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Brian Damage
It’s time! It’s Time! It’s useless wrestling facts time! Yes, in case you were wondering, it is time for yet another round of useless wrestling facts, stats and otherwise pointless trivia. Some of these facts you may be well aware of, while others perhaps not. In any case, they are all in fun. So let’s get to it and learn something about nothing.
Bryan Danielson worked with William Regal on coming up with his WWE ring name. Originally Danielson wanted to use his father’s first name which was Buddy and Regal came up with the last name of Peacock to be named ‘Buddy Peacock.’ Instead, Regal felt it was easier to just switch his real name around and call himself ‘Daniel Bryan.’
Pedro Morales, Roman Reigns and Gunther are the only three WWE wrestlers to hold two different titles for over 400 days.
Only Chris Jericho, Juice Robinson and John ‘Earthquake’ Tenta have had matches at Wembley Stadium, Madison Square Garden, Arena Mexico and the Tokyo Dome.
Kazuchika Okada is the only wrestler to main event the Tokyo Dome, Arena Mexico and Madison Square Garden
Marcelo Andreani was a Mexican wrestler who competed under the ring name of ‘Roughhouse’ Jack O’Brien from 1934 until 1956. He is credited with inventing the abdominal stretch maneuver.
The last time Kevin Owens won a singles championship was in 2017.
Jeff Jarrett’s suspenders on his ring attire for his WWF ‘Double J’ gimmick was meant to look like guitar strings.
Austin Theory had a small cameo role in the movie Spiderman: Homecoming.
John Cena has either main evented or had a WWE championship match in all five of the company’s highest Wrestlemania pay per view buys in history.
Norman Smiley’s WCW dance called…’The Big Wiggle’ started in 1998 and was inspired by Smiley watching football and imitating touchdown dance celebrations.
Ken Kaiser was a successful major league umpire in baseball from 1978 until 1999. Before making it as an umpire, Kaiser worked as a professional wrestler. His ring name was ‘The Hatchet Man.’
AEW’s Billie Starkz and Nick Wayne have become the youngest male and female wrestlers (18 years old) to wrestle on a mainstream pay per view (WrestleDream)
The 41st President of the United States, George Herbert Walker Bush was a big fan of professional wrestling. Many times he could be spotted ringside at shows for the Houston, Texas territory run by promoter Paul Boesch. When Bush was elected President, he invited Boesch to his inauguration.
Before becoming the 9th Wonder of the World Chyna in the WWF, Joanie Laurer wrestled on the independent circuit as ‘Joanie Lee.’
Booker T is a Grand Slam Champion for both WCW and WWE
AJ Styles turned down a WWE developmental deal in 2002 and be sent to Heartland Wrestling in Cincinnati, Ohio. His reasoning was to allow his wife to fulfill her dream of becoming a school teacher.
Bull Montana is the first professional wrestler to appear in a movie adaptation of a comic book when he appeared in ‘Flash Gordon’ in 1936.
Austin Matelson adopted the “Luchasaurus” gimmick while wrestling for Lucha Underground under the Vibora gimmick. Fans would repeatedly chant Luchasaurus at him making fun of his look and he liked it and developed the new gimmick.
Psicosis is the only wrestler who worked for WWE, WCW, ECW, NJPW, AJPW, CMLL, TNA, NOAH and AAA
The Intercontinental championship was created when the WWWF unified the North American title with the South American title in 1979. A fictional tournament was then held in Rio De Janeiro, with Pat Patterson declared the winner.
Christian is the only wrestler in WWE history to be a multi time world champion in the company who never won the title by a pinfall or submission. He won the title in a ladder match and by disqualification.
The Original New World Order trio of Hollywood Hogan, Kevin Nash and Scott Hall had only five matches together. (Four in WCW and one in WWE) They were undefeated as a trio in those matches.
Montez Ford came up with the idea for Bianca Belair to wear her now famous long braid to stand out in WWE developmental.
John Cena and Seth Rollins are the only two wrestlers to be ranked #1 in the PWI 500 three separate times.
Adam Rose, Bubba Ray Dudley, Shad Gaspard, Shane McMahon, Batista, and Xavier Woods are the only wrestlers who are undefeated against Roman Reigns in televised singles matches.
Toni Storm has been a pro wrestler since the age of 13 years old. She wrestled in the very first women’s main event for Progress Wrestling and wrestled the in the first women’s steel cage match in the United Kingdom’s history.
Ric Flair had the most recent match of all the members of the Evolution faction.
Verne Gagne, Sting and Jeff Jarrett are the only wrestlers with 10 or more world titles in major U.S. wrestling promotions to not also be WWE champion.
William Moody aka Percy Pringle/Paul Bearer managed many all time greats in wrestling including Rick Rude, The Undertaker, Mick Foley, Terry Gordy, Lex Luger and The Dingo/Ultimate Warrior. The very last wrestler Moody managed before his death was Shaun Ricker…now known in WWE as LA Knight.
The heavily hyped ‘Kharma’ aka Awesome Kong aka Kia Stevens only had one official match in WWE. It was the 2012 Men’s Royal Rumble.
El Hijo del Santo was the only child of legendary luchador El Santo’s ten children to follow in his father’s footsteps and become a wrestler. El Santo forbade his son to use his moniker as a luchador until he agreed to graduate college. For the first eight months of his career, El Hijo del Santo wrestled as ‘El Korak.’ After completing his studies and graduated with a degree in Communication Science…El Santo agreed to allow his son to use his name and mask as El Hijo del Santo.
Lou Thesz once teamed with Koko Ware. It happened in Memphis, Tennessee in April of 1978. It was just Koko’s seventh official match as a pro.
In 1987, Kurt Angle’s senior year in high school, the WWF and Koko B. Ware attempted to recruit Angle to join the company after winning a state title in Hershey, Pennsylvania. Kurt told them “No Thanks.”
Two years prior to his tragic in ring death, Japanese legend Mitsuharu Misawa wrote a letter intended to be sent to his future opponents just in case Misawa died in the ring. He wrote…“I’m sure you trusted me and were doing your best, and I betrayed that trust. I’m really sorry.” Towards the end of his career, Misawa could not even get out of bed without taking several pain medications to move. The letter he wrote was meant to free any opponent of his to be free of guilt and keep fighting.