To the full Wilfred Brimley lunatic-stache: Along the way he played in movies that ranged from A-list pictures starring Clark Gable, Lana Turner, and Judy Garland, with Fred Astaire in FINIAN'S RAINBOW and ROYAL WEDDING, and for you film-school types with Orson Welles in TOUCH OF EVIL and in Altman's NASHVILLE. For God's sake, He had an entire segment to himself in ZIGFIELD FOLLIES. For you soulless baby boomers, he was the voice of the Winter Warlock in SANTA CLAUS IS COMIN' TO TOWN, which those in the baseball thread already know is the universal guidebook to righteousness and tradition (and, hey Fred Astaire again..I think they were buds or something, because Keenan Wynn is in, like 12 Fred Astaire movies). His t.v. work is practically an encyclopedia of everything that was great: from early t.v. like THE TWILIGHT ZONE, WAGON TRAIN, PLAYHOUSE 90, to later awesomeness like EMERGENCY, DALLAS, TAXI, QUINCY, BARETTA, THE LOVE BOAT, THE GREATEST AMERICAN HERO...just like, every show you could possibly name, including the greatest show ever Once he fully embraced comedy, he appeared with his famous father (then in his 80s) in a series of comedic tributes including teamups in THE ABSENT MINDED PROFESSOR, and SON OF FLUBBER. And then there were the B pictures. Enough of them that he ended up getting MST3K'ed at least twice (THE CLONUS HORROR and LASERBLAST). Keenan and the bots: He looked awesome on this poster: Boobs go in the middle pane. So, the next time you watch PIRANHA...and you will watch PIRANHA again, raise a glass to a guy who never won an Oscar or an Emmy or a Tony but who grew up with Buster Keaton teaching him how to pratfall and partied with Bing Crosby, danced with Fred Astaire, was pretend engaged to Lucille Ball, got slapped by Katherine Hepburn, and was the guy who let Steve McQueen ride his motorcycle, which turned out to be Steve's first time on a Triumph. HE FUCKING SHOWED STEVE MCQUEEN HOW TO RIDE A TRIUMPH!!!! Wait, WHAT? Let's let Steve McQueen fill us in: Are you fucking kidding me? And it wasn't just him. He taught Marlon Brando how to ride for THE WILD ONE...ARE. YOU. FUCKING. KIDDING. ME? He was supposed to play the Lee Marvin role, but MGM refuesed to let him out of his contract. How many toked-up, munchied-out dopers at that drive-in realized any of this when they were watching Keenan Wynn get his feet eaten in PIRANHA? 0. That's how many. Don't be a doper!

Maybe Titus O'Neil was conditioned to be supportive of homosexuals because his uncle, Rufus "Pancake" Patterson is related to Pat Patterson.

MMA Jeff Jarrett

The key word is "openly". Pat Patterson was well-known backstage to be gay, and on the internet, but was never "openly" out there. Right, that's why Jim Ross said stuff like. "And he's single, fellas!" Still...that's not really "openly" gay. Especially in light of wrestling's history of denigrating heels as homosexual (I mean, Goldust turned face by revealing he wasn't "queer"!), Ross insinuating that Patterson, a heel, is gay, isn't really declaring someone as openly gay. I mean, you could use this same line of reasoning to say that John Cena was openly gay because The Rock said as much. Or how many heels John Cena has suggested are gay. Also, to people saying "So what?", "It's not a big deal", etc. etc. It IS a big deal. It certainly is STILL a big deal. Hopefully, one day, it won't be. Hopefully one day there will just bs some people who are straight, some who are gay etc. etc. But you need only to look at the upcoming Olympics in Russia to see that, yeah, it IS still a big deal to come out as openly gay. And hopefully Young isn't punished for this. And hopefully Young has the courage to stand up and go "Yeah, so what?" And, hopefully, in the not too distant future, media won't have to ask wrestlers, athletes, celebrities and the like this question, because it isn't a question anymore and people are just gay like other people are not gay, and it's no big deal. But, yeah, at this moment in time, this is a big deal. Nice work, Darren!

That's what you get for trolling a professional lad, there are no depths to which I won't stoop.

Finally! Some good news out of TNA!

Ruben Amaro is a weaselly little shit.

Looking forward to the shows on Fox El Ocho.

FSW has terrible taste in movies, I expect it to barely make back its budget.

I remember when I thought Daniel Bryan was the weirdest sounding shit in the world and I'd never say it, but I don't really remember the last time his name came out of my mouth as Bryan Danielson. The same thing's slowly happening with Claudio. I don't even remember what CM Punk was called in the indies.

Lying/cheating/stealing face Eddy. Milk truck driving goofy face Kurt Angle. Reeking of Awesomeness Edge and Christian. Deadman-Taker. Look, I get that a lot of people liked BikerTaker as something different, but really this is the iconic version of the character for a reason. Team Hell No Kane. Most interesting he's been in anything that didn't involve Taker, and probably the most complex version of his character. Early Mankind, when he first started developing his character and feuding with Taker.

I could very well be alone in this, but I enjoyed D-Lo as European champion.

Conspiracy Victim/Unified TV Champion Chris Jericho was the best thing on WCW and better than all but the top 3-4 acts in WWE back in 1998. That year long run basically set up his entire career. Even though it sucked when he first came to WWF and tried to redo the gimmick with Howard Finkle playing the part of Ralphus. I never hated WCW (I even bought their ppvs until the bitter end) but the fact they wouldn't even give Jericho a friggin' squash match against Goldberg after he single-handedly set up the most interesting angle Goldberg ever had in WCW pretty much convinced me those idiots deserved to go out of business.

You are most likely a sheltered middle class person.

That might be the only way to make the Bellator PPV match interesting between Rampage & Tito. Make it the first ever hammer on a pole MMA match.

I think the story here is that someone recognized Darren Young D-Young being gay does fit into the whole "Bizarro Cena" thing. He needs a boyfriend who is half of a twin team...Don't give Jey Uso any ideas.

I actually hope they don't make his character gay because it's pigeonholing the guy. IE Neal Patrick Harris is gay but he plays straight characters and gay characters. Just because a wrestler is gay doesn't mean his character suddenly has to come out too.

Now I'm picturing the PTPs doing skits with Titus and Uncle Darren going to Disneyland with Titus' kids and tossing around Disney cash while shouting "Millions of dollars" to an exasperated Goofy or Princess Merida.

That TOTALLY fits his gimmick. He didn't say how many kids he has after all... that could just be from this weekend's mandatory visitation.

Gotta love PWInsider. Their headline for the Brooke story: "Hogan gone from TNA." Accurate, sure, but...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Em0dVXX51kw I think this is probably my favorite angle of all time. Jake is SOOOO amazing at this time. He comes across as so crazed and sadistic yet totally in control of everything. The camera guys did a great job here conveying the chaos of what's going in the ring. Elizabeth and Piper on the outside losing their minds. Just perfect. The referee that tries to stop Macho from getting in the ring and eventually grabs his leg is Roger Ruffen, a guy who worked as a ref for the fed for quite awhile (he can also be seen reffing Piper vs Bret at WM8) He is a long time wrestler and promoter and runs very successfully here in the Cincinnati area. I worked for him for about 4 or 5 years. I had a good laugh with him once basically accusing him of single handedly getting Macho Man bit by a cobra.......he grabs the leg which distracts Randy long enough for Jake to blindside him. Interestingly, he said for all the time he spent working there, that the only extended conversation he ever had with Vince McMahon was that night before this, as they were all together going over the segment.

UPDATE 15 OF 19 - through August 15 Standings 1 [↑ 4] Yeti - 54 points (24/30, tiebreak 0.268) 2 [↑ 5] K.J.C. McMahon - 56 points (26/30, tiebreak 0.551) 3 [↓ 2] Suicide King of Spades - 58 points (28/30, tiebreak 0.24) 4 [↑ 22] Super Ape - 62 points (22/40, tiebreak 0.116) 5 [↑ 8] RossWB - 62 points (34/28, tiebreak 0.237) 6 [↓ 3] Gonzalez - 64 points (24/40, tiebreak 0.003) 7 [↑ 9] Genesis - 64 points (32/32, tiebreak 0.251) 8 [↑ 12] The Erotic Terrorist - 66 points (24/42, tiebreak 0.127) 9 [↑ 14] -MJ- - 68 points (20/48, tiebreak 0.29) 10 [↓ 6] Hobo Joe - 68 points (34/34, tiebreak 0.323) 11 [↑ 16] Pavel6969 - 70 points (34/36, tiebreak 0.003) 12 [↑ 21] Televiper - 70 points (36/34, tiebreak 0.004) 13 [↑ 15] blitzkrieg - 70 points (14/56, tiebreak 0.6) 14 [↓ 11] Paco - 72 points (30/42, tiebreak 0.124) 15 [↓ 1] Ligerbusa - 72 points (36/36, tiebreak 0.303) 16 [↓ 10] Death From Above - 72 points (40/32, tiebreak 0.459) 17 [- 17] The Natural - 74 points (36/38, tiebreak 0.115) 18 [↑ 23] TheZ - 76 points (32/44, tiebreak 0.4) 19 [↑ 30] SorceressKnight - 76 points (44/32, tiebreak 0.687) 20 [- 20] Rippa - 76 points (46/30, tiebreak 2.756) 21 [↑ 24] Stennick - 78 points (32/46, tiebreak 0.547) 22 [↓ 18] Mushroomjones - 78 points (40/38, tiebreak 0.669) 23 [↓ 19] DreamBroken - 78 points (34/44, tiebreak n/a) 24 [↓ 13] Trocar Slush Weasel - 80 points (26/54, tiebreak 1.086) 25 [↑ 26] jaedmc - 84 points (36/48, tiebreak 0.242) 26 [↓ 7] JRGoldman - 88 points (38/50, tiebreak 0.235) 27 [↓ 25] IVPvideos - 88 points (34/54, tiebreak 0.664) 28 [↑ 29] Raziel403 - 90 points (38/52, tiebreak 0.261) 29 [↓ 27] shoogbear63 - 92 points (30/62, tiebreak n/a) 30 [↓ 28] Control - 94 points (44/50, tiebreak 0.006) 31 [↑ 32] Lacelle - 96 points (42/54, tiebreak 0.382) 32 [↓ 31] gregjr - 100 points (34/66, tiebreak 0.149) 33 [- 33] Phantom Lord - 104 points (42/62, tiebreak 0.141) Box office 1 [- 1] Iron Man 3 - $376,745,285 (28 days) 2 [- 2] Despicable Me 2 - $311,818,088 (28 days) 3 [- 3] Man Of Steel - $276,169,878 (28 days) 4 [- 4] Monsters University - $239,128,654 (28 days) 5 [- 5] Fast & Furious 6 - $224,008,865 (28 days) 6 [- 6] Star Trek Into Darkness - $203,716,697 (28 days) 7 [- 7] World War Z - $181,741,067 (28 days) 8 [- 8] The Great Gatsby - $131,945,118 (28 days) 9 [↑ 10] The Wolverine - $116,033,156 (21 days) 10 [↓ 9] Hangover 3 - $109,060,272 (28 days) 11 [- 11] Pacific Rim - $95,229,531 (28 days) 12 [- 12] This Is The End - $87,437,228 (28 days) 13 [- 13] The Lone Ranger - $85,790,291 (28 days) 14 [- 14] After Earth - $57,924,070 (28 days) 15 [↑ 16] 2 Guns - $53,649,345 (14 days) 16 [↓ 15] Red 2 - $50,274,891 (28 days) 17 [NEW] Elysium - $42,314,306 (7 days) 18 [↓ 16] R.I.P.D. - $32,204,325 (28 days) 19 [NEW] Planes - $31,949,868 (7 days) Rotten Tomatoes 1 [- 1] Star Trek Into Darkness - 206/236 = 87% (28 days) 2 [- 2] This Is The End - 155/185 = 84% (28 days) 3 [- 3] Monsters University - 135/173 = 78% (28 days) 4 [- 4] Iron Man 3 - 205/264 = 78% (28 days) 5 [- 5] Despicable Me 2 - 122/162 = 75% (28 days) 6 [- 6] Pacific Rim - 170/237 = 72% (28 days) 7 [- 7] Fast & Furious 6 - 122/173 = 71% (28 days) 8 [- 8] The Wolverine - 135/198 = 68% (21 days) 9 [NEW] Elysium - 124/184 = 67% (7 days) 10 [↓ 9] World War Z - 157/234 = 67% (28 days) 11 [↓ 10] 2 Guns - 88/140 = 63% (14 days) 12 [↓ 11] Man Of Steel - 150/268 = 56% (28 days) 13 [↓ 12] The Great Gatsby - 117/232 = 50% (28 days) 14 [↓ 13] Red 2 - 52/127 = 41% (28 days) 15 [↓ 14] The Lone Ranger - 51/188 = 27% (28 days) 16 [NEW] Planes - 23/91 = 25% (7 days) 17 [↓ 15] Hangover 3 - 36/181 = 20% (28 days) 18 [↓ 16] R.I.P.D. - 7/60 = 12% (28 days) 19 [↓ 17] After Earth - 18/172 = 10% (28 days)

Will there ever be a day when we get to play a New Japan game for the PS4, or is the Japanese video game developing community completely too fucked up right now?

As I may have said somewhere on here, I make music entirely by myself- writing, recording, mixing, mastering, even the artwork. So here's my good news: I set a date for my next album months ago, and I've made that date (which happens to be next tuesday). War me, I suppose.

I swear Schiavone looks younger in that video than he did when he was rocking the Ricky Skaggs look on TBS.

So, I see Moyes has settled into Ferguson's seat perfectly...

I refer to him as Tensai because I prefer to refer to performers by the name they are currently using. Otherwise, I'd be one of those douchebags who chant "Husky Harris" at Bray Wyatt. When talking about past performance, I prefer to use the name that the wrestler was using at that time, because it helps place that wrestler within the historical context that I am referring to. If I refer to a current wrestler by one of his past names, that usually means that I am intentionally being disrespectful. Sometimes, it means that his name is annoying to type, such as Trent Barreta going by his real name in TNA.

Just trying to figure out how to seed Strong Belwas.

Also: Matt fucking Damon

That is how language has worked forever. What you are speaking would hardly be recognizable to a English speaker from 500 years ago,Language is not some sort of game meant to trip up the user. It is suppose to make communicating simpler.

Pretty happy with the rookies tonight. Bostic just plastered some Charger jabroni.

Good lord with these fucking channels.

The saturday morning section

Looks like some classic samurai violence.

This went from a must buy to a hell fucking yeah I must buy

Somewhere, Orlando Jordan is throwing things, saying this should be his spot.

WWE is really good at making something lame really fast.

It's Cooper Black, which would be one of the greatest wrestling names ever. A big rawboned fellow with hands like legs of lamb. Cooper Black would always be up for some good clobbering.http://www.bluecotton.com/visual-history-cooper-black

Knuckleball Shwartz, yo.

Just imagine 20 years from now when he's selling old pictures of himself with AJ for $10/pop. And below his foldout table it will read: "AJ LEE & DOLPH WRESTLING SUPERSTAR"

He's not bad, but some of his stuff really strains that "suspension of disbelief" thing.

Phil Connors??