Paul Orndorff
Born: 1949-10-29, Brandon, Florida, USA
Biography
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.
Filmography
- WWE Saturday Night's Main Event (1985)
- WWE Table For 3 (2015)
- WWE: Best of WWE at Madison Square Garden (2013)
- WWE: The History Of The WWE Championship (2006)
- WrestleMania (1985)
- WrestleMania II (1986)
- WCW Bash at the Beach 1994 (1994)
- The Wrestling Classic (1985)
- WWE: The Best of Saturday Night's Main Event (2009)
- WWE Survivor Series 1987 (1987)
- NWA Clash of the Champions XI: Coastal Crush (1990)
- WCW The Great American Bash 1990 (1990)
- WCW SuperBrawl IV (1994)
- Legends of Mid-South Wrestling (2013)
- WCW Clash of The Champions XXXI (1995)
- WCW BattleBowl (1993)
- WCW Clash of the Champions XXVIII (1994)
- SMW Fire on The Mountain 1992 (1992)
- WCW SuperBrawl III (1993)
- WWE Grudge Match (1986)
- WWE: Hulk Hogan: The Ultimate Anthology (2006)
- UWF Beach Brawl (1991)
- WWF Hulkamania 2 (1987)
- Rowdy Roddy Piper's Greatest Hits (1985)
- The Best of the WWF: volume 12 (1987)
- WCW Clash of The Champions XXVI (1994)
- WCW Clash of the Champions XXV (1993)
- WCW Fall Brawl 2000 (2000)
- WCW Fall Brawl 1993 (1993)
- Mid-South Wrestling Giants, Midgets, Heroes & Villains vol. 1 (2007)