Fun Wrestling Facts

[Robstar]

Bump for legendary status

[xAzureSkye]

WWE pulled away from one of The Bella Twins' themes because they believed it made them sound like sluts.

also, Winter speaks German and was born there even though she is billed from Chelsea, England

[HCollins-TNA1]

At No Mercy, Chyna vs. Jeff Jarrett for the IC Title has a VERY interesting fact behind it. TNA would have never been around if it weren't for this match. The story was, Jeff Jerrett Jarrett’s contract expired Saturday night or Friday before the No Mercy PPV. The main point is, he wasn't under contract for his match against Chyna and was still the IC Champion. Vince Mcmahon had a major problem since Jarrett was still the IC Champion despite not being under contract with the WWE at the time and Jarrett capitalizes on Vince's mistake by demanding Vince to pay him $400,000 or he wouldn't show up to defend his IC Title against Chyna. Vince had no choice but to pay him the $400,000. After the match, Jeff Jarrett is never seen again and was told by WWE never to come back ever again.

Very interesting and remember that very well... Just imagine if Vince didn't pay Jeff and he showed up on Nitro with IC title....

[Destruction]

I'm not sure how true this is, but I read online that Paul London was supposed to be the one who blew up McMahon's limo. He was supposed to become a big time player, but since the Benoit tragedy happened they had to stop the story. Here's the video, with Paul London smiling like a madman right before McMahon blew up:
and here's an article WWE put up about the possible suspects, including London: http://www.wwe.com/shows/raw/special/suspectsmcmahon

I read somewhere that it was going to be a monster heel push for Mr Kennedy

[PrimusSucks]

John Laurinaitis has been given 2 five star matches by Dave Meltzer

With Steve Williams vs. Mitsuharu Misawa and Kenta Kobashi on March 4, 1995
with Steve Williams vs. Mitsuharu Misawa and Jun Akiyama on June 7, 1996

Can you imagine how a lot of internet fans would feel if they knew that Mr. Excitement had more 5 star matches than Owen Hart, CM Punk, AJ Styles, and Christopher Daniels.

And that Low Ki, Austin Aries, Eddie Guerrero, Chris Benoit, Chris Jericho, and Dean Malenko all have none.

[VanHooliganX]

John Laurinaitis has been given 2 five star matches by Dave Meltzer

With Steve Williams vs. Mitsuharu Misawa and Kenta Kobashi on March 4, 1995
with Steve Williams vs. Mitsuharu Misawa and Jun Akiyama on June 7, 1996

Can you imagine how a lot of internet fans would feel if they knew that Mr. Excitement had more 5 star matches than Owen Hart, CM Punk, AJ Styles, and Christopher Daniels.

And that Low Ki, Austin Aries, Eddie Guerrero, Chris Benoit, Chris Jericho, and Dean Malenko all have none.

Oh i'd be quite angry. Shame Dave Meltzers opinion is shite and doesn't matter in the slightest

[xAzureSkye]

This is quite interesting

Despite the fact that the NWA declined to recognize women’s wrestling, the Alliance was still at the center of many conflicts between Billy Wolfe and Mildred Burke. In a letter to Alliance members on November 4, 1953, Burke refuted Wolfe’s claim that she would wrestle only one woman grappler.
Despite listing 12 grapplers that she would work with, Wolfe used his influence to get her frozen from NWA members. The result was that her run in the Southeast with Cowboy Luttrall and Paul Jones in 1954 fizzled. Adding insult to injury, Burke wrestled Wolfe’s daughter-in-law June Byers. The match took place on August 20, 1954 in Atlanta and the match was a shoot.By having the local commission in his corner, Wolfe slid a friendly referee into the match. Despite giving up the first fall with the intention of competing stronger in the second, Burke never had the opportunity. Officials called the match, and the second fall never had a finish.
Burke left the ring believing that her title was safe because she had not lost two falls. Many in the press stated that Byers had defeated her and the image of Burke’s championship was tarnishing. Wolfe had done everything possible to discredit Burke and the result was one of the nastiest rivalries in wrestling history.

[xAzureSkye]

Wolfe maintained membership in the Alliance until 1957 and promoted women’s wrestling until his death on March 7, 1963. Near Opal, Virginia, Wolfe became sick and was taken to Fauquier Hospital in Warrenton where he died. His funeral was in Newark, Ohio and was attended by a number of his peers and a number of women grapplers. Billy Wolfe, Jr. died on August 8, 1964 in Newark.^[5]
Negative stories about Wolfe by the women who wrestled for him are legion. In her autobiography, (The Fabulous Moolah) recalls his extreme chauvinism (he turned to managing women wrestlers only after failing as a wrestler and as a manager of male wrestlers), his financial misdealings and routine sexual harassment of his "girls" before, during and after his marriage to Mildred Burke.

Due to his managerial contract with her he was able to leave Burke penniless when she divorced him, taking all of their marital assets and leaving her with nothing to show for decades of hundreds of wrestling matches per year. The horror stories of Wolfe led to the success of the far more ethical manager Jack Pfeffer and of Moolah herself. In her autobiography, Moolah ultimately felt great sorrow for Wolfe because of the number of personal tragedies he suffered later in life. Despite being highly criticized for his morals, Wolfe was responsible for making women’s wrestling profitable. Instead of being viewed as a sideshow, Wolfe tried to make it respectable. Part of Wolfe’s contributions to women’s wrestling was the creation of a tag team title and the integration of African-American wrestlers.

I never realised how much of an asshole Billy Wolfe was, Moolah also sold the title to the WWF because Billy told her he would bury her and every womens wrestler she was friends with.

[xAzureSkye]

Mae Young is a self trained wrestler and also expanded women's wrestling into Canada and Japan, becoming the first woman to wrestle outside of the US. She also wrestled during the Second World War, encouraging women to join wrestling since the men had left to go fight at the front

[Murphdogg4]

Oh i'd be quite angry. Shame Dave Meltzers opinion is shite and doesn't matter in the slightest

LMFAO!! This response made me send you a friends request. ##@$Q Meltzer