This is not the WWF’s annual Turkey Bowl match, this is gravy wrestling competition at the World class level – the local fire crew even came out to hose down the wrestlers.

From Metro UK…

Huge crowds – well, around 100 people – gathered in Lancashire to watch competitors from around Britain battling it out in the annual World Gravy Wrestling Championships.


The contest saw 16 men and eight women grapple in front of a judging panel in a bid to be named the best gravy wrestler. …


Amateur wrestlers traveled from Devon, Derby, Scarborough and Leicester to take part – in fancy dress ranging from a city broker to a frog, a geisha girl, a doctor and Princess Fiona from Shrek.

This year marked the third annual WGWC, which is staged at the Rose n’ Bowl pub in Stackhead, Lancashire. 2,200 litres (440 gallons) – or some 40,000 ladles worth – of gravy was produced for the event. The crowd was made up mostly of the firemen, local ambulance volunteers, and some folks who asked the wrong locals: How do we get to the Meatloaf concert?

30-year old Scot Joel Hicks, wrestling under the name Stone Cold Steve Bisto, was crowned the World Gravy Wrestling Champion at the event. Here he is about to take a chair to his lumbar system -  I thought a similar event was going to break out at last year’s Thanksgiving when only half the table got to sample my mom’s bacon infused gravy.

Check out the scene for yourself…and remember it next time you’re having the southern-style breakfast at a Bob Evans…

The last time I was a legit WWF fan, this song was a staple on MTV’s 120 Minutes (Pinfield For Life)

It’s actually TNA Wrestling (WWE sister organization?) who commissioned Billy Corgan for this spot to promote this weekend’s pay-per-view.

Check out the promo (Weird? Awesome? Douchey?) and the original video for old times sake…

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Hip-Hop’s leading paper chaser turned ESPN.com blogger, Lil Wayne, is now podcasting too. You can check it out here: “Tim Tebow has a chip on his shoulder the size of a funyon,” brace yourself for 5+ minutes of shout outs towards the end.

During the first of the two fresh podcasts put up yesterday, Weezy had a message for favorite Major Leaguer, Manny Ramirez (i’m his number one fan, and his number two fan), saying if Manny goes to his hated Yankees he’s going to dedicate the best song on Tha Carter IV to reprimanding Manny (quote, if he goes blue, I’m off the mane train, mang).

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