All posts containing the tag: "wrestling"
Posted Nov 5th 2009 12:57PM by TMZ Staff
GLAAD isn't buyin' Chris Jericho's apology for using anti-gay and racist slurs at a recent event -- in fact, the gay rights group is going after the wrestler for being "insincere and worn."
Jarrett Barrios -- president of the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation -- tells TMZ:
"Just three months ago Chris Jericho's boss and WWE Chairman Vince McMahon acknowledged to GLAAD that words matter.
There is no time, context or occasion in which it is acceptable to utter racist and anti-gay slurs. Jericho's hollow apology 'if (he) offended anyone' is a template used by many and is insincere and worn."
Filed under: Talk Sports, Exclusives
Tags: chris jericho, ChrisJericho, gay lesbian alliance against defamation, GayLesbianAllianceAgainstDefamation, glaad, jarrett barrios, JarrettBarrios, jericho, wrestling, wwe
Posted Oct 13th 2009 1:35PM by TMZ Staff
Stone Cold Steve Austin is the new man of steel ... inflicted injuries.
The wrestler-turned-action star showed off some serious head damage outside of Gold's Gym yesterday -- saying he got it by running right into a steel beam during a movie stunt!
And while we learned about his injury, Austin learned something even more valuable: A slightly different definition of the word "Bear."
Filed under: Talk Sports
Tags: injury, stone cold steve austin, StoneColdSteveAustin, wrestling, wwe
Posted Sep 29th 2009 1:02PM by TMZ Staff
Apparently wrestling fans aren't too keen on fighting ignorance and illiteracy, because as soon as Rev. Al Sharpton stepped into the ring at Monday Night Raw to promote his education reform tour ... all he heard was "Boooooooo!"
On a positive note, maybe they were all just chanting "Booooooks."
Filed under: Talk Sports
Tags: chris jericho, ChrisJericho, monday night raw, MondayNightRaw, reverend al sharpton, ReverendAlSharpton, wrestling, wwe
Posted Sep 28th 2009 11:35AM by TMZ Staff
Reverend Al Sharpton is set to lay the smack down tonight on WWE Raw -- just don't expect to see him bodyslamming John Cena in the ring.
Yesterday in D.C., the preacher man with the best bouffant in the biz told us the only things he'll be fighting are "illiteracy" and "ignorance" as part of a national tour on education. No word on how "ignorance" looks in spandex.
We're told Sharpton was given a "nominal fee" for travel expenses -- but donated that moolah to the tour.
Filed under: Talk Sports, Exclusives
Tags: monday night raw, MondayNightRaw, raw, reverend al sharpton, ReverendAlSharpton, wrestling, wwe
Posted Sep 9th 2009 1:05AM by TMZ Staff
A former WCW Tag Team Champion was arrested this weekend after he allegedly put the wrong person in a choke hold ... his girlfriend.
Sean Haire -- aka Sean O'Haire -- was arrested early Sunday morning for battery and criminal trespassing after his girlfriend told cops he violently attacked her at her home in Savannah, GA.
According to the police report, the woman claims Haire -- who's now a 6'6" tall, 270 lbs MMA fighter -- stormed downstairs unprovoked and "started screaming and throwing items around her."
Moments later, Haire's girlfriend claims he "began to choke her while calling her a bitch and a whore."
According to the report, Haire's girlfriend said she "does not know what caused the sudden attack, but that it has happened in the past on several occasions."
The woman eventually ran outside and called the cops -- and Haire was arrested and thrown into the Chatham County Detention Center ... where he had the opportunity to pick on someone his own size.
We're told he was released on $4,600 bail.
Filed under: Talk Sports, Exclusives
Tags: arrested, battery, champ, criminal trespassing, CriminalTrespassing, fighter, georgia, mma, savannah, sean haire, sean ohaire, SeanHaire, SeanOhaire, tag team, TagTeam, wcw, wrestling
Posted Aug 23rd 2009 9:08PM by TMZ Staff
WWE superstar Big Show is about 7' tall and weighs 485 lbs., so why did he feel the need to cheat -- or "improvise to win" -- at a thumb wrestling match with our 5'5" 125 lb. photog?
Filed under: Talk Sports
Tags: big show, BigShow, thumb war, ThumbWar, wrestler, wrestling, wwe
Posted Aug 15th 2009 4:02PM by TMZ Staff
TNA Wrestling world champion Kurt Angle was arrested this morning for allegedly harassing a female wrestler who had a protective order against him.
Angle allegedly was served with a "protection from abuse" order earlier in the morning -- and then was spotted following the woman to a local Starbucks.
According to WPXI in Pittsburgh, Angle was also in possession of HGH and was driving on a suspended license.
He was charged with driving while operating privilege is suspended, prohibited acts-possession, harassment and prohibited acts.
Angle is scheduled to compete in a TNA event in Orlando Sunday night.
Filed under: Celebrity Justice
Tags: harassment, kurt angle, KurtAngle, tna, wrestling
Posted Jul 18th 2009 8:45AM by TMZ Staff
With no ladies in sight, Owen Wilson and Woody Harrelson got into it this weekend in Portofino, Italy -- taking their bromance to the next level by wrasslin' on a giant raft.
From the looks of it, Wilson's fighting skills pale by comparison.
Filed under: Paparazzi Photo, Stars in Heat
Tags: fighting, owen wilson, OwenWilson, photo, raft, woody harrelson, WoodyHarrelson, wrestling
Posted Jun 16th 2009 11:14AM by TMZ Staff
Mega-huge wrestler The Big Show lied when he said he was leaving wrestling for boxing, according to a new lawsuit.
The suit claims the 7' tall, 500 pound behemoth cut a deal with SoBe Entertainment in 2007 to become a boxer. SoBe claims they paid Mr. Show $84,000 a month and fronted him an extra $1 mil for a house.
But SoBe was horrified when B.S. suddenly jettisoned his fighting plan and rejoined the WWE in 2008. To add insult to injury, Show's WWE comeback match was against a boxer -- Mr. Floyd Mayweather.
SoBe alleges Big Show conspired with the WWE to ace them out of its deal.
By the way, the Mayweather/Big Show match grossed the WWE $31,000,000, according to the suit.
Filed under: Celebrity Justice, Talk Sports
Tags: lawsuit, mayweather, paul wight, PaulWight, sobe, sued, the big show, the giant, TheBigShow, TheGiant, wrestler, wrestling, wwe, wwf
Posted May 20th 2009 5:59PM by TMZ Staff
The Denver Nuggets won the battle -- but the WWE isn't finished with their war.
After Vince McMahon raised hell when the team's owner screwed up and double booked the Pepsi Center for a WWE event on the same night as an NBA playoff game between the Nugs and the Lakers, the wrestlers have finally agreed to take their show on the road.
But in what seems to be a premeditated twist of fate, Vince is bringing the show to the Staples Center in L.A. -- home of the Lakers.
The Pepsi Center is now stuck having to refund thousands of tickets.
Filed under: Celebrity Feuds, Talk Sports
Tags: Denver Nuggets, DenverNuggets, Los Angeles Lakers, LosAngelesLakers, NBA, vince mcmahon, VinceMcmahon, wrestling, wwe
Posted Apr 30th 2009 1:10PM by TMZ Staff
Jennifer Hudson spent her Wednesday night like most Oscar winners -- by watching a bunch of hot, sweaty, dudes in Speedos roll around in the ring.
Hudson went to the Florida Championship Wrestling event last night to watch her fiance, stage name Dawson Alexander, Esq, throw down -- and definitely enjoyed a few of the sights fights.
Filed under: Paparazzi Video, Talk Sports, Jennifer Hudson
Tags: dawson alexander esquire, FCW, fiance, Florida Champtionship Wrestling, husband, jennifer hudson, video, wrestling
Posted Apr 27th 2009 5:32PM by TMZ Staff
The 21-year-old son of wrestling legend Ric Flair was arrested in North Carolina on Sunday after Charlotte police say they found heroin in his car.
Richard Fliehr was booked on felony possession of narcotics along with charges of driving while impaired and driving with a revoked license, WSOC is reporting. Fliehr bonded out of jail on Sunday.
This isn't the first time the Nature Boy's boy has been in trouble with the law -- back in March, he was also arrested for driving while impaired.
Flair's daughter, Ashley, was arrested last year for fighting with Ric and a police officer. Ric didn't press charges, but Ashley was charged with assault on a law enforcement officer and resisting arrest.
Filed under: Celebrity Justice, Talk Sports
Tags: legend, ric flair, RicFlair, richard fliehr, RichardFliehr, wrestler, wrestling
Posted Apr 26th 2009 12:01PM by TMZ Staff
Turns out that fight between Mickey Rourke and Chris Jericho at Wrestlemania may not have been completely fake after all.
Mickey complained to our photog at LAX that he recently broke his left hand -- which dealt the knockout blow to Jericho -- while in Texas.
So Mickey either broke it at Wrestlemania -- which was held in Houston a few weeks back -- or the cast-less actor was just pulling the wool man-panties over our eyes.
Filed under: Talk Sports, Mickey Rourke
Tags: airport, broken hand, BrokenHand, mickey rourke, MickeyRourke, texas, video, wrestlemania, wrestler, wrestling
Posted Apr 6th 2009 9:00AM by TMZ Staff
The only thing more unbeweavable than Mickey Rourke's hair -- this fight between him and Chris Jericho at last night's Wrestlemania.
Mickey won the battle ... but may have lost a little more of whatever dignity he had left.
Filed under: Talk Sports, Mickey Rourke
Tags: Chris Jericho, ChrisJericho, mickey rourke, MickeyRourke, video, wrestling, WWE
Posted Apr 4th 2009 1:00AM by TMZ Staff
On TV, WWE's Shane McMahon is a total hard-ass -- but when we got Vince's son in NYC the other day, dude couldn't have been friendlier.
Filed under: Talk Sports, TMZ Live
Tags: shane mcmahon, ShaneMcmahon, wrestling, wwe
