The below feats are in no particular order.
- In just less than one year, Crash Holly has won the WWF
Hardcore Title an all-time record 14
different times!
- Duane "Gillberg" Gill held the WWF
Light-Heavyweight Title from November 17, 1998 to
February 8, 2000, nine days less than one and
one-half years!
- Veteran legend and "The Madman from Sudan,"
Abdullah the Butcher (real name: Lawrence Shreeve), has
wrestled professionally for over 60 years!!!
Although he has never wrestled a WWF or WWWF match, he's
participated in just about every
other promotion in the world, including WCW, XPW,
Stampede Wrestling, AJPW (All-Japan Pro Wrestling), the
NWA (National Wrestling Alliance), the PWF (Pacific
Wrestling Association), the NWF (National Wrestling
Federation, and the WWC (World Wrestling Council).
Throughout his career (which has lasted over
half-a-decade), Abudllah has captured a truckload
of various titles. Most notably the NWA Unified World
Heavyweight Title (once), PWF World Heavyweight Title
(once), NWF World Heavyweight Title (once), Stampede
Wrestling North-American Heavyweight Title (five times),
WWC Universal Heavyweight Title (three times), WWC
North-American Heavyweight Title (twice), WWC Caribbhean
Heavyweight Title (twice), WWC Puerto Rican Heavyweight
Title (three times), and MANY more!
- Steve Corino, now nicknamed "The King of
Old-School," fullfilled a dream on April 24, 2001.
Here's what he had to say on April 25, 2001 in the
commentary of his official website, SteveCorino.com:
"On Tuesday night, April 24, 2001, I fulfilled a
boyhood dream when I defeated Mike Rapada to become the
52nd NWA world heavyweight champion. When I started
watching professional wrestling in 1981, the First
championship I saw on television was the same one that I
won on Tuesday. The man holding it was none other than
'Nature Boy' Ric Flair. For almost 20 years I dreamed of
one day holding that championship." By winning the
title, Corino's name is now placed in the same category
as professional wrestling legends and icons such as Barry
Windham, Shane Douglas, Chris Candido, Sabu, The Great
Muta, Masahiro Chrono, Sting, Ricky "The
Dragon" Steamboat, Ronny Garvin, Dusty Rhodes, Kerry
Von Erich, Harley Race, Tommy Rich, Terry Funk, Jack
Brisco, Lou Thesz, Buddy Rogers, Pat O'Connor, and, of
course, Corino's idol, Ric "Nature Boy" Flair.
Congratulations to the 52nd National Wrestling Alliance
World Heavyweight Champion, "The King of
Old-School," Steve Corino!
- Scott Hall (Razor Ramon in the WWF) is, in my mind, and
probably many others, the best wrestler ever
to never win a World Heavyweight Title. Scott has
competed in both the WWF and
WCW, and even had a one-night stay in ECW before it went
bankrupt. Scott is a four-time WWF Intercontinental
Champion, a one-time WCW Television Champion, a two-time
WCW United States Heavyweight Champion, and a five-time
WCW World Tag Team Champion (five reigns with real-life
close-friend Kevin Nash and one reign with The Giant).
- On the October 26th edition of WWF SmackDown!, Buh Buh
Ray Dudley and D-Von Dudley, collectively known as The
Dudley Boyz, became the only
tag team to ever hold the ECW,
WWF, and WCW World Tag Team Titles as a tag team
throughout their entire careers. They have held an
all-time record of eight ECW
World Tag Team Titles, five WWF World Tag Team Titles,
and one WCW World Tag Team Title, which is an all-time
record of 14 World Tag Team Titles!
- Just a couple of weeks after entering World Championship
Wrestling, Lance Storm became the first-ever
WCW Triple-Champion. On July 18, 2000, he won his
first-ever WCW Title when he defeated none other than
"Big Poppa Pump" Scott Steiner
for the United States Heavyweight Title. Just six days
later, on the 24th, Storm defeated Big Vito to win the
WCW Hardcore Title. Then a "Double-Champion,"
Storm received a shot at Chavo Guerrero, Jr.'s WCW
Cruiserweight Title on July 31, 2000, and made the best
out of it, winning the title to become the first-ever
"WCW Triple-Champion." Not only had Storm
become the first grappler ever to accomplish this rare
feat, he had won three different titles that combines
three distinctively different grappling styles:
Heavyweight, Hardcore, and
Cruiserweight/Light-Heavyweight. Storm had done this all
within less than two weeks!
- Jerry "The King" Lawler has held the USWA
Unified World Heavyweight Title an all-time record 27
different times, spanning from December 13, 1988 to April
27, 1997!
- During the year of 2000 and early-to-mid 2001, the WWF
Hardcore Title had become purely a joke. As soon as Crash
Holly, the then-Champion, made the new 24-7 Hardcore
Title Rule, meaning that the title could change hands at
any time on any day, even if there wasn't an official
match. Crash and Raven, both in less than one year, had
won the title a combined and stunning times 25
times (14, an all-time record, for Crash, and and
equeally respectful 11 for Raven)!!! Even non-wrestlers
won the titles, including Gerald Brisco, Pat Patterson,
and Victoria (The Godfather's Ho).This all changed on the
night of July 22, 2001, when former-ECW Legend Rob Van
Dam, who had recently debuted, along with former-ECW
Champion Tommy Dreamer, in mid-July (the night that ECW
and WCW formed a partnership to attempt to destroy the
WWF) defeated then-champion Jeff Hardy at WWF Invasion to
become the WWF Hardcore Champion. From then on, RVD was
completely unstoppable. He would end up losing the title
and win it back twice before the end of 2001, but RVD
revolutionized and brought respect and prestige back to
the WWF Hardcore Title. He gained some of the biggest
upsets ever when he successfully retained the title by
pinning WWF main-event Superstars like Chris Jericho,
Kurt Angle, The Rock, and Kane, and even pinned then-WWF
Champion Stone Cold Steve Austin in a Double-Non-Title
Match. RVD also successfully retained from some of his
former-ECW rivals like Raven, Spike Dudley, and Tajiri,
and retained from various other WWF Superstars like The
Big Show, Edge, Jeff Hardy, Matt Hardy, Test, and Test.
He also defeated WCW Legend Booker T. Rob Van Dam
redefined the meaning of the phrase, "WWF Hardcore
Division," using steel chairs, ladders, and even the
ring area guardrail in ways that WWF fans had never
deemed possible. At WWF No Mercy 2001, on October 21,
RVD, only a three-month WWF veteran, competed in the
triple-threat WWF Title Main-Event, along with Stone Cold
and Kurt Angle. Although he didn't win the title that
night, fans in the audience and at home sure got their
fair share of chances to chant the words,
"RVD!," "RVD!," "RVD!"
- Ultimo Dragon, Shinjiro Ohtano, Dean Malenko, and Sean
Waltman (a.k.a. X-Pac) are the only
wrestlers ever to win both the
WCW Cruiserweight Title and the WWF Light-Heavyweight
Title.
- Not only is The Undertaker the only man (at least that I
can think of; I believe there may be one more, but I
could be wrong) to feud with both Hulk Hogan and Steve
Austin (a.k.a. "Stone Cold"), but he is also
responsible for inventing and participating in several
brutal "gimmick matches," most notably the
"Casket Match"/"Rest in Peace Match,"
the "Inferno Match," and, of course, the
infamous "HELL IN THE CELL MATCH.
- "The King of Budda-Bing," the THREE-TIME,
THREE-TIME, THREE-TIME, WCW World
Heavyweight Champion, Diamond Dallas Page uses the
Diamondcutter (please insert <!BANG!> here) as his
trademark finishing move. The move is basically a 3/4th
Neckbreaker, and Page was the first wrestler to regularly
use the move, a manuever that is one of the now
most-imitated moves in professional wrestling history.
Although they've modified it a bit, the likes of Buh-Buh
Ray Dudley (the "Buh-Buh-Cutter"), Disco
Inferno (the "Last Dance"), Matt Hardy (the
"Twist of Fate"), Mikey Whipwreck (the
"Whippersnapper"), Spike Dudley (the "Acid
Drop"/"Dudley Dog"), and Steve Austin (the
"Stone Cold Stunner") all use versions of DDP's
finisher.
- D'Lo Brown, Jeff Jarrett, and Kurt Angle are the only
"Euro-Continental Champions" (a grappler who
holds both the WWF European and Intercontinental Titles both
at the same exact time) in WWF
history.
- Mick Foley has held a combined 11
World Tag Team Titles with seven
different partners. Here are his awesome tag team stats:
ECW World Tag Team Titles: two w/ Mikey Whipwreck (as
Cactus Jack); WCW World Tag Team Title: one w/ Kevin
Sullivan (as Cactus Jack), WWF World Tag Team Title: one
w/ Stone Cold Steve Austin (as Dude Love), one w/ Terry
Funk (as Cactus Jack), two w/ Kane (as Mankind), three w/
The Rock (as Mankind), and one w/ Al Snow (as Mankind).
- Real-life brothers Booker T and Stevie Ray have held the
WCW World Tag Team Titles together 10
different times, an all-time
record!
- Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW, for short) has
groomed the talent of so many "now-superstars"
that I can't even name them all. More than half of the
2000 WWF roster had competed at least once in ECW. ECW
has groomed the careers of tons of wrestlers, including
Cactus Jack (Mick Foley), Chris Benoit, Steve Austin,
Perry Saturn, Bam Bam Bigelow, Raven, Stevie Richards,
Eddie Guerrero, Dean Malenko, Chris Candido, Lance Storm,
Chris Jericho, Too Cold Scorpio, Terry Funk, Don Muraco,
The Dudley Boyz (Bubba Ray, D-Von, Spike, and Big Dick),
Shane Douglas, Tazz, Sabu, Rob Van Dam, Rhyno, Al Snow,
Mikey Whipwreck, Tommy Dreamer, Public Enemy (Johnny
Grunge and Rocco Rock), Justin Credible, Mike Awesome,
Lita, Jerry Lynn, and Stevie Corino, among TONS of
others.
- If there was EVER any doubt about Stone
Cold Steve Austin's worldwide recognition factor, that
doubt was demolished in 1998. Within just a THREE-WEEK
period, Austin appeard on "The Howard Stern
Show," "Nash Bridges," "The Howie
Mandel Show," and "Late Night with Conan
O'Brien!" Also, during this SAME-EXACT three-week
period, Austin was photographed for a
"Milk-Mustache" ad, further tightening the
"Texas Rattlesnake's" hold on American culture!
- If you combine all of the
titles held of the four members of the Hart family that
have held titles in the WWF (Bret, Owen, Davey Boy Smith,
and Jim Neidhart), the combined sum equals an
astonishing...(scroll down!)
HW = World Heavyweight
Title; IC = Intercontinental Title; TT = World Tag Team
Titles; EURO = European Title, HC = Hardcore, KOTR = King
of the Ring Tournament Winner, RR = Royal Rumble Winner
| Wrestler |
HW |
IC |
TT |
EURO |
HC |
KOTR |
RR |
Total Tally |
| Bret |
5 |
2 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
2 |
13 |
| Owen |
0 |
2 |
4 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
8 |
| Davey Boy Smith (The British Bulldog) |
0 |
1 |
2 |
2 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
7 |
| Jim Neidhart |
0 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
2 (Two) |
| Total Tallies |
5 |
5 |
10 |
3 |
2 |
3 |
2 |
27 |
13 + 8 + 7 + 2 = ...27!!! That means that each member averaged
just less than 8 titles won throughout their entire WWF careers!
- The only grapplers to compete
in all of the following promotions, the WWF, WCW, ECW,
and XPW, are Terry Funk, Chris Candido, Sabu, and Shane
Douglas.