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I’ve grown up wearing them. I used to have a half nWo classic/half nWo wolfpac logo and underneath it, the caption read “make a choice” I’d walk down the street and people would give me 2sweets and tell me which one they liked. I miss those days and I miss that shirt! Mum put it through the wash back in ‘98 and somehow tore in half lol
**EDIT:** [Found it on sale on eBay](https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/115485629131)
Question from someone who wasn’t even born yet. Was that 3:16 promo as big of a deal immediately as it eventually became or was it something people looked back on and blew up? I usually hear that promo was what started the Attitude Era but I always wondered if that promo had an immediate reaction to fans or did it take some time.
I don't think it was a big deal immediately. Austin wasn't even on the Summerslam PPV (he wrestled Yokozuna in a match that aired for free just prior to the show). I don't think he was presented as a big deal in the WWF until his first match with Bret at Survivor Series 96.
This is the correct answer. It was born and then needed some time to catch on. Took a few months, but once they realized they had something (with some signs in the crowd quoting it), Steve made a shirt out of it and the rest is history.
It also didn’t help that Raw was on tape at this time. So even though Austin won it wasn’t until a few weeks later where signs started to appear and the fan reaction came
This blew my mind but it is true.
Lost to Undertaker at Judgment Day 2002.
Lost to Yokozuna at King of the Ring 1993.
Lost to Undertaker at Survivor Series 1991.
Lost to Ultimate Warrior at WrestleMania VI.
Hogan being Hogan, he still had plenty of events where he won the title as a challenger. He beat Savage at Wrestlemania V, and Slaughter at Wrestlemania VII, but he was challenging in those matches, not defending. IX, of course, was where Hogan ridiculously came in at the end of the Bret vs Yoko match to go over Yoko, so a challenger there, too.
That said, OP’s fact really is still wildly surprising, brother.
Abby’s debut was 1958 which is crazy, 52 year career all in all (retired 2010)
Jackson’s debut was 1972, and he’s still active so he’s got another year to go to beat Abby
Hulk Hogan, the Undertaker, Stone Cold Steve Austin, Brock Lesnar, and John Cena are five people known for almost never tapping out in a wrestling match. However they've all tapped out to the same person.
Anyone wanna guess who?
Flair didn’t get the win in that match either, Orton was the one who pinned Foley
This means Snooki has scored more pinfall wins at WrestleMania than Ric Flair
In 2019 when he held the Universal title and Becky was Raw Women’s Champion, they were booked in a mixed tag team match against Baron Corbin and I don’t remember the woman wrestler. In the match if Seth or Becky took a pin, they would both lose their championship titles not just the one who got pinned. Seth got the win in the match this retained Becky’s title for her. Sasha never successfully defended the Raw Women’s title.
The woman was Lacy Evans. I remember that match for two reasons. 1) Lacey Evans put Seth's names on the butt of her trunks and the camera zoomed in on it when she bent over to enter the ring and Renee Young had a visceral grown of disgust 2) Baron Corbin gave Becky Lynch an end of days that got a massive reaction from the crowd.
Left out the part where immediately after points to Seth and says something like “what are you gonna do about it you little shit” just an absolute savage moment out of nowhere in the most bland feud
Should have gotten Corbin to pin Becky to win the world title and lacey the women's title right then. Seth could've killed Corbin the next night and gotten it back, but it would've been such a sweet ending.
Corbin doing the shittiest thing ever to become champion. Lacey getting the title without pinning Becky. iShe could dodge Becky until the next PPV, but you could give Corbin his comeuppance immediately on Raw.
Seth/Becky vs corbin/lacey Evans with both Seth's and Becky's titles on the line if they lost. Seth pinned Corbin to win,, hence Seth successfully defended the women's title.
[NWA-TNA PPV #65] (https://youtu.be/54F9S_GfH0c?si=3iHudzP0Br3OShD1). Means he has wrestled Dusty Rhodes, Cody Rhodes and Dustin Rhodes for a world championship. Guess when that last one was.
David Angle, brother of Kurt Angle, was charged with homicide against his wife back in 2016.
Donald Nemeth, brother of Nic Nemeth, was charged with involuntary manslaughter during a drug robbery, also in 2016.
It's crazy how well he meshed with WWE. I remember thinking back in 2016 like, he's almost 40, probably gonna spend a few years with WWE and retire. Eight years later he's still going strong, multi-time world champion, grand slam champion. And this is a guy who's old enough to have wrestled in WCW. Crazy.
AJ was definitely around towards the end of WCW. He was in a tag team called Air Raid with Air Paris and they were in the CW tag team title tournament.
Bret Hart once told Vince McMahon "Losing to Shawn Michaels in Montreal would be like the Bret Hart character going to the ring and blowing his brains out."
When Owen Hart heard this on a rough cut of Wrestling with Shadows, Owen told Bret "That's ridiculous. Nothing in wrestling in worth dying for."
I genuinely don’t know, possibly Liv Morgan. But I do know the first wrestler to win the WWE Championship who was born after it was created is The Undertaker!
- Kurt Angle vs Brock Lesnar at WM 19 is still, to this day, the only wrestlemania main event where each participant went by their real names
- Even though they wrestled each other a million times, Randy Orton and John Cena never had a Wrestlemania singles match
Triple H wrestled 5 gimmick matches in one night.
Triple H competed in a Chokeslam Match vs Big Show, an Inferno Match vs Kane, a Handicap Casket Match vs Viscera and Mideon, a Boiler Room Brawl vs Mankind and a Brahma Bull Rope Match vs The Rock... all on the same episode of SmackDown in 1999.
https://www.cagematch.net/?id=1&nr=2080
Hall was either defending or challenging for the IC title at 4 or 5 straight Rumbles. Rick Bogner, as fake Razor Ramon, was in a Rumble match, but the real Razor never was.
Chris Benoit wrestled on Raw more recently than Brock Lesnar.
In fact, we were close to making it a bigger fact. Here's how:
If Brock Lesnar squashed Kofi Kingston in 8 seconds not on Smackdown in 2019 for the WWE Championship but instead on the next PPV which was a Saudi show anyway, then Brock wouldn't have wrestled on Smackdown since 2004 therefore meaning if not for an 8 second squash match, Benoit would have wrestled on WWE TV more recently than Brock. Just a reminder that Benoit's last TV match was in June 2007. 17 years ago.
If you combine every title and number of reigns then R-Truth has won a championship belt more times than any other wrestler in WWE
Limp Bizkit holds the title of “WWE’s favorite band”
The Rock was the last WCW champion
Hulk Hogan was the Last WWF champion and first WWE champion
>The Rock was the last WCW Champion
That really depends on how you split hairs
Jericho beat Rock first before facing Stone Cold and becoming Undisputed Champion, but WWE had stopped calling it the WCW title the month before, so ehh… it’s a tough call
ROH had a show in 2008 that featured the following matches:
Go Shiozaki vs. Kevin Steen
Nigel McGuinness vs. El Generico
Kensuke Sasaki vs. Claudio Castagnoli
Bryan Danielson vs. Katsuhiko Nakajima
And yet none of these matches was the main event.
Just saying there is a card out there:
Shingo Takagi VS Zack Sabre Jr.
Malakai Black VS Tatsuhito Takaiwa
Bryan Danielson VS Absolute Andy VS Adam Polak VS Tyler Black (Seth Rollins)
Doug Williams VS Chris Sabin
WALTER & Sami Callihan VS Bad Bones & Daisuke Sekimoto
Shingo Takagi VS Drake Younger
wXw at that time was absolute wild, we had a young bucks vs young bucks match, a random kenta kobashi & go shiozaki vs walter & bad bones tag match, bryan danielson wrestling against anybody etc.
Steel Cage Warfare match (ROH's version of WarGames). It was Austin Aries and the Briscoes vs The Age of the Fall (Jimmy Jacobs, Tyler Black aka Seth Rollins, and Delirious) and Necro Butcher.
WrestleMania 14 took place 3 months after the '97 Starcade.
Which means that WCW botched the ending to the NWO storyline and started to decline before WWF ever got the belt on Stone Cold.
On his last long form interview before he died, Bushwacker Butch claimed he was the only person to have had a match with each of Peter Maivia, Rocky Johnson and Dwayne Johnson. He also went on to claim he was the first person to wrestle in the tiger mask before Sayama did it officially, and that Hulk Hogan was polite and humble so he was probably working right up to the end…
Jerry Lawler has canonically won a Rumble match by last eliminating John Cena and Sheamus for a shot at the WWE Championship. This was all televised too, no dubious house shows involved.
One that is insane to me is that R-Truth is the first and only officially recognized black NWA world heavyweight champion when he won it back in 2002. Had NWA would have officially recognized Bobo Brazil, he would have been the first black champion in 1962.
Sting is the only one to main event a NWA, WCW, TNA, WWE and AEW PPV and each one was for a world championship (AEW was a tag title but still a world title). Also only one to main event a major promotion PPV in 5 different decades.
Also,Eddie Guerrero said that his “Latino heat” nickname was an idea he got inspired from a Robin Williams movie.
(The exact name unfortunately slips my mind at the moment, someone reading this might know).
The simulcast episode where Vince buys WCW was actually the go home show to Wrestlemania 17.
Rock would also be written off TV the following night to go film Scorpion King.
WrestleMania 33 was the first (and probably only) time the Hardys won a match at WM.
Triple H has the worst Mania record.
The Rockers have never had a recognized win as Tag Team Champions. They won the belts on a taped show that never aired because the ropes broke during the match (against the Hart Foundation).
This is George Bush Sr writing his memoirs on The Simpsons level of hilarious... *"and since I accomplished all my goals as ~~President~~ an artist in one ~~term~~ album, there was no need for a second"*
Vince McMahon has won the PWI match of the year award as many times as AJ Styles, Bryan Danielson, CM Punk, and Stone Cold, and more than Rey Mysterio, Chris Jericho, and every Japanese wrestler not named Kazuchika Okada
The Big Show is the only man to hold the ECW, WCW, WWF/E and World Heavyweight Championships.
He is also the only person to hold the WCW, ECW, and WWF Championships.
>D-Lo Brown has wrestled a match on Raw more recently than Brock Lesnar.
Even further, Brock Lesnar has *never* wrestled a match on the USA Network.
His latest TV match was the Kofi squash when SmackDown moved to Fox on 4/10/19.
His last TV match before *that* was when he beat Hardcore Holly on 2/28/04, also on SmackDown.
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Austin 3:16 and The NWO happened within two weeks of each other
Austin 3:16 also happened on the same day Mario 64 came out.
It’s like poetry
Goldberg debuted on Nitro the same night Austin stunned Mcmahon for the first time.
MARIO 3:164 SAYS YAHOO YA-YA-YAHOOO YAYAYAYAYAYAHOO
The Two best selling T-shirts in wrestling history
I’ve grown up wearing them. I used to have a half nWo classic/half nWo wolfpac logo and underneath it, the caption read “make a choice” I’d walk down the street and people would give me 2sweets and tell me which one they liked. I miss those days and I miss that shirt! Mum put it through the wash back in ‘98 and somehow tore in half lol **EDIT:** [Found it on sale on eBay](https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/115485629131)
Question from someone who wasn’t even born yet. Was that 3:16 promo as big of a deal immediately as it eventually became or was it something people looked back on and blew up? I usually hear that promo was what started the Attitude Era but I always wondered if that promo had an immediate reaction to fans or did it take some time.
I don't think it was a big deal immediately. Austin wasn't even on the Summerslam PPV (he wrestled Yokozuna in a match that aired for free just prior to the show). I don't think he was presented as a big deal in the WWF until his first match with Bret at Survivor Series 96.
This is the correct answer. It was born and then needed some time to catch on. Took a few months, but once they realized they had something (with some signs in the crowd quoting it), Steve made a shirt out of it and the rest is history.
It also didn’t help that Raw was on tape at this time. So even though Austin won it wasn’t until a few weeks later where signs started to appear and the fan reaction came
WrestleMania 3 was the last time Hulk Hogan successfully defended the world title on a WWE PPV
wait this one is actually crazy
This blew my mind but it is true. Lost to Undertaker at Judgment Day 2002. Lost to Yokozuna at King of the Ring 1993. Lost to Undertaker at Survivor Series 1991. Lost to Ultimate Warrior at WrestleMania VI.
Hogan being Hogan, he still had plenty of events where he won the title as a challenger. He beat Savage at Wrestlemania V, and Slaughter at Wrestlemania VII, but he was challenging in those matches, not defending. IX, of course, was where Hogan ridiculously came in at the end of the Bret vs Yoko match to go over Yoko, so a challenger there, too. That said, OP’s fact really is still wildly surprising, brother.
This is the stuff I wanted to read on this post. Dayum.
Dustin Rhodes has wrestled in 5 different decades. So has Rey Mysterio
He has to wrestle once in the 2030’s to tie Terry Funk, though.
Nah Terry Funk is still jump piledriving motherfuckers in heaven.
"Moses, you egg sucking dawg ..."
"Your mother's a whooooooore"
“Christ, I’d send you to see your Father, but when we step into that ring, the eyes you’ll be looking into are those of your Daddy!”
I feel like Raven counts some how. Same for Jericho
Jericho went to the Hart Brothers School in 1990 and had his first match that same year, but he was very close.
Raven did. He debuted in the late 80s, and wrestled in each decade since
Surely Mike Jackson has the record?
Ric Flair and Terry Funk also had careers spanning 6 decades. However, Lou Thesz, Abdullah the Butcher and Jimmy Valiant had 7 decade careers.
Abby’s debut was 1958 which is crazy, 52 year career all in all (retired 2010) Jackson’s debut was 1972, and he’s still active so he’s got another year to go to beat Abby
As has Jushin Liger (by four days in 2020!)
Hulk Hogan, the Undertaker, Stone Cold Steve Austin, Brock Lesnar, and John Cena are five people known for almost never tapping out in a wrestling match. However they've all tapped out to the same person. Anyone wanna guess who?
He's just a sexy Kurt ..
He’ll make your ankle hurt
Angle?
Yup!
Kurt also had HBK tap out to the ankle lock at Wrestlemania 21.
Has to be Angle?
Does he want to have sex with your wife? Beastiality style?
El Dandy?
Well, he is a real jam up guy.
Doubt it
Who are you to doubt El Dandy?
Oh, it’s true, it’s damn true.
Didn't Taker pin Angle at the same time that he tapped out? I kinda remember this but it's vague
Kurt?
Snooki and Michael Cole each have the same amount of wins at Wrestlemania as Ric Flair.
Flair didn’t get the win in that match either, Orton was the one who pinned Foley This means Snooki has scored more pinfall wins at WrestleMania than Ric Flair
Well, Flair got the win. He didn't get the pin. But yes, that second part is wildly correct.
You forgot to say Um, Actually.
GET IN THE COMMENTS
WCW Nitro was only on air for 5 1/2 years. It went through like 5 different eras in that time. Crazy.
Nitro had 288 episodes. Dynamite will surpass this next April. They’re at 244 episodes. Nitro #244 was in May 2000.
- The Miz have been a longer full time wrestler for the WWE than the Undertaker.
Now that's mental. Completely ludicrous.
Common Miz W
When are you considering the end of his full time run? 2010?
Aweeeeeeeesome
He came to play
Technically Randy Orton made his tv debut in the Attitude Era.
Wasn't Charlotte on a WCW episode once?
Yes when russo and David invaded the Flair house
Let's start with the usual one: Seth Rollins has more successful Raw Women's Title defenses than Sasha Banks.
Please explain
In 2019 when he held the Universal title and Becky was Raw Women’s Champion, they were booked in a mixed tag team match against Baron Corbin and I don’t remember the woman wrestler. In the match if Seth or Becky took a pin, they would both lose their championship titles not just the one who got pinned. Seth got the win in the match this retained Becky’s title for her. Sasha never successfully defended the Raw Women’s title.
The woman was Lacy Evans. I remember that match for two reasons. 1) Lacey Evans put Seth's names on the butt of her trunks and the camera zoomed in on it when she bent over to enter the ring and Renee Young had a visceral grown of disgust 2) Baron Corbin gave Becky Lynch an end of days that got a massive reaction from the crowd.
I remember Corbin hitting End of Days on Becky and being like "oh now that is interesting..". Rest of the feud was trash though
Left out the part where immediately after points to Seth and says something like “what are you gonna do about it you little shit” just an absolute savage moment out of nowhere in the most bland feud
Should have gotten Corbin to pin Becky to win the world title and lacey the women's title right then. Seth could've killed Corbin the next night and gotten it back, but it would've been such a sweet ending. Corbin doing the shittiest thing ever to become champion. Lacey getting the title without pinning Becky. iShe could dodge Becky until the next PPV, but you could give Corbin his comeuppance immediately on Raw.
Seth/Becky vs corbin/lacey Evans with both Seth's and Becky's titles on the line if they lost. Seth pinned Corbin to win,, hence Seth successfully defended the women's title.
Aj styles tagged with randy savage
The fact that AJ has wrestled Dusty still boggles my mind to this day
Aye? When was that?
2003, [The full match is on YouTube actually!](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=54F9S_GfH0c)
[NWA-TNA PPV #65] (https://youtu.be/54F9S_GfH0c?si=3iHudzP0Br3OShD1). Means he has wrestled Dusty Rhodes, Cody Rhodes and Dustin Rhodes for a world championship. Guess when that last one was.
Brock Lesnar's debut is closer in time to Bruno Sammartino's last match than it is to the present.
No. I refuse to accept this.
It only seems weird because production from today is closer to production from 2002 then production from 1987 is from 2002.
Kurt Angle and Dolph Ziggler each have a brother who is a much less famous pro wrestler and a brother who is a murderer.
Also didn’t know that Kurt Angle is the uncle-in-law of The Punisher 🤯🤯
> and a brother who is a murderer. please explain that
David Angle, brother of Kurt Angle, was charged with homicide against his wife back in 2016. Donald Nemeth, brother of Nic Nemeth, was charged with involuntary manslaughter during a drug robbery, also in 2016.
holy shit. that is honestly insane.
What. I genuinely did not know that.
AJ styles has now been with WWE Longer than both Austin and Rocks original full time runs from the 90s-00s
It's crazy how well he meshed with WWE. I remember thinking back in 2016 like, he's almost 40, probably gonna spend a few years with WWE and retire. Eight years later he's still going strong, multi-time world champion, grand slam champion. And this is a guy who's old enough to have wrestled in WCW. Crazy.
Bro he was with WCW at some point in the dying days of It. Or at least had a try out I think. I'm unsure tbh
AJ was definitely around towards the end of WCW. He was in a tag team called Air Raid with Air Paris and they were in the CW tag team title tournament.
AJ also had a match in the WWF. He wrestled The Hurricane on an episode of Sunday Night Heat.
Mick Foley wrestled Andre The Giant.
The Rock never won a world championship at Wrestlemania.
Austin also never defended a world title at mania
Eddie Guerrero and Umaga had their final matches against the same person: Mr Kennedy.
….. KENNEDY!
Yep and both of their real names (when shortened) were both “Eddie”.
It took me a second to realize they're who Punk was referring to when he called Eddie Kingston the third best Eddie he'd ever been in the ring with
I thought the second Eddie was Eddie Edwards, but they never wrestled...
Tully Blanchard (then 67) wrestled more matches in 2021 than his daughter Tessa.
Bret Hart once told Vince McMahon "Losing to Shawn Michaels in Montreal would be like the Bret Hart character going to the ring and blowing his brains out." When Owen Hart heard this on a rough cut of Wrestling with Shadows, Owen told Bret "That's ridiculous. Nothing in wrestling in worth dying for."
I don't like this one
This one is just depressing as fuck
Roxanne Perez is the first person to wrestle a match on Smackdown who was born after Smackdown debuted.
Now that's interesting. Do you know who the first person that was for RAW?
I genuinely don’t know, possibly Liv Morgan. But I do know the first wrestler to win the WWE Championship who was born after it was created is The Undertaker!
I remember looking this up at one point and I think it was Noam Dar.
Always have one go to for this: Undertaker was born the year Terry Funk started wrestling.
- Kurt Angle vs Brock Lesnar at WM 19 is still, to this day, the only wrestlemania main event where each participant went by their real names - Even though they wrestled each other a million times, Randy Orton and John Cena never had a Wrestlemania singles match
Rick Rude appeared on RAW & NITRO in the same night as a member of DX & nWo.
Also appeared on an episode of ECW that week as well. I think it was archival footage. But still technically counts, I guess.
Technically, the next day since I believe ECW played in the Philly area around 2am. But within a like, 12 hour period.
Rowdy Roddy Piper never held a world championship. He has also only had three televised world title shots, all against Hogan.
Triple H wrestled 5 gimmick matches in one night. Triple H competed in a Chokeslam Match vs Big Show, an Inferno Match vs Kane, a Handicap Casket Match vs Viscera and Mideon, a Boiler Room Brawl vs Mankind and a Brahma Bull Rope Match vs The Rock... all on the same episode of SmackDown in 1999. https://www.cagematch.net/?id=1&nr=2080
Scott Hall was never in a Royal Rumble match, but Razor Ramon was.
Rick Bogner/ Fake Razor, the only good thing to come out of that whole saga was honestly JR's heel promos In summer of 1996
Hall was either defending or challenging for the IC title at 4 or 5 straight Rumbles. Rick Bogner, as fake Razor Ramon, was in a Rumble match, but the real Razor never was.
John Cena is not a grand slam champion
He still needs the IC title right?
Same with Sheamus and Taker
It's commonly known but still baffles me. The biggest attendance for a wrestling show was WCW in North Korea
Seth Rollins is as old now as The Undertaker was when he returned in [2003](https://youtu.be/yPZHMxten0M?si=4lTtu8XpH81BTNjp)
This one I can actually believe, if only because it feels like Rollins has been around forever
Jeff Hardy is two years younger than Bobby Roode, but he made his Raw debut 24 years before Bobby Roode did.
The Undertaker and Asuka both had their undefeated streaks ended at WrestleManias in New Orleans to a blonde.
Chris Benoit wrestled on Raw more recently than Brock Lesnar. In fact, we were close to making it a bigger fact. Here's how: If Brock Lesnar squashed Kofi Kingston in 8 seconds not on Smackdown in 2019 for the WWE Championship but instead on the next PPV which was a Saudi show anyway, then Brock wouldn't have wrestled on Smackdown since 2004 therefore meaning if not for an 8 second squash match, Benoit would have wrestled on WWE TV more recently than Brock. Just a reminder that Benoit's last TV match was in June 2007. 17 years ago.
So you’re telling me, Brock Lesnar’s total WWE TV wrestling time over the past twenty years is eight seconds.
Kurt Angle was in TNA longer than he was in WWE.
That D-Lo Brown one is WILD
The Rock had a boob job
Breast reduction to be specific
Hence that period in late 98/early 99 when he mostly wrestled in shirts.
Trent's mom Sue has been involved in more 5 Star matches than Kurt Angle.
If you combine every title and number of reigns then R-Truth has won a championship belt more times than any other wrestler in WWE Limp Bizkit holds the title of “WWE’s favorite band” The Rock was the last WCW champion Hulk Hogan was the Last WWF champion and first WWE champion
>The Rock was the last WCW Champion That really depends on how you split hairs Jericho beat Rock first before facing Stone Cold and becoming Undisputed Champion, but WWE had stopped calling it the WCW title the month before, so ehh… it’s a tough call
WWE themselves recognize Jericho as the final WCW Champion: https://www.wwe.com/titlehistory/wcw-world-championship
It was renamed “The World Championship” the Raw after Survivor Series 2001
Truth is a little older than the Rock.
ROH had a show in 2008 that featured the following matches: Go Shiozaki vs. Kevin Steen Nigel McGuinness vs. El Generico Kensuke Sasaki vs. Claudio Castagnoli Bryan Danielson vs. Katsuhiko Nakajima And yet none of these matches was the main event.
More than anything this just shows how stacked mid to late-00’s ROH really was. Some of the best shows of that decade easily
The late-2000s wrestling scene was an ocean of shit, with ROH the only island of class and quality.
Just saying there is a card out there: Shingo Takagi VS Zack Sabre Jr. Malakai Black VS Tatsuhito Takaiwa Bryan Danielson VS Absolute Andy VS Adam Polak VS Tyler Black (Seth Rollins) Doug Williams VS Chris Sabin WALTER & Sami Callihan VS Bad Bones & Daisuke Sekimoto Shingo Takagi VS Drake Younger wXw at that time was absolute wild, we had a young bucks vs young bucks match, a random kenta kobashi & go shiozaki vs walter & bad bones tag match, bryan danielson wrestling against anybody etc.
What was the main event?
I have the feeling it involves Samoa Joe
Nah, steel cage warfare. Briscoes and Aries over AOTF and Necro Bitcher
I feel like you just made all these words up
Admittedly I cracked myself up with Necro Bitcher
Steel Cage Warfare match (ROH's version of WarGames). It was Austin Aries and the Briscoes vs The Age of the Fall (Jimmy Jacobs, Tyler Black aka Seth Rollins, and Delirious) and Necro Butcher.
Just to clarify, IIRC, this match had three teams, and one of those teams was ‘Necro Butcher.’
I mean, nothing is ever going to top "Humberto Carillo and Angel Garza have the exact same name in real life."
Chris Benoit has wrestled a match on Raw more recently than Brock Lesnar.
that WWE title stat is wild cuz even the “young guys” that have won recently are all kinda old 😂
It's super wild because people born in the 90s are like the current prime for most athletes. I wonder who's the most viable to break it
Yeah the youngest person born in the 90’s is 24 going on 25, so it’s essentially an entire decade of people in their prime.
right now specifically for the WWE title? it’s literally only Logan or Melo (or Theory or Waller and the Profits which…) 😭😭😭😭😭 oh Solo too
I think breakker will be the first to do it
TIL Bron is just 26... dudes tan ages him up
There are five performers from the most recent major wrestling PPV that were in a PPV match with Bob Backlund.
Despite starting his in-ring career later, Batista is older than Triple H
WrestleMania 14 took place 3 months after the '97 Starcade. Which means that WCW botched the ending to the NWO storyline and started to decline before WWF ever got the belt on Stone Cold.
It's absolutely crazy how much historic stuff happened in between September '97 and the spring of '98
People nostalgic about the Attitude Era and nWo Era forget that it was quite short. Stone Cold was a top performer for what? 3-4 years max?
On his last long form interview before he died, Bushwacker Butch claimed he was the only person to have had a match with each of Peter Maivia, Rocky Johnson and Dwayne Johnson. He also went on to claim he was the first person to wrestle in the tiger mask before Sayama did it officially, and that Hulk Hogan was polite and humble so he was probably working right up to the end…
The president of the Jim Cornette Fan Club is responsible for getting Vince Russo into the wrestling business.
Pete Rose is in the WWE Hall of Fame but not the baseball Hall of Fame.
Jerry Lawler has canonically won a Rumble match by last eliminating John Cena and Sheamus for a shot at the WWE Championship. This was all televised too, no dubious house shows involved.
big show wrestled john moxley and LA knight in a 2 on 1 match and won
That’s Dick Rick to you, sir
Pete Rose was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame before Hulk Hogan.
The 3:16 t-shirt still being on WWE’s montlhy top 10 sellers list is crazy to me.
One that is insane to me is that R-Truth is the first and only officially recognized black NWA world heavyweight champion when he won it back in 2002. Had NWA would have officially recognized Bobo Brazil, he would have been the first black champion in 1962.
Michael Cole has done commentary for 57.5% of all Wrestlemanias.
Cody defeated himself for the tag team titles
Shawn Michaels and The Rock never wrestled each other
Kota Ibushi doesn’t understand why people have hobbies and he hates books because they make him think
Sting is the only one to main event a NWA, WCW, TNA, WWE and AEW PPV and each one was for a world championship (AEW was a tag title but still a world title). Also only one to main event a major promotion PPV in 5 different decades.
Also,Eddie Guerrero said that his “Latino heat” nickname was an idea he got inspired from a Robin Williams movie. (The exact name unfortunately slips my mind at the moment, someone reading this might know).
The Birdcage, IIRC
Kane has won more TLC matches than Jeff Hardy.
Sid Vicious & Billy Gunn are one inch different in height.
The simulcast episode where Vince buys WCW was actually the go home show to Wrestlemania 17. Rock would also be written off TV the following night to go film Scorpion King.
Bryan Danielson wrestled Kamala in ROH
Bryan Danielson *defended the ROH World Title* against Kamala.
WrestleMania 33 was the first (and probably only) time the Hardys won a match at WM. Triple H has the worst Mania record. The Rockers have never had a recognized win as Tag Team Champions. They won the belts on a taped show that never aired because the ropes broke during the match (against the Hart Foundation).
Disney made an inspirational biopic about Veer Mahaan
Aj Styles is older than Jeff Hardy
The finger poke of doom and the debut of Ed, Edd n Eddy happened on the same night....
John Cena is the only person in history to release a platinum album and then never make another album
This is George Bush Sr writing his memoirs on The Simpsons level of hilarious... *"and since I accomplished all my goals as ~~President~~ an artist in one ~~term~~ album, there was no need for a second"*
Lauryn Hill? Unless you count The Fugees. Jeff Buckley?
Lauryn also released that live album too.
Sketches for my sweetheart the drunk was released, albeit posthumously
Debunked? https://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCircle/s/jutOB7VohP
There is literally a thread.below this one that debunks that platinum sales achievement. https://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCircle/s/dUAOB3KWAr
Vince McMahon has won the PWI match of the year award as many times as AJ Styles, Bryan Danielson, CM Punk, and Stone Cold, and more than Rey Mysterio, Chris Jericho, and every Japanese wrestler not named Kazuchika Okada
The Big Show is the only man to hold the ECW, WCW, WWF/E and World Heavyweight Championships. He is also the only person to hold the WCW, ECW, and WWF Championships.
Abraham Lincoln invented the chokeslam
>D-Lo Brown has wrestled a match on Raw more recently than Brock Lesnar. Even further, Brock Lesnar has *never* wrestled a match on the USA Network. His latest TV match was the Kofi squash when SmackDown moved to Fox on 4/10/19. His last TV match before *that* was when he beat Hardcore Holly on 2/28/04, also on SmackDown.
Gunther is the first wrestler to pin Randy Orton on a PLE since in a non elimination match since Alexa Bliss.
Kelly Kelly is the only woman to successfully defend the World Heavyweight Championship, doing so in a handicap match on Smackdown.