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  • July 2008
    • 'Wrestlers' Strip and Smooch in Borat's Latest Film Prank

      'Wrestlers' Strip and Smooch in Borat's Latest Film Prank

      The poster promised “hot chicks, cold beer, and hardcore fights"—but 1,600 Arkansas good 'ol boy wrestling fans instead fell victim to a sexy prank by Borat star Sacha Baron Cohen. Playing “Straight Dave,” Cohen pulled an in-the-know audience member into the fighting ring and the two men stripped to their tighty whiteys. The crowd "went nuts" when they then "started making out,” said a witness. More »

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      film   Arkansas   prank   homophobia   wrestling   professional wrestling   Sacha Baron Cohen

  • November 2007
    • Death Takes Down the Fabulous Moolah

      Death Takes Down the Fabulous Moolah

      Pro wrestling’s "Fabulous Moolah," 30-year champion of World Wrestling Entertainment, has died at 84. Mary Lillian Ellison was the first female wrestler inducted into the WWE’s Hall of Fame. When a promoter asked her why she wanted to wrestle, she answered: “For the money! I want to wrestle for the moolah!” and her stage name was born, The State reports. More »

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      obituary   wrestling   professional wrestling   World Wrestling Entertainment

  • June 2007
    • Wiki Twist in Benoit Horror

      Wiki Twist in Benoit Horror

      In a disturbing twist, police report that Wikipedia contributors in the U.S. and Australia made note of the death of wrestler Chris Benoit's wife 14 hours before her body, Benoit's, and their son's had been discovered. The first edit stated Benoit missed an event "due to personal issues, stemming from the death of his wife Nancy." More »

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      murder   steroids   suicide   Wikipedia   WWE   Chris Benoit   professional wrestling   roid rage

    • Wrestler and Family Killed in Murder-Suicide

      Wrestler and Family Killed in Murder-Suicide

      A professional wrestler was found dead yesterday with his wife and 7-year old son in what authorities are calling a murder-suicide. Investigators believe Chris Benoit, 40, killed his family over the weekend in their secluded Georgia home before committing suicide yesterday. A neighbor alerted police, who discovered the bodies in three different rooms. More »

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      murder   suicide   Houston   autopsy   WWE   Chris Benoit   wrestling   professional wrestling

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