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American professional wrestler (1949–2021)
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Derland Moore
Steve Baumgartner
Pete Van Valkenberg
Jim Merlo
Marty Shuford
Bill Cahill
Bob Peterson
Doug Winslow
Mike Fink
Jeff Horsley
James Owens
Paul Orndorff
Richard Watkins
Paul Fersen
Mike Evenson
Howard Stevens
Bobby Garner
Adam Pearce
Leroy McGuirk
Mike Sircy
The Wright Brothers (Don Wright and Ron Wright )
Don Brodie
Kevin Northcutt
Stone Mountain
Terry Knight
Hotstuff Hernandez
Ricky Murdock
Spyder
Big Bully Douglas
Kory Williams
Pepper Parks
Crusher Hansen
Brandon K
Phil Shatter
Chance Prophet
Vordell Walker
Phil Monahan
Lou Marconi
Jax Dane (current)
Arrick Andrews
John Saxon
Greg Anthony
Mustang Mike
Jake Logan
Damien Wayne
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(*) denotes Warrior Award recipient
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Paul Parlette Orndorff Jr. (October 29, 1949 – July 12, 2021), nicknamed "Mr. Wonderful" , was an American professional wrestler and college football player, best known for his appearances with the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) and World Championship Wrestling (WCW).
After seven years working around the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA), Orndorff became a star in the 1980s WWF wrestling boom , and featured with manager Bobby Heenan and champion Hulk Hogan extensively, including in the main events of the first WrestleMania and Survivor Series . With an untreated neck injury, he left the WWF for WCW in early 1988, where he won the WCW World Television Championship and the WCW World Tag Team Championship with Paul Roma (as a team called Pretty Wonderful ).
Arm atrophy from a nagging injury led him to retire in 2000 and he was treated for cancer in 2011. After retiring, he trained aspiring wrestlers. Orndorff was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2005 and the National Wrestling Alliance Hall of Fame in 2009.
Orndorff played college football at the University of Tampa , [4] where he was a fullback for his first three seasons before he was moved to tight end mid-season in his senior year by coach Earle Bruce . [4] He scored 21 career touchdowns and gained over 2,000 all-purpose yards in his playing career with the Spartans . [5] [6] He was inducted into the University of Tampa Athletic Hall of Fame in 1986. [6]
Orndorff was selected in the 12th round of the 1973 NFL Draft by the New Orleans Saints , who drafted him as a fullback, while leaving open the possibility of playing him at tight end. [4] He voluntarily quit during training camp , citing "personal problems". He was considering giving professional wrestling a try, like his former Tampa teammate Ron Mikolajczyk , who made his wrestling debut that summer. [7] After attending training camp with the Chicago Bears in 1974, [8] Orndorff joined the Jacksonville Express of the World Football League in 1975, but he was injured. [9] [10]
After his football career ended, Orndorff watched Championship Wrestling from Florida in the mid-1970s. He called his father-in-law, who knew someone who knew Florida promoter Eddie Graham, which got his start into the wrestling business. [11]
Orndorff started wrestling in 1976 in Mid-Southern Wrestling where he feuded with a young Jerry Lawler . Orndorff won his first wrestling title when he pinned Lawler for the NWA Southern Heavyweight Championship on June 7, 1977. [12] Orndorff lost the title back to Lawler before he left the Memphis territory. Orndorff began working for the NWA Tri-State promotion where he got involved in a feud with Ernie Ladd . The feud with Ladd saw Orndorff win the NWA Tri-State North American Heavyweight Title [12] from Ladd on two occasions (on May 29, 1978 [12] and again in June). Both times, Orndorff's reigns were short and were ended by Ladd. [12]
After feuding with Ladd, Orndorff continued to make a name for himself in the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) where he feuded with The Masked Superstar . During this time he became known as "The Brandon Bull", a nickname he had during his days as a football player. In December 1978, Orndorff teamed with Jimmy Snuka to capture the NWA World Tag Team Championship from Baron von Raschke and Greg Valentine . [12] The duo held on to the title for five months before losing it to Raschke and his new partner Paul Jones on April 16, 1979. [12]
In 1979, Orndorff traveled to the Alabama territory's "Southeast Championship Wrestling." There, Orndorff worked mainly as a tag team competitor teaming with Dick Slater to win the NWA Southeast Tag Team Championship from the team of Jimmy Golden and Norvell Austin in October 1979. [12] Their reign only lasted about a month before being upended by the combination of Dennis Condrey and David Schultz . [12] Orndorff then teamed with former opponent Austin (who was calling himself "The Junkyard Dog" at the time, not to be mistaken for the more famous Junkyard Dog ) to win the title in late 1979. [12] The duo beat Condrey and Randy Rose , the same team that ended Orndorff and Austin's run with the gold. [12] Austin, Condrey, and Rose formed The Midnight Express shortly thereafter.
During 1980, Orndorff started to split his time between the Alabama and the Mid-South territories, until he left the Alabama territory by the end of 1980 to focus entirely on the Mid-South territory. In Mid-South, Orndorff feuded with Ken Mantell over Mantell's propensity for cutting people's hair after a match. Orndorff got the better of Mantell and won the right to use the Freebird hair removal cream on Mantell. Orndorff earned a shot at the North American champion The Grappler but on the day of the match he overslept ( storyline ) and was incensed when his replacement Jake "The Snake" Roberts beat the Grappler for the title. [12] Orndorff's reaction to Roberts's title win signaled a change in attitude; he turned heel as he demanded a title match against Roberts. While he lost the support of the fans, he won the North American title on July 4, 1981. [12] [13] Orndorff feuded with Ted DiBiase , JYD, Dusty Rhodes , and Dick Murdoch while holding on to the North American title. Orndorff lost the title to DiBiase on November 1, 1981, in a match at the Municipal Auditorium in New Orleans, Louisiana. Orndorff was unable to wrestle in the rematch due to car trouble, which meant that Orndorff's friend Bob Roop got the title shot and won the match. [12] It was soon revealed that Roop had sabotaged Orndorff's car so he could get the title shot instead (storyline). Orndorff turned face to feud with Roop but found himself unable to regain the title [14] after which he left the Mid-South Territory.
Orndorff reappeared in Georgia Championship Wrestling in early 1982 immediately launching into a feud with Buzz Sawyer over the NWA National Heavyweight Championship . [11] He won the gold on June 20, 1982. [12] During the summer, he vacated the title to focus on pursuing the NWA World Champion "Nature Boy" Ric Flair . [12] He was unsuccessful in his challenge and soon focused on the title he gave up. When Orndorff vacated the title, it was put on the line in a tournament that was won by The Super Destroyer . [15] On August 19, 1982, Orndorff regained the title from the Super Destroyer. [12] Orndorff next feuded with The Masked Superstar, with whom he traded the National Heavyweight title back and forth during the fall of 1982. [12] Orndorff then traded the title back and forth with Super Destroyer. [12] Frustrated with his inability to beat Orndorff for the National title, Larry Zbyszko paid Killer Tim Brooks $25,000 to do his dirty work. Brooks beat Orndorff with the help of a chair and won the title only to turn around and give it to Zbyszko. The fact that Zbyszko bought the title and did not win it forced NWA President Bob Geigel to step in and strip Zbyszko of the title. [12]
Orndorff then moved to New Japan Pro Wrestling for several months. He made two tours of Japan, the first in April. He wrestled Kengo Kimura , Riki Choshu , and Akira Maeda , as well as teaming up with Ed Leslie against Antonio Inoki and Seiji Sakaguchi . Orndorff returned in October and partnered with Big John Studd against Maeda and Sakaguchi, then faced Maeda again in singles competition.
Orndorff signed with the World Wrestling Federation in late 1983 and made his debut in November of that year on Championship Wrestling. Starting in January 1984, Orndorff took on "Rowdy" Roddy Piper as his manager. [16] Piper nicknamed Orndorff "Mr. Wonderful", a nickname that he used thereafter. Orndorff made his WWF debut against Salvatore Bellomo on the night that Hulk Hogan defeated The Iron Sheik for the WWF World Heavyweight Title and "Hulkamania was born". [16] Orndorff became one of the first people to challenge for the world title, shooting straight to the main event less than a month after his debut. [17] Hogan disposed of the challenger and moved on while Orndorff fought a variety of opponents including the Intercontinental Champion Tito Santana . [17] When Piper assaulted Jimmy Snuka on the set of Piper's Pit , Orndorff assisted the R
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