
Person
Paul Orndorff
Acting
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Oct 29, 1949
- From
- Brandon, Florida, USA
Paul Parlette Orndorff Jr., nicknamed "Mr. Wonderful", was an American professional wrestler and college football player, best known for his appearances with WWE and World Championship Wrestling (WCW). After seven years working around the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA), Orndorff became a star in the 1980s WWE 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 WWE 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.
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Andre the Giant

Mr. McMahon

WrestleMania

WWE Saturday Night's Main Event

WrestleMania II

Hogan Knows Best

WWE Survivor Series 1987

The Wrestling Classic

350 Days

WWF Superstars

Andre the Giant

WWE: Best of WWE at Madison Square Garden

WWE: Hulk Hogan: The Ultimate Anthology

WWE The Big Event

The Greatest Wrestling Stars of the '80s

WWF Wrestling Challenge

WWE Hall of Fame

WCW The Great American Bash 1990