Those undeniably useless facts that every wrestling fan still needs in their back pocket!
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00:00From incredibly bizarre pieces of Royal Rumble information, to blokes with more women's title defences than multiple-time female champs,
00:09you are about to be gifted with 10 fantastic additions to your ever-growing collection of useless wrestling knowledge.
00:15Oh yeah, and a quick salute to the awesome legends at R-Squared Circle for helping to inspire this list via this brilliant post too.
00:23With all that said, I am Gareth, this is WhatCulture Wrestling, and here are 10 useless pieces of wrestling trivia you still need to know.
00:3110. The Undertaker beat every member of Evolution at WrestleMania
00:35A quick look at the names The Undertaker conquered on his way to racking up a frankly ridiculous 21-0 streak on the grandest stage
00:43– before Brock Lesnar took that record to Suplex City, of course – reveals a star-studded who's who of WWE greats.
00:50The top performers of multiple generations all tried and failed to make the Deadman rest in peace at WrestleMania.
00:58This also included one of the most stacked factions in WWE history too, with Taker ultimately besting not just the leader of the eventual squad known as Evolution,
01:07but all four members of the dominant faction over the years.
01:11Triple H was defeated on three separate occasions, failing to defeat this game at Mania X-7, 27 and 28.
01:18Ric Flair was unable to keep the Phenom down at the 18th Showcase of the Immortals.
01:23Randy Orton couldn't immortalise himself as the killer of this legend at WrestleMania 21.
01:29Batista was then the final name from that unit added to Taker's impressive list, after losing his World Heavyweight Championship to the Demon of Death Valley two years later.
01:38Evolution? Completed it, mate.
01:409. Seth Rollins has defended the Raw Women's Championship more than Sasha Banks
01:45She may be one of the famous four horsewomen, picked up numerous championships, produced a ton of iconic displays in between the ropes,
01:53and continued to impress outside of the world of WWE.
01:56But Sasha Banks, aka Mercedes Money, still hasn't actually done one rather specific thing in her career.
02:03Despite holding the Raw Women's Championship a grand total of five times during her run in the world of sports entertainment,
02:09Banks never once defended that title successfully on television.
02:13In fact, it took her a surprising amount of time to defend any women's single strap on the main roster after making her official debut in July 2015.
02:21Jumping back to the red brand's women's belt though, and you'll likely be just as shocked to learn that current World Heavyweight Champion Seth Rollins
02:28actually boasts more defences of that title than the multiple-time champ.
02:32The visionary helped his wife Becky Lynch keep hold of the championship in a last-chance, winner's-take-all Extreme Rules match at the titular 2019 PLE.
02:41You are forgiven for erasing that whole bizarre program from your memory, I know I have.
02:46But after helping the man retain against Lacey Evans and Baron Corbin, Rollins remarkably pulled ahead of the boss in the Raw Women's Championship defences league.
02:54Now I want to know, what is your favourite horsewoman match of all time?
02:58Was it one involving Sasha Banks or was it something else? You let me know in the comments section down below.
03:03Number 8, Mr. Kennedy wrestled both Eddie Guerrero and Dumaga's last match.
03:08Though his WWE run may have not worked out as well as both himself and many of his supporters would have liked,
03:13charismatic loudmouth Mr. Kennedy has still managed to etch his name into wrestling history.
03:19On top of picking up a Money in the Bank ladder match victory, one that he unfortunately was never able to cash in, but more on that later,
03:26the former United States Champion also ended up wrestling in not one, but two wrestling legends' final ever matches.
03:33Back in 2005, Kennedy, Kennedy locked up with the iconic Eddie Guerrero on the November 11th edition of Smackdown,
03:40losing via DQ thanks to some trademark Latino heat cheating in what would go on to become the star's last match.
03:47He'd tragically pass away on November 13th.
03:50Fast forward a few years and Kennedy, under the name Mr. Anderson, once again found himself clashing with another much-loved figure in Umaga,
03:57wrestling as Uso Fatu in 2009, with their November 28th Hulkamania Let the Battle Begin tour contest also being his last.
04:05The one-time WWE star sadly died on December 4th. Both men were unquestionably taken way too soon.
04:17As already noted on this list, there's certainly been some rather decorated and dominant factions in the land of sports entertainment.
04:24But has there ever been a unit quite as unstoppable and formidable as The Shield?
04:28During their run under the WWE banner, Seth Rollins, Roman Reigns and Dean Ambrose were each able to pick up numerous world titles,
04:36main event multiple PLEs, and regularly steal the show as a unit or as singles forces.
04:42But did you know that each of the star's first ever world championship victories actually came at the expense of one of their brothers?
04:48The Visionary was the first of the squad to lift the big one,
04:51cashing in his Money in the Bank briefcase and pinning Reigns to win the WWE World Heavyweight Championship at WrestleMania 31.
04:57The Big Dog then finally got his hands on that strap at Survivor Series 2015,
05:01spearing a hole through Ambrose to win the title before Sheamus ruined his party with another cash-in.
05:07Finally, the man also known as AEW's Jon Moxley turned Money in the Bank 2016 into the famous evening where every member of The Shield held the WWE Championship at one point,
05:17cashing in his Money in the Bank contract on a newly crowned Rollins as he stood over both former teammates as world champ for the very first time.
05:25You'll love to see it.
05:266. The New Day have nicknames for each different pairing
05:29Another team of talented wrestlers who have unquestionably made their mark on the business over the last decade,
05:34The New Day have held all kinds of gold, blazed trails and been a constant source of hilarious and sometimes quite emotional entertainment since their 2014 debut.
05:45For a while there, they even held the record for longest reigning WWE Tag Team Champions in company history too,
05:51with the trio defending those straps under the Freebird Rule, meaning all three are given the title of champions but are allowed to swap and change who wrestles in their defenses.
05:59It turns out the squad even have specific nicknames for each of said different New Day tag team lineups.
06:05As noted by Xavier Woods when discussing how the faction decide who will wrestle in an upcoming match on their Feel the Power podcast,
06:12it's usually a case of whoever didn't wrestle last time getting swapped in for the next match.
06:16Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods go by the name of Speed Force, Big E and Woods are Muscle Bomb and Kingston and E are Pops and Powers.
06:24Why? Because Xavier is the team's hybrid, Kofi possesses the speed and Big E is the obvious muscle of course.
06:31Now you know!
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06:385. Scott Hall didn't appear in the Royal Rumble, but Razor Ramon did!
06:42You are likely already aware of the fact that the late, great Scott Hall shockingly never once made an appearance in WWE's legendary Royal Rumble contest.
06:51But does that mean that Razor Ramon never found himself getting thrown over the top rope in the match? Well, no actually.
06:57Oddly enough, back when WWE thought it would be a wonderful idea to simply recast the role of the bad guy in the wake of Hall's departure to WCW in 1996,
07:05Rick Bogner's jarring version of Ramon did actually pop up in the following year's 30-person battle royale.
07:11After entering the contest at number 3, this inferior Razor didn't survive all that long in the match, eventually won by a certain mean SOB,
07:19getting launched out of the match by Ahmed Johnson 17 seconds into his Rumble run.
07:24Hall did technically boast a number of appearances at the PLE, however history will always show that while the legend didn't ever appear in the titular bout, Razor Ramon bizarrely still did.
07:35Number 4, if the Money in the Bank briefcase was won at Mania, Edge was inevitably involved.
07:40Is there a wrestler out there more synonymous with the briefcase often found dangling up high above a WWE ring than the rated-R ladder specialist?
07:48Edge wasn't just responsible for some of the more memorable or shocking cash-ins in Money in the Bank history though,
07:53he was actually surprisingly involved in pretty much every cash-in during that first wave of chaos.
07:58It was simple, if the contract was won at WrestleMania, Edge would inevitably find himself in and around the eventual title match.
08:04He obviously cashed in the first ever contract at New Year's Revolution 2006, he'd then beat Mr. Kennedy for the contract post-WrestleMania 23 and cash it in on The Undertaker in 2007.
08:15In the subsequent years where he didn't end up holding the case, Edge also spared John Cena through a table at One Night Stand 2006 to help Mr. Money in the Bank Rob Van Dam lift the big one,
08:24was cashed in on by CM Punk in 2008, lost his big gold belt to Jeff Hardy before Punk once again ran out with the contract in 2009,
08:33and attacked Chris Jericho right before Jack Swagger strutted out with his Money in the Bank prize in 2010.
08:38That first Money in the Bank era had Adam Copeland's fingerprints all over it.
08:43Number 3, Sheamus was once Bono's security guard.
08:46It's a beautiful day to discover that one of WWE's longest-serving ass-kickers actually had a rather fascinating job whilst trying to fulfil his dream of taking bumps for a living.
08:56Along with being an in-house IT technician there for a spell early on, Sheamus actually took on the role of security guard in a Dublin club that often had a rather well-known guest.
09:05Talking to Independent.ie about that time in his life, the eventual WWE Champion recalled how Bono would be in the place all the time,
09:13with it being Sheamus' job to ensure nobody got close enough to spike the Rockstar's drink or nick his pint.
09:18If you saw this fiery Irish powerhouse standing tall with those guns crossed, you would unquestionably think twice about running away with Bono's Guinness, that's for sure.
09:27Sheamus ended up heading over to London after his stint as security guard to the stars, moving ever closer towards his dream of one day running the WWE ropes.
09:35Number 2, Jack Perry is related to Krusty the Clown.
09:38Long before Jack Perry was labelling himself as AEW's scapegoat, or even dressing up as a Tarzan boy,
09:44his late father Luke Perry actually sort of brought the Jungle Boy gimmick to one of the biggest TV shows on planet Earth.
09:51Appearing in The Simpsons as Krusty the Clown's half-brother, the Beverly Hills 90210 star ultimately popped up in the fourth season's 22nd episode as sideshow Luke Perry,
10:01sporting the sort of prehistoric outfit that wouldn't look out of place within the Jurassic Express squad.
10:06So, in the Simpsons universe at least, that technically makes Jack Perry the iconic cynical clown's nephew.
10:12If the former Jungle Boy ever feels the need to change up his gimmick once again in the coming years then,
10:17an all-elite version of this grumpy, burned-out animated character wouldn't be the worst idea in the world.
10:22Think Doink the Clown, but with more flips and Canadian destroyers.
10:26Number 1, Triple H tore his quad exactly five years on from his last quad injury return.
10:32Papa H, like the rest of the McMahon family he married into, has had some horrific luck with his quads over the years.
10:38After shredding his left one during a Monday Night Raw tag match alongside Stone Cold Steve Austin against Chris Jericho and Chris Benoit on May 21st, 2001,
10:46the game returned as an absolute hero in Madison Square Garden eight months later.
10:50That noise is still something else.
10:52But while the date of January 7th must have felt like the undisputed greatest day of all time for Triple H back in 2002,
10:58he almost certainly did not feel that same way five years down the road.
11:02In a truly bizarre turn of events, not only did the cerebral assassin go on to shockingly tear his other quad at New Year's Revolution 2007,
11:10that chaotic DX match against Rated RKO also just happened to go down on the exact same date as his last quad comeback.
11:18Useless trivia? No doubt. But still rather spooky stuff.
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11:30It's another goodie. Bye bye!