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Steve Austin is a big-time antiques collector!
One of the band members who performed
DeGeneration X's theme song is Triple H's real life brother.
Test (Andrew Martin) was trained by Bret "The Hitman"
Hart.
Brian Christopher and Scott Taylor were scripted to have a gay marriage as a part of a storyline at a PPV. Jerry
Lawler (Brian Christopher's father) strongly objected and the idea was nixed.
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 WWE superstar, Tito Santana owns a hair salon in Roxbury, New Jersey.
Prior to joining
the WWE, Hardcore Holly (Robert Howard) worked as a full-time welder.
Bret "The Hitman" Hart used to co-own 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
once competed in the NFL, but had to retire due to a knee injury.
The Rock is a skilled light tackle salt
water fisherman.
Along with Chyna and Triple H, Perry Saturn and Albert were also trained by Killer Kowalski.
Before
being purchased by World Wrestling Entertainment, most of WCW's theme music was composed by Jimmy Hart.
Colonel Robert
Parker 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
loacted in Tampa, FL known as "The Bushwhackers Down Under!"
Jerry "The King" Lawler is a die hard Cleveland Indians
fan!
Marc Mero won three New York State golden gloves in boxing before entering professional wrestling.
Ahmed
Johnson used to play football for the Dallas Cowboys.
Chris Chetti was the first man to graduate from ECW's
House of Hardcore training school.
Kevin Nash played Super Shredder in "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II"
the movie.
X-Pac is a computer whiz!
Duke "The Dumpster" Droese loves to do imitations. His best
one is none other than Vince McMahon!
"Stone Cold" 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 WWE, Rena Mero was a top 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, Buff Bagwell had calf implants which leaked
and had them removed.
Vince McMahon, Jr. wanted to become a wrestler, but his father, the late Vince McMahon, Sr. strongly
objected to him doing so.
Before breaking into wrestling, Jerome Young (New Jack) worked as a bounty hunter.
Tom
"Dynamite Kid" Billington despises his cousin "The British Bulldog" 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 and Terry Funk were originally scheduled to face the New Age
Outlaws in a "Barbed Wire Match" at WrestleMania XIV, but PPV executives objected them to do so, hence the Dumpster Match.
Back
when the ECW/WWE angle was going on, the WWE 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 finish 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 Vicious 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.
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 WWE
strap, he wore a gold costume.
Hulk Hogan agreed to drop the WWE 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.
Hulk Hogan forced Vince McMahon to give him the WWE Title at the end of WrestleMania
IX by threatening to no-show his tag team match earlier on the show with Brutus Beefcake against I.R.S. & 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 to 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 Vicious double-crossed Vince McMahon by kicking out of Hulk Hogan's leg drop at WrestleMania VIII. Sid
had been caught cheating on a drug test a few weeks earlier and was going to be suspended. Sid's manager, Harvey Wippleman
(who is said to have supplied Sid with the false urine sample that WWE 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.
Vince McMahon
wanted a Flair-Hogan main event for WrestleMania VIII, but before Flair surprisingly was unable to re-up on a contract with
WCW, McMahon signed Sid with the promise he would wrestle Hulk Hogan at the next WrestleMania. So, McMahon went with a double
main event of Hogan-Sid and Flair-Savage.
Prior to WrestleMania X, Vince McMahon had Lex Luger come out with the WWE
Title 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 during 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. On 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
(X-Pac). Shawn tried to be the brave one and he ended up suffering for it.
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 member Tommy Rogers, seeing Von Erich turning blue, administers cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
Bam
Bam Bigelow was chosen as the opponent for Lawrence Taylor at WrestleMania XI because he was the WWE'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 because
The Klique (not fans of Bigelow) began gaining political power. Bigelow wasn't with the company very much longer.
Prior
to WrestleMania XV, a heel had never left a WrestleMania event as the WWE Champion.
Prior to entering the squared circle,
Steve Corino worked in a milk processing plant in Philadelphia.
Elektra was once married to "Big" Dick Dudley.
Former
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 (Terry Szopinski)
was forced to retire following a 1996 car accident involving a Pizza Hut delivery carrier.
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 boxing, hardcore, and shoot-fight wrestling.
Shawn Michaels and Marty Jannetty
won the WWE Tag Team Titles 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 WWE, and Vince McMahon decided that the title change never actually
happened. This is 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 belts.
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 for his match against "Macho Man" Randy Savage at Wrestlemania V.
Buff Bagwell, before becoming
a wrestler was a model, exotic dancer and acted in a few soft porn flicks.
The "People's Eyebrow" was first named the
"Heat Brow". The Rock called it that in college, but he changed the name due 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 WWE
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 WWE $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."
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 time in jail 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 Ultimate Warrior) studied to be a chiropractor in Atlanta.
Demolition Ax (Bill Eadie) is a former school
teacher.
Two days before WrestleMania IX, Hulk Hogan was injured in a jet-ski accident. That explains the shiner he
had when he wrestled at WrestleMania IX.
Roddy Piper was the best man at Ric Flair's wedding.
Before becoming
a professional 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 and
actually released a CD over in Japan.
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 WWE). 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 actually 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 eventually went back to college to get his degree in English.
Bruce Hart gave Wayne Ferris the
"Honky 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 "Three 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 WWE 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 WWE 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 WWE 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 WWE 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 the title. WCW later bought it back from Flair for reportedly
$75,000.
Former WWE announcer Craig DeGeorge is now the number one sports anchor for an NBC affiliate in Miami and
now uses his given name, Craig Minnervni.
The former Bart Gunn (of the Smoking Gunns) wrestles as Mike Barton for All
Japan Pro Wrestling.
When The Honky Tonk Man defeated Ricky Steamboat for the WWE Intercontinental Title, he was a
replacement for "The Natural" Butch Reed who was scheduled to win the gold.
Before Mark Henry joined the WWE, he was
sponsored by Titan Sports during the 1996 Olympic's in which he competed in the sport of weight lifting.
Bill Goldberg's
father is a retired gynecologist.
Konnan briefly appeared in the WWE as "Max Moon" in 1992. He played the role of the
man who hailed from "outer space" for a single WWE Superstars television taping.
Perry Saturn dated Chyna before she
entered the WWE.
The Ultimate Warrior was the original spokesman for Slim Jim.
"Cowboy" Bill Watts came up with
the idea of the Road Warriors using face paint.
Bob Backlund was a wrestling teacher at Central Connecticut State College!
Bret
"The Hitman" Hart is an avid Boston Red Socks fan!
Before entering the world of wrestling, Rikishi earned money by
dancing on the streets of San Fransisco!
On October 1, 1992, Kerry Von Erich was senteced to 6 felony counts of prescription
forgery. He received a 10-year suspended sentence, 10 years of supervised probation, and a $6,000 fine. On February 18, 1993,
Von Erich committed suicide by gunshot with a .44-caliber handgun, one day after being indicted on a cocaine possession charge.
It was also later revealed that he had an artificial foot because of a car accident he was involved in in 1984.
Randy
Savage and Miss Elizabeth were supposedly "married" in August 1991. Actually, that was an angle to get a better buyrate for
the Pay-Per-View. Savage and Liz were really married in December 1984.
On March 6, 1992, Paul Roma made his pro boxing
debut which resulted in a 4-round loss when his manager threw in the towel. Roma won his first fight on April 1st with
a 47 second TKO over Norman Fortini in Randolph, MA.
Owen Hart has either entered or left WrestleMania as a WWE World
Tag Team Champion with three different partners: Yokozuna, Davey Boy Smith, and Jeff Jarrett.
Bret Hart is the only
wrestler in history to be a triple crown winner in both WWE and WCW.
Shawn Michaels forfeitted his WWE World Title
on RAW due to his unwillingness to job to Bret Hart at WrestleMania XIII.
Hulk Hogan has never defeated Jerry Lawler
in a wrestling match.
Ryan Shamrock once worked at a Strip Club in Houston, TX.
The Rock's first character in
the WWE was Flex Cavana. He only wrestled under that name once.
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 suffered two fractures in his left leg. Benoit suffered
an injured right knee.
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