Former professional wrestler Ric Savage has reinvented himself as a reality star over the past two weeks on Spike TV's "American Digger." On the show, Savage travels the country excavating, and eventually selling, artifacts from people's backyards. But he's dug himself quite a hole in the eyes of many in the digging hobbyist and academic communities.

Savage was recently ousted as a columnist at American Digger Magazine, a move the magazine's publisher Butch Holcombe announced on the online digging forum MyTreasureSpot.com.

In a post titled, "Some changes at American Digger Magazine," Holcombe wrote:

After much deliberation, we have decided to drop American Digger’ Magazine’s association with Rick Savage, who until this month wrote our Savage Facts column. The parting was amicable, and we appreciate his work on his column and past promotions of the magazine . We won’t lie, our dropping his association was in great part...