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To celebrate my 1,000th post here, I have compiled a list of wrestling facts. I may add more. But until then, enjoy!
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Wrestling Championships and Accomplishments Facts.
1.To date, none of the WWE Champions have been black. The closest is the Rock, who is mixed race.
2.The WWE recognises Bob Backlund’s first reign as WWE Champion as having lasted 1,771 days (almost 5 years). However, he lost the title twice during this time period.
3.Since the WWE Championship was first introduced on April 29th, 1963, there has been a total of 241 days (roughly 8 months) when there was no official champion.
4.Rey Mysterio holds the records for being the shortest and lightest person to have held the WWE and WWE World Championships.
5.Only two WWF European Champions actually came from outside of North America. These were English-men British Bulldog and William Regal.
6.While multiple Mexicans have won the WWE Championship, Alberto Del Rio was the only one to have actually been born in Mexico.
7.Randy Savage once simply forgot to go to the ring when his number was called during a Royal Rumble.
8.During 2002, Maven eliminated Undertaker from the Royal Rumble. Undertaker then proceeded to give Maven a violent beat-down which spilled into the concession area. The script called for Undertaker to attack Maven because of the NEAR-elimination. The top rope was not as tight as Undertaker was expecting, which meant that it could not support his weight as well as he thought it would.
9.Kurt Angle got squashed by the debuting Tazz in the first WWE pay-per-view match in 2000. In the last pay-per-view main-event match of 2000, he successfully defended the WWF Championship against Undertaker, Triple H, Rock and Steve Austin (and Rikishi) in the Hell In A Cell.
10.Abyss, Samoa Joe, Kurt Angle and Matt Morgan have each held tag team championships in TNA Wrestling as the sole title holder.
11.In the Summer of 2010, both the TNA World Tag Team Championship and the TNA Knockouts Tag Team Championship were both defended under “Free-bird Rule†at the same time (i.e. More than 2 people were recognised as champions at the same time).
12.Tommy Dreamer is the only man to have held the ECW Championship in both WWE and the original ECW.
13.Rob Van Dam and Tommy Dreamer are the only two men to have won the ECW Championship in the WWE that actually worked in the original ECW.
14.While the WWE ECW brand was active, Christian was the only man to win the ECW Championship twice.
15.There have only ever been 4 Euro-continental Champions (holding both the WWE Intercontinental and WWF European Championship at the same time). They are D’Lo Brown, Jeff Jarrett, Kurt Angle and Rob Van Dam.
16.Hulk Hogan has held the WCW World Championship more days than Ric Flair, Sting, Goldberg, Kevin Nash, Bret Hart and Kevin Nash combined.
17.A.J. Styles and Abyss are both TNA Grand slam Champions.
18.Eddie Guerrero is the first man to successfully defend two separate titles in separate matches on the same television broadcast in the U.S.
19.During 2003, Triple H successfully defended the WWE World Championship against Scott Steiner, Booker T, Kevin Nash, Chris Benoit, Chris Jericho and Goldberg. All of them were former WCW World Championships.
20.During 2000, WWF Champion Triple H defeated the WCW World Champion (Chris Benoit) and the ECW World Champion (Taz) on episodes of RAW.
21.Booker T and Kevin Nash have won a major championship in every company they have worked for, excluding TNA Wrestling.
22.The only time the WWE has featured a title match on pay-per-view with only African American participants was when Booker T defeated Bobby Lashley to win the King of the Ring.
23.Jacqueline is the only person to have featured in both Pro Wrestling Illustrated's PWI 500 and PW Female 50 lists.
24.The WWE insists that the Fabulous Moolah’s first run as WWE Women’s Champion lasted 10,170 days (around 27 years). But for this to be true, they have to ignore all title changes prior to 1983. Although, her first reign lasted exactly 10 years.
25.The “Original Screwjob†occurred on November 25th 1985. The “Spider Lady†was declared the new WWF Women’s Champion after the referee counted previous champion Wendi Richter’s shoulders to the mat. Richter clearly kicked out at 1, but the referee insisted that the Spider Lady (Fabulous Moolah) had won.
26.Ric Flair’s Figure 4 Leg Lock was presented as the deadliest submission hold in WCW. Non-wrestler Vince Russo once lasted over 8 minutes in the hold without submitting or passing out.
27.Sid Vicious’ WCW winning streak consisted of at least 15 losses. His score also went up after shows he did not appear at. His score once jumped by 5 points after a show that he didn’t have a match at.
28.Sabu was never scheduled to win the ECW Heavyweight Championship. Sabu battled previous champion Terry Funk in a barbed wire match. At one point, Sabu and Funk had become too entangled to continue the match. For their own safety, a referee counted a non-existent pin attempt to end the match.
29.Mick Foley is a 3-time WWF Hardcore Champion. He was simply awarded the title on all three occasions.
30.During 2002, both the WWF European Championships and the WWF Hardcore Championships were unified with the WWE Intercontinental Championship. In both cases, Rob Van Dam was the IC Champion won the other title in a ladder match.
31.Big Show, Kane and CM Punk are the only man to have held the WWE, World and ECW championships in WWE.
32.Big Show is the only man to have held the WWE, WCW and ECW major championships. However, the ECW championship was WWE owned at the time.
33.It is well-known that Steve Austin has won 3 Royal Rumbles. But he is the only man to have won the Rumble in non-consecutive years.
34.The Dudley Boyz / Team 3D are the only team to have won the WWE, TNA, NWA, ECW and WCW Tag Team Championships. However, they were never under contract with NWA or WCW.
35.The Dudley Boyz / Team 3D have won at least 23 major tag team championships. However, 8 of them were in ECW and 10 were in WWE.
36.America’s Most Wanted hold the record for most NWA Tag Team Championships. Similarly, Beer Money hold the record for the most TNA Tag Team Championships. James Storm was in both tag teams.
37.During 2011, Mr. Anderson, Jeff Hardy, Sting, James Storm, Rey Mysterio, Big Show, Christian, CM Punk, John Cena and Alberto Del Rio all won and lost major titles within 30 days.
38.Trish Stratus won the WWE Women’s Championship 8 times. If the WWE recognised title changes before 1983, then the Fabulous Moolah co-holds that record.
39.Four women have held the WWE Hardcore Championship.
40.All 3 women who competed in the Royal Rumble (Chyna, Beth Phoenix and Kharma) all eliminated one person and were then eliminated themselves within 90 seconds.
41.Former Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) competitor Dan Severn was forced to drop the NWA World Heavyweight Championship as he was unable to defend it at the first TNA show. At that show, former UFC competitor Ken Shamrock won the title.
42.Christopher Daniels and Frankie Kazarian have both shared a TNA X-Division Championship reign. Daniels won the title as Suicide, but it would be Kazarian that later lost the title as Suicide.
43.A.J. Styles and Eric Young have both held all three versions of the TNA Television Championship. Unless the TNA Legends or Global Championships are restored, no-one else will achieve this.
44.Shawn Michaels forfeited 8 titles in the WWE.
45.Marty Jannetty holds the record for being the most “Future Endeavoured†man. He has been released from WWE contracts 9 times.
46.Undertaker and Samoa Joe are the only two people to overcome 3 Jacknife Powerbombs from Kevin Nash in one match.
47.Kevin Nash once defeated Sid Vicious in a “First Powerbomb Wins†match by simply telling the Referee that he had won.
48.Rob Van Dam also has never lost at WrestleMania.
49.Christian is the first man to win a title at three consecutive WrestleManias.
50.Chris Jericho, Edge and the Miz have all won the first match at a WrestleMania, and then featured in the final main event the next year.
51. Mikey Whipwreck is the only ECW Grand Slam holder (having held the ECW Heavyweight, Television and Tag Team Championships).
52. Al Snow is the only man who held a Tag Team championship with Mick Foley and did NOT win a major title in his career.
53. Ezekiel Jackson’s reign as ECW Champion lasted less than 2 minutes. The title was retired when the last episode of ECW ended.
54. The Miz is the first Tough Enough contestant to win a major title. (John Morrison won the ECW Championship, but it was not a major title at the time).
55. Daniel Bryan was removed from NXT at the first ever elimination, having lost all of his matches. He would become the NXT contestant to win a major title.
56. The Godfather once defeated Triple H in a WWE Championship match. But WWE officials seemed to forget that the title was on the line, so the title change was never acknowledged.
57. When Hulk Hogan won his first WWE Championship in 1984, he became the second (Official) champion who did not use a submission hold as a primary finisher. Stan Stasiak used the Heart Punch.
58. Rhino was the final ECW Heavyweight and ECW Television champion when the company closed down.
59. Sting was in the main event at TNA Bound For Glory each year between 2006 and 2009.
60. Tito Santana was in all of the first 6 Royal Rumbles.
61. Bret Hart has won a title in five different decades; the 70’s, 80’s, 90’s, 00’s and 10’s.
62. Every WWE World Champion in 2006 and 2007, apart from the Great Khali, sustained a side-lining injury during their time as champion.
63. Just before Taz left ECW, he lost the ECW Heavyweight Championship to Mike Awesome. Just before Mike Awesome left ECW, Mike Awesome lost the ECW Heavyweight Championship to Tazz.
64. According to WCW statistics, Eric Bischoff has an official victory over Vince McMahon. The statistic was deleted when WWE bought out the company.
65. It is Raven, not Crash Holly, who has won the WWE Hardcore Championship the most times. Crash held the title 21 times, but Raven won it 26 times.
66. Shawn Stasiak won the WWE Hardcore Championship 15 times. But his total combined time as champion is less than 2 hours.
67. Every single participant in 1999’s Brawl for All boxing tournament sustained a side-lining injury.
68. Samoa Joe is easily the heaviest TNA World Champion so far.
69. Big Show has lost every singles match he has ever had at WrestleMania. Similarly, he has won every tag team match he has ever had at WrestleMania.
70. On the 4th January, 1999 broadcast of WCW Nitro, Tony Schiavone spoiled the results of the main event on WWE Raw. He told viewers that Mick Foley would beat the Rock to become WWE Champion, sarcastically adding “That’ll put a lot of butts in seats.†It did, as ratings showed that many viewers did change channels to see Foley’s victory.
71. During the 00’s, only 2 Royal Rumble winners had not won a major title in the WWE before winning the Rumble.
72. Rene Dupree is the youngest person to have ever won a title in the WWE. He was only 19 when he won the WWE World Tag Team Championship.
73. Dean Malenko and X-Pac are the only two people to have won the WWF Light Heavyweight Championship twice.
74. Finlay is the only person to have been disqualified in a Royal Rumble. This is quite an achievement, as the rules make it impossible to get disqualified.
75. David Arquette donated every penny he made as WCW World Champion to the families of Owen Hart, Brian Pillman and Darren “Droz†Drozdov.
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Wrestling Championships and Accomplishments Facts.
1.To date, none of the WWE Champions have been black. The closest is the Rock, who is mixed race.
2.The WWE recognises Bob Backlund’s first reign as WWE Champion as having lasted 1,771 days (almost 5 years). However, he lost the title twice during this time period.
3.Since the WWE Championship was first introduced on April 29th, 1963, there has been a total of 241 days (roughly 8 months) when there was no official champion.
4.Rey Mysterio holds the records for being the shortest and lightest person to have held the WWE and WWE World Championships.
5.Only two WWF European Champions actually came from outside of North America. These were English-men British Bulldog and William Regal.
6.While multiple Mexicans have won the WWE Championship, Alberto Del Rio was the only one to have actually been born in Mexico.
7.Randy Savage once simply forgot to go to the ring when his number was called during a Royal Rumble.
8.During 2002, Maven eliminated Undertaker from the Royal Rumble. Undertaker then proceeded to give Maven a violent beat-down which spilled into the concession area. The script called for Undertaker to attack Maven because of the NEAR-elimination. The top rope was not as tight as Undertaker was expecting, which meant that it could not support his weight as well as he thought it would.
9.Kurt Angle got squashed by the debuting Tazz in the first WWE pay-per-view match in 2000. In the last pay-per-view main-event match of 2000, he successfully defended the WWF Championship against Undertaker, Triple H, Rock and Steve Austin (and Rikishi) in the Hell In A Cell.
10.Abyss, Samoa Joe, Kurt Angle and Matt Morgan have each held tag team championships in TNA Wrestling as the sole title holder.
11.In the Summer of 2010, both the TNA World Tag Team Championship and the TNA Knockouts Tag Team Championship were both defended under “Free-bird Rule†at the same time (i.e. More than 2 people were recognised as champions at the same time).
12.Tommy Dreamer is the only man to have held the ECW Championship in both WWE and the original ECW.
13.Rob Van Dam and Tommy Dreamer are the only two men to have won the ECW Championship in the WWE that actually worked in the original ECW.
14.While the WWE ECW brand was active, Christian was the only man to win the ECW Championship twice.
15.There have only ever been 4 Euro-continental Champions (holding both the WWE Intercontinental and WWF European Championship at the same time). They are D’Lo Brown, Jeff Jarrett, Kurt Angle and Rob Van Dam.
16.Hulk Hogan has held the WCW World Championship more days than Ric Flair, Sting, Goldberg, Kevin Nash, Bret Hart and Kevin Nash combined.
17.A.J. Styles and Abyss are both TNA Grand slam Champions.
18.Eddie Guerrero is the first man to successfully defend two separate titles in separate matches on the same television broadcast in the U.S.
19.During 2003, Triple H successfully defended the WWE World Championship against Scott Steiner, Booker T, Kevin Nash, Chris Benoit, Chris Jericho and Goldberg. All of them were former WCW World Championships.
20.During 2000, WWF Champion Triple H defeated the WCW World Champion (Chris Benoit) and the ECW World Champion (Taz) on episodes of RAW.
21.Booker T and Kevin Nash have won a major championship in every company they have worked for, excluding TNA Wrestling.
22.The only time the WWE has featured a title match on pay-per-view with only African American participants was when Booker T defeated Bobby Lashley to win the King of the Ring.
23.Jacqueline is the only person to have featured in both Pro Wrestling Illustrated's PWI 500 and PW Female 50 lists.
24.The WWE insists that the Fabulous Moolah’s first run as WWE Women’s Champion lasted 10,170 days (around 27 years). But for this to be true, they have to ignore all title changes prior to 1983. Although, her first reign lasted exactly 10 years.
25.The “Original Screwjob†occurred on November 25th 1985. The “Spider Lady†was declared the new WWF Women’s Champion after the referee counted previous champion Wendi Richter’s shoulders to the mat. Richter clearly kicked out at 1, but the referee insisted that the Spider Lady (Fabulous Moolah) had won.
26.Ric Flair’s Figure 4 Leg Lock was presented as the deadliest submission hold in WCW. Non-wrestler Vince Russo once lasted over 8 minutes in the hold without submitting or passing out.
27.Sid Vicious’ WCW winning streak consisted of at least 15 losses. His score also went up after shows he did not appear at. His score once jumped by 5 points after a show that he didn’t have a match at.
28.Sabu was never scheduled to win the ECW Heavyweight Championship. Sabu battled previous champion Terry Funk in a barbed wire match. At one point, Sabu and Funk had become too entangled to continue the match. For their own safety, a referee counted a non-existent pin attempt to end the match.
29.Mick Foley is a 3-time WWF Hardcore Champion. He was simply awarded the title on all three occasions.
30.During 2002, both the WWF European Championships and the WWF Hardcore Championships were unified with the WWE Intercontinental Championship. In both cases, Rob Van Dam was the IC Champion won the other title in a ladder match.
31.Big Show, Kane and CM Punk are the only man to have held the WWE, World and ECW championships in WWE.
32.Big Show is the only man to have held the WWE, WCW and ECW major championships. However, the ECW championship was WWE owned at the time.
33.It is well-known that Steve Austin has won 3 Royal Rumbles. But he is the only man to have won the Rumble in non-consecutive years.
34.The Dudley Boyz / Team 3D are the only team to have won the WWE, TNA, NWA, ECW and WCW Tag Team Championships. However, they were never under contract with NWA or WCW.
35.The Dudley Boyz / Team 3D have won at least 23 major tag team championships. However, 8 of them were in ECW and 10 were in WWE.
36.America’s Most Wanted hold the record for most NWA Tag Team Championships. Similarly, Beer Money hold the record for the most TNA Tag Team Championships. James Storm was in both tag teams.
37.During 2011, Mr. Anderson, Jeff Hardy, Sting, James Storm, Rey Mysterio, Big Show, Christian, CM Punk, John Cena and Alberto Del Rio all won and lost major titles within 30 days.
38.Trish Stratus won the WWE Women’s Championship 8 times. If the WWE recognised title changes before 1983, then the Fabulous Moolah co-holds that record.
39.Four women have held the WWE Hardcore Championship.
40.All 3 women who competed in the Royal Rumble (Chyna, Beth Phoenix and Kharma) all eliminated one person and were then eliminated themselves within 90 seconds.
41.Former Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) competitor Dan Severn was forced to drop the NWA World Heavyweight Championship as he was unable to defend it at the first TNA show. At that show, former UFC competitor Ken Shamrock won the title.
42.Christopher Daniels and Frankie Kazarian have both shared a TNA X-Division Championship reign. Daniels won the title as Suicide, but it would be Kazarian that later lost the title as Suicide.
43.A.J. Styles and Eric Young have both held all three versions of the TNA Television Championship. Unless the TNA Legends or Global Championships are restored, no-one else will achieve this.
44.Shawn Michaels forfeited 8 titles in the WWE.
45.Marty Jannetty holds the record for being the most “Future Endeavoured†man. He has been released from WWE contracts 9 times.
46.Undertaker and Samoa Joe are the only two people to overcome 3 Jacknife Powerbombs from Kevin Nash in one match.
47.Kevin Nash once defeated Sid Vicious in a “First Powerbomb Wins†match by simply telling the Referee that he had won.
48.Rob Van Dam also has never lost at WrestleMania.
49.Christian is the first man to win a title at three consecutive WrestleManias.
50.Chris Jericho, Edge and the Miz have all won the first match at a WrestleMania, and then featured in the final main event the next year.
51. Mikey Whipwreck is the only ECW Grand Slam holder (having held the ECW Heavyweight, Television and Tag Team Championships).
52. Al Snow is the only man who held a Tag Team championship with Mick Foley and did NOT win a major title in his career.
53. Ezekiel Jackson’s reign as ECW Champion lasted less than 2 minutes. The title was retired when the last episode of ECW ended.
54. The Miz is the first Tough Enough contestant to win a major title. (John Morrison won the ECW Championship, but it was not a major title at the time).
55. Daniel Bryan was removed from NXT at the first ever elimination, having lost all of his matches. He would become the NXT contestant to win a major title.
56. The Godfather once defeated Triple H in a WWE Championship match. But WWE officials seemed to forget that the title was on the line, so the title change was never acknowledged.
57. When Hulk Hogan won his first WWE Championship in 1984, he became the second (Official) champion who did not use a submission hold as a primary finisher. Stan Stasiak used the Heart Punch.
58. Rhino was the final ECW Heavyweight and ECW Television champion when the company closed down.
59. Sting was in the main event at TNA Bound For Glory each year between 2006 and 2009.
60. Tito Santana was in all of the first 6 Royal Rumbles.
61. Bret Hart has won a title in five different decades; the 70’s, 80’s, 90’s, 00’s and 10’s.
62. Every WWE World Champion in 2006 and 2007, apart from the Great Khali, sustained a side-lining injury during their time as champion.
63. Just before Taz left ECW, he lost the ECW Heavyweight Championship to Mike Awesome. Just before Mike Awesome left ECW, Mike Awesome lost the ECW Heavyweight Championship to Tazz.
64. According to WCW statistics, Eric Bischoff has an official victory over Vince McMahon. The statistic was deleted when WWE bought out the company.
65. It is Raven, not Crash Holly, who has won the WWE Hardcore Championship the most times. Crash held the title 21 times, but Raven won it 26 times.
66. Shawn Stasiak won the WWE Hardcore Championship 15 times. But his total combined time as champion is less than 2 hours.
67. Every single participant in 1999’s Brawl for All boxing tournament sustained a side-lining injury.
68. Samoa Joe is easily the heaviest TNA World Champion so far.
69. Big Show has lost every singles match he has ever had at WrestleMania. Similarly, he has won every tag team match he has ever had at WrestleMania.
70. On the 4th January, 1999 broadcast of WCW Nitro, Tony Schiavone spoiled the results of the main event on WWE Raw. He told viewers that Mick Foley would beat the Rock to become WWE Champion, sarcastically adding “That’ll put a lot of butts in seats.†It did, as ratings showed that many viewers did change channels to see Foley’s victory.
71. During the 00’s, only 2 Royal Rumble winners had not won a major title in the WWE before winning the Rumble.
72. Rene Dupree is the youngest person to have ever won a title in the WWE. He was only 19 when he won the WWE World Tag Team Championship.
73. Dean Malenko and X-Pac are the only two people to have won the WWF Light Heavyweight Championship twice.
74. Finlay is the only person to have been disqualified in a Royal Rumble. This is quite an achievement, as the rules make it impossible to get disqualified.
75. David Arquette donated every penny he made as WCW World Champion to the families of Owen Hart, Brian Pillman and Darren “Droz†Drozdov.
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