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Summerslam! Biggest Cable News Personalities Meet Their Professional Wrestling Look-Alikes!

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by Matt Schneider | 4:06 pm, August 10th, 2011

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With World Wrestling Entertainment’s SummerSlam this Sunday night on Pay-Per-View, it seemed like an appropriate time to realize that the primetime cable news universe can often resemble the world of professional wrestling. With various hosts often feuding with one another, and frequently giving passionate “promos” regarding why their network or their show is the best, it’s time now to recognize who each host actually is inspired by in the WWE and then to pit the oversized personalities of cable news up against one another in a no-holds barred showdown!

Today you will learn which wrestlers are the “look-alikes” for every primetime cable host. Tomorrow, the fantasy match-ups will take place in order to crown one “King of the Ring” and to determine who is the most dominant talk show host in all of sports entertainment!

The Four Matches Between Timeslot Competitors:
Match 1 –> Chris Matthews vs. Shep Smith vs. John King vs. Jane Velez-Mitchell
Match 2 –> Lawrence O’Donnell vs. Bill O’Reilly vs. Wolf Blitzer (pinch hitting) vs. Nancy Grace
Match 3 –> Rachel Maddow vs. Sean Hannity vs. Piers Morgan vs. Dr. Drew Pinsky
Match 4 –> Ed Schultz vs. Greta Van Susteren vs. Anderson Cooper vs. Joy Behar

Check out who each of the cable news hosts most resembles from the history of professional wrestling, along with a description explaining the connection below each picture. Let’s get ready to rumble!!!

Chris 'The American Dream' Matthews inspired by Dusty Rhodes (1 of 16)

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$Chris \'The American Dream\' Matthews inspired by Dusty Rhodes$

Fast talking and full of random analogies, the jovial Dusty Rhodes is just like . . . Matthews!

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Irish189

hahah, def funny but i was kinda hoping for Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert to be included
unmutual

Comparing Rachel Maddow and Stephanie McMahon is just wrong! She looks much more like Greg Gagne.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ECYBIXNKAG5E46BC3GCJQPA7CQ well_its_no_cannibal_holocaust

Chris Matthews should come out and say

“John Boehner, the Speaker of the House. I don’t have to say a lot more
about the way I feel about John Boehner and the Tea Party caucus–no
respect, no honor. There is no honor among thieves in the first place.
He put hard times on Barack Obama and his family. You don’t know what hard times are daddy. Hard times
are when the textile workers around this country are out of work; they
got four or five kids and can’t pay their wages, can’t buy their food. Hard times are when the auto workers are out of work and they tell them go home. Hard times
are when a man has worked at a job 30 years, 30 years, and Bain and
Company gut his 401K, kick him in the butt and say, “Hey a computer took
your place daddy.” That’s hard times. That’s hard times and John Boehner, you put hard times on this country by slashing spending, slapping a choke hold on the recovery and saddling us with a lost decade.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxC3oAD1iUg&feature=player_embedded
Anonymous

Maddow’s adam’s apple look alke

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/ballsy-daily-show-airs-shot-of-jason-jones-testicles-during-vasectomy-field-piece/
http://www.facebook.com/brian.k.shipley Brian Shipley

Someone might wanna tell Matt Schneider that Madusa (Alundra Blaze) was nowhere near the first Women’s champion…The Women’s Championship has been around for decades, and the best women’s champion of all time was “the Fabulous Moolah” who held the title for 30 years without losing! Seriously, don’t talk about something you know nothing about!
http://www.facebook.com/brian.k.shipley Brian Shipley

Poor Stephanie…the Billionaire Princess compared to an ugly, nasty, america hating dyke!
ImNotBlue

Banned in 3… 2… 1…

Bye!
Anonymous

I would think Fox has the most professional wrestling look a-likes since they have the best entertainment anchors on cable news. (i.e. phonies)
Anonymous

Do you really think you know what you’re talking about? (pause)
IT DOESN’T MATTER WHAT YOU THINK!

Listen jabroni, I said Madusa (Alundra Blayze) was the first MODERN women’s champion since the title was reinstated just for her. Fabulous Moolah is not in the MODERN era!

And yes hopefully you smell what I’m cooking with these references.
NeverWrong

Them are som,e damn good matchups.Let’s get em all in the ring together for a free for all.
http://twitter.com/paulackerman Paul Ackerman

I’m sure there has been a more vapid story on Mediaite … I just can think of one just now.
http://twitter.com/withered Anon

I guess mediaite is just the right venue for this kind of crap.
TruDat

Poor baby!
TruDat

Naaa . . . Andre the Giant.
http://twitter.com/lazzzlo lazzzlo

Yeah, but Chris Mathews can’t say “I have wined and dined with kings and queens; slept in alleys and eaten pork and beans.”
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FSPIVAFYI672OH5NOKVRTEZA4U MadCharles

Biggest cable personalities ? The cartoon channel has much bigger personalities and ratings.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FSPIVAFYI672OH5NOKVRTEZA4U MadCharles

Biggest cable personalities ? The cartoon channel has much bigger personalities and ratings.
Anonymous

I assume you’re referring to Fox?