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Hope you guys enjoy this heres some fun wrestling facts.

1. in the Main Event of Wrestlemania 13 “Sid vs The Undertaker”. Sid actually shit in his pants sometime during the the match and the Undertaker noticed and had to go along with the match

2. It is rumored that Paul Heyman use to get special guest stars on ECW by promising them Missy Hyatt would sleep with them.

3.Missy Hyatt brought Marcus Bagwell in to prowrestling, Bagwell lived next door to Hyatt and she seen him and asked him to try out for WCW….. Bagwell before then was a male stripper and did soft core porn and b movies

.4. Kamala use to wrestle with a pistol in his knee pad in case some one tried to legit shoot on him

5. wahoo McDaniel had a bet with Verne gagne (or bill watts) that Wahoo couldn’t run 30 miles, and in the middle of the night Wahoo ran along side the highway with Verne and Wrestlers driving along beside him, he ran all night and he made it the 30 miles and won the bet.

6. The Million Dollar man was supposed to win the World Championship at Wrestlemania 4 instead of the the Macho man…. The Macho Man was suppoused to beat the Honkey Tonk Man for the I.C. Title before Wrestlemania…. Honkey Tonk Man heard he was dropping the Title and left WWF and threatened to take the Belt to WCW, so Vince had a meeting with Honkey and Savage. Then decided to let Honkey Tonk Man keep the title by DQ so he wouldn’t take the title to WCW… Savaged was outraged and Vince told him he will give him the WWF championship at Wrestlemania instead of Diabiase….. Which is why Ted Diabiase and Honkey Tonk Man still have heat.

7. Meng is considered by most wrestlers as the toughest man ever to step in a wrestling ring…. There was a few incidents mentioned where Meng was maced and cuffed and he broke free of the hand Cuffs then beat down 7 officers…..then another incident where a wrestler (cant remember his name) was disrespecting and bullying a ditch digger late at night.night. Meng asked him stop while he was kicking dirt in him but he replied (what the F#ck are you gonna do about it). Then Meng pulled his eye out, and being a good sport he is, he put his eye back for him.

8. Chainz/Prime Time Brian Lee/Fake Undertaker was best man at the Undertakers wedding….. Rowdy Piper was Best man at Ric Flairs wedding also.

9. The Rock is said to not only dislike Shawn Michaels but flat out refuses to work with him or speak to him…..The reason for this is When The Rocks Grandmother took over Peter Maivias Wrestling Fed (she was the first woman to run a fed back then), The Rockers were on the card and demanded things and was very disrespectful to The Rocks Grandmother and both Shawn and Marty (mostly shawn) Bullied her….Also there was the time when the Rock was gonna get a big push and Shawn Michaels did everything politaclly to hold him down for some reason… and Bret Hart Pushed for the Rock to get a bigger role and fought for him to get pushed. Which some say is why Shawn wanted to hold him down out of spite….. so those are the reasons The Rock refused to work with Shawn michaels.

10. When Mark Henry first came in to The WWF, X-Pac pulled a prank on him by shitting, and putting a scoop of it in his Hoagie sandwich and him and a few Wrestlers hid and watch Henry eat the sandwich, seeing if he noticed, which he didn’t and it became a big gag….. X-pac even made reference to it in the DX Impersonating The Nation Segment on Raw when he said “I’t smells like Shit but i’ll eat it any ways HEY HEY HEY”.

11. On a bus Ride, Bad News Brown heard Andre the Giant say some Racist remarks. Bad News was outraged and got off the Bus full of wrestlers and Challenged Andre The Giant outside, which Andre ignored. and it was known the only time Andre the Giant backed Down from a fight.

12. Harley Race was doing some kinda publicity with Jackie Gleason in the 70’s (or late 60’s), and it called for Jackie Gleason to Punch Harley Race, Race told Gleason to hit him as hard as he can, Which he did….. Later he said in a interview to a news paper that he gave Harley Race his best shot and he didnt even blink.

13. one of the main The reasons why Missy Hyatts marriage to Eddie Gilbert didn’t last is cause Hyatt had a One night Stand with Tom Prichard (Zip) and all the wrestlers talked about it and it got back to Eddie Gilbert and it was the straw that broke the camels back.

14. Missy Hyatt was dating Jason Harvey of Wonder years and that’s how Harvey met Eric Bishoff… they remained friends and business partners ever since and they opened a production company called Bishoff/Harvey productions.

15. TNA star Daffney was dating The man who played Carlton from The Fresh Prince of Bel Air.

16. Speaking of Daffney, she left the wrestling business for a long period of time, it was rumored she did after being so heart broken after CM Punk broke up with her.

17. Steve Austin was once so poor when he was breaking out in Professional wrestling that he had to eat Raw Potatoes for one week straight cause all he had was a 5 pound sack of potatoes and didn’t have the money to buy anything else….. and didn’t have electricity to prepare them in any way…… so Austin had to eat Raw Potatoes for 1 week till he got his check from Memphis wrestling.

18. it is Rumored that Virgil got his Job with WWF after he pulled his penis out and flopped it on the desk of Pat Patterson, and Patterson was so impressed with the size he hired him on the spot.

19. While they were both in WWF, Fatu didn’t have money to pay the electric bill and his family didn’t have any where to go, Yokozuna after hearing Fatu on the phone to his wife, gave him the money to wire to his wife and pay the bill

20. Curt Henning once tried to haze Scott Steine., Steiner to show Henning a lesson, tied him up in a wrestling hold and had one hand free, and kept threatening to put his thump up Hennings ass and Henning would scream and beg him not to cause he was unable to move… This went on for a Half of Hour and Henning promised never to haze Scott Steiner Again.

21. Mankinds mask concept was actually meant to look more like Haniable lecters mask form “The Silence of the Lambs” till Foley talked them in to changing it to the Mankind mask he wore.

22. In the Beniot Tribute on Raw. HHH gave a speech about how someone disrespected Shawn Michaels and Benoit made him do 500 Hindu squats 2 nights in a row…. the wrestler he was referring to was “Matt Striker”.

23. Steve Blackman had a contract with WWF when he was 19, just before he was starting in WWE he went to Africa to wrestle for a friend and got a bad case of malaria that took 6 years to get over….. Blackman would make his Debut 8 years after he was originally supposed to.

24. Crash Holly’s roommate when he passed away was Steven Richards… he passed away in there shared apartment.

25.Chris Hamerick attempted suicide after the married woman he was having a affair with decided to end it.

26. back when all 3 were in FCW, Yoshi Tatsu, Ted Diabiase and Sheamus were all rooming together…. Sheamus was known to be a big Bully back in his FCW days, he would constantly bully Diabise and Tatsu. and then one time Tatsu got tired of it and Sheamus went to attack him and Yoshi Tatsu defended him self and humbled Sheamus so badly that it brought Sheamus to tears and he stopped bulling them from that point on…. Note Yoshi Tatsu is a trained fighter and very peaceful and is one the reasons he allowed Sheamus to bully him.

27. Stan Hansen hit Vader so hard in a match in Japan that he took Vader’s eye out of socket, and Vader had to wrestle the whole match with his eye out of socket…… The reason Hansen made the mistake was he had bad eye sight to begin with but he entered after Vader and he couldn’t see from the smoke in Vader’s entrance and he just swung wildly with out know where Vader was.

28. Vader was known as being so stiff that a few Jobbers that were gonna wrestle against him on a TV taping seen his name next to there’s on the card and just up and left and quit on the spot. it happened a few times

.29.Former WWF Wrestler Kevin Kelly (no not the announcer) also known as Nails got in a heated argument with Vince McMahon in his office and choked him till Vince McMahon almost passed out…. it was broken up shortly and Nails was never seen in the company again.

30. Vince McMahon challenged Kurt Angle to pin him. McMahon kept sneak attacking Angle till Angle agreed to accept McMahons challenge on a privet flight. it got so heated that the Undertaker who was sleeping on the other side of the plane was awoken by the noise and thinking Angle legit attacked McMahon he put Angle in a rear naked choke and Angle passed out. When Undertaker realized what happened he apologized to Angle and told him he wasn’t aware Kurt and Vince were horsing around.

31. Chief Jay Strongbow once called Kamala a N***** and Strongbow being a agent in WWF at the time was known to be a racist and Hogan once stood up for Kamala and offered to job at a house show to him to work a program with Kamala…. Strange huh. this came from Kamala a few years ago in a interview.

32. Danny Hodge was double jointed in his hands and it gave him incredible grip strength. Hodge use to squeeze whole apples in his hand with ease and Hodge would also display his strength by breaking pliers in his hand by squeezing them.

33. sticking on Danny Hodge…. Bruiser Brody was once making fun of smaller guys in wrestling and began showing off his muscles. So all the wrestlers knowing Hodges impressive reputation asked him to get in the ring with Hodge and Hodge easily put Brody in many shoot submissions and had Brody screaming in pain and begging for mercy and the group of wrestlers screamed at Brody “show him your muscles” mocking him.

34. Danny Hodge once drove his automobile in a river after he fell asleep while driving. Hodge punched the window opened and swam with one arm while holding his severely broken neck in the other hand. once he reached land he walked himself to a hospital. Now that’s tough.

35. Lou Thez invented the power bomb and the STF. moves that are still used today as finishers.

36. Bam Bam Bigelow once saved 2 children from a burning house and Bigelow suffered 3rd degree burns.

37. Saturn got shot while saving a woman from being rapped.

38. Former TNA wrestling star Sonny Siaki was forced to retire from wrestling after he donated his kidney to his brother who was in need of a transplant. Siaki cant wrestle with one kidney cause it would be to dangerous and could cost him his life.

39. WWF claimed the venue was changed for Wrestlemania 7 because of fear of a sniper attack on Sgt Slaughter but the truth was WWF changed venues cause of poor ticket sales.

40. Sid was fired from WWF for faking injuries to be in a softball tournament.

41. Mick Foley had heat with Marc Mero for along time. The reason Foley said he had problems with Marc Mero is because when Foley signed with WWF, The WWF did not have guaranteed contracts and everyone got a low side guarantee (new talent did anyways) and Marc Mero signed a month or so after Foley when the company changed their policy to guaranteed contracts for more money. Foley admitted to being angry at Mero even thought it wasn’t his fault.

42. Kane and Val Venis is apart of the independent political party.

43. Terry “Bam Bam” Gordy was considered and great big man worker until Gordy overdosed and had a seizure, Gordy spent time in a coma. After that Gordy continued to work but was a shell of his former self.

44. Dr D, David Schultz heard the WWF wanted to use MR T to have a main event program. Dr D decided if he legit sneak attacks MR T in the crowd on TV they would have no choice but to use him in main event program with Hogan and MR T. Wrestlers informed WWF what Dr D planned to do and security took him down before he reached MR T….. locking in the Piperand Orndorf vs Hogan and MR T feud.

45. XPW (ECW wanna be promotion) was owned and operated by porn director and distributor Rob Black. Black used many porn stars in his promotion along with alot of former ECW Talent.

46. Michaels Hayes was suspended for saying the N word to Mark Henry. in Michael’s defense he didn’t say it in a racial way. his words were something like ” you maybe Black but you aint a N***** like me” basically telling Mark Henry that he had more soul and was blacker than him…. Michael Hayes is a black wannabe.

47. Undertaker once rented his property to Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie who was filming in the area.The propertie had a full size wrestling ring in the gym area.

48. Wrestlemaina 13s original main event was to be a Bret Hart vs Shawn Michaels rematch. In the match Bret Hart was to snap Shawn Michaels ankle while Michaels attempts a super kick (with under the ring sound effects) and then force Shawn to submit or pass out in the sharpshooter……. This came from Bret Hart.

49. Bruno Sammartino didn’t break his neck from a lariat from Stan Hansen that was originally claimed by WWF. Bruno Broke his neck earlier in the match when Hansen botched a slam. They used the broken neck to get Hansen’s Lariat over and after that day Hansen has used the lariat as a finisher all over america and Japan.

50. Larry Zybsko got Bruno Sammartino to train him bu following him home and sneaking in his back yard and begging Bruno to train him. Bruno admired Larrys guts and passion and decided to train him….. Larry was a hugeeeee Bruno fan.

I did all these by memory and did steal this from other posters or forums these are all from my head from listening to various shoot interviews and reading wrestling biographies of the years. hope you enjoyed it, I had more to tell but got tired of typing

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