Surprising Wrestling Facts

[EnviousDominous]

The only prowrestling tag team consisting of two real life sisters, other than the Bella Twins, are Xochitl and Ayako Hamada.

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[Alex]

Jeff Jarrett won more championships than Ric Flair and Hulk Hogan combined.

Raven won more championships than The Undertaker and Sting combined.

Is this because they were in different promotions?

[Yaz]

Jarrett also worked for his father for a bit and ran his own company so he got a lot of gimmie titles. Still an interesting note.

[EnviousDominous]

By my count of 22 gimmicks (and please correct me if I'm wrong), the wrestler with the most gimmicks in history was Stan Frazier. It's also argued that Stan Frazier holds the record for the fastest televised pinfall victory at 9 seconds. Also; his wedding to Joyce Stazko was one of only two genuine weddings to occur as part of a prowrestling program.

[EnviousDominous]

The most decorated non-guest referee, in terms of championships earned in a previous career as a wrestler, is Drake Younger with 20.

Scott Armstrong only earned 18 championships.

[EnviousDominous]

By my count, 10 women have earned men's wrestling championships.

Trish Stratus - Hardcore Champion

Terri Runnels - Hardcore Champion

Godfather's unnamed Ho - Hardcore Champion

Molly Holly - Hardcore Champion

Madusa - Cruiserweight Champion

Daffney - Cruiserweight Champion

Jacqueline - Cruiserweight Champion

Sexy Star - Lucha Underground Champion

Kimber Lee - Chikara Grand Champion

Chyna - Intercontinental Champion


This is staggering when you consider that only one man has ever held a women's wrestling championship.

Harvey Wippleman - Women's Champion

[EnviousDominous]

The only professional wrestler to have ever won a Super Bowl was Steve "Mongo" McMichael.

The only other professional wrestler to have played in a Super Bowl, without winning, was Marcus Cor Von.

[#AbsoluteUnit]

Three wrestlers have fought at WrestleMania for the 3 biggest titles. (WWE/World, IC, and (any form of) Tag-Team Championship:

Hogan, Miz, Bryan.

[EnviousDominous]

The most Olympic gold medals ever earned by a professional wrestler was 2. 2 gold medals were earned by NJPW's Willem Ruska in Judo at the 1972 games, which also made him the only Olympic Judo competitor to win more than one gold medal at the same Olympic games. 2 gold medals were earned by Bobby Pearce in Rowing, one at the 1928 games and one at the 1932 games.

Kurt Angle only earned one Olympic gold medal.

[klunderbunker]

By my count of 22 gimmicks (and please correct me if I'm wrong), the wrestler with the most gimmicks in history was Stan Frazier. It's also argued that Stan Frazier holds the record for the fastest televised pinfall victory at 9 seconds. Also; his wedding to Joyce Stazko was one of only two genuine weddings to occur as part of a prowrestling program.

Most of those gimmicks were just different names, not different gimmicks.

And 9 seconds is nowhere close.