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#1 Posted on 25.3.04 1218.59
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Crap you have no business knowing, but now you do!

2/25

Boy Krazy: WWE announcer Rue was a member of the group Boy Krazy. In the early 90s, the group had a No. 1 single in the U.S. with the song "That's What Love Can Do."

Dynamite: Growing up, Chris Benoit idolized former WWE Superstar Dynamite Kid.

Dec. 9: Kurt Angle shares his birthday with Dick Butkus, Donny Osmond and Redd Foxx.

July 12: Brock Lesnar shares his birthday with Bill Cosby, Cheryl Ladd and Richard Simmons.

3/3

Valentines: Greg "The Hammer" Valentine is the son of former wrestler Johnny Valentine. Johnny's career was cut short due to injuries suffered in a plane crash. Ric Flair was also on the plane.

Classic: The first-ever WWE PPV saw JYD win a tournament called the Wrestling Classic.

Two Timer: Bobby Heenan is the only announcer to weasel his way onto both RAW & Nitro.

Execution: As a member of the Executioners, Big John Studd teamed up with fellow HOF member Killer Kowalski.

3/10

Monster?: Early in his career, Andre the Giant competed as Monster Eiffel Tower and Monster Roussimoff. It wasn't until he came to WWE that he took on the name Andre the Giant.

Big Daddy: Early in his career, Junkyard Dog competed as Big Daddy Ritter.

Studious: Early in his career, George "the Animal" Steele was known as The Student.

U.S.A.: Early in his career, Superstar Billy Graham competed as the True Spirit of America.

3/17

Two Time: Chris Benoit is only the second man to have won the IC Title and a World Title at Wrestlemania. The other is Bret Hart. Bret won the IC at WM VIII and the WWE Title at WM X.

Crippler: Benoit got the nickname "Crippler" after fracturing Sabu's vertebrae in ECW in '94.

Pity The Fool: Benoit shares his birthday with former WrestleMania main eventer Mr. T.

Good Day: Benoit won the WCW Tag Titles with Dean Malenko on March 14, 1999, five years ago to the day he won the World Title.

3/24

Name Game: Born Pierre Clermont, Hall of Famer Pat Patterson obtained his sports entertainment name by blindly pointing to the name Patterson in a dictionary of proper names.

Oh, Boy!: Legendary Freddie Blassie claimed to be an amazing 15 pounds at birth.

Identity Crisis: Steve Lombardi also competed as Kim Chee and Abe "Knuckleball" Schwartz.

Truckin': Bradshaw still owns the first truck he ever bought - an '80 Chevrolet Stepside. It now has close to 300,000 miles on it.
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#2 Posted on 25.3.04 1312.38
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I just checked the Boy Krazy bit. There was a member named Ruth Taylor, but the single only went to #18 on the national Billboard Charts. You know, just in case you cared...
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#3 Posted on 25.3.04 1316.40
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    Originally posted by the Do You Know Page
    Name Game: Born Pierre Clermont, Hall of Famer Pat Patterson obtained his sports entertainment name by blindly pointing to the name Patterson in a dictionary of proper names.


Which also marks the last time he ever used an English dictionary
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#4 Posted on 25.3.04 1341.23
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    Originally posted by Alessandro

    Two Timer: Bobby Heenan is the only announcer to weasel his way onto both RAW & Nitro.



I don't think this is quite true. Scott Hudson announced on RAW during the invasion with Arn Anderson. Eric Bischoff has also announced on both shows as well.

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#5 Posted on 25.3.04 1343.45
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    Originally posted by Von Erich
      Originally posted by Alessandro

      Two Timer: Bobby Heenan is the only announcer to weasel his way onto both RAW & Nitro.



    I don't think this is quite true. Scott Hudson announced on RAW during the invasion with Arn Anderson. Eric Bischoff has also announced on both shows as well.




Ahhh, but did they WEASEL their ways there? I think not.
There is only one true weasel.

(edited by samoflange on 25.3.04 1454)
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#6 Posted on 25.3.04 1344.42
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    Originally posted by samoflange
      Originally posted by Von Erich
        Originally posted by Alessandro

        Two Timer: Bobby Heenan is the only announcer to weasel his way onto both RAW & Nitro.



      I don't think this is quite true. Scott Hudson announced on RAW during the invasion with Arn Anderson. Eric Bischoff has also announced on both shows as well.




    Ahhh, but did they WEASEL their ways there? I think not.
    There is only one true weasel.


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#7 Posted on 25.3.04 1401.08
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    Originally posted by samoflange
      Originally posted by Von Erich
        Originally posted by Alessandro

        Two Timer: Bobby Heenan is the only announcer to weasel his way onto both RAW & Nitro.



      I don't think this is quite true. Scott Hudson announced on RAW during the invasion with Arn Anderson. Eric Bischoff has also announced on both shows as well.




    Ahhh, but did they WEASEL their ways there? I think not.
    There is only one true weasel.

    (edited by samoflange on 25.3.04 1454)


Well we ALL know how Shawn Michaels "weasels" his way into Wrestlemania matches, if that counts for anything. :/
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#8 Posted on 25.3.04 1418.46
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    Originally posted by Von Erich
      Originally posted by Alessandro

      Two Timer: Bobby Heenan is the only announcer to weasel his way onto both RAW & Nitro.


    I don't think this is quite true. Scott Hudson announced on RAW during the invasion with Arn Anderson. Eric Bischoff has also announced on both shows as well.


I think they meant "only full-time announcer" to work RAW & Nitro.
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#9 Posted on 25.3.04 1835.23
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Re: the Greg "The Hammer" Valentine tidbit... I'm pretty sure he and Flair had at least a small feud at some point, but did that little bit of history ever come into it?
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#10 Posted on 25.3.04 2135.12
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    Originally posted by Nate The Snake
    Re: the Greg "The Hammer" Valentine tidbit... I'm pretty sure he and Flair had at least a small feud at some point, but did that little bit of history ever come into it?


Flair and Valentine teamed from October 1976 until 1978. They won the "world" (Mid-Atlantic version) tag titles twice. Major feuds with the Andersons as well as Paul Orndorff/Jimmy Snuka.

Valentine spent some time with the WWWF before coming back to Mid-Atlantic in late 1979/early 1980.

Flair was a babyface and Valentine a tweener heel when he returned. Valentine convinced Flair to tag with him once again to face Snuka and Iron Sheik.

Valentine refused to tag Flair, cementing his heeldom. After Flair was pinned, Valentine took Gene Anderson's cane and hit Naitch with it. In this, he accidentally legitimately broke Flair's nose.

They continued a feud off and on for quite some time, highlighted by bloody matches.

As far as the plane crash and Greg Valentine go, he was brought into the area in September or so of 1976. They did make mention that he was Johnny Valentine's son (earlier in his career, the elder Valentine requested that Greg be acknowledged as his brother, so folks wouldn't know how old Johnny really was).

In the few Mid-Atlantic matches I have (1980ish-1981), no mention is made of the crash. And I have some good stuff from their 1980 feud.

The plane crash was October 4, 1975.

Valentine was left paralyzed from the waist down, but continued trying to make a comeback for 10 years.

John Valentine was sitting up front next to the pilot on the plane. Story goes that Flair was initially slated to be in that seat, but talked Valentine into switching seats with him before they took off.
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#11 Posted on 26.3.04 1832.53
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Ahh... seems a shame that they apparently didn't make use of that, it would've been practically guaranteed to be hot.

Thanks for the info!
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