If the heads of the World Boxing Council, Federation and Association were looking for something that could recapture the public’s fascination and fanfare of their corrupt sport, I’m not sure this latest bit of boxing news is going to do the trick. As if it wasn’t bad enough that Floyd Mayweather was sent to jail for beating his girlfriend, thus delaying his fight with Manny Pacquiao that will never happen, the boxing world now has a promoter that rivals Don King for terrible hair… Snooki.

Team Snooki Boxing is made up of the three Irish Hyland brothers – Patrick ‘Pajo’, Eddie and Paul. Each has a long list of accomplishments and Irish championships under their belt. “We are incredibly excited to introduce The Hyland Brothers and Team Snooki Boxing,” the VP of Final Round Promotions, Mike Pascale, said. “We’ve seen what these boys can do, and expect nothing less than continued success and ‘living up to the hype’ for each of them here in the States.”

(Via the Examiner)

The brothers will fight for the first time ever on the same card in the U.S. when they take part in the “Irish Invasion” event on January 28 at the Resorts Casino Hotel in Atlantic City. “That’s awesome,” responded the elderly people who still go to Atlantic City.

Even though this seems like it’s the straight-to-DVD sequel of The Great White Hype – one of the most underrated sports movies of all-time – I’m willing to give this new promotion the benefit of the doubt. After all, for being one of the most exploited gimmick characters in TV history, Snooki has somehow created quite the empire for herself, with a best-selling book and even her own fragrance.

Above all else, Snooki being involved with boxing gives us yet another reason to post the greatest GIF in the history of the Internet.

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For the seventh year in a row, people all over the world gathered to perform ridiculous tasks and insane stunts for the sake of getting their names in the Guinness Book of World Records. Sadly, this is just a reminder to me that another year has come and gone without me setting the world record for making out with the most super models named Kate Upton at the same time, but if someone would hold up her part of the record, I wouldn’t have to keep moping.

Among the incredibly not ridiculous records broken this year included the most people whistling at one time, the world’s largest Zumba class, the planet’s biggest coloring book, and the most people to ever partake in a speed-dating event. That last one happened in China, so I assume that like 10,000,000 babies are due about 9 months from now. But those records were just the tips of the dork icebergs.

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The past two weeks have been a heated, troubling time for thousands of people around the world. You see, in 2009, 1,052 people gathered at Rutgers University to set the Guinness World Record for the most people dressed like Waldo, of “Where’s Waldo?” fame, in the same place at one time. On June 12, another group of Waldo enthusiasts decided they’d had enough of that record, as 2,563 people congregated in Fitzgerald Park in Cork, Ireland to break that record. Sadly, Ireland remains a broken nation, and this past weekend 3,657 people showed up to break that record in Dublin’s Merrion Square.

With that many drunken Irish people dressed as Waldo – or Wally as they call him across the pond – I’m guessing the wife swapping was at an all-time high. At least I’m hoping. As for the event itself…

According to The Daily Mail, the Street Performance World Championships organized this event in an attempt to break the Guinness World Record for the most number of Waldos (or Wallys) in one location. A total of 3,657 people showed up at Merrion Square in Dublin over the weekend, all wearing the immediately recognizable dark-rimmed glasses and striped outfits.

The Guinness committee hasn’t yet verified if it is a record, but the crowd seemed pretty sure they had pulled it off, singing Queen’s “We Are The Champions” to denote their victory. They also sang “YMCA” by the Village People. (Via Syracuse.com)

Another account has the 3,657 number being broken by yet another Irish gathering of 3,782 Waldo’s/Wally’s, but that comes from an Internet news commenter so it might as well be from the homeless man I gave half my pizza crust to the other night.

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According to scraps of details I’ve put together in the hour or so that I’ve been researching this video’s origin, this football match between Australia and Ireland took place in 2004 and is played under “compromised rules” which is different than the standard international rules. Basically it’s a combination of Australian and Gaelic rules football. And while that essentially means nothing to me, it involves a dog and that immediately makes my tail wag. In this case, a Jack Russell terrier somehow gets loose and runs on to the field during live play. And the dog stays on the field – with no effort from players or staff to remove it – for nearly 6 minutes as the teams just play like he’s one of them.

The dog even tries its hardest to get into the mix and nobody cares. I guess it’s because Jacks are pretty annoying little dogs so they didn’t really care if it got hurt. Or maybe they were all just really drunk. You know, I think it was both.

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What’s worse than scoring on your own goal? Knocking one of your teammates unconscious in the process. From Ireland’s CCFL Division 3, this is an unidentified goaltender from Melville Celtic B executing the worst clearance ever conceived. I appreciate the fact that he tried to drive that ball for distance, but a little more loft on that guy next time might keep the ball out of his own net. The best part of this, though, is imagining the conversation with the guy that got konked in the noggin after he comes to.

“Where am I?”

“You’re on a pitch. And you just scored on your own team, ya bugger.”

It’s funny because they talk that way over there. Actually, nobody really has any idea on what happened to the guy that got hit with the ball. I’m guessing that he embellished his injury for 10-15 minutes and then rode a gurney off the field and then hopped right up like nothing was wrong. And then some hot woman started making out with him. I hate soccer. Read the rest of this entry »

Three guys shot a documentary surfing off the largely-uncharted west coast of Ireland, which is kind of amazing, because I thought the only thing you needed to impress girls in Ireland was a full pint glass and a general sense of belligerence. The film, Power of Three, will be released in May. Here’s the trailer.

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