Is Jose the Great One or the Special One?

So Jose Mourinho's "unique" style of football manager interview is explained - he's a big fan of WWE wrestling. He would make an awesome wrestling manager - maybe he could do an angle with Vince McMahon? Problem is of course Jose would turn even Vince face as he is the ultimate heel...

As reported in the London Paper:

Jose reckons top wrestler is a Special One

by Luke Blackall with Jessica Barrett.

Friday, 23 March 2007

If the rumours are true, and Jose Mourinho leaves Chelsea this summer perhaps he could consider a career in the world of wrestling.The stern-faced football coach displayed girlish excitement when he bumped into WWE US professional wrestling champion Chris Benoit in the lobby of the Conrad London hotel, while at a team bonding session with the Chelsea players. After coming over to introduce himself, Mourinho called over his children to meet Benoit, who then posed for photos with the Mourinhos and his players, including Ashley Cole, Shaun Wright-Phillips, Carlo Cudicini, Petr Cech and Arjen Robben.

After the players went back to a group meeting, the manager remained for a little while to chat to his ­wrestling hero and Benoit’s wife, Nancy.

“It was really funny,” an onlooker tells theBuzz. “Jose just completely flipped out when he saw him. It turns out he’s a huge fan and watches it with the family the whole time.”

The pair chatted for ages, and got on famously, with Mourinho, the self-styled Special One, inviting Benoit to be his guest at a Chelsea game. The grappler returned the invitation when he’s back in town wrestling in a WWE show at Earl’s Court in April, but it was no use – it turned out the Chelsea boss had already sorted out tickets for him and his children.

Mourinho told Benoit: “I can’t get them to watch football but wrestling they watch all day!”

TheBuzz is not at all surprised if all they’ve got to watch is Chelsea...

Samoa who?

Back in 2001 on Sunday Night Heat, they keep talking about Eddie Guerrero, and Essa Rios is beating some jobber called Samoa Joe...

2001-03-03 Essa Rios VS. Samoa Joe
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K-Fed v John Cena - it's on!

A little announcement about K-Fed - he will now be appearing in an actual wrestling match in the WWE! Yes, splitting up with Britney has clearly drove him mental (by the way, how hot does she look in this photo?) and he is going to get in the ring with WWE Champion John Cena on the New Year's Day edition of RAW - should be fun.

When Jackass came to WWE

When WWE came to Hollywood recently (which started the whole K-Fed v John Cena thing), Chris 'Party Boy' Pontius and Steve-O got into the ring to take on all comers. And the Samoan bulldozer Umaga came in.

I assume Umaga took care of the guys at first to protect their bodies (although it looks pretty harsh), but you can tell when Steve-O starts laughing, Umaga decides to teach him a very stiff lesson...

Dudley Dog!

To keep up the wrestling theme today, here's my brother (with much shorter hair than he has now) being manhandled by our young cousin:

Dudley Dog!

Cena gives K-Fed the F-U. That will mean nothing to most people.

Kevin Federline calls himself 'K-Fed'. I call him a money sucking leech who has turned Britney into an ugly trailer trash waste of space.

Anyway, WWE Champ John Cena (whose film The Marine came out in the US this week) drops him on his head this week on RAW after he comes out with Johnny Nitro and gets booed out of the building. Awesome.

Unfortunately Steve-O and Party Boy Chris Pontius from Jackass also get beat up by Umaga this week. It's not safe to get complimentary tickets for a WWE event it seems.

I P Dub!

Yep, this is what I watch when in Orpington. Support your local wrestling company! www.ipwuk.com