“One of the company’s most popular and charismatic legends,” World Wrestling Entertainment said in a statement Wednesday. “He will be greatly missed.”

The Captain is best known to non-wrestling fans as the father in Cyndi Lauper’s 1985 “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” video. He is also credited with pioneering the Rock ‘n Wrestling connection that launched the then-WWF to national prominence in the 1980s.

In 1989, Lou played Mario in the The Super Mario Bros. Super Show, a live-action children’s show based on the popular Nintendo video game. Later in life, the ringman struggled with his ballooning weight and suffered a heart attack in 2005.

Albano was sent home from the hospital earlier this week and place under hospice care after a long battle with an unidentified illness. He was 76 years old.

Bob became a hot trending topic on Twitter and Google Trends Tuesday, prompting fears that the 85-year-old had died. Watch our beloved Bob take on wrestler Chris Jericho in this video highlight from Monday Night Raw.

Barker even threatened to take Jericho “over his knee” if he wasn’t a good boy. How funny!

Shaq will host Raw — which airs live @ 9PM ET on The USA Network — from the Verizon Center in Washington, DC on Monday, July 27 and Piven will serve as MC August 3 from Mohegan Sun in Connecticut.

Hey Daytime TV fans, don’t forget that Sherri Shepherd, the mind-numbingly ditzy co-host of The View, will make a special appearance on MyNetworkTV’s WWE Friday Night SmackDown this Friday, May 1st. The event, taped at Madison Square Garden in New York City on Tuesday, features the 30 Rock guest star climbing into the as the United States Championship goes on the line.

Here’s a preview of tomorrow’s night’s show.

Sherri Shepherd is stepping into the ring. The View’s resident noodle noggin will make a special appearance on WWE Friday Night SmackDown when World Wrestling Entertainment drops into NYC’s Madison Square Garden May 1.

Sherri –who celebrated her birthday with her fellow View moderators on Wednesday– will play along with a running SmackDown storyline by climbing into the corner with WWE Superstar MVP on next week’s show.

Sherri stops by SmackDown on Friday, May 1, airing @ 8PM on MyNetworkTV.

Mickey Rourke made it to WrestleMania after all. The Wrestler actor Mickey Rourke returned to the ring to take on WWE superstar Chris Jericho at WrestleMania 25 on Sunday night–and the outcome was a TKO.

A feud has been brewing between the Oscar-nominated star and Jericho for weeks, with the wrestler calling out the actor’s friends, wrestling legends Ric Flair, Roddy Piper and Ricky Steamboat, at previous WWE events.

Roddy, Rick and Ricky climbed into the ring joined by fellow WWE Hall of Famer Jimmy Snuka to defend Mickey, but they were defeated by Jericho before Mickey’s entrance.

The Golden Globe winner then removed his cowboy hat and entered the ring, punching out Jericho during the event at Reliant Stadium in Houston, Texas, The Hollywood Reporterreports.

Pussycat Dolls frontwoman Nicole Scherzinger opened WrestleMania 25 in Houston with a performance of “America The Beautiful” on Sunday night.

Kid Rock and Pussycat Dolls frontwoman Nicole Scherzinger will perform at the 25th anniversary of WrestleMania next month.

Nicole is set to open the show with a rendition of “America the Beautiful,” while Kid Rock will take the stage to perform a medley of tracks, including “Cowboy,” “Bawitdaba,” “Rock N Roll Jesus,” and “So Hott.”

Oscar-nominated actor Mickey Rourke will also be in attendance for World Wrestling Entertainment’s big night.

WrestleMania 25 takes place April 5 at Reliant Stadium in Houston, TX.

Mickey Rourke will attend WrestleMania 25.

After Mickey pulled of a scheduled Wrestlemania match-up with Chris Jericho last month, the star challenged WWE Hall of Famers Jimmy Snuka, Roddy Piper and Ricky Steamboat, who are friends of the Oscar-nominated star of The Wrestler, to a match at the big 25th anniversary of the WWE event.

Mickey’s friends have decided to confront Chris on his behalf, and Mickey says he’ll be in attendance to watch how the drama unfolds.

WrestleMania 25 goes down April 5 at the Reliant Stadium in Houston, TX.

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