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Brian Damage
Here’s another Super Sized edition of useless wrestling facts, stats and trivia nuggets. You may know some of these and some you may not. Either way, they are all in good fun and may teach you something about nothing. So come on in and read thru…
Curt Hennig received three offers to join the WWF in the 1980’s. He turned down two of the three offers. The first was in 1986….when AWA promoter promised Hennig the world title. A year later…in 1987…WWF came calling again. Curt was still not the world champion and decided to take WWF’s offer. Hennig only stayed with the AwA after his father Larry Hennig pleaded with his son to stick around. He was finally made AWA world champion. A year later, in 1988, Hennig finally jumped ship to the WWF.
The Dingo Warrior aka The Ultimate Warrior was fired from World Class Championship Wrestling for refusing to lose to Nord the Barbarian.
Keiji Mutoh is the first ever wrestler in New Japan history to receive a contract where he would be paid a percentage of the gate for shows he appeared in.
Mark Calaway’s first ever professional match was against Bruiser Brody.
‘Stone Cold’ Steve Austin won a record three Royal Rumble matches. However, he never had a one on one match at the Rumble pay per view.
Sid is the only wrestler to win world titles on both WWF Raw and WCW Nitro.
AEW founder Tony Khan grew up as a fan of Memphis and Mid South Wrestling and cites those promotions as inspiration for All Elite Wrestling.
During his run in TNA, Hulk Hogan made $10,000 per appearance. In contrast, Angelina Love only made $400 per appearance in her TNA days.
After his failed Husky Harris gimmick and before his more successful Bray Wyatt gimmick…Windham Rotunda had the masked gimmick of Axel Mulligan in WWE developmental.
WWE superstar Titus O’Neil and WWE backstage interviewer Kayla Braxton were both born from their mothers being raped.
WWF/WWE programming has been on the USA network in some shape or form since 1983. The very first WWF match on the USA network was Tito Santana versus Rene Goulet.
Vader appeared in the opening credits of WCW Monday Nitro, but never actually wrestled a match on that show.
Luchador Rito Romero invented the surfboard submission maneuver.
Mabel appeared in the original ECW as a member of the Full Blooded Italians (FBI).
William Regal had his first WWF tryout back in 1991, but wasn’t signed to the company until 1998.
Scott ‘Raven’ Levy has an IQ of 143 and is a member of Mensa. Which is a very exclusive society for highly intelligent individuals.
Charlotte and Ric Flair along with Vince and Stephanie McMahon share the distinction of being father/daughter duos to win both WWE men’s and women’s world titles.
Eddie Guerrero and Shane Douglas are the only two wrestlers to win the secondary titles in ECW, WCW and WWF. (ECW television, WCW United States and WWE Intercontinental)
The Global Wrestling Alliance was the first publicly traded wrestling organization, with seven million shares of stock hitting the market at an initial offering of 40 cents per share in 1987. The roster included wrestlers like Norman Smiley and Dean Malenko. The promotion folded in 1988.
Dustin Rhodes has wrestled in five different decades.
Here’s a list of the number of First Time WWE World Champions by each decade:
1960’s: 2
1970’s: 5
1980’s: 4
1990’s: 16
2000’s: 12
2010’s: 12
Legendary baseball player Jackie Robinson applied for and received a professional wrestling referee’s license from the California Athletic Commission in 1947.