The monkeys that are the WWE creative team saw Steve Williams ask for a new gimmick after his old Ringmaster persona bombed. They suggested that he should be cooled COOLO MCFREEZE, a few days later Williams had a much better name..."Stone Cold Steve Austin"
Steve Austin was formerly in the Million Dollar Man's (Ted Dibiase's) stable as the Ringmaster (before he got the Austin name). Ironically enough, years before, the lead character in the Sci Fi series The Million Dollar Man was called...STEVE AUSTIN!
Steve Williams got the "Stone Cold" part of his name from a family member who told him to drink his tea quickly before it got, yep, you guessed it...STONE COLD.
Stone Cold Steve Austin was never meant to win the King Of The Ring 1996 Tournament. HHH was meant to, but he was involved in an unscripted incident weeks before the event in which him and HBK Shawn Michaels hugged Diesel (Kevin Nash) and Razor Ramon (Scott Hall) right in the middle of the ring, when they were meant to be feuding! They hugged eachother because it was the last show Diesel and Ramon had in the WWE before they moved to the WCW. This made the WWE officials really angry at the HBK and HHH and as a punishment the KOTR ppv, which HHH was supposed to win, was rewritten so that Austin won it. But HHH won it a year later anyway.
Only 2 members of the Hart Foundation are still alive, Bret "Hitman" Hart and Jim "The Anvil" Neidhart. Brian Pillman, Owen Hart and The British Bulldog have all passed away.
Only one member of the Von Erich family stable, which had SIX members, is still alive, David, Michael, Chris and Kerry Von Erich have all died in the space of less than 20 years, and their FATHER, Fritz Von Erich was the last of them to pass away. Kevin is the only Von Erich brother who is still alive. A curse is said to be in the family as Fritz's first child, Jack JR died very young in 1959 due to electrocution. I have also heard that various successful tag team partners of the Von Erichs have also passed away...scary stuff...
Hulk Hogan was originally meant to have red hair when he first entered the WWE, but he didn't like the idea of dying his hair.
Hulk Hogan first announced that he was going to retire back in 1993!
The Mean Street Posse were in the WWE for over a year...but none of them won a match!
Two years ago Test was forced to cut his hair and wrestle in shorts so that officials wouldn't mistake him for Kevin Nash.
Stephanie McMahon is actually married to HHH.
Eugene is just an unlucky wrestler trying to ACT like a spastic...and he isn't related to Eric Bischoff.
The Ultimate Warrior legally changed his name from "Jim Hellwig" to "Warrior Hellwig" and is a complete and utter nutter (well, saying that, I'm gonna change my last name to RULES)
Shawn Michaels did indeed know about Vince McMahon's plot to screw Bret at Survivor Series 1997.
Bret "Hitman" Hart vs Shawn Michaels for the WWE Championship at Survivor Series 1997 was meant to end in a Bret Hart disqualification.
WWE's two new PPVs, The Great American Bash and Halloween Havoc, are both former WCW PPVs.
When HHH pinned The Rock to retain the WWE Championship at Wrestlemania 2000, he became the first heel (bad guy) to leave Wrestlemania with the WWE Championship.
The Hardy Boyz used to compete in the WWE under masks and were called "The Jynx Brothers."
Rikishi is related to The Rock, so was the late great Yukozuna and the Wild Samoans Afa and Sika. Yep, you guessed it, The Rock is partly in the Samoan family, his father, Rocky Johnson is a wrestler but is not a Samoan. The Rock's grandfather, Peter Maivia, was also a wrestler and he was part of the Samoan family too.
All of Stu Hart's children are either wrestlers or married to wrestlers.
Soon after The Undertaker entered the WWE, he became known as "Kane The Undertaker," the name was soon dropped. However, years later, his "brother" made his WWE debut, his name was...KANE!
Hardcore Holly is a qualified NASCAR driver.
HHH stands for Hunter Hearst Helmsley.
Back when WCW was almost at it's end, they began to copy the WWE. They brought in a big woman wrestler, dressed her all in black, and called her...ASYA! Now when you are so desperate to save your company that you get somebody to imitate CHYNA, then you have a HUGE problem with your company!
In a similar act by WCW, they made a new addition to their commentators. They brought in some fat man, put a black cowboy hat on him and called him "Oklahoma." They made him yell out quotes like "OH MY GOD!" in an exaggerated accent, and he always spoke about BBQ sauce. This was obviously an attempt to imitate and annoy WWE Commentator Jim Ross.
WCW one made ROBOCOP rescue Sting from the Four Horsemen, who had locked him in a cage. This was a stupid attempt by WCW to promote his film.
"Macho Man" Randy Savage and the late Lady Elizabeth got married on WWE TV when their real marriage was falling apart.
Hulk Hogan's daughter is a rising star...she's a singer.
During Hulk Hogan's entrance in Backlash 2002 J.R. said: "Hulk Hogan needs to go OVER THE EDGE to beat HHH and capture the WWE Championship!" Now either J.R. is being sick or there is a dramatic irony in what he just said. J.R. said this in the Kemper Arena, which is the same arena that Owen Hart fell to his death 3 years previously during a WWE (then WWF) PPV. And the name of that PPV? WWF OVER THE EDGE.
The WCW invasion of the WWE was originally meant to be led by Eric Bischoff.
HHH was the only wrestler on the Vengeance 2001 commercial and the Vengeance 2001 poster, even though he didn't appear at the PPV.
Former WWE wrestler Spanky now wrestles under the name of "Leonardo Spanky." I saw him competing in Japan (on The Wrestling Channel), he impersonates Leonardo DiCaprio. He entered to a remixed version of Celine Dion's "My Heart Will Go On," which is of course the theme to the Titanic movie. He was accompanied by a Japanese woman, he put her on the second turnbuckle, and while he was still standing on the apron, he held her arms up in the air, mimicking what DiCaprio did to Kate Winslet on the front of the Titanic.