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• Vince McMahon, Jr. wanted to become a wrestler, but his father, the late Vince McMahon Sr. strictly forbid him in doing so.
• Before breaking into wrestling, Jerome Young (New Jack) worked as a bounty hunter.
• Tom "Dynamite Kid" Billington despises his cousin Davey Boy Smith so much, he can't bring himself to say his name.
• During one drinking session, Andre The Giant downed 119 bottles of beer.
• Barry Windham's father, Blackjack Mulligan served time for counterfeiting.
• Cactus Jack & Terry Funk were originally scheduled to face the New Age Outlaws in a Barbed Wire Match at WrestleMania XIV, but the PPV people forbid them to do it, hence the Dumpster Match.
• Back when the ECW/WWF angle was going on, the WWF was going to hold a live Raw from the ECW Arena, despite it's size. This idea was nixed however.
• Back in the 1980's Hulk Hogan's opponents were banned from mentioning his receding hair line in interviews.
• Stan Lane was once billed as Stan Flair because people thought he resembled Ric Flair.
• All Japan Pro Wrestling hasn't fed it's fans a count-out or a disqualification in over five years. • Shawn Michaels is married to former Nitro Girl, Whisper!
• Marc Mero didn't leave WCW over money issues. He left because of the angle he was in where he was involved with another man's wife. • Larry Zbyszko is a licensed pilot.
• Sid once backed down from a fight with Brian Pillman in a hotel bar, retreated to his car to arm himself with a weapon with which to defend himself and returned clutching a squeegee.
• Ted Dibase was once the Mid-South North American Heavyweight Champion.
• World Championship Wrestling was once called Georgia Championship Wrestling.
• In many of his WrestleMania matches Randy Savage would foreshadow the result of his bout by the color hat he wore to the ring. Two examples: 1 when he wrestled the Ultimate Warrior at WMVII as a heel and left as a babyface, he entered the ring wearing a white hat. 2. when he defeated Ric Flair at WMVIII to take the WWF strap, he wore a gold costume.
• Hulk Hogan agreed to drop the world title to the Ultimate Warrior at WrestleMania VI because he was planning on retiring and wanted to pass the torch on to his babyface successor so he wouldn't have to come back and get "revenge" on a heel for his fans.*Hogan forced McMahon to give him the strap at the end of WMIX by threatening to no-show his tag earlier on the show with Brutus Beefcake against IRS & Ted Dibiase.
• WrestleMania VII was moved from the Rose Bowl to the Sports Arena in Los Angeles because Vince McMahon feared a sniper might try and take out lead heel Sgt. Slaughter, playing the role of a Iraqi sympathizer during the Gulf War.
• Apparently feeling he had nothing to lose, Sid Justice doublecrossed Vince McMahon by kicking out of Hogan's legdrop at WMVIII. Sid had been caught cheating on a drug test a few weeks earlier and was going to be suspended. Sid's manager, Harvey Whippleman (who is said to have supplied Sid with the false urine sample that WWF official Dave Hebner found Sid carrying in a vile) reacted quickly, jumping into the ring and getting his man disqualified before all hell broke loose.
• McMahon wanted a Flair-Hogan main event for WMVIII, but before Flair surprisingly was unable to re-up on a contract with WCW, McMahon signed Sid with the promise he would wrestle Hogan at the next WM. So, McMahon went with a double main event of Hogan-Sid and Flair-Savage.
• Prior to WMX, McMahon had Lex Luger come out with the world belt for a television taping, scheduled to air after the pay-per-view. Either planning a swerve all along or changing his mind after word got out, McMahon had Bret Hart win the three-way tournament between Hart, Luger and Yokozuna.
• In 1994, WCW used to hire paid models and actors to sit in the audience to cheer and boo their wrestlers because the audience was usually dead for their shows.
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