Look, it's worth having a thread just for this story. Ganked from F4W:
he creators of the animated series Assy McGee have filed suit against WWE over the Vince McMahon’s Ass cartoon which debuted recently on WWE.com. Swear to Christ. The way the story goes, Michael Cole, who runs WWE.com, asked one of his staffers to come up with a creative idea that the boss would like. Apparently this guy decided to just rip off Assy McGee, which is a sitcom that airs during Adult Swim on the Cartoon Network about a police offer who is — surprise, surprise — a walking ass with a gun. Worse, a few of the storylines from Mr. McMahon’s Ass were blatantly stolen from Assy McGee. Even more humiliating for Vince is that Cartoon Network is owned by TURNER BROADCASTING, his old rival, and they can’t even really take this to court since they’ve got no defense whatsoever. Vince loved the Vince McMahon’s Ass cartoon, thinking it was the best thing in the world that there was a CARTOON about HIS ASS, and when this all came down shortly before Christmas he blew a gasket. Cole, who had hired a separate flash animator to produce the cartoon full-time and was also working on t-shirts (seriously), claimed he’d never even heard of Assy McGee. This hardly flew, and it appears WWE will have to be pay for the mistake in cash to Turner. Cole is said to be in serious trouble and there is a chance he’ll be fired as head of WWE.com (though we’re told his Smackdown announcing gig is not in jeopardy).
― Dom Passantino (DomPassantino), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 22:47 (seventeen years ago) link
Next Week on SmackDown!: Michael Cole to job to Vinny Mac's ass.
(Re-match at the Royal Rumble, Vinny Mac to give Cole a Cleveland Steamer live on PPV.)
― editio princeps (pato.g27), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 23:14 (seventeen years ago) link
Side note, can we please have some noms for the ILWWE top 50 wrestlers/wrestling personalities of the year plz? I cast my ballot for LAX, Alex Shelley, and Gregory Helms.
― Dom Passantino (DomPassantino), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 23:31 (seventeen years ago) link
Kevin Nash, Kevin Nash and Kevin Nash.
(Honourable mentions go out to Konann and RVD's spliffs.)
― editio princeps (pato.g27), Thursday, 28 December 2006 00:40 (seventeen years ago) link
one month passes...
Mike Alfonso, better known as Mike Awesome, was found dead on Saturday evening in the Tampa area according to those close to the family. He was 42.Friends were coming to his home in Tampa to pick him up and go out Saturday night at about 10:30 p.m. and he never answered the door and found him hanging in the home. It is believed the death was due to suicide pending results of the autopsy.
Mike Awesome was one of the top foreign stars in FMW in Japan, who as a high-flying big man was made ECW champion on two occasions in 1999 and 2000. As champion, he signed with WCW, creating a situation that many feel ended up killing the title as Tazz from WWF was brought back to ECW to win the title, yet at the same time the title was jobbed in WWF.
He worked for a few months with WWF after the collapse of WCW, as well as with All Japan, but had not wrestled in some time. He was working as a realtor at Coldwell Banker at the time of his death.
― White Collar Boxer (DomPassantino), Monday, 19 February 2007 20:47 (seventeen years ago) link