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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 Bart, Al Madril, and Al Perez. Fantastic Tommy Rogers, seeing Von Erich turning blue, administers cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

On May 26, 1987, Hacksaw Jim Duggan and the Iron Sheik were arrested by NJ State police. Duggan was charged with possession of marijuana and drinking alcohol while driving. Sheik was charged with possession of marijana 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 100 stitches in his head after being thrown through the windshield of the car. Jason suffers 2 fractures in his left leg. Benoit suffers and injured right knee.

The WWF says that the Dynamite Kid left the WWF and retired because of an injury. Actually, the Kid still wrestles in England and the real reason he left was because of a locker room fight with him and Jacques Rougeau. The Bulldog opted to keep contact with the WWF and because of that and other reasons, the Bulldog and the Dynamite Kid haven't spoken in years.

In 1991, Ric Flair was fired/quit WCW. He showed up in the WWF 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 that title. WCW later bought it back from Flair for reportedly $75,000.

Randy Savage and Miss Elizabeth Hewlitte were supposedly "married" in August 1991. Actually, that was an angle to get a better buy rate for the pay-per-view. Savage and Liz were 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 1 with a 47-second TKO over Norman Fortini in Randolph, MA.

On April 4, TitanSports debuted WBF BodyStars on USA Network.

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.

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 (123 Kid). Shawn tried to be the brave one and he ended up suffering for it.

Ted Dibiase attends church at First Assembly of God in Concord, North Carolina.

Former 4-horsemen member Tully Blanchard is now a preacher in North Carolina.

Retired wrestler Nikita Kolav also attends church at First Assembly of God in Concord, North Carolina.

The Ultimate Warrior left the WWF 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 WWF saw differently...in 1992, the Warrior disappeared again because he did not want to get involved in a second-rate feud with Nailz.

Ultimate warrior was the original Slim Jim spokesman

Bastion Booger was a bouncer at the "Shamrock" in Marquette, North Carolina

Bradshaw played his last two college games with a broken leg

Tony Schiavone was an announcer with the WWF in the late 80's

The Million Dollar Belt is actually worth 140,000 and is locked in a safe at Titan towers

Earl Hebner has a twin brother, Dave, who used to be a referee

Bill Goldberg, Raven, DDP and Dean Malenko are jewish

The theme song for IYH: Badd Blood, is now Steve Blackman's entance music

Kevin Nash played University basketball, but was kicked off the team for numerous altercations with the coach

Raven was an announcer and manager of The Quebecers in the WWF in 1993/94. Going by the name Johnny Polo

DDP and Raven were trained by Jake "The Snake" Roberts

Jerry Lawler was 23 time USWA Champion

Paul Bearer, before getting into the wrestling business, actually worked at a morgue

-Sunny is married to ECW star Chris Candido

-Diesel beat Bob Backlund for the WWF Title in 8 seconds

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