The "submit a useless wrestling fact" thread
 

The fact must actually be ,you know, factual. I'll start

Jim Cornette's ex-wife has the lock of Shawn Michaels hair that Bret Hart pulled out during the fight backstage in Hartford.

a rasslin ring is square

PWG's Excalibur used to edit porn.

**Diana Hart (sister of Bret Hart, and the widow of the British Bulldog) is a former competitive bodybuilder.

Kevin Nash played basketball for the University of Tennessee.

I love the fact that I know this one:

Only six people have official wins over Goldberg: Kevin Nash, Bret Hart, Booker T, Scott Steiner, Lex Luger and Triple H.

Being a mark can be fun sometimes. :yes:

Also, none of them happened in a legit, clean one-on-one match.

I don't know if thats entirely useless... its actually pretty neat lol

Also....


Matt Hardy and Jeff Hardy are related (brothers)

The Honky Tonk Man and Jerry "The King" Lawler are cousins.

While The Undertaker is 19-0 at WrestleMania, he has only defeated 17 different people.

Shawn Hernandez owns a gym in Houston, Tx and his daughter is a compeditive power lifter.




Side note, should we do facts about wrestlers families?

Alex Wright has a undefeated Record against one Triple H

oh shit, I love these threads -

Triple H's "The Game" gimmick was originally supposed to go to Owen Hart.

Molly Holly held the Minnesota state powerlifting record for her age group when she was 14.

When he was wrestling at Kent State, Dolph Ziggler set the record for most career wins in the team's history.

In contrast with his Wildman image, Mick Foley said that Abdullah the Butcher once held flatulence in for 50 miles on a car trip simply because Foley's wife was riding with them & he didn't want to offend her.

Macho Man Randy Savage was signed to the St. Louis Cardinals out of high school.

D'lo Brown is a licensed accountant.

Also,

Kanes daughter is hot.

I used to work at KFC when I was 16 or 17 and Kane's daughter was friends with one of the girls I worked with. She would come in and hang out and talk ALL OF THE TIME. SHE WAS SUPER HOT.

Kane lived near me at that time.

...I don't know if this would be considered an "usless wrestling fact", but at one point, the Kliq DID rule the wrestling world...

...the NWO was HOT in WCW, and DX was HOT in WWF...simultaneously...

Kofi Kingston is not really from Jamaica or West Africa, but Brighton Massachusetts, a small town outside Boston Massachusetts.

There has never been a fully African American WWF/WWE Champion.

Roddy Piper is fully canadian and is a cousin of the Harts. His son is also a MMA wrestler

El Generico is Canadian not Mexican.

Santino Marella is Canadian








Viscera has huge floppy tits.

Only 3 people have officially pinned the Ultimate Warrior: Rick Rude, Sgt. Slaughter, and Hulk Hogan (not counting the earlier gimmicks Helwig may have had) and none of them were clean wins.

A excerpt from 'The Death of WCW' by RD Reynolds and Bryan Alvarez on how much Vince McMahon purchased WCW for.

Vince bought WCW for $3 million. Nice!

I definitely remember the Nash, Hart, Steiner, Luger and HHH ones, but when did Booker T beat him? That's the only one I can't remember. Was this when Booker T was WCW Champion?

That Triple H one isn't useless

Umaga had a tattoo on his right forearm of the late Yokozuna holding the then WWF Winged World Title Belt.

Paul Heyman's ECW peaked at 99,000 pay-per-view buys for a single PPV.

Rick Rude was training for a WWF comeback before his death

John Laurinaitis & Road Warrior Animal are brothers

Hulk Hogan earned $1.8 million for his match against Randy Savage at Wrestlemania V.

Justin Credible was the 1st and only member of the Kliq to be of Portuguese descent (basis for his Man of War character) and the only one to wear a mask that looked like a jock-strap or underwear with holes (once again the Man of War character).

Scott Hall was responsible for both X-Pac and Justin Credible becoming members of the Kliq when others in the group didn't want them such as HBK.

THQ once had in its contract with the WWE that only Triple H could never be shown getting beaten up in any video of screen shot of a WWF/WWE game they worked on.

The Rock's custom Brahma Bull belt never appeared on tv due to getting lost in the mail while the one The Rock actually owns is a replica of the original.

Yep.

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southern wrestler Carl Fergie is also cousins with Jerry Lawler

Rey Mysterio broke three records from winning the royal rumble (longest time in the rumble, only masked wrestler to win a rumble and shortest person to win the rumble)

Bill Goldberg was the first person ever cut from the Carolina Panthers.

Lex Luger was signed by the Green Bay Packers, yet never played a game.

Before she married Brian Pillman, Melanie Pillman went out with Ultimate Warrior.

Curt Hennig, Verne Gagne, Rick Rude, Demolition Ax, Tom Zenk, Gene Okerlund, and Nikita Koloff are all from a town called Robbinsdale, Minnesota which currently has less than 14,000 residents.

DJ Ran was a DJ for WCW Monday Nitro in 1999.

The Rumble's guaranteed title shot hasn't led to a new champion since 2007 (Taker at WM23).

Since then, MITB's guaranteed title shot has led to 7 new champions. (Edge/Punk/Punk/Swagger/Kane/Miz/Del Rio)

Legion of Doom is the only tag team in wrestling history to hold the AWA, NWA, and WWF tag titles.

Buff Bagwell, before becoming a wrestler was a model, exotic dancer and acted in a few adult movies.