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Michaels was in the first televised Ladder Match, Hell in a Cell, Elimination Chamber Match and Iron Man Match. He won all except the Ladder Match.

Michaels has been involved in every Elimination Chamber match except the one from ECW December to Dismember in 2006, serving as referee for one and a participant in the others. His title win in the first Elimination Chamber match in Survivor Series 2002 marked the first time in WWE history that a wrestler had won a World Championship in any type of steel cage match.

Michaels is set to star in Jornada del Muerte (Journey of Death) along with Triple H, The Undertaker, John Cena, Bobby Lashley, Batista, Big Show and Kane.

In 2001 while still retired from active wrestling, Shawn Michaels defeated Venom in the Texas Wrestling Alliance to win the Heavyweight Title of the promotion, which Michaels quickly vacated^.

Michaels' 2007 World Tag Team Title victory was only his second championship since his return from retirement, the first coming back in late 2002 when he was the World Heavyweight Champion.

He is one of two wrestlers left (the other being The Undertaker) that has wrestled on the very first episode of Monday Night RAW and still remain with the company.

He is the only person to have held the WWE Championship and European Championship at the same time.

The Shawn Michaels-Bret Hart "Ironman Match" at Wrestle Mania XII lasted 61:52.

When Shawn Michaels was attacked outside of a Syracuse nightclub by approximately 10 thugs (actually it was by a marine group), Shawn was accompanied by Davey Boy Smith and X-Pac. They beat up Shawn while the others held Davey Boy and X-Pac back.

Shawn Michaels forfeited his WWF title on Raw due to the unwillingness to job to Bret Hart at Wrestlemania 13.

Gregory Helms has had a different gimmick in each of his 3 Cruiserweight Championship reigns.

Helms is a comic book fan, one of his favorites is The Green Lantern. He has a tattoo on his biceps which is the Lntern's logo and his original WWE character The Hurricane was inspired by The Green Lantern.The Hurricane character was an idea of Stone Cold Steve Austin.

Helms performed as the stunt double of actor David Arquette in the movie Ready to Rumble.

Helms is the only wrestler to have held both WWE and WCW Hardcore & Cruiserweight Titles .

Helms was not only the longest reigning Cruiserweight Champion in history, but also was the longest champion in SmackDown! history.

Helms said that he had planned to read for the part of Gambit in the 3rd X-Men movie, before the change of producers and director.

Batista: At one point before getting into pro wrestling, Batista trained with Brock Lesnar in a gym in Minnesota. They both joined WWE´s developmental territory Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW) at the same time and competed against each other before entering the main roster.

Batista credits Finlay for helping him the most during his rookie days in OVW in an edition of WWE's webcast Byte This in 2003.

Batista has been on the cover of Flex Magazine.

Since WrestleMania 21, Batista has used the infamous "thumbs up, thumbs down" gesture before he performs the Batista Bomb on his opponent. This is a reference to the gesture Triple H used against Randy Orton when he kicked Orton out of Evolution (leading to a brutal assault). Batista took this gesture from Triple H when he feigned signing to SmackDown!

Since WrestleMania 21, Batista often shakes the ring ropes violently before making his famous "thumbs up, thumbs down" gesture, which he has acknowledged he took from the Ultimate Warrior.

Batista currently holds the record for the longest reign as World Heavyweight Champion in WWE at 282 days, only two days over Triple H's 280 day reign.

Batista has beaten Triple H by pinfall three consecutive times, Wrestlemania 21, Backlash and Vengeance.

The Undertaker: The Undertaker is the only person to win both the World Title and WWE Title at Wrestlemania.

He has an unmatch undefeated streak at Wrestlemania, 15-0.

Undertaker was in Suburban Commando with Hogan.

John Bradshaw Layfield: JBL main evented every World Title Judgement Day pay-per-view match from 2004 to 2006, in 2004, Eddie Guerrero, in 2005, John Cena, and in 2006, Rey Mysterio.

A self-proclaimed hater of ECW, JBL has appeared at both ECW One Night Stand pay-per-view events.

Chris Benoit: He was the first person to retain the World Heavyweight Championship belt in an Iron Man match, as he successfully defended the title against Triple H on the July 26, 2004 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania edition of RAW.

He won the WWE United States Championship in 25.5 seconds, the shortest match held for that title that resulted in the championship changing owners.

On April 2, 2007 Benoit became the longest reigning United States Champion under the title's WWE tenure. He reached a 174 day plateau beating out former record holder Orlando Jordan who held the belt for 173 days. His reign lasted 222 days.

Benoit's first actual appearance on WWE television was in 1995, when he had a try out match on RAW against Bob Holly.

The Dudley Boys/Team 3D: They are the only team in history to capture the ECW, WWF/World, WWE, WCW, NWA & TNA Tag Team Championships. They only needed the AWA Tag Titles to be the only tag team to hold all the major tag titles. 

Paul Heyman: Heyman performed the lyrics for the second version of the ECW theme music "This is Extreme! Y2K". He also performed the lyrics for Heidenreich's theme song later on in his WWE career.

Big Show: Big Show was the only wrestler to hold the WCW World Title, the WWE Title and the ECW World Title.

RVD: RVD was the only wrestler to hold both the WWE Title and ECW World title at the same time.

She had one biological child, a daughter named Mary. Moolah was 14 years old when she gave birth. The father was Moolah's first husband, Walter Carroll. Mary wrestled briefly in the late 60s and early 70s as Darling Pat Sherry. Moolah also had six grandchildren.

An animated version of Moolah was also included on a CBS Saturday morning cartoon during this lucrative time, titled Hulk Hogan's Rock 'n' Wrestling. A Fabulous Moolah action figure was released in 2006 by Jakks Pacific as part of their Classic Superstars series.

Wrestlemania: Wrestlemania 13 was the last Mania event to use the fabled red, white and blue ropes.

WrestleMania VI marked the first time the event was held outside of the United States. It was held at the SkyDome, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. WrestleMania X8 marked the second occurrence, and was again held at the SkyDome.

WrestleMania 2 was held the following year, and took place in three venues; the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Uniondale, New York, the Rosemont Horizon in Rosemont, Illinois and the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena in Los Angeles, California. Each venue had one main event match with a large undercard. This was the only WrestleMania to have three venues.

No heel has left one of the first 14 WrestleManias as WWF world champion.

WrestleMania VII was moved from the Rose Bowl to the Sports Arena in Los Angeles because Vince McMahon feared a sniper might try and take out lead heel Sgt. Slaughter, playing the role of a Iraqi sympathizer during the Gulf War.

Raven: According to Levy, depicting Raven, on the Hardcore Homecoming DVD, before his match with Sandman, he is the only man in the business to have an action figure as a member of the WWE, WCW, ECW, and TNA rosters.

He claims he has been to the concert of every band whose T-Shirt he has worn.

Raven is the only man to hold championship gold in WWE, WCW, ECW, & TNA.

Raven was a manager in the WWF that went by the name Johnny Polo. Under this name he managed the Quebecers and Adam Bomb.

AJ Styles: A.J. Styles is helping develop the first TNA wrestling video game known as TNA iMPACT! as well as Pro Wrestling X with Wrestling Gamers United.

In 2004, TNA released Phenomenal: The Best of AJ Styles, a DVD covering A.J. Styles' best matches. In 2007, TNA released a follow-up DVD, Phenomenal: The Best of AJ Styles Volume 2.

Ring of Honor has released two DVDs covering his early career with the company. Evolution of a Phenom: The Best of AJ Styles covers from his debut to mid-2003. The Phenomenon Continues: The Best of AJ Styles Vol. 2 picks up where the last one left off, covering from mid-2003 to his match with CM Punk at the ROH Second Anniversary Show in 2004 (his second to last match before leaving ROH in 2004). He also sat down for a shoot interview along side Christopher Daniels for ROH's "Straight Shootin’" series.

Bret Hart: Bret Hart is the ONLY wrestler in history to be triple crown winner in both in WWF and WCW.

Bret Hart used to co-own the Calgary Hitmen. (WHL Hockey Team)

Bret "Hitman" Hart is an avid Boston Red Sox fan!

Jerry "The King" Lawler: Jerry Lawler has the distinction of having the most wrestling championship reigns of all time. He has won a total of 126 titles in his career, including 1 reign as AWA World Heavyweight Champion and 30 reigns as AWA Southern Heavyweight Champion. Lawler held the latter championship another 13 times when the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) controlled it.

Lawler has created some musical recordings. Among these are two late-70s singles: "Cadillac Man/Memphis", and "Bad News". During his feud with manager Jimmy Hart (Jerry Lawler is a factor for "The Mouth of the South" Jimmy Hart entering professional wrestling. Lawler wanted to record a wrestling album with him singing and, since they had gone to school together, he called Hart and asked him to be a part of it) in the mid-80s, Hart became known as "The Wimp", a nickname given to him by Lawler and chanted by fans. Hart was the subject of the song "Wimpbusters", which was sung by Lawler to the tune of the popular hit Ghostbusters by Ray Parker Jr.. A music video was also made, featuring Lawler, legendary announcer Lance Russell, and wrestlers such as Randy Savage, Jimmy Valiant, Dutch Mantel, Tommy Rich, and Rufus R. Jones, along with footage of "The King" beating Hart and his "First Family." A very young Brian Christopher also made an appearance as a young child being bullied, and another child is seen wearing a replica of Tully Blanchard's West Texas State jersey. He also recorded a CD titled "Memphis' Other King".

In 1998, Lawler began filming the movie Man on the Moon, starring Jim Carrey. The two men allegedly did not get on along on set, which led to an altercation that left Carrey with a neck injury similar to the one suffered by Kaufman.

In 1999, Jerry Lawler ran for mayor of Memphis, Tennessee. His platform focused on making the streets safer for residents, beautifying the city and improving the quality of education. In addition, he vowed to attract businesses to Memphis, improve the flow of traffic, create more parks, and decrease property taxes.  Lawler ended up with 11.7% of ballots, beating twelve of the fifteen candidates. Ultimately, however, Mayor Willie Herenton was easily reelected.

Wiiliam Regal: His pets include two snakes, eight lizards, a tortoise, three cats, and two dogs . He claimed in an interview the reason he owns so many pets is because "Humans disgust me. Vile creatures."

Darren has been married to Christina since 1986, the couple have 3 boys, Daniel b.1988, Dane b.1991 and Bailey b. 1996.

His actual accent (Working-class Northern-English) is very different from the one he uses on television. His on-air voice is, according to Regal, more upper-crust and therefore easier to dislike.

Also has a tattoo on his left leg which says "Made In England".

Matthews participated in an episode of the Weakest Link, winning 2 of the first 3 rounds and eventually finishing third.

He is a fan of Phoenix Nights, Peter Kay, stand-up comedy, and Mr. Bean, and mentioned he received a Mr Bean DVD box-set from his children for his 35th birthday on WWE.com

In WCW, he was arrested during a flight from Japan back to the US when he got drunk on the flight and urinated on a stewardess. By Regal's account in his book, he claims that he was so drunk that he couldn't remember the incident and woke up in a cell in Anchorage, Alaska.

On August 30, 2007, Sports Illustrated named Matthews, along with nine other superstars, found to be given illegal steroids not in compliance with the WWE Talent Wellness program. Matthews received stanozolol, somatropin, genotropin, and anastrozole between November 2004 and November 2006.

Lilian Garcia: García was previously married, but is now divorced.

García is fluent in English and Spanish.

On March 17, 2007, García twisted her knee in heavy snow while skiing in Killington, Vermont, incurring a torn anterior cruciate ligament. She underwent surgery on her knee on April 5, 2007 in New York City under Dr. Amin Tehrany. She returned to RAW on July 2.

García's first album, ¡Quiero Vivir!, was released on October 9, 2007.

Todd Grisham: One notable slip in Todd Grisham's temporary ring announcing position occurred when he had called a number one contender's match for the WWE Intercontinental Championship on RAW between Shelton Benjamin and Carlito, but instead accidentally calling it the Cruiserweight Championship which is on SmackDown!. Commentators Jim Ross and Jerry "The King" Lawler used it as an excuse to how much they missed normal announcer Lilian Garcia who was injured the week before after a Samoan Drop from Viscera.

Todd Grisham did another botched slip of enunciation during the Chris Benoit DVD Hard Knocks: The Chris Benoit Story during a match between the Pegasus Kid (Chris Benoit) and Japanese wrestling legend, Jushin "Thunder" Liger as Grisham would pronounce Jushin as "Justin", and Benoit would correct him.

During an episode of WWE.com's Byte This!, he responded to a letter sent in by controversial superstar The Ultimate Warrior (Jim Hellwig) where the Warrior declined the invite to come to the show to talk about his DVD, The Self Destruction of the Ultimate Warrior. During the letter, Warrior went on to insult recovering cancer patient Bobby Heenan and called Todd Grisham "gay". Todd responded in good humor by saying he may have experimented in college, but that was no reason for that claim.

Grisham also participated in a series of conversations on Byte This with fans of Total Nonstop Action Wrestling who interrupted the show to either proclaim TNA a superior product,or to insult Todd directly when he chose to sugarcoat and dodge TNA related questions, Todd held his own against the attacks and retaliated with his own retorts, some humorous, and some hostile (once calling one TNA fan a "retard").

Todd Grisham has twice won the Wrestling Observer Newsletter award for Worst Television Announcer in 2004 and again in 2006.

During a December 2006 interview with upcoming WWE talent Vladimir Kozlov, Grisham mistakenly called him "Viktor Kozlov", who is actually a hockey player.

Besides some of the kayfabe injuries that Grisham had on RAW he also was injured and insulted by Carlito on Byte This. Carlito would spit a chewed apple in his face. Carlito would then pick Grisham's own apples and throw it in his crotch.

Grisham replaced Jerry "The King" Lawler on March 19, 2007 after The Great Khali chokebombed him.

Vince McMahon: Vince wanted to be a wrestler when he was young but his father wouldn't let him (he was told that promoters do not appear on the show and should stay apart from his wrestlers).

Vince married Linda McMahon on August 26, 1966 in New Bern, North Carolina. The two met in church when Linda was 13 and Vince was 16. They were introduced by Vince's mother, Vicky Askew. They have two children, Shane and Stephanie, who both work for WWE. Vince McMahon admitted in an interview with Playboy that he had cheated on his wife.

He has a $12 million penthouse in New York City; a $40 million mansion in Greenwich, Connecticut; and a $20 million vacation home in Boca Raton, Florida. However, in 2007 it was reported that WWE cannot back up its claim that McMahon is a billionaire.

Vince has three grandchildren: Declan James and Kenyon Jesse McMahon, sons of Shane and his wife Marissa; and Aurora Rose Levesque, daughter to Stephanie and her husband Paul "Triple H" Levesque.

Triple H: His commercial appearances include ads in May 2006 for Miller Lite where he debates "Man Laws" with the likes of Burt Reynolds, Eddie Griffin and Jerome Bettis. That same month, he also appeared in a commercial for USA Network with Anthony Michael Hall, which cross-promoted RAW and Hall's show, The Dead Zone the main comedic factor being fellow wrestler John Cena leaving a sunburn enhanced handprint on Triple H's back. He has appeared in commercials for bodybuilding supplements such as Stacker 2's and YJ Stinger. Levesque also appeared in a Wendy's commercial holding up a Triple Classic Burger calling it the "Triple H Burger".

Levesque appeared in the movie Blade: Trinity, as a vampire enforcer named Jarko Grimwood. He is also starring in the upcoming WWE Film Journey of Death.

Levesque was featured in the August 14, 2005 episode of MTV's Punk'd in which he was led to believe that he had ruined a wedding by hitting the bride in the face with a door and damaging her nose until Ashton Kutcher and Stacy Keibler showed up. His television appearances also include guest appearances as Triple H on MADtv and Saturday Night Live, as a professional wrestler character named "The Disciplinarian" on an episode of The Drew Carey Show, as a character on an episode of The Bernie Mac Show and winning the WWF Edition of The Weakest Link in which he and Stephanie McMahon were the final two contestants. Levesque has also been a guest announcer for the Mr. Olympia competition.

Before marrying Stephanie McMahon, Levesque was in a relationship with Joanie Laurer (who appeared as Chyna). They dated for four years from 1996 until 2000. Levesque married Stephanie McMahon on October 25, 2003. He and Stephanie welcomed their first child, a baby girl named Aurora Rose Levesque, into the world on July 24, 2006.

He has a sister named Lynn, and he is an uncle to her two children: Peter and Nayssa. Levesque is also an uncle to brother-in-law Shane McMahon's two sons: Declan and Kenyon. His in-laws are Vince and Linda McMahon.

In late 2004, Levesque released a book entitled Making the Game: Triple H's Approach to a Better Body. Mostly devoted to bodybuilding advice, the book also includes some autobiographical information, memoirs, and opinions.

In a November 14, 2006 interview with rapper The Game, it was revealed that Levesque is involved in a lawsuit with him over the rights to the name, "The Game".

Booker T: Booker has appeared in commercials for 1-800-COLLECT and Swanson Hungry Man TV dinners.

In 2000, Huffman appeared in the film Ready to Rumble as himself. Booker has appeared in an episode of Charmed, called "Wrestling With Demons" alongside Buff Bagwell and Scott Steiner.

In 2001, along with several other WWF superstars, Booker competed on an episode of the Weakest Link, being eliminated second from the show.

On April 21, 2007, Booker began hosting a radio show entitled Tea Time with King Booker on KBME 790 AM in Houston. On November 5, 2007, he appeared on an episode of Family Feud with Batista, Candice Michelle, Queen Sharmell,Mr. Kennedy, Layla El, Maria, Michelle McCool, Ric Flair, and Jonathan Coachman.

Huffman was the youngest of eight children, in Houston's tough South Park. By the time Booker was 14, both of his parents had died. His brother Lane "Stevie Ray" Huffman stepped in to raise him and his siblings. Instead of playing sports in high school, Booker T was a drum major.

He got the scar on his shoulder in a motorcycle accident in 1987.

While working at a Wendy's, he was arrested and convicted for the armed robbery of several restaurants in the chain and served 19 months in prison.

Booker is a former amateur boxing competitor. He was able to show some of his boxing skills in a commercial for 1-800-COLLECT.

He and brother Lane Huffman have also opened up a wrestling school in Houston.

Booker presented his then wife, Levestia, to the WCW Monday Nitro crowd the night after his WCW Championship title win at WCW Bash at the Beach 2000. She was also used to further the feud between himself and Jeff Jarrett when Jarrett hit her in the head with a guitar. They divorced in October 2001.

Booker has a son from his first marriage, Brandon, with whom he has a strained relationship due to his time spent on the road.

Booker would go on to marry former Nitro Girl, and Miss Black America, Sharmell Sullivan in March 2005. Booker T, who was planning to retire in early 2005 due to a travel schedule keeping him away from his home life, credited much of his new found success in 2006 to his second wife who would join him on-screen and on the road.

Samoa Joe: Joe got married July 27, 2007.

Joe is close friends with John Cena and Frankie Kazarian. He is good friends with Rob Van Dam and he is going to be featured in RVDTV.

Joe has said that among his favorite wrestlers are The Undertaker and Genichiro Tenryu.

Scott Hall: Scott had married Dana Lee Burgio in 1989 and their marriage had been rocky as Scott had many infidelities while in WCW, especially during trips abroad. Scott's other personal issues included drug use, alcoholism, and DUI and sexual harassment arrests and lawsuits. Dana had decided to divorce Scott in 1998, only for them to re-marry in 2000 and get divorced again a year later. He has two children, son Cody and daughter Cassidy with his ex-wife Dana.

Scott had also been dating TNT president Brad Siegel's niece, Emily Sherman in the middle of his divorce to Dana. He had ended their relationship as he felt he was too old for her, along with the fact that they had an argument while WCW was on tour in Germany as one of Scott's ex-girlfriends had approached him and Sherman became enraged. The argument made wrestling Internet news as it also involved a food fight and a follow-up argument between Sherman and Hall the next day when Hall had to return to the US at the airport.

Goldust/Black Reign: Dustin Rhodes is the son of wrestler Dusty Rhodes and half-brother to Cody Rhodes.

Dustin was married to Terri Runnels and together they have a daughter named Dakota, who was born on February 14, 1994.

Dustin and his girlfriend, Milena got married on December 20, 2002.

Austin Aries: He is a strict vegetarian and often posts pro-vegetarian facts on his website.

He is a major advocate of hemp and has many pro-hemp facts on his website.

His ring name is a combination of his astrology sign (Aries) and the first name of one of his favorite wrestlers when he was growing up (Austin Idol). He has a tattoo of the Chinese symbol for Aries on his arm, which is one of the distinguishing features he uses to claim that he and former persona Dan 'Casual' Sexon are in fact different people (the other being that he no longer has a mustache).

He is currently dating Lacey of Ring of Honor.

Chris Jericho: Jericho started his own weekly XM Satellite Radio show, in March 2005 called "Rock of Jericho," which could be heard on Sunday Nights at 8:00 on XM 41 The Boneyard. Jericho is also a contributor to the VH1 pop culture shows Best Week Ever, and I Love the '80s. On July 12, 2006, he made an appearance on G4's Attack of the Show!

In May 2006, Jericho appeared on VH1's "40 Greatest Metal Songs" and HEAVY: The Story of Metal as a commentator. On June 24, 2006 Jericho premiered in his first Sci Fi Channel movie, Android Apocalypse, alongside Joey Lawrence.

Chris Jericho debuted as a stage actor in a Bird entertainment theatre comedy play "Opening Night", which premiered in Toronto Centre for the Arts during July 20-22, 2006 in Toronto.

He was one of eight celebrities in the 2006 Fox Television singing reality show, Celebrity Duets, executive-produced by Simon Cowell, and was the first contestant eliminated. A video shown on TMZ.com featured Jericho working at a McDonald's to show off his skills while prepping for the show.

Jericho appeared on Larry King Live on July 9, 2007 to discuss the double murder-suicide of Chris Benoit and his family.

Jericho currently divides his time between homes in Los Angeles, California and Tampa, Florida. Jericho's wife is named Jessica Lee Lockhart, with whom he has a son, Ash Edward Irvine (born September 24, 2003) and two daughters, twins Cheyenne Lee Irvine and Sierra Lorreta Irvine (born July 18, 2006). Cheyenne and Sierra's births were premature, at the 27 week mark, and they weighed 2 pounds 7 ounces and 2 pounds 5 ounces.

Despite being born in the prominent Long Island neighborhood of Manhasset, New York, (his father, Ted Irvine, played pro NHL hockey for the New York Rangers in the early 70s, and Chris was born during his tenure with the Rangers while living in Manhasset), Jericho is a proud Canadian, having been raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He also mentioned that he was pulling for Canada when Canada played the United States in the 2002 Olympic gold medal hockey game. In fact, Vince McMahon felt that by introducing him as "born in Manhasset, New York", American fans would be more likely to get behind him (the same occurred to Chris Benoit when they started introducing him as "now residing in Atlanta, Georgia"). He shares dual citizenship with both Canada and the United States.

Jericho was inducted into the Canadian Wrestling Hall of Fame on September 25, 1997. On July 5, 2004, Jericho was awarded The Order of the Buffalo Hunt in a ceremony held in Manitoba for his achievements in wrestling and his continual commitment to working with underprivileged children. The award has previously been given to Pope John Paul II, Chicago mayor Richard Daley, Desmond Tutu, and Mother Teresa.

Chris attended his good friend Eddie Guerrero's funeral along with Chris Benoit and other wrestling personalities. The day after Guerrero's death, Jericho was interviewed on WWE's official website where Jericho said that Eddie was like a brother to him and talked about the time they shared together along with Chris Benoit and Dean Malenko.

Kane: Bad Blood 2003 was the last PPV where Kane wore his mask in a match.

Jacobs has been married twice. His first marriage was to Maurisa, who he married in 1995, and he has two stepdaughters. He married Natasha on August 24, 2004 and has two children.

 He is an active member of the Libertarian party, having endorsed both Bob Smither and Barry Hess. He has also openly endorsed Republican Presidential Candidate Ron Paul for President.

Jacobs made his film debut as "Jacob Goodnight" in the first production of WWE Films, See No Evil, which was released on May 19, 2006.

Jacobs appeared on a special WWF edition of "The Weakest Link" in March 2002 and became the strongest link by defeating Bubba Ray Dudley in the final round. The money won was donated to Jacobs' chosen charity, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, in Memphis, Tennessee.

The "Kane" character was featured in the fourteen issue Undertaker comic book produced by the now-defunct Chaos! Comics in 1999. The character only spoke once, in the Undertaker Halloween Special, which tied into the single issue Mankind comic book produced by the same company. This series introduced a comic-exclusive character, Kane's younger half-sister, "Jezebelle" (like Kane, supposedly the result of a liaison between Paul Bearer and an unnamed woman). As Jezebelle was related to Kane only in that they shared a common father, she presumably had no relation to The Undertaker.

A book written by Michael Chiappetta detailing the kayfabe origins of the Kane character entitled "Journey into Darkness" was released in 2005.

Jacobs appeared in the March 22 episode of Smallville entitled "Combat", where he plays a Phantom Zone criminal from another world named Titan, who faces off against Clark Kent.

Stone Cold Steve Austin: Following the end of his in-ring wrestling career, Austin began pursuing a career in acting. In January 2005, Austin signed a three picture deal with WWE Films. Austin has also appeared on several television series, and, along with fellow wrestlers Goldberg, Kevin Nash, Bob Sapp and The Great Khali, appeared in the 2005 remake of The Longest Yard. 2007 saw the release of The Condemned which starred Austin as "Jack Conrad". The movie failed to meet box office expectations.

Steve married his former valet Jeannie Clark in 1992 and together they had two daughters, Stephanie (born in 1992) and Cassidy (born in 1996). They divorced in 1999 prior to WrestleMania XV and their daughters now live in England with Jeannie. Steve also has an adopted daughter, Jade, the daughter of Chris Adams and Jeannie.

On September 6, 2000, Austin married Debra Marshall. However, on June 15, 2002, police were called to their residence in San Antonio. They found a hysterical Debra with bruises. Austin had left the house and was asked by police not to return. On August 14, 2002, Austin was arrested and charged with domestic abuse. He pled no contest on November 25, 2002 and was given a year's probation, a $1,000 fine and ordered to carry out eighty hours of community service. Debra claims that Steve Austin was a steroid user and this incident was the result of roid rage.

Austin filed for divorce from Debra on July 22, 2002.

As reported by his former wife Debra Marshall, Austin legally changed his name to Steve Austin sometime in the past two years.

Hillbilly Jim: He has appeared in a number of Trade Shows, such as Atlanta Super Sports Show, Video Software Dealer's Association, Focus on Video, and many others. Moreover, he has had numerous personal appearances in national retail stores, such as Blockbuster Video, Wal-Mart, Kmart, Toys "R" Us, and Kroger's.

He has done a national commercial for Chevy trucks and another local TV and radio commercials in Kentucky.

The Wrestling Album (certified gold) (Epic Label), including the original single, "Don't Go Messing With A Country Boy" performed by Hillbilly Jim. Its follow-up album, Piledriver - The Wrestling Album 2 also included a duet by Hillbilly Jim and a female singer credited as Gertrude, "Waking Up Alone".

WWE Cartoon Series "Hulk Hogan's Rock N' Wrestling," D.I.C. Productions

Hillbilly Jim Character portrayed in various WWE merchandise (t-shirts, magazines, action figures, video games, and home video releases).

Shane McMahon: Shane married his high school sweetheart Marissa Mazzola on September 14, 1996. They used to live across the street from each other. Shane has stated that Marissa was the only girlfriend he ever had. Together they have two sons, Declan James and Kenyon Jesse. Declan was born on February 13, 2004 and weighed nine pounds. Kenyon "Kenney" was born March 26, 2006. On July 24, 2006, Shane became an uncle, when his sister Stephanie had her daughter Aurora Rose Levesque.

Shane usually wears baseball jerseys for his matches, with the front saying Shane O Mac and the back reserved for McMahon, the name of the PPV he's participating in, or some other phrase relating to the match and/or his opponent.

When Vince McMahon was interviewed in Playboy, he mentioned that Shane was suffering from ADHD, for which they placed him on Ritalin.

Although Shane is right-handed, he often throws left-handed punches.

Shane's football jersey number was 61, the same as his dad Vince.

Shane had a brief role in the 2002 film, Rollerball.

Gene Okerlund: He was given the nickname Mean Gene by Jesse "The Body" Ventura.

His name has been associated with fast food chain, Mean Gene’s Burgers, and a chain of pizzerias located within bowling alleys, Mean Gene's Pizza. These are owned by Hot Stuff Foods, which was headed by two of his nephews. Early in 2006, Okerlund and Hot Stuff split. Okerlund and one of the nephews were planning to start their own food company on the brands, but Hot Stuff sued, claiming they had "Mean Gene" trademarked. Okerlund lost, with the judge saying that Okerlund can't use the name "Mean Gene" for his new food company. Okerlund succeeded in cancelling the trademark registrations held by Orion, but remains enjoined from competing with Orion.

Gene's son Todd starred on the University of Minnesota ice hockey team from 1983 to 1987. Todd played in the 1988 United States Olympics team that competed in Calgary. He played four games with the NHL's New York Islanders. A chronic knee injury ultimately forced his early retirement^.

In 2004, Okerlund received a kidney transplant, and fully recovered from the operation.

CM Punk: Punk has adopted his real-life following of the straight edge movement as his professional wrestling gimmick, but the gimmick uses different elements of Punk's personality and the beliefs of the straight edge movement depending on his alignment. While portraying a face, the gimmick tends to be that of Punk's normal personality, largely indifferent to others who drink alcohol, smoke tobacco, partake in recreational drug use or have promiscuous sexual behavior, but emphasizing the social discipline involved with abstinence. Conversely, his heel personality tends to be that of one who is militantly straightedge, exemplifying the elitist attitudes and superiority complexes - defined by Punk's common mantra during heel promos that, because he is straight edge, he is "better than you". Regardless of alignment, Punk performs the straight edge symbol of crossing his arms in an X formation while having the letter X written on the back of his hands, usually drawn on his wrist tape.

The meaning of the CM portion of Punk's ring name is a source of discussion as to its meaning and origins. Originally, the CM stood simply for "Chick Magnet" as it related to his original backyard wrestling tag team. However, Punk would later state that CM had multiple meanings and would give different answers and stories when asked, such as "Cookie Monster", "Crooked Moonsault", "Chuck Mosley", "Charles Montgomery" and "Charles Manson".

An integral part of Punk's gimmick is that of the numerous tattoos that adorn his body, some of which have come to become symbols associated with Punk as well as mantras and declarations that have been integrated into his gimmick. The tattoos as a whole, due to their large quantity and variety, have also become an attribute identifiable to Punk. The most important of the individual tattoos in Punk's character, whether through association, symbol, or mantra, are:

A Pepsi logo on his left shoulder which inspired the names of two of his signature moves which also became a symbol of Punk himself, wearing the logo on his ring gear in the independent circuit as well as a slightly modified Pepsi logo being used as part of his TitanTron entrance video. He got the tattoo as a joke, as many fraternity members in his school were getting beer logos tattooed on their body, so Punk, a keen Pepsi drinker, chose to receive a Pepsi tattoo to emphasize his straight edge beliefs. The tattoo is also a reference to former Minor Threat guitarist Brian Baker, who had a Coca-Cola tattoo and explained this by saying "I like Coca-Cola". When people inquire about Punk's Pepsi tattoo, he often replies "I like Pepsi" in a similar fashion.

The words "Straight Edge" are spelled out on his stomach. This tattoo is one of Punk's oldest tattoos and has been referred to by Punk as his identity.

A sleeve tattoo on his left arm entitled "luck is for losers", a mantra used on some of the choices for Punk's first ECW T-shirt, that features numerous symbols of good luck including a rabbit's foot, four-leaf clover and a horseshoe. The tattoo also features four ace playing cards as a tribute to trainer Ace Steel.

His knuckles spell out "DRUG FREE" when placed together, "DRUG" on the right knuckles and "FREE" on the left. This tattoo is often used in wrestling as a taunting gesture to the crowd and opponents.

A tattoo of the COBRA logo is on his right shoulder. On his right arm is the emblem of the Arashikage Ninja Clan.

A tattoo on the back of his left hand reading "No gimmicks needed".

Punk's character and gimmick have been parodied by the wrestling federation CHIKARA with the character CP Munk, the straight edge chipmunk. The character is simply a chipmunk mascot costume which includes references to Punk such as X marked wrist tape, a Pepsi logo on the costume's left shoulder, and a high-pitch version of Punk's best-known independent circuit theme song Miseria Cantare - The Beginning, as performed by the band AFI. Punk has stated on the Q&A section of his website that some days he can laugh about CP Munk, and other days it makes him a bit angry.

Punk was born, raised and lived in Chicago, Illinois with a father with alcohol problems, his mother, two younger sisters and a brother. His brother grew up to also be a professional wrestler, using the ring name Mike Broox; however, Punk and Mike had a falling out after Mike embezzled several thousand dollars from the Lunatic Wrestling Federation. Punk first wished to pursue a career in professional wrestling after watching Roddy Piper crack a coconut over Jimmy Snuka's head during an edition of the Piper's Pit. While viewing his alcoholic father and reading that alcoholism may have been hereditary Punk made an agreement with himself to abstain from drinking alcohol to prevent the situation from occurring. During high school Punk discovered the hardcore punk music genre, most importantly for him Minor Threat, and by extension found the hardcore subculture which in turn lead to the discovery of the straight edge culture, which Punk himself adopted. After high school and beginning his wrestling career Punk moved out of the family house and lived for a time with fellow professional wrestler Allison Danger. Punk later moved into an apartment with Ace Steel; however, since then Punk has made reference to living alone in Chicago. Punk worked other jobs to support himself in his early career, the last of which was as a laboratory technician for Underwriters Laboratories until he was fired due to poor conduct and work ethic in October 2002.

In relationships Punk has made reference to two ex-girlfriends in his early career and later was romantically linked to professional wrestlers Shannon Spruill and Tracy Brookshaw both of whom had managed him in ROH. Punk also dated Maria Kanellis,  however they have since ended their relationship.

Tommy Dreamer: Dreamer married Trisa Hayes, better known by her ring name Beulah McGillicutty, on October 12, 2002,  with whom he has twin daughters — Kimberly and Briana.  Kimberly and Briana appeared in a sixth season episode, "The Ride", of the HBO drama The Sopranos playing Domenica Baccalieri, Tony Soprano's baby niece.

Dreamer made a cameo in the adult film Whack Attack 5 by Extreme Associates.  He also appeared, along with fellow ECW wrestler New Jack, in the "Mel Schwartz, Bounty Hunter" episode of the TV series Early Edition as a biker.