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• Steve Austin is a big time antiques collector!
• One of the band members who did DeGeneration
X's theme song if Triple H's real life brother.
• Test (Andrew Martin) was trained by Bret "The
Hitman" Hart.
• Brian Christopher and Scott Taylor were
scheduled to have a gay marriage as a part of a
storyline at a PPV, but Jerry Lawler, Brian
Christopher's father strongly objected.
• Kane (Glen Jacobs) was born in Madrid, Spain.
• Edge (Adam Copeland) is actually engaged to
Val Venis's sister.
• Kane (Glen Jacobs) has a degree in English and
Teaching.
• Former WWF superstar, Tito Santana owns a hair
salon in Roxbury, New Jersey.
• Prior to joining the WWF, Hardcore Holly
(Robert Howard) worked as a full-time welder.
• Bret "The Hitman" Hart owns a professional
hockey team known as The Calgary Hitmen.
• Shane Douglas and Headbanger Mosh have
licenses to teach!
• Jerry Lawler and The Honky Tonk Man are
cousins!
• Shawn Michaels is a huge fan of country
singer, Garth Brooks!
• Bradshaw used to compete in the NFL, but had
to retire due to a knee injury.
• Rocky Maivia is a skilled light tackle salt
water fisherman.
• Along with Chyna and Hunter Hearst Helmsley,
Perry Saturn was also trained by Killer
Kowalski.
• Jimmy Hart composes most of the WCW stars'
entrance theme songs.
• Colonel Robert Parker (Tennessee Lee in the
WWF) used to wrestle under the name of Robert
Fuller before retiring and becoming a manager.
• D-Lo Brown is a Certified Public Accountant!
• Vader knows how to play the piano!
• The Bushwhackers own a restaurant and it's
called "The Bushwhackers Down Under!" It's
located in the Tampa Bay area of Florida.
• Jerry "The King" Lawler is a die hard
Cleveland Indians fan!
• Marc Mero won three New York State golden
gloves in boxing before entering pro wrestling.
• Ahmed Johnson used to play football for the
Dallas Cowboys.
• Chris Chetti was the first man to graduate
from ECW's School of Hardcore.
• Kevin Nash played Super Shredder in "Teenage
Mutant Ninja Turtles 2" the movie.
• X-Pac is a computer whiz!
• Duke "The Dumpster" Droese loves to do
imitations and his best one is none other than
Vince McMahon!
• Steve Austin is also good at doing
impressions. His best is none other than Eric
Bischoff!
• Brian Pillman played two years of football for
The Cincinatti Bengals!
• Before entering the WWF, Rena Mero was a model
for Guess Jeans wear.
• Before she married Brian Pillman, Melanie
Pillman went out with Jim Hellwig (The Ultimate
Warrior).
• Brian Lee (Chainz) was the best man at Mark
Callaway's (The Undertaker) wedding.
• Greg "The Hammer" Valentine, Marty Jannetty,
and Blitzkreig have all used The Hollywood
Blondes' theme music.
• Scott Hall agreed to be the best man at Justin
Credible's wedding but failed to contact him in
the weeks before the ceremony and ultimately
no-showed.
• Roddy Piper announced that his last wrestling
match would be at WrestleMania III against
Adrian Adonis.
• Terry Funk first announced his retirement in
1983.
• In 1995, Marcus Bagwell had calf implants
which leaked and he had them removed.
• Vince McMahon, Jr. wanted to become a
wrestler, but his father, the late Vince McMahon
Sr. strictly forbid him in doing so.
• Before breaking into wrestling, Jerome Young
(New Jack) worked as a bounty hunter.
• Tom "Dynamite Kid" Billington despises his
cousin Davey Boy Smith so much, he can't bring
himself to say his name.
• During one drinking session, Andre The Giant
downed 119 bottles of beer.
• Barry Windham's father, Blackjack Mulligan
served time for counterfeiting.
• Cactus Jack & Terry Funk were originally
scheduled to face the New Age Outlaws in a
Barbed Wire Match at WrestleMania XIV, but the
PPV people forbid them to do it, hence the
Dumpster Match.
• Back when the ECW/WWF angle was going on, the
WWF was going to hold a live Raw from the ECW
Arena, despite it's size. This idea was nixed
however.
• Back in the 1980's Hulk Hogan's opponents were
banned from mentioning his receding hair line in
interviews.
• Stan Lane was once billed as Stan Flair
because people thought he resembled Ric Flair.
• All Japan Pro Wrestling hasn't fed it's fans a
count-out or a disqualification in over five
years. • Shawn Michaels is married to former
Nitro Girl, Whisper!
• Marc Mero didn't leave WCW over money issues.
He left because of the angle he was in where he
was involved with another man's wife. • Larry
Zbyszko is a licensed pilot.
• Sid once backed down from a fight with Brian
Pillman in a hotel bar, retreated to his car to
arm himself with a weapon with which to defend
himself and returned clutching a squeegee.
• Ted Dibase was once the Mid-South North
American Heavyweight Champion.
• World Championship Wrestling was once called
Georgia Championship Wrestling.
• In many of his WrestleMania matches Randy
Savage would foreshadow the result of his bout
by the color hat he wore to the ring. Two
examples: 1 when he wrestled the Ultimate
Warrior at WMVII as a heel and left as a
babyface, he entered the ring wearing a white
hat. 2. when he defeated Ric Flair at WMVIII to
take the WWF strap, he wore a gold costume.
• Hulk Hogan agreed to drop the world title to
the Ultimate Warrior at WrestleMania VI because
he was planning on retiring and wanted to pass
the torch on to his babyface successor so he
wouldn't have to come back and get "revenge" on
a heel for his fans.*Hogan forced McMahon to
give him the strap at the end of WMIX by
threatening to no-show his tag earlier on the
show with Brutus Beefcake against IRS & Ted
Dibiase.
• WrestleMania VII was moved from the Rose Bowl
to the Sports Arena in Los Angeles because Vince
McMahon feared a sniper might try and take out
lead heel Sgt. Slaughter, playing the role of a
Iraqi sympathizer during the Gulf War.
• Apparently feeling he had nothing to lose, Sid
Justice doublecrossed Vince McMahon by kicking
out of Hogan's legdrop at WMVIII. Sid had been
caught cheating on a drug test a few weeks
earlier and was going to be suspended. Sid's
manager, Harvey Whippleman (who is said to have
supplied Sid with the false urine sample that
WWF official Dave Hebner found Sid carrying in a
vile) reacted quickly, jumping into the ring and
getting his man disqualified before all hell
broke loose.
• McMahon wanted a Flair-Hogan main event for
WMVIII, but before Flair surprisingly was unable
to re-up on a contract with WCW, McMahon signed
Sid with the promise he would wrestle Hogan at
the next WM. So, McMahon went with a double main
event of Hogan-Sid and Flair-Savage.
• Prior to WMX, McMahon had Lex Luger come out
with the world belt for a television taping,
scheduled to air after the pay-per-view. Either
planning a swerve all along or changing his mind
after word got out, McMahon had Bret Hart win
the three-way tournament between Hart, Luger and
Yokozuna.
• In 1994, WCW used to hire paid models and
actors to sit in the audience to cheer and boo
their wrestlers because the audience was usually
dead for their shows.
• When WCW did the World Wide show, they used to
have a monitor to tell the audience who to cheer
and who to boo. One one occasion when Rick Rude
and the Equalizer (the "heels") came out, the
audience accidentally cheered for them and WCW
had to reshoot their entrance over again.
• When Shawn Michaels was attacked outside of a
nightclub by approximately 10 "thugs" (actually
it was by a marine group), Shawn was accompanied
by Davey Boy Smith and Sean Waltman (1-2-3 Kid).
Shawn tried to be the brave one and he ended up
suffering for it.
• The WWF says that the Dynamite Kid left the
WWF and retired because of an injury. Actually,
the Kid still wrestles in England and the real
reason he left was because of a locker room
fight with him and Jacques Rougeau. The Bulldog
opted to keep contact with the WWF and because
of that and other reasons, the Bulldog and the
Dynamite Kid haven't spoken in years.
• On May 11, 1987, Kevin Von Erich collapsed in
the middle of the ring during an eight-man bout
pitting him, The Fantastics, and Bruiser Brody
against Brian Adias, Black Bart, Al Madril, and
Al Perez. Fantastic Tommy Rogers, seeing Von
Erich turning blue, administers cardiopulmonary
resuscitation.
• Bam Bam Bigelow was chosen as the opponent for
Lawrence Taylor at WMXI because he was the WWF's
best big man worker. Bigelow says that as
payment for doing the job he was promised a big
babyface push down the road. That didn't happen
as The Cliq (not fans of Bam Bam) began gaining
political power, and Bigelow wasn't with the
company very much longer.
• The Undertaker is undefeated at WrestleMania's.
His record as of right now is 9-0.
• Prior to entering the squared circle, Steve
Corino worked in a milk processing plant in
Philadelphia.
• Elektra was once married to Big Dick Dudley.
• Washington Redskins head coach George Allen
once offered Andre the Giant a contract to play
professional football.
• Hulk Hogan and Ric Flair's first match took
place in October 1991 with the "Nature Boy"
winning the contest.
• J.J. Dillon thought of the Model gimmick for
Rick Martel.
• Rick Martel is a gourmet chef.
• The Warlord (real name Terry Szopinski) was
forced to retire following a 1996 car accident
involving a Pizza Hut delivery carrier. A
lawsuit is depending.
• DDP credits Bobby "The Brain" Heenen for
coming up with the name Diamond cutter.
• Spike Dudley is a former third grade teacher
from Rhode Island before getting into the
wrestling business.
• Kurt Angle's wife is a former stripper.
• In the summer of 1995, Kurt Angle failed in a
tryout to make the Pittsburgh Steelers of the
National Football League.
• Al Snow is well trained in martial arts, mat
grappling, free style, hardcore, and shoot-fight
wrestling.
• Shawn Michaels and Marty Jannetty won the WWF
tag team title from Bret Hart and Jim Neidhart
in October of 1990 at a taping for Saturday
Night's Main Event. Neidhart had been fired and
was filling contractual obligations, which
including jobbing the tag titles to another
team. In what should have been a minor point,
the top rope broke at one point during the
match. The Rockers defended the titles for a
week after that, but then Neidhart was re-hired
by the WWF, and Vince McMahon decided that the
title change never actually happened, in one of
the goofier decisions of the 90s, and one of
many to affect the careers of Shawn and Bret. As
an explanation, a story was sent to Pro
Wrestling Illustrated about the rope break
causing an "unfair working environment" for both
teams, and hence the title reign was annulled.
This was simply to cover up for the fact that
they reported the title change as fact a week
prior and needed a reason to no longer report it
as such. The title change was edited out of the
Main Event broadcast, and thus went down in
history that the Rockers never had the belt.
• From 1986-1989 Ric Flair averaged 34 minutes
per-match. In that span he had 19 matches that
lasted longer than 50 minutes. • The Rock's wife
Dany is the Associate Vice President of Merrill
Lynch.
• Leatherface caused the scar on Mick Foley's
left arm.
• Hulk Hogan earned 1.8 million dollars with his
match up against Randy Macho Man Savage at
Wrestlemania 5.
• Buff Bagwell, before becoming a wrestler was a
model, exotic dancer and acted in a few Soft
Porn flicks.
• The Peoples Eyebrow was first named the "Heat
Brow". The Rock called it that in college, but
he changed the name do to the fact that the name
didn't catch on.
• D'Lo Brown began his career as the "head of
security" for the Gangstas in Smokey Mountain
Wrestling. He later debuted in the WWF as one of
the many members of Faarooq's Nation of
Domination entourage.
• Former Nitro Girl Fyre (Teri Byrne) attended
Arizona State University, and used to be a
mortgage home broker.
• Rick Rude was trained by Eddie Sharkey, who
also trained the Road Warriors, Barry Darsow,
and Nikita Koloff.
• The British Bulldog (Davey Boy Smith) paid the
WWF $100,000 to get out of his contract to leave
for WCW.
• The orginial Midnight Express was a six man
tag team in Alabama, consisting of Dennis
Condrey, Randy Rose, and Norvell Austin.
• Mark Henry and Pittsburgh Steeler Kevin Henry
are cousins.
• Jerry Jarrett brought Rick Rude to Memphis,
and gave him the nickname "Ravishing."
• ECW's Dawn Marie appeared in the original
Austin Powers MTV special as one of the go-go
dancers and actually had a couple of speaking
lines.
• Gorgeous George, real name Stephanie Bellars,
spent jail time as a teenager for burglaziring a
home and slashing a girl's face with a broken
beer bottle.
• "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan got the idea of bringing
a 2x4 to the ring from the movie, "Walking
Tall."
• Jim Hellwig (The Warrior) studied to be a
chiropractor in Atlanta.
• Demolition Ax (Bill Eadie) is a former school
teacher.
• Two days before WrestleMania 9, Hogan was
injured in a jet-ski accident. That explains the
shiner he had when he wrestled at WrestleMania
9. • Roddy Piper was Ric Flair's best man.
• Before becoming a wrestler, Val Venis used to
race motocross.
• The Big Bossman was a prison guard in Georgia.
• Randy Savage was trained by his father, Angelo
Poffo.
• Dusty Rhodes played college football at West
Texas.
• Verne Gagne trained Ricky "The Dragon"
Steamboat.
• Lex Luger played college football at Penn
State.
• Meng once wrestled as jobbber Larry Hurst.
• Johnny Ace once dated former adult film star
Seka.
• Madusa is an accomplished singer.
• The original idea for UPN's Smackdown! was for
an all women wrestling show.
• Kevin Nash was a doorman/bouncer at a Michigan
night club before entering the wrestling
business.
• Disco Inferno was released from his WCW
contract in '97 after refusing to do the job for
Jacquelyn (now Jacky in the WWF). He returned to
the promotion later in the year only after
agreeing to wrestle her. However, Ted Turner had
a 'no man against woman violence' clause on his
networks. So Disco had to avoid making physical
contact with her throughout the entire match.
• Linda McMahon is a laywer. • Bad News Brown
used the name "The Ultimate Warrior" before Jim
Hellwig.
• "Sweet" Stan Lane is the only wrestler ever
trained by Ric Flair.
• Del Wilkes sold the rights to the Patriot
gimmick to Tom Brandi.
• Simon Diamond was a catcher on the Virginia
Commonwealth baseball team for three years but
then he got hurt and that ended his baseball
career. He did eventually go back to college and
get his degree in English.
• Bruce Hart gave Wayne Farris The Honkey Tonk
Man name.
• Chyna is fully licensed to compete in boxing.
• The WWF considered giving Dustin Rhodes a
"Gunslinger" gimmick, before coming up with
Goldust.
• Rikishi has a brother that wrestles as Fatu in
Japan. • Jimmy Hart thought of the 3 Count
gimmick.
• Jimmy Hart and Jerry Lawler attended the same
high school in Memphis (not at the same time).
• Prior to WrestleMania IV, USA Today got a copy
of the post-WrestleMania WWF Magazine which
listed Randy Savage as champion before the
tournament (where Savage beat Dibiase in the
finals) took place. McMahon publicly referred to
it as a coincidence.
• The Ultimate Warrior left the WWF in 1991
because he and Vince McMahon did not come to
terms on his future role...Warrior wanted to be
in the title situation but the WWF saw
differently...in 1992, the Warrior disappeared
again because he did not want to get involved in
a second-rate feud with Nailz.
• In 1991, Ric Flair was fired/quit WCW. He
showed up in the WWF soon thereafter holding the
WCW title and claimed to be the "Real World's
champion." The reason he was able to leave the
company with the title is because he owned that
title. WCW later bought it back from Flair for
reportedly $75,000.
• On May 26, 1987, Hacksaw Jim Duggan and the
Iron Sheik were arrested by N.J. State police.
Duggan was charged with possession of marijuana
and drinking alcohol while driving. Sheik was
charged with possession of marijuana and
cocaine. Duggan received a conditional discharge
and Sheik received one year probation.
• On July 4, 1989, Davey Boy Smith, Jason the
Terrible, and Chris Benoit were injured in a
head-on automobile accident in Jasper, Alberta.
Smith suffered a cracked vertebrae in his back
and needed a hundred stitches in his head after
being thrown through the windshield of the car.
Jason suffers 2 fractures in his left leg.
Benoit suffers an injured right knee.
• That before Mark Henry joined the WWE ,he was
actually sponsored by Titan Sports during the
1996 Olympic's in which he compeated in the
sport of weight lifting
• Mark Henry and Pittsburgh Steeler Kevin Henry
are cousins
• Gorgeous George (real name Stephanie Ballars)
,spent jail time as a teenager for burglarizing
a home and slashing a girl's face with a broken
beer bottle.
• Eddie Guerrero's father Gori invented the
camel clutch.
• Terry Funk is Jason Harvey's Godfather.
• Ryan Shamrock's real name is Alesha Webb and
she is a top less dancer form Houston ,Texas
• The WWE's first pick for the Mr Perfect
gimmick was Terry Tayor
• Former Freebird Jimmy Garvin is now an airline
pilot.
• D'Lo Brown began his career as "the head of
security" for the gangstas in the smoke mountain
wrestling. He later made his debut in the WWE as
a member of the nation of Domination.
• Nitro Girl Fyre attended Arizona State
University and used to be a mortgage home
broker.
• The Warlord (real name Terry Szopinski) was
force to retire from wrestling following a car
accident in 1996
• ECW'S Dawn Marie appeared in the original
Austin Powers MTV sepecial as one of the go-go
dancers and actually had a couple of speaking
lines.
• Chris Chetti was the first man to graduate
from ECW's House of Hardcore wrestling school
• Taz and Chris Chetti are cousins.
• Paul Wight played college basketball at
Wichita State
• Nicole Bass's married name is Fuchs.
• Jerry Jarrett brought Rick Rude to Memphis and
give him the nickname "Ravishing"
• Rick Rude still held half of the NWA Tag team
title when he signed with the WWE (The NWA later
claimed that The Rock 'n' Roll Express won back
thous titles in a match that never took place)
• Rick Rude was for a short time managed by his
sister Raven.
• Rude was the only foreign talent to make the
finals of G-1 Tournament in Japan.
• That before Mark Henry joined the WWE ,he was
actually sponsored by Titan Sports during the
1996 Olympic's in which he compeated in the
sport of weight lifting
• Mark Henry and Pittsburgh Steeler Kevin Henry
are cousins
• Gorgeous George (real name Stephanie Ballars)
,spent jail time as a teenager for burglaziring
a home and slashing a girl's face with a broken
beer bottle.
• Eddie Guerrero's father Gori invented the
camel clutch.
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