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Brian Damage
Hello everyone! It is that time once again to get beat over the head with more useless pro wrestling facts and stats. Some of these may be commonly known, while others may not be known at all. In either case, these are simply for fun and entertainment. So here we go and learn once again….
Hulk Hogan’s final match took place in England in 2012 for TNA/Impact Wrestling. It was a six man match featuring Hogan, Sting and James Storm versus Kurt Angle, Bully Ray and Bobby Roode.
Uncle Elmer and Joyce Stazko were legitimately married on a 1985 episode of Saturday Night’s Main Event. Did you know only a couple of years later…the two would renew their wedding vows inside the Mid South Coliseum in Memphis, Tennessee. Jerry Lawler was Elmer’s best man for the vow renewal.
The Nasty Boys and The LOD had a match on the Arsenio Hall Show back in 1991.
Big Sal E Graziano has a pinfall victory over Scott Hall in ECW.
The first three winners of the Women’s Royal Rumble Match were in alphabetical order:
Asuka
Becky Lynch
Charlotte Flair
Keiji Mutoh holds the record for being a multiple title holder (Having two or more championship belts at the same time)more than any other wrestler in history. Mutoh has been a multi champion on five different occasions in his career.
An estimated three million WWF dolls were sold in 1986. More than half of that number were just Hulk Hogan dolls.
The very last ‘Bionic Elbow’ Dusty Rhodes ever did was on Dean Ambrose back in 2013.
Men on A Mission are recognized as former WWF tag team champions in 1994. Their title win in at a house show was purely accidental. Mable fell hard on Quebecer Pierre and stunned him. He couldn’t kick out at the referee’s two count as was planned and had no choice but to get pinned and have a title change. The Quebecers would almost immediately win the titles back two days later.
In 1976, Lou Thesz started his own wrestling company based in Memphis, Tennessee to go up against the National Wrestling Alliance. It was simply called Universal Wrestling. The promotion would focus more on grappling than showmanship. It folded in a matter of months.
Hulk Hogan was paid eleven thousand dollars for his appearance in the movie Rocky III.
Kofi Kingston has had 100 plus day reigns with 4 different WWE titles. Daniel Bryan and The Miz are the only other two who have done that.
NXT’s Bobby Fish’s original name in wrestling was ‘Jerk Jackson.’
The Spanish Fly maneuver was created by a tag team on the independent circuit….Joel and Jose Maximo aka The SAT’s.
Lou Thesz and Bill Goldberg are the only two wrestlers to capture a world title in four different decades.
Cody Rhodes first match after leaving WWE as against Zack Sabre Jr for Evolve in 2016. He won the match.
In her 11 year career with WWE, Rosa Mendes never scored a pinfall or submission victory.
Frankie Kazarian was with WWE for only six months back in 2005 before quitting the company. One of the reasons he cited as the cause to quit was management asked him to cut his hair and he refused.
Bam Bam Bigelow’s first ever career pinfall loss came at the hands of Antonio Inoki in Japan in 1987.
Fergal Devitt changed his name to Prince Devitt because the Japanese had a difficult time pronouncing ‘Fergal.’
Ric Flair never won a world title via submission using his Figure Four leg lock…only by pinfall.
Rob Van Dam and Sabu appeared in WCW before they competed in ECW.
WCW never had a one million dollar gate for an event.
‘Sensational’ Sherri Martel won the WWF Women’s title in 1987, while technically still the holder of the AWA women’s championship.
New Japan’s Tetsuya Naito’s eye gesture originated while he was wrestling in Mexico. Many of the fans would mock Naito by doing that gesture because he was Japanese. Naito began using it back at them and brought it back to Japan.
The finger point to the Wrestlemania sign has become somewhat of a tradition during Wrestlemania season. The first big WM sign was put up in arenas heading towards Wrestlemania 20 in 2004. The first wrestler to actually point to the sign that started the tradition was The Undertaker at the ‘No Way Out’ pay per view in 2007.