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PART 1
Tully Blanchard and Ted Dibiase are both preachers across
the United States
Ted Dibiase and Nikita Koloff attend the same Church in
North Carolina
Honky Tonk Man and Jerry Lawler are cousins
Dynamite Kid left the WWF because he got into a
backstage brawl with former Quebeccer Jaques Rougeau
WCW Paid Ric Flair $75,000 to give back the WCW title
after he had departed to the WWF in 1991
Ahmed Johnson played in the NFL for the Dallas Cowboys
Road Dogg fought in Desert Storm
Farooq aka Ron Simmons was cut by the Cleveland Browns
Steve Austin was trained by current WCW jobber Chris
Adams
Legion of Doom is the only tag team in wrestling history to
hold the AWA,NWA and WWF Tag titles
Rob Van Dam has an unique weightlifting record of doing a
split across two benches and lifting a 200 pound dumbell
Terri Runnels was a hair stylist for the Larry King Show
prior to wrestling
Ultimate Warrior was the original spokesman for Slim Jim
Bill Goldberg, DDP,Dean Malenko and Barry Horowitz are all
Jewish
Raven was a manager in the WWF that went by the name
of Johnny Polo. He managed the Quebecers and Adam
Bomb
DDP and Raven were both trained by Jake"the Snake"
Roberts
Hawk,Animal,the Spoiler and Jake Roberts were the
original members of the Legion of Doom
D-Lo Brown is a certified Accountant
Steve Austin is an Antique collector
Savio Vega owns the WWA based in Puerto Rico
Sunny aka Tammy Sytch is the most downloaded celebrity
in AOL history
Tom Pritchard aka Zip and Brother Love are brothers
Shane Douglas and Paul Orndorff are cousins
Duane Gill and Barry Horowitz were a tag team called the
Executioners in the early 90's of the WWF
Reese was trained by Big John Studd
In the Raw tag team tournament of Summer of 97 in the
WWF, Jerry Lawler teamed with Rob Van Dam
Rob Van Dam debuted in the WWF against Matt Hardy
Mankind(that character) debuted in the WWF by defeating
Bob Sparkplugg Holly
Jerry Lawler owns the now defunct USWA based in
Memphis
Jerry Lawler was a 23 time USWA Champion
Gangrel and Luna are married
PART 2
Undertaker has a win/loss record of 7 wins and 0 losses at
Wrestlemanias
The first ever African American WWF Tag Champs were
Rocky Johnson and Tony Atlas in 1983
Booker T became the first African American WCW TV
Champ in 1997
Bruno Sammartino held the WWF title for 8 years from
1963 to 1971
The WWF Title was changed 43 times and counting
Current WWF jobber Tiger ali Singh was the 1997 WWF
Kuwiat Champ defeating Al Snow,Owen Hart, Mankind, Billy
Gunn in the tournament
Undertaker has a 76% win percentage at WWF PPV's
Chris Benoit was trained by Stu Hart
Al Snow and Kane(name was unibomb) while in the
Smokey Mountain Wrestling were managed by Jim
Cornette
Terry Funk made his Pro Wrestling Debut in 1965
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
DDP started in the wrestling business as the manager of
Badd Company(Paul Diamond and Pat Tanaka) in the AWA
HHH at the time known as Terry Ryzin made his wrestling
TV debut on WCW Worldwide by defeating Brian
Armstrong (The Road Dogg)
Kevin Nash's last match in the WWF was against Shawn
Michaels
Scott Hall's last match in the WWF was against HHH
At the University of Georgia , Goldberg was banned by his
coach from playing in the Gator Bowl against Michigan for
experimenting with Marijuana
Mick Foley and Shane Douglas were both trained by
Dominic DeNucci
Larry Zybysko is a licensed pilot and often flies Hulk Hogan
in for PPV's and Nitro's
Jake The Snake Roberts father,brother and sister all
wrestled. They were Grizzly Smith, Sam Houston and
Rockin Robyn
Terry Funk first announced his retirement from Pro
Wrestling in 1983
Taz's Personalized License Plate reads Tap Out
Ed "Brutus the Barber Beefcake" Leslie was the original
choice for the gay gimmick portrayed by the late Adrian
Adonis in the WWF in the mid 1980's
Summerslam 92' is Britians best selling wrestling video
ever
Before becoming a Wrestler Jerome "New Jack" Young
worked as a Bounty Hunter
During one drinking session Andre the Giant Drank 119
bottles of BEER!
Barry Windhams father "Blackjack Mulligan" served time for
counterfeiting
At Wrestlemania 14. The New age Outlaws were supposed
to fight Funk and Cactus in a Barbwire match. Officials of
the PPV vetoed the idea
The WWF was the first promotion to regurarly test it's
athletes for drugs
Back in the 1980's Hulk Hogan's opponents were banned
from mentioning his receding hairline in their Interviews.
PART 3
Andre the Giant drank 14 bottles of Wine before his match
with Hulk Hogan at Wrestlemania 3
Kevin Nash played Super Shredder in Teenage Mutant
Ninja Turtles 2
Saturn Dated Chyna before she entered the WWF
The Rock's first character in the WWF was "Flex Cavana".
He only wrestled under that name once
Before Becoming a wrestler. Buff Bagwell worked as an
Exotic Dancer and acted in Soft Porn Movies
The Peoples Eyebrow was originally name the "Heat Brow".
The Rock called it that in College, but he changed the
name do to the fact that the name didn't catch on
17 months is the age gap between the Steiner Bros
Melanie Pillman had a relationship with the Ultimate
Warrior before she met Brian
Leatherface caused the scar on Mick Foley's left arm
The British Bulldog and Stephen Regal are the only two
British Wrestlers who get paid over $200,000 a year
Shawn Michaels is a huge Garth Brooks fan
Vader knows how to play the Piano
Rocky Maivia is a skilled light tackle salt water fisherman
Sgt. Slaughter's character was portrayed in the Cartoon GI
Joe
The New Age Outlaws cross their arms above their head
as an alternative for younger fans to do the crotch chop
The Rock is the youngest WWF Champ, IC Champ and also
the first African American to hold the WWF Title
Val Venis used to race Motocross , before becoming a
wrestler
PART 4
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 WWF
strap, he wore a gold costume.

"Butterbean" was born Brian Esch.

Hulk Hogan agreed to drop the world 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.*Hogan forced McMahon
to give him the strap at the end of WMIX by threatening to
no-show his tag earlier on the show with Brutus Beefcake
against IRS & 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 and 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 Justice
doublecrossed Vince McMahon by kicking out of Hogan's
legdrop at WMVIII. Sid had been caught cheating on a drug
test a few weeks earlier and was going to be suspended.
Sid's manager, Harvey Whippleman (who is said to have
supplied Sid with the false urine sample that WWF 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.

McMahon wanted a Flair-Hogan main event for WMVIII, but
before Flair surprisingly was unable to re-up on a contract
with WCW, McMahon signed Sid with the promise he
would wrestle Hogan at the next WM. So, McMahon went
with a double main event of Hogan-Sid and Flair-Savage.

Prior to WMX, McMahon had Lex Luger come out with the
world belt 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.

Rocky Maivia's first WrestleMania was two years ago,
when he defeated The Sultan to retain the Intercontinental
championship.

No heel has left one of the first 14 WrestleManias as WWF
world champion.

The Shawn Michaels-Bret Hart "Ironman Match" at WMXII
lasted 61:52.

Sable debuted at WMXII as Hunter Hearst Helmsley's valet.
Helmsley was scheduled to lose to the returning Ultimate
Warrior in 10 minutes. However, the Warrior insisted the
match be a squash and threatened not to appear if
McMahon said otherwise. McMahon, believing Helmsley
had a bright future ahead of him, didn't relent until Hunter
said he didn't mind doing the squash. The match lasted
1:38. Incidentally, that was also Steve Austin's first WM.
Managed by Dibiase and known as "The Ringmaster",
Austin pinned Savio Vega.

Prior to WMIV, USA Today got a copy of the post-WM
WWF 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.

Andre the Giant's last WrestleMania match was at No. 6,
where he teamed with Haku to lose the WWF tag titles to
Demolition. Andre turned babyface after the match,
attacking manager Bobby Heenan.

The Undertaker has a 7-0 record at WrestleMania entering
the 15th show. (He won his Hell in a Cell matchup against
The Big Bossman after hanging him from the cage and
having it raised to the roof by the Brood.)

Bam Bam Bigelow was chosen as the opponent for
Lawrence Taylor at WMXI because he was the WWF'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 as The Cliq (not fans of Bam
Bam) began gaining political power, and Bigelow wasn't
with the company very much longer.

Owen Hart wrestled as The Blue Blazer against Curt Hennig
at WMV, losing by pinfall.

Owen Hart has either entered or left WrestleMania as a
world tag team champion with three different partners:
Yokozuna, Davey Boy Smith and now, Jeff Jarrett.

King Kong Bundy appeared in the first two WrestleManias
(beating S.D. Jones and losing to Hogan in a cage), but
didn't return again until WMXI (losing to The Undertaker).

Nash was on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 as the Super
Shredder.

Undertaker was in Suburban Commando with Hogan.

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 for their shows.

When WCW did the WorldWide show, they used to have a
monitor to tell the audience who to cheer and who to boo.
One one occasion when Rick Rude and the Equalizer (the
"heels") the audience accidentally cheered for them and
WCW had to reshoot their entrance over again.

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

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