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Former Mets/Yankees hurler Dwight "Doc" Gooden was slated to mix drinks last night at Sofrito -- a NY restaurant of fellow bballer Carlos Beltran -- but a rep for the event told us Doc couldn't serve drinks "due to legal reasons." Turns out Dwight is on probation for DWI.

The house -- which the former basketball star has been trying to sell for over a year -- went into pre-foreclosure last month ... after Dr. J defaulted on his loan.

Erving tells TMZ, the house is "substantially underwater" -- meaning he owes more than it's worth.

It all went down Sunday afternoon -- we're told a passerby recognized Tito ... and was able to come up with a portable fuel tank to help the famous fighter bring gas back to his car half-a-mile away.

Sources at the wedding tell us a photographer was trying to snap shots of Hulk and his bride-to-be, Jennifer McDaniel, during the ceremony in their backyard -- which happens to be on the beach in Clearwater.

We're told a family employee told the photog to beat it -- and then the scuffle broke out just as Hulk and Jennifer were saying their vows. Classic.

Cops were called, but no one was arrested -- since no one wanted to press charges -- and the ceremony continued ...right through Hulk and Jennifer's 'I dos.'

Can't wait to see that wedding album.

It's all going down at the Hogan compound in Clearwater, Florida. We're told Hulk will take his girlfriend Jennifer McDaniel's hand during an intimate ceremony ... with only close friends and family invited.

Hulk's kids, Brooke and Nick, will both be in attendance -- but his ex-wife Linda didn't make the guest list.

As we first reported, Hulk applied for a marriage license last month -- and we're told L.A.-based spiritual guru Dr. Michael Beckwith will perform the ceremony.

San Diego law enforcement officials confirm Phillips and rookie running back Ryan Mathews were at Bar West in Pacific Beach on Monday night before a fight broke out in a nearby parking lot.

According to sources -- Phillips and Mathews were at a table with fellow teammate Legedu Naanee shortly before the fight broke out. Police have already spoken to Naanee and say he was not involved in the brawl.

No word yet if police have spoken to Phillips and Mathews.

A rep for the company tells TMZ ... a team of Red Bull Air Force skydivers took the plunge over Santa Monica at around 5:00 PM on December 1 -- the exact time and day Manu was caught on tape
watching glowing objects descend from the sky.

As for the glowing? We're told the skydivers were carrying powerful flares during their descent.

Favre's record-setting consecutive starts streak will end at 297 games thanks to a shoulder injury he suffered last week against the Buffalo Bills.

Favre's record is pretty safe ... for now ... the closest active player is Peyton Manning at 205 consecutive games.

Some perspective? Miley Cyrus was not alive the last time Brett didn't start.

Shane seems pretty confident he'll be the challenger, now that Floyd Mayweather appears unwilling to step up.

Today's game between the New York Giants and the Minnesota Vikings had already been postponed when the collapse occurred.

Sunday morning, the NFL announced the game would be moved to Detroit and played on Monday.

The new couple was spotted all over town, finally getting snapped together as they returned to their hotel in the wee hours of the morning.

UFO aficionado Robert Kiviat -- the executive producer of "Alien Autopsy (Fact or Fiction?)" -- tells TMZ ... he believes the bright objects Manu spotted over L.A. on December 1 were most likely "from Earth, not a distant planet."

Kiviat says the objects appear to have "avoided crashing into the ground by making some sort of course corrections" ... therefore "one strong possibility is the UFOs were experimental military craft."

According to Kiviat, he believes the objects were part of "some sort of military test and farther away from the area than they appear."

Manu eyeballed the UFO when he was in town to play the Clippers on December 1 -- and he has since launched a serious investigation into the matter ... which involved a lot of Googling.

Manu posted his findings on his Facebook page yesterday, saying the best answer he could come up with was "a kind of spacecraft which is called X-37B and was supposed to land in the area between December 3 and 6. According to various media, it landed on Dec 3."

Manu points out that he spotted the craft on December 1 ... not December 3 ... so THE MYSTERY REMAINS.

It's all going down at UFC 124 in Montréal, Québec on Saturday -- when Georges defends his welterweight title against America's own Josh Koscheck.

Jenn Sterger's rep just appeared on the "Dan Patrick Show" and said, "If the [NFL] commissioner suspends Favre and puts him in a program to make sure this doesn't happen again ... 100 percent ... Jenn would not pursue any litigation against Favre, against the Jets, against anybody."

Sterger's rep also insists Brett's agent tried to pay Jenn off before the story first appeared on Deadspin.com -- saying, ""He asked me is there a specific figure you had in mind to make this go away."