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They say, never meet your heroes and Hollywood star Ryan Gosling learned this lesson the hard way. Known for his stellar performances and charming on-screen presence, Gosling has captured the hearts of millions. Yet, as he captivated audiences, he was once a huge fanboy himself, especially of WWE icon The Ultimate Warrior.

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However, when Gosling finally had the chance to meet his idol and ask for an autograph, the encounter turned sour. The experience left the Blade Runner star heartbroken, marking a disappointing chapter in his childhood.

Ryan Gosling Recalled His Heartbreaking Encounter with The Ultimate Warrior

The WWE champion and the Hall of Fame star, The Ultimate Warrior, had been an icon for many, and one of them also included the Oscar-nominated Hollywood star Ryan Gosling.

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While promoting his 2011 film The Ides of March, the...

WWE champion, UFC Hall of Famer…graphic novelist? Ronda Rousey has completed writing her first graphic novel, Expect the Unexpected, marking her first foray into the comic world.

In Expect the Unexpected, a hitwoman who goes by “Mom” wears a fake baby bump as part of her gimmick. But when she actually becomes pregnant after sleeping with a target, she finds herself challenged with dealing with both her pregnancy and her job, all with bounties on her head.

The adventures of “Mom” partly stem from experiences that Ronda Rousey – who became a mother in 2021 – has undergone…presumably without the whole hired assassin thing. While Rousey wrote the graphic novel, Mike Deodato, Jr. – a contributor to DC, Marvel and Dark Horse – handled the artwork.

On the origins of Expect the Unexpected, Ronda Rousey said, “The whole story is just the story of me and my husband. Our journey trying to get pregnant,...

During his Thursday appearance on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, Ryan Gosling dug deep and answered some questions from the host that normally wouldn’t be revealed.

Included in that was a query on whether he had ever asked someone else for an autograph.

“The first person I asked was The Ultimate Warrior, and he said no,” Gosling said, referring to the pro wrestler. “But the second person I asked — the first person to give it to me — was Ms. Angela Bassett.”

Gosling said the moment came just after he had seen the 1993 Tina Turner biopic, What’s Love Got to Do With It, for which Bassett garnered a nomination for a Best Actress Oscar. Gosling was in the lobby of the AMC Theatre where he’d caught the movie.

“It was one of the best performances I’d ever seen, and still is,” Gosling told Colbert. Bassett was standing...

It was announced today that Pat E. Johnson, who choreographed the fight scenes for the first four Karate Kid movies, has died at the age of 84.

Pat E. Johnson was a ninth-degree black belt in American Tang Soo Do and also served as vice president of the National Tang Soo Do Congress, which was created by Chuck Norris in 1973. He learned the Korean martial art while serving as a chaplain with the U.S. Army in Korea. He later met Chuck Norris at a karate tournament in Detroit and the pair quickly bonded. “He and I struck a really good bond at the time because we had both trained in Korea, we had both gotten our black belts in Korea,” Johnson said in a 2016 documentary. “He mentioned to me one time that ‘If you should ever decide to come to California, I think we could work really well together.’ I really...

Pat E. Johnson, the ninth-degree black belt and Chuck Norris contemporary who choreographed the fight scenes, trained the actors and portrayed a tournament referee in the first three Karate Kid films, has died. He was 84.

Johnson died Sunday of natural causes at his home in Los Angeles, his niece, Colleen Mary Johnson Summerville, told The Hollywood Reporter.

Johnson also was a stuntperson, stunt coordinator, trainer and/or fight coordinator on Buffy the Vampire Slayer; on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Mortal Kombat movies; and on other films including Enter the Dragon (1973), To Live and Die in L.A. (1985), Showdown in Little Tokyo (1991), Batman and Robin (1997) and Wild Wild West (1999).

Johnson served as a top instructor at Norris’ karate schools in the Los Angeles area starting in the late 1960s, and his students over the years included Steve McQueen, Bob Barker and members of the Osmond family.

For The Karate Kid (1984), Johnson...

WWE 2K23 features quite a few improvements to the franchise formula that will certainly be welcomed by wrestling game fans everywhere. Of course, some things never change, which means that WWE 2K23 still makes you unlock quite a few wrestlers via gameplay accomplishments and by spending both real and virtual currency.

The very good news is that WWE 2K23 makes the various unlock processes fairly painless. The problem is that the game doesn’t always do a great job of telling you exactly how to unlock those wrestlers or the best way to go about acquiring all of them. Hopefully, we can help ease that part of the unlock system just a bit.

How to Unlock Every WWE 2K23 Wrestler With Virtual Currency

The vast majority of wrestlers in WWE 2K23 are unlocked via the game’s Virtual Currency (Vc) system. Every wrestler available via the in-game store costs 1,000 Vc to unlock.

IllumiNative, The Black List and Sundance Institute today revealed the finalists for their 2022 Indigenous List, which represent the best and most promising Native creatives in the film and television industry. See the list below.

The Indigenous List was launched in 2020 to provide a platform for Indigenous writers to showcase their scripts, create additional pathways and opportunities within the industry, and support the development of the next generation of screenwriters.

This year’s writers will have the opportunity to meet with four Indigenous creatives who have first-look and/or overall development deals at major studios, including Bird Runningwater (Cheyenne); actor-director Michael Greyeyes; Sierra Teller Ornelas, showrunner/co-creator of Rutherford Falls; and Sterlin Harjo, showrunner/co-creator of Reservation Dogs.

“As one of the few Indigenous producers with a first look at a studio, I’m excited to help support our storytelling community engage in business to bring more exciting...

Blumhouse Television and WWE are grappling with a scripted series about wrestling chief Vince McMahon.

The two companies have teamed up to develop The United States of America Vs. Vince McMahon – the first scripted portrayal of the Chairman and CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment.

It is the latest project featuring the colorful character – WWE is working with The Ringer’s Bill Simmons to produce a multi-part docuseries about McMahon for Netflix.

The United States of America Vs. Vince McMahon will delve into WWE during the 1990s, at the time Rupert Murdoch had purchased the New York Post. For years, Post writer Phil Mushnick regularly hammered McMahon in his column with headlines like ‘Legislators Give WWE A Free Pass On ‘Roids’ and ‘McMahon Skips Through the Cemetery’ eventually capturing the attention of the FBI and the U.S. Attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York.

In 1994, the U.S. government...

Welcome to this week’s WWE Friday Night SmackDown review, right here on Nerdly. I’m Nathan Favel and we have the continued build toward Money In The Bank. I hope that this year’s version of Mitb is better than the one where they ran up a building. Superman: Shut up, nerd! Me: Eat Kryptonite, Super-Bitch! Superman: Ahhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!! Ahhhhhhh!!!! Ahhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!! Me: Yeah! Didn’t think of that, did you…smart mouth mother-f–ker?! Superman: Ahhhhhhh!!!!!! Ahhhhhhhh!!!!!!!! Ahhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!! Me: While Super-Bitch dies from touching a rock, let’s dive right into SmackDown. Superman: Ahhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!! Ahhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!! Ahhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!! Me: Take a salt tablet! Walk it off!

Match #1: Bayley/Seth Rollins b. Bianca Belair/Cesaro The following is courtesy of wwe.com:

Prior to their scheduled Mixed Tag Team Match, Seth Rollins & Bayley interrupted SmackDown Women’s Champion Bianca Belair, leading to The Est of WWE and her emerging partner Cesaro to...

“Dark Side of the Ring” will debut Season 3 on Vice TV on May 6. In an interview with Variety, series narrator Chris Jericho says the show allows non-wrestling fans to learn to appreciate what wrestlers go through in their careers.

“I think one of the reasons why the show is very important and very relevant is because you’re learning and maybe getting a little more respect for these guys,” Jericho says. “We’re playing these characters, and not just doing it for three months making a movie. We’re doing it every single day of our lives. And in some ways that’s great and in other ways, it’s not so great.”

“Dark Side of the Ring” has been a breakout hit for Vice TV since it debuted in 2019, quickly becoming the highest-rated show in the network’s history. Season 3 is set to tackle topics such as the career of Brian Pillman,...

To be abundantly clear: the first Doctor Who Christmas Special was ‘The Christmas Invasion‘ in 2005. However, the first time the show was broadcast on Christmas Day was in 1965, the seventh episode of ‘The Dalek Master Plan’. The previous two years also had also seen Dalek stories at Christmas, with the first ever Dalek story starting broadcast in December 1963 and the final episode of ‘The Dalek Invasion of Earth’ arriving on Boxing Day 1964, because Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without a volcanic eruption by the Home Counties.

‘The Dalek Invasion of Earth’ capitalised on the initial success of the first Dalek story, and boosted the show’s ratings. The plan for the following series was to capitalise on that and so another six-parter was scheduled for the same time of year. As Season 2’s ‘Planet of the Giants‘ had been edited down to three episodes from four the BBC gave the...

Kurt Thomas, a breakthrough American Olympic gymnast, has died at the age of 64 due to a stroke, which occurred on May 24, caused by a tear in the basilar artery in his brain stem, according to the Associated Press. While Thomas’s legacy will undoubtedly be defined by gold medal wins, connoisseurs of campy action films best remember him from his high-flying starring role in 1985 cult classic Gymkata.

Thomas was an initially a multi-sport athlete with accomplishments on the basketball courts, having led the Indiana State Sycamores to an Ncaa team title in 1977. However, he rose to fame in the late-1970s, hitting the talk show circuit as a bellwether star in men’s gymnastics, a category that had been mostly associated with its women’s division. After having competed in the 1976 Montreal Olympics, Thomas broke big in the 1978 Strasbourg, France World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, in which he became the first U.

With the WWE recently celebrating the Intercontinental Title on a WWE network special, Chris takes a look at the Ten Best WWE Intercontinental Champions Of All Time…

The Intercontinental Title in WWE has been, for most of its existence, a title that has helped take a mid-card talent and show them off in a bigger way, often transitioning them from the mid-card to the main event. It has been called “The Workhorse Title” by many, often being pointed to as the belt held and fought over by some of the more gifted technical wrestlers in the company. Growing up, it was always the Intercontinental strap that I looked forward to seeing defended on shows, whether it was “Macho Man” Randy Savage holding it, Bret “Hitman” Hart, Mr. Perfect or “Rowdy” Roddy Piper, it was usually a match that stole the show and was often held by a great worker.

As time as gone by,...

So, I grew up watching wrestling. It’s been part of my life for most of my days. I started watching during the Hogan era, with guys like The Hulkster, Randy Savage and The Ultimate Warrior on top of the WWF. I saw the New Generation arrive, with guys like Bret Hart, Diesel and Shawn Michaels in the main event scene. I watched as The Attitude Era arrived, bringing with it a creative peak for pro-wrestling, and names such as Steve Austin, Mick Foley, The Rock, D-Generation X and The Undertaker driving the late 90s to incredible heights and creating an era that fans adored and still, in many circles and in many ways, long to see return. I still watch wrestling as much as I always have, and I love it.

The Attitude Era had so many good things going for it. I lived through it. I was a...

It’s 5 o’clock…somewhere. On Thursday’s “Late Night,” Seth Meyers and Rihanna did a little day drinking. Ok, so they did a lot of day drinking, to the point of being pretty day drunk.

At first, Meyers made ridiculous — and disgusting — drinks in tribute to popular Rihanna songs. They then played a few drinking games before Meyers decided to try his own game on Rihanna.

The former “Saturday Night Live” head writer had Rihanna post up at the bar. He would approach her with pick-up lines and she was instructed to ring a bell when one was particularly whack. You can probably see where this is headed.

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“Excuse me, are you the girl from ‘Battleship’?” was one of his worse pick-up lines.

“Jesus,” she replied. “Ok. That’s where I leave. I’m out.”

Rihanna walked away and...

So, to point out the obvious right now, I’m a rather big fan of professional wrestling. Yep, the world of spandex, drama, clotheslines and bodyslams has been part of my life for over 26 years. I guess some things in life change, but some things stay the same. My love for wrestling has remained throughout the years. When I first started watching wrestling it was obvious who were the big stars in the business, which guys were featured in the big roles, and which were the bigger names, larger than life, top of the card, front of the VHS cover. Hulk Hogan. “Macho Man” Randy Savage. The Ultimate Warrior. Andre the Giant. Back in 1992, when I began watching, Andre was pretty much finished as an in-ring worker, but his presence was still present, the aftershock of his run was still felt by the business, the fans and the wrestlers he’d worked beside.

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WWF WrestleFest remains an essential WWE gaming experience. Too bad you'll probably never properly play it again.

There’s something magical about the late ‘80s/ early ‘90s era of WWE (or WWF as it will always be known in my wrestling-loving heart). Yes, it was filled with drugs, alcohol, questionable morals, and even more questionable mullets, but it was an era of professional wrestling that was larger than life to the impressionable viewers who watched what was essentially the craziest cartoon in existence play out in front of their young eyes. It was like receiving a transmission from another universe.

Years later, I realized that part of what made that era of wrestling so fascinating was the scarcity of it. At a time before weekly TV shows, the internet, and the WWE Network, you rarely got to actually watch wrestling. You might be lucky enough to stumble...

Gene Okerlund, the WWE interviewer dubbed “Mean Gene” by wrestler Jesse “The Body” Ventura, has died, according to the WWE. He was 76.

A cause of death was not immediately available.

“Mean Gene I love you my brother,” tweeted Hulk Hogan today..

A WWE Hall of Famer, Okerlund began his career in radio and local TV, and became an announcer with American Wrestling Associations in the early 1970s. He joined what would become the WWE in 1984, where, as the WWE notes, he became a national cable presence through interviews with such wrestling superstars as Hulk Hogan (who inducted Okerlund into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2006), “Macho Man” Randy Savage, The Ultimate Warrior, among many others.

Okerlund moved over to WWE rival World Championship Wrestling in 1993, where as the lead interviewer he posed questions to an expanding roster of familiar pros, including Diamond Dallas Page and Goldberg.

Legendary WWE and WCW interviewer “Mean” Gene Okerlund has died. He was 76.

Okerlund first joined WWE back in 1984 — the Hulk Hogan days.

“WWE is saddened to learn that WWE Hall of Famer Gene Okerlund, the most recognizable interviewer in sports-entertainment history, has passed away,” the pro-wrestling promotion said on Wednesday. “WWE extends its condolences to Okerlund’s family, friends and fans.”

Okerlund got his start with the American Wrestling Association, where interviewed the likes of Jesse “The Body” Ventura — who gave him his “Mean Gene” moniker — Bobby “The Brain” Heenan and Hogan. Okerlund became a staple on national cable TV after he made the move to the WWE, where he had notable interviews...

Just when you thought that all the big news would be shared via San Diego Comic-Con, it's been announced that Deadpool 2 director David Leitch is in early talks to direct a remake of Bruce Lee's Enter The Dragon. The original film, directed by Robert Clouse and released in 1973, told the story of a martial artist (Lee) who agrees to... Read More...

Mel Novak is an action star who is best known for his performance as Stick the Assassin in Bruce Lee’s final film Game of Death (1978). Having starred in more than 60 feature films, he has given no indication that he is slowing down and following on for the success of Syndicate Smasher (2017) Mel has several new projects which are due for release soon. I got a chance to ask Mel as few questions about how he got into acting, doing his own fight scenes, stunts and whether there are any characters he like an opportunity to portray on screen again…

How did you first get into acting originally?

I had initially acted in some plays in school and a couple in local theatres. In La, I got a job with an insurance company as a bodily injury claims adjuster. It was there that I met a gal that set up...

Who needs epics about Ancient Rome, Egypt, or Greek mythology when we have a thousand years of exotic Central and South American civilizations to exploit? Well, it's only been done a handful of times. This cinematic concatenation of nifty architecture, fruity multicolored headgear and athletic oiled warriors is, well, nifty, fruity and athletic!   Kings of the Sun Kl Studio Classics Savant Blu-ray Review 1963 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 108 min. / Street Date May 26, 2015 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95  Starring Yul Brynner, George Chakiris, Shirley Anne Field, Richard Basehart, Brad Dexter, Barry Morse, Armando Silvestre, Leo Gordon, Victoria Vettri, Rudy Solari, Ford Rainey, Chuck Hayward, James Coburn (narrator). Cinematography Joseph MacDonald Film Editor William Reynolds Original Music Elmer Bernstein Written by James R. Webb, Elliot Arnold  Produced by Lewis J. Rachmil Directed by J. Lee Thompson

Reviewed by Glenn Erickson

Epics don't get wilder than this. According to producer Walter Mirisch, 1963's Kings of the Sun...

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Blood, guts and controversy abound, as we delve back to look at the evolving gore and mayhem in a dozen 80s videogames...

Ah, the 80s. The decade of video nasties, The A-Team, Boy George and Ronald Reagan. A time of conspicuous consumption and voluminous hair, the 80s was also the decade where videogames rapidly evolved, from the blocky 8-bit computers and consoles at its beginning, to the more powerful 16-bit systems at its end.

The 80s was also a period where the depiction of videogame gore would be realised with ever greater detail - much to the consternation of media watchdogs, who commonly regarded games as bleepy toys for children. The mainstream furore which would greet Mortal Kombat was still just over the horizon, but from the start of the start of the decade to its end, mischievous (and sometimes cynical, it has...

Film nerds rejoice! Innovative classic service Warner Archive, the Warner Bros. studio's top-notch repertory wing dedicated to restoring archival gems--via consumer demand-- and making little-seen titles available on DVD, has some exciting news: Warner Archive Instant. Like Netflix, the new service will let you stream films for a monthly fee (in this case, $10) but instead the flicks available are vintage, B-movie, obscure -- all the lost-and-refound greatness you've come to expect from Warner Archive. Case in point: Currently available are 1959's "The Mummy," "Tarzan and the Mermaids," Yul Brynner-Max von Sydow sci-fi title "The Ultimate Warrior" and TV series like "77 Sunset Strip" and 1952's "Adventures of Superman." Classics worthy of revisiting (and revisiting, and revisiting) are also ready to stream, like Elia Kazan's brilliant and acerbic "A Face in the Crowd," Jacques Tourneur's sexual psychosis horror staple "Cat People," Spencer Tracy-Robert Ryan noir "Bad Day at Black.

There are many styles in professional wrestling. There are the high flying antics of the likes of Rey Mysterio, Sin Cara and Aj Styles. There’s the hardcore style made popular by legends such as Terry Funk, Sabu and Mick Foley. Bradshaw and Wade Barrett are examples of brawlers, whilst guys like The Ultimate Warrior, Goldberg and Ryback are the power wrestlers who use brute strength alone to defeat opponents. Every style has its attributes over the others, but today we are going to examine a single style and that is the technical style of wrestling.

Technical wrestlers are those who have a varied catalogue of moves and holds. They are the expert submission wrestlers and also have a large arsenal of moves and counters to out wrestle any of the other styles. Over the years the WWE has seen the greatest wrestlers of all time, and many of them...

A few times a year the WWE tour the United Kingdom, which includes filming episodes of Raw, Smackdown and a few of the other shows like Superstars which are filmed alongside the main shows. They often have a fairly unique British feel to them, and it’s obvious that the WWE put some effort into them. The United Kingdom and WWE have always had a good relationship with a strong fan base and the fact that they’ve even had held of their biggest pay per views there, Summerslam 1992 with its highlight being The British Bulldog vs Bret Hart. With rumours every year that the UK is also considered to be a prospect for future events such as Summerslam it’s obvious that the WWE still hold the country in high esteem.

With WWE – Live in the UK November 2012 I was hoping for a show that looked to highlight some...

If you’re a wrestling fan then you simply have to love the annual Royal Rumble event. Ok, so it’s almost always predictable and obvious who will win it – but that isn’t why we love it so much. For those of you out there who have never experienced the WWE’s unique take on a battle royal the best bit is seeing which names from the past will pop up as surprise entrants.

Over the years we’ve been treated to returns by Kevin Nash and Booker T (who we all thought were headed back to Tna), Mr Perfect, Bob Backlund, Rowdy Roddy Piper and Goldust as well as comebacks from current stars who’ve been on the bench.

Here’s our list of 10 wrestlers, old and new, that we’d like to see make a return at this years Royal Rumble.

10. Papa Shango

That’s right. We...