Cenk Uygur

Cenk Uygur, affectionately known as Jenk Ogre, is a retired professional football player and Wrestling Hall of Famer who currently works as a podcaster. As a starting defensive tackle for the New York Giants from 1989-1993, Uygur was best known for racking up a near-record 600 career tackles and injuring Dan Marino. Upon retiring from football, he signed a career with Extreme Championship Wrestling as one half of the tag team The Young Turks, named after the group that carried out the Armenian Genocide as part of a feud with the tag team The Blue Armeanies. When ECW folded in 2001, he used his money to become the co-founder and co-host of a brogressive YouTube channel with the same name. After his original co-host left, he hired Armenian blonde Ana Kasparian so that people would stop asking him to change the show's name.

Cenk Uygur's main job is to watch the YouTube metrics and read the polls so he can determine what his views will be that day. Obviously he doesn't do this himself, though; he delegates this to his team at The Young Turks while he competes in various eating contests around the country.

Early life

Cenk Uygur was born to a wealthy working-class family in Istanbul, Turkey in 1970. The young boy had a ravenous appetite, and soon, he had caused a famine in the whole country, necessitating his family's relocation to New Jersey.

Football career

Cenk soon acquired his trademark New Jersey accent and love of American football. As a tackle in high school, he stopped rival quarterbacks so often that he became known as "The Quarter Pounder", though some say this was because of his love of McDonald's sandwiches.

Cenk was drafted in the second round by the New York Giants, who needed a defensive tackle badly. He would go on to be one of the best linemen in Giants history, racking up 600 career tackles. But like many linemen, his career ended after a few years, and he found himself needing a new calling.

The Young Turks (tag team)

Cenk was signed to Extreme Championship Wrestling in 1996, becoming part of the tag team The Young Turks with fellow full-blooded Turk Ben Mankiewicz. The Young Turks often feuded with The Blue Armeanies, the Full-Blooded Italians, and the stable The Assorted Stereotypes, but were best known for their match with The Duddly Boyz at November to Remember. After ECW's acquisition by the WWE, Uygur and Mankiewicz were let go, but they were later recognized with a WWE Hall of Fame induction.

The Young Turks (Radio program)

Uygur and Mankiewicz started the next iteration of The Young Turks as a satellite radio program in 2002, after ECW had folded. They were sued by the WWE in 2003, but since the name was technically originated by Turkish genocideers, it was ruled to be public domain.

After a year, Ben Mankiewicz went back to Warsaw, Turkey and Uygur found himself needing a new host, so he put together the reality show The Next Turk, which aired on Spike every Wednesday. After a long search for the most Armenian contestant, the winnner was Ana Kasparian.