Published: May 15, 2008 10:15 pm            

Column: Nick Hogan gets eight months in jail

Here are the news and notes from around the wrestling world:

• Maybe Hogan doesn’t know best. Nicholas Bollea (better known as Nick Hogan, the son of former WWE star Hulk Hogan) was sentenced last week to eight months in jail after pleading no contest to felony reckless driving. Last year, Bollea crashed his car in Clearwater, Fla., leaving his friend John Graziano critically injured.

Bollea was also given five years probation; his driver’s license was suspended for three years; and he is not allowed to drink alcohol for five years.

Nick’s sister, singer Brooke Hogan, posted an emotional rambling on her MySpace page last week defending her brother. She quickly pulled the posting, but not before the media jumped all over it. Brooke said that many lies were told during the trial: “And it wasn’t from us.”

She also shed light onto the perceived reality of the family’s VH-1 reality show “Hogan Knows Best.” (Pardon her grammatical errors).

“And by the way, before you judge anybody, make sure you really know them. I promise you if you were to meet my brother he would give you the shirt off his back. He’s not ‘NICK HOGAN.’ AND he’s not the person he plays on tv. People are so gullible now a days ...”

So reality television is a fraud. Who would have known?

The public will now be able to see how authentic Brooke is in her upcoming reality show spinoff “Brooke Hogan Knows Best.”

• Despite the flopping of “The Marine,” John Cena’s movie “12 Rounds” is slated to hit theaters in March 2009. Once again, the release is conveniently a few weeks before Wrestlemania 25.

• The Great Khali could be the largest movie star in the history of Hollywood. The WWE giant will appear in the Indian Bollywood film “Ramma The Savior” and will also be along Steve Carell (“The Office”) in this summer’s remake of “Get Smart.”

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The Local Corner: Tonight, TWA presents “Acts of Vengeance” featuring a submission match and an unlimited title match. Some of the bouts already signed are: Scott Bear vs. Jake Murphy in a submission match;

Damien James Black vs. K.T. Hamill for the unlimited title; Crazy vs. Jester for the TWA unified title; The Widow Maker vs. Tyler Sutton in a grudge match.

In matches last Friday night: Billy Jester defeated Killer Khan; K.T. Hamill downed Toy Dotson by disqualification; Johnny Quaz beat Silas Quaz; Johnny Quaz took out Toy Dotson; in a four corner tag title match The Clique turned back Sutton/ Alex Summers, Damien James Black/ Bear and Hamill/ Jester to retain the tag titles.

TWA runs Fridays at 8 p.m. in the TWA Arena off Reed Road in north Whitfield County, about three miles north of the bypass. The Action Zone runs Sundays at 3 p.m. Tickets are $5 for adults, $3 for kids 6-12 and kids under 6 are free.

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Trivia Teaser: Which two wrestlers competed in the first match on WCW “Thunder”?

Check back next week for the answer.

Last week’s question: The Ultimate Warrior wrestled under this name in the now-defunct Universal Wrestling Federation (UWF).

The Dingo Warrior.

        

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