The WWE Hall of Fame came a-callin’ for Mr. T wanting to place him in their illustrious hall, but he wanted no part in the “honor.”
“WWE asked me to be in the Hall of Fame and I turned it down. You know why? They put Pete Rose in the wrestling Hall of Fame. This guy can’t even get into his own Hall of Fame. After they put Rose in they came and asked me and I said ‘You don’t insult me! You don’t put Pete Rose in the Hall of Fame before me!’ I ain’t going to be a part of that. They put him in and he only did one WrestleMania, and he didn’t even wrestle.”
Mr. T started his wrestling career in 1985 as Hulk Hogan’s tag-team partner at the first WrestleMania. Later he became a special “WWF boxer” because of his character Clubber Lang from Rocky III. He boxed in several other wrestling matches and in 1987 served as a special referee enforcer. In 1994 Mr. T returned as a special referee for a Hulk Hogan-Ric Flair match, the last time he got in the ring as a wrestler was for an episode of WWF Raw in 2001.
Only the Germans could create a word like schadenfreude, and so it is little wonder that the country is atwitter with excitement for the 7th Annual Wok World Championship where various celebrities hurl themselves down a mile-long bobsled track sitting in metal woks. Able to reach speeds up to 60 mph, the one or 4-man teams use modified soup ladles on their feet to help steer the way. The path is fraught with danger regardless.
Ah Florida, fun in the sun, you go see spring training baseball in the afternoon and then head down to the marina and hang out on your sport yacht in the evening. Or at least, that’s what you WOULD do if you were Cincinnati Reds pitcher Bronson Arroyo. After a grueling day of spring training, Bronson goes on-board his 48 foot yacht, the Nasty Hook to relax.
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