"The Crippler Cross Face"
was invented by Dean Malenko and not Chris Benoit.
Spike Dudley was
a school teacher from Rhode Island before getting into the
wrestling business
Kurt Angle's
wife is a former stripper
Al Snow is well
trained in martial arts, mat grappling, free style, hardcore,
and shoot-fight wrestling
"Hacksaw" Jim
Duggan got the idea of bringing a 2x4 to the ring from the
movie, "Walking Tall"
The Rock's wife
Dany is the Associate Vice President of Merrill Lynch
Dick the Bruiser
actually gave WWE Heenan the nickname "The Weasel"
Early in his
career, Hulk Hogan teamed with "Dizzy Hogan" who would later
be known as Brutus Beefcake
Before becoming
a wrestler, Val Venis used to race motocross
Marcus Bagwell
had calf implants in 1995 but they later leaked and had to be
removed
Glen Jacobs
(better known to the wrestling world as Kane) has degrees in
English and Teaching
Former WWF
announcer Craig DeGeorge is now the number one sports anchor
for an NBC affiliate in Miami and now uses his given name,
Craig Minnervni (Torch)
Mike Awesome and
Horace Hogan are cousins (Awesome and Hulk Hogan are not
related)
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
Kevin Nash
introduced Shawn Michaels to his wife, the former Nitro Girl
Whisper (Rebecca Curci)
Silver King and
Dr. Wagner, Jr. are brothers
The former Bart
Gunn (of the Smoking Gunns) wrestles as Mike Burton for All
Japan pro wrestling
When the
Honkeytonk Man beat Ricky Steamboat for the IC title, he was a
replacement for "The Natural" Butch Reed who was scheduled to
win the gold
Stephanie
McMahon works for the WWF as a accountant executive at their
New York sales office
That before Mark
Henry joined the WWF, he was actually sponsored by Titan
Sports during the 1996 Olympic's in which he competed in the
sport of weight lifting
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
Eddie Guerrero's
father 'Gori' invented the camel clutch
Terry Funk is
Jason Hervey's Godfather
Steve 'Mongo'
McMichael was one of Lawrence Taylor's backup men during his
match against Bam Bam Bigelow at Wrestlemania XI
Ryan Shamrock's
real name is Alesha Webb, and she is a topless dancer from
Houston, TX
WWF's first pick
for the Mr. Perfect gimmick was Terry Taylor
Former Freebird
Jimmy Garvin is now an airline pilot
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
Nitro Girl Fyre
attended Arizona State University, and used to be a mortgage
home broker
The Warlord
(real name Terry Szopinski) was forced to retire following a
1996 car accident
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
Chris Chetti was
the first man to graduate from ECW's School of Hardcore.
Taz and Chris
Chetti are cousins
Paul Wight
played college basketball at Wichita State
Nicole Bass's
married name is Fuchs
Rick Rude still
held half of the NWA tag titles when he signed with the WWF
(the NWA later claimed that the Rock 'n' Roll Express regained
those titles in a match that never actually took place).
Jerry Jarrett
brought Rick Rude to Memphis, and gave him the nickname
"Ravishing"
Rick Rude, for a
time, was managed by his sister Raven in the World Class
promotion.
Rude was the
only foreign talent to make the finals of G-1 Tournament in
Japan.
Rude worked as a
bouncer at Gramma B's in Minneapolis before he was discovered,
working with the Road Warriors and Barry Darshow.
Rick Rude was
trained by Eddie Sharkey, who also trained the Road Warriors,
Barry Darsow, and Nikita Koloff.
Rick Rude and
Nikita Koloff attended the same high school.
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.
Ricky "The
Dragon" Steamboat suffered his career ending back injury in a
match with Steve Austin, while they were in WCW.
The British
Bulldog (Davey Boy Smith) paid the WWF $100,000 to get out of
his contract to leave for WCW.
Tom "Dynamite
Kid" Billington despises his cousin Davey Boy Smith so much,
he can't bring himself to say his name.
Emiko Kado, 23,
suffered a brain injury that ended her life in only her 15th
professional match.
Bill Goldberg's
father is a retired Gynecologist.
Terry Funk first
announced his retirement in 1983.
Larry Zbyszko is
a licensed pilot.
