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-A Stone Cold Steve Austin shirt sells every 45 seconds

-D-LO BROWN is a certified accountant

-Chyna Dated Saturn before entering WWF

-Gangrel Wife is Luna Vachon

-HHH made his debut in wrestling by beating the Road Dogg

-The Rock is a skilled light tackle salt water fisherman

-Stone Cold Steve Austin was trained by current WCW jobber Chris Adams and he is an antique collector(Steve Austin)

-Val Venis-used to race motocross befor joining WWF

-WWF was the first organisation to test its athletes for drugs

-Did you know That Roddy Piper won the prestigious amateur boxing award,The Golden Gloves,at age 15?

-Did you know Ric Flair owns a bar in Charlotte,North Carolina called The South End Brewery?

-Did you know Scott Norton was once a world champion arm wrestler? He won titles in about 7 different countries.

-Did you know Chyna was once going to teach literacy in Costa Rica for the Peace Corps ?

-Did you know Kane has a teaching degree,and has taught as a substitute teacher?

-Did you know that Kane (once Issac Yankem) actually did study dentistry for a few monthes before dropping out.

-Did you know Debra was once an airline stewardess?

-Did you know that Rick Rude saved Bret Hart's deal with the WCW. Eric Bischoff thought the WWF thing with Vince was a work and was not going to sign Bret. It was Rude who called him, saying he was there and Bret was really screwed.

-Did you know an Austin shirt is sold every 45 seconds around the world. (According to Entertainment Weekly)

-Did you know At the first Uncensored card in 1995, Dustin Rennels (Gold Dust) and Blacktop Bully had a "King of the Road" match, waged in the back of a truck. Despite a very strict anti-blood policy being enforced by WCW at the time, Dustin and the Bully both bladed themselves at the behest of booker Mike Graham. All three were fired from WCW in short order, and Dustin showed up in the WWF not long after.

-Did you know Vader was on a Kuwaiti talk show in April of 1997, and when host Bassam Al Otham asked whether or not wrestling was fake, Vader essentially lost control and attacked the host. He was detained in Kuwait briefly following the incident, then was allowed to return to the US pending trial. The end result was a whopping $200 US fine and a proverbial smack on the wrist.

-Did you know the Disciple has had 12 different identities in his wrestling career? They were "Dizzy" Ed Boulder, Brutus Beefcake, Brutus "The Barber" Beefcake, Furface, Brother Bruti, The Butcher, The Man with No Name, The Man With No Face, The Zodiac Man, The Clipmaster, the Booty Man and most recently the "Disciple".

-Did you know About two weeks before Summerslam 90, Beefcake and B. Brian Blair were parasailing, and an accident caused Blair to go spinning out of control and hit Beefcake in the face with his knees. Beefcake's entire face was shattered, and it ruined his career. His entire face had to be surgically reconstructed almost from scratch, and he didn't fully recover until 1993.

-Did you know The name "Big Sexy" was actually a name created by Canadian wrestler Luther Biggs who did several try-out matches with WCW under that name? Former WCW booker and current WWF announcer/booker Terry Taylor watched Biggs wrestle, liked the name, and gave it to Kevin Nash.

-Did you know Fonzie, the maneger of champions, and of RVD and Sabu and former ECW referee, was a ref in the WWF? His most memorable event would be at WM 9 when he came down to say their were two doinks in his match vs Crush. The ref looked under the ring and found no other Doink and Fonzie looked stupid.

-Did you know that Steve Blackman has one of the most successful Wrestling/Karate schools in the US? Too bad it couldn't do anything for his career.

-Did you know that The Simpsons is a favorite TV show of such wrestlers as Bret Hart, Scott Hall, and Bad Ass Billy Gunn?

-Did you know at one point in time in the late 80's almost 75% of the WWF wrestlers admitted to or were found to be using steroids?

-Did you know that the knee brace Stone cold Steve austin wears , is the result of an injury two years ago when he got his knee caught in the turnbuckle.

-Did you know Hogan beat Antonio Inoki on June 2, 1983 to become the first IWGP heavyweight champion, this is a belt that has only been held by 3 Americans.

-Did you know Chris Jericho is the son of former National Hockey League star Ted Irvine.

-Did you know In September, 1997 Chris Jericho was inducted into the Canadian Wrestling Hall of Fame.

-Did you know Hollywood Hogan was "retired" for 39 days.

-Did you know the Undertaker made his WWF debut in November 1990 at Survivor Series as the mystery partner of Ted Dibease.

-Did you know the first ever Wrestlemania was March 31 1985 in Madison Square Garden.

-Did you know that originally WWF was called WWWF, Then in mid 1979 Vince Mcmahon Sr changed the name to just the WWF.

-Did you know Buddy Rogers, who is reconized as the first ever WWF champ, never won the belt. Instead, Rogers was awarded the WWWF title (The WWF title but it was called WWWF at the time) in mid-April 1963, with the explanation that he has won a (fictitious) tournament in Rio de Janeiro. Buddy was the NWA champ and lost the belt before this to Lou Thesz but neither were reconized as WWF champ yet.

-Did you know that 1-2-3 Kid (X-pac) and Bob Holly were tag champs. they beat Diesel and Shawn Michaels.

-Did you know the former WWF maneger Mr Fuji is a 5 time former WWF tag team champ.

-Did you know no WWF tag team has won the tag title more than three times. Certain wrestlers have done it but never any teams.

-Did you know at the 1990 summerslam in his match against earthquake, Hulk Hogan performed a combined 5 moves (excluding the punch). His moves included: big boot, shoulder block, atomic leg drop, body slam, clothesline. - Mxpac82

-Did you know Bill Goldberg was an 11th round draft pick of the Rams in 1990

-Did you know goldberg who was out of football was drafted by Carolina Panthers, 1995 expansion draft. 33rd of 35 picks for Panthers

-Did you know Harlem Heat are the most decorated WCW tag team. they have been tag champ 7 times. The Steiners are just behind with six.

-Did you know Edge was trained at Sully's Gym by Ron Hutchison and Sweet Daddy Siki after winning a 1992 essay contest on "Why I wanted to be a pro-wrestler" conducted by the Toronto Star

-Did you know that Chyna studied wrestling under the legendary Killer Kowalski, he is the same man that trained HHH.

-Did you know that HHH in his first match with WCW in 1994 he faced Brian Armstrong {{ Now Road Dog Jesse James}} and defeated him.

-Did you know Yokozuna was not the largest man ever to wrestle in WWF or WCW, The largest was LOCH NESS MONSTER, a former member of the dungeon of Doom, and weighed far over 600 lbd when he wrestled

-Did you know that the gimmick of Gangrel was taken from a comic series, where the character is a vampire warrior.

-Shawn Michaels once entered the Royal Rumble as #1 and won it

-Did you know Brian Pillman was involved in one of the silliest angles this decade, the Yellow Dog. While engaged in a fued with Barry Windham, Pillman lost a loser-leaves match to him. Since Pillman was not allowed back, Brian donned yellow tights and a mask and masqeraded as the Yellow Dog. Everyone knew who the Yellow Dog was, but Barry Windham could not undoubtebly prove it. Eventually, Windham requested that Pillman be re-instated.

-Did you know Jimmy "Super Fly" Snuka held the T V title in ECW yet he never held a belt in the WWF.

-Did you know the original name for Scott Hall's Outsider's edge was the Diamond Death Drop, created when he was in WCW as the Diamond Studd.

-Did you know WCW paid Ric Flair $25,000 to give back the WCW title after he had departed to the WWF in 1991.

-Did you know Ahmed Johnson played in the NFL for the Dallas Cowboys.

-Did you know Roaddog Jeese James fought in Operation Desert Storm

-Did you know Steve Austin was trained by current WCW jobber Chris Adams.

-Did you know Terri Runnels was a hair stylist for the Larry King show prior to wrestling

-Did you know D’Lo Brown is a certified accountant.

-Did you know Steve Austin is an antique collector

-Did you know Larry Zybszco is a licensed pilot and often flies Hulk Hogan in for pay-per-views and episodes of Monday Nitro

-Did you know Jake "The Snake" Roberts' father, brother and sister all wrestle. Respectively, they worked as Grizzly Smith, Sam Houston and Rockin' Robin.

-Did you know In 1995, Marcus Buff Bagwell had calf implants which later leaked and had to be removed.

-Did you know Junior Heavyweight great Danny Hodge, not Hulk Hogan, was the first wrestler to appear on the cover of Sports Illustrated magazine. The date was April 1st, 1957. Hulk Hogan appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated, next to the swimsuit issue, on April 29th, 1985. That magazine was the years best seller.

-Did you know During one drinking session, Andre The Giant reputedly downed 119 bottles of beer.

-Did you know Back in the 1980's Hulk Hogan's opponents were banned from mentioning his receding hair line in interviews.

-Did you know Hulk Hogan defeated Flair in a retirement match at Halloween Havoc on October 24, 1994? Later Hogan lobbied to have Flair reinstated, and he was.

-Did you know Kevin Nash wrestled at the first ever SuperBrawl? He beat Tim Parker in 26 seconds.

-Did you know the main event for the first SuperBrawl was Ric Flair vs Tatsumi Fuginami? Flair won the match.

-Did you know before DX formed Shawn Michaels and HHH were told by Kevin Nash to form nWo WWF. Shawn Michales and HHH thought it would be a good idea plus Kevin Nash said its cool with Hogan and if Eric Bischoff sues that he will cover them.

-Did you know that Kane and Undertaker have fought each other one on one 23 times? (This counts some house shows)

-Did you know Scott Hall is the only 4 time WWF I C champ?

-Did you know Barry Windham brought Scott Hall into wrestling? (Meaning he convinced him to give it a try)

-Did you know Randy Savage has played minor league baseball for the White Sox, Reds, & Cardinals?

-Did you know Arn and Ole Anderson are not even related? WCW/NWA always played them out as brothers but in real life they are not related.

-Did you know that Sid once backed down from a fight with Brian Pillman in a hotel bar. He retreated to his car to arm himself with a weapon with which to defend himself and returned clutching a squeegee!

-Did you know The Rock won the WWF Title 15 years to the day that his father and Tony Atlas won the WWF Tag Titles

-Did you know Edge is currently dating Val Venis's Sister

-Did you know When Michael Cole calls X-Pac "the martial arts expert" he isn't exaggerating. He has a Black Belt in Judo

-Did you know Kevin Nash is the Godfather to Rick Steiners first son

-Did you know Andre the Giant once fell asleep during a match with Big John Studd

-Did you know Chris Jericho has a degree in Journalism

-Did you know Ernest Miller is Eric Biscoff's son's Karate Teacher

-Did you know Undertaker has a win/loss record of 7 wins and 0 losses at Wrestlemanias.-Did you know The WWF Title was changed 43 times and counting.

-Did you know Undertaker has a 76% win percentage at WWF PPV's.

-Did you know Terry Funk made his Pro Wrestling Debut in 1965.

-Did you know The Tallest Ladder used in a ladder match was 25 feet tall. It was used in a match with Al Snow and Sabu for the NWA independent title.

-Did you know Mick Foley and Shane Douglas were both trained by DominicDeNucci.

-Did you know Val Venis used to race Motocross , before becoming a wrestler.

-Did you know that Ted Dibease was the mentor for Arn Anderson?

-Did you know that New Jack once hit one of his patent balcany jumps from the 3rd story of a building not the usual second? It is reported he broke a few ribs doing this.

-Did you know that Hak (Sandman, James Fullington or whatever) was once the quaterback for Syracuse Orangeman?

-Did you know that no wrestler currently wrestling today for either WWF or WCW has wrestled more matches in WWF or WCW combined than Barry Horiwitz? That includes 20 year veterans like Funk and Flair.

-Did you know that Nash was the one who hooked Hall up with his former wife and now it appears he has hooked HBK up with his soon to be wife. what a matchmaker hehe.

-Did you know that Chris Jericho onced wrestled 3 back to back matches in Japan which took a total of about 1 hour 7 minutes to complete?

-Did you know that the stunt men for the WWF Attitude commercial studied Mankind's falls in the historic King of the Ring match?

-Did you know that Bill Goldberg was the first person ever cut from the Carolina Panthers?

-Did you know WWF and Honky Tonk Man wanted The Disco Inferno to be his IC protege, when they could not get him from WCW they settled for Rockabilly.

-Did you know the mentor for Taz was Kevin Sullivan? They had a few tag matches in ECW.

-Did you know Vince McMahon's dream was to be a wrestler but his father Vince Sr strictly forbade it?

-Did you know Chyna is fluent in 3 foreign languages?

-Did you know George "The Animal" Steele was a teacher in Detroit before returning to the WWF ?

-Did you know Steve Austin was trained by current WCW jobber Chris Adams?

-Did you know that before Austin was rich and famous in the WWF, Steve Austin used to be so poor that he once ate raw potatoes for three days straight while awaiting his next $100 a week paycheck?

-Did you know Marlena aka Terri Runnels was a hair stylist for the Larry King show prior to wrestling?

-Did you know Hawk, Animal, the Spoiler, and Jake Roberts were the original members of the Legion of Doom?

-Did you know WrestleMania VII was moved from the Rose Bowl to the Sports Arena in Los Angeles because Vince McMahon feared a sniper might try and take out lead heel Sgt. Slaughter, playing the role of a Iraqi sympathizer during the Gulf War?

-Did you know No heel has left one of the first 15 WrestleManias as WWF world champion?

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