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'''[[Curt Hennig]]''' was a wrestler in the [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]] in the early '90's. During this time he performed under the Mr. Perfect gimmick and was, and still is, considered to be one of the best technical wrestlers in [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]] history. He held the AWA World Championship, the Intercontinental Championship twice and has been inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame. Briefly competed in [[TNA]] when it was still a division of the NWA. He passed away in 2003 from acute cocaine intoxication.

You can learn more about his career at [[The Other Wiki]].

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* [[The Ace]]: While a face.
* [[Arch Enemy]]: He and [[Bret Hart]] had some classic matches that set the pace for future technical wrestlers in WWE.
* [[Badass Boast]]: The ring name says it all.
* [[Blond Guys Are Evil]]: While a heel.
* [[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder]]: In WCW, Hennig betrayed [[Diamond Dallas Page]], The Four Horsemen ''and'' the nWo Wolfpac.
* [[Dark-Skinned Blond]]
* [[Defeating the Undefeatable]]: Went undefeated for his whole first year in WWF, to play up his "Perfect" gimmick. The streak ended rather anticlimactically with mid-carder Brutus Beefcake beating him at Wrestlemania VI.
** He had lost to [[Hulk Hogan]] at some house shows a few months earlier, but none of those were televised.
* [[Demoted to Extra]]: As part of the nWo B-Team in WCW.
** While recovering from a vicious back injury in '91 and '92, Hennig served as a commentator and as [[Ric Flair]]'s "executive consultant."
* [[Finishing Move]]: The Perfect-Plex was almost impossible to kick out of, but these days it seems more like a [[Name of Power]] move.
** [[Suplex Finisher]]
* [[Hair of Gold]]
* [[Hot Dad]]
* [[Jack of All Stats]]: Hennig used a combo of power moves, more agile attacks, and submission holds in his arsenal. In a meta-sense, Curt also had great psychology, variety of moves, promo skills, and a great general charisma about him.
* [[Jerk Jock]]: May have been the first notable one in professional wrestling. His success probably led to [[Kurt Angle]] and Jack Swagger's gimmicks.
* [[Suspiciously Similar Song|The Dale Oliver Version]]: His TNA theme [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ir6-W89IsAI "Champion"] was a combination of We Will Rock You and We Are The Champions.
* [[Lightning Bruiser]]: Agility? He could hit missile dropkicks and jump over opponents. Strength? Once Perfect-Plexed [[The Big Show]]. Endurance? Could wrestle for long periods of time and put on great matches even with real injuries. (He wrestled through his Summerslam classic against [[Bret Hart]] with a back problem)
* [[Loveable Rogue]]: In a time when nobody rooted for the bad guy, he was the asshole heel who was secretly admired by many fans. It's why his [[Face Heel Turn]] was more seamless than others.
* [[The Nicknamer]]: Coined [[Shawn Michaels]]' famous moniker, "The Heartbreak Kid."
** Interestingly enough, he was also the first to refer to Hunter Hearst-Helmsley as [[Triple H]].
* [[Power Stable]]: In WCW he was a member of both [[The Four Horsemen]] and [[New World Order]].
* [[Real Life Writes the Plot]]: Hennig really was an accomplished athlete and Mr. Perfect was a caricature of his real personality.
** The skills he shows in his vignettes are all real, but Curt needed to not know the camera was running in order to pull them off.
* [[Role-Ending Misdemeanor]]: His career was littered with incidents of drug use and drunkenness (it's no coincidence that he used to tag-team with [[Scott Hall]]), so it's no surprise that his drunken brawl with [[Brock Lesnar]] on a plane ended his second WWE stint.
* [[Suspiciously Similar Song]]: His classic [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWF]] theme was a knock-off of ''Theme from Exodus''.
** He used ''Theme from Exodus'' for a period after his debut before it was changed.
* [[Theatrics of Pain]]: He had the ability to make his opponents look much better than they were. This was probably why he was used more to put lesser talents over rather than being a Main Eventer.
** To be more specific, he was well-known for twirling in mid-air while taking powerful strikes (such as a clothesline). He also had his own variation of the "[[Ric Flair|Flair Flip]]" that he would work into most matches, especially before his back injury.
* [[Trickster Archetype]]: In [[Real Life]], Curt loved to prank people not unlike [[Owen Hart]]. Once he went to a party and crapped in the hosts' baby's potty and managed to convince them their kid took an adult-sized shit.
* [[What Could Have Been]]: Often called "the best wrestler never to be WWE Champion", Hennig's career was plagued by constant injuries which kept him from being used by WWE to his full potential.
** There was a period of about a month at the end of 1989 where the plan was for Hennig to go over [[Hulk Hogan]] at [[Wrestlemania]] VI to get the WWF title. Popular rumor is that Hogan himself nixed the idea.
** Before his death, the idea was floated about him possibly taking the NWA world heavyweight championship from [[Jeff Jarrett]].
* [[Wrestling Family]]: Curt was the son of Larry "The Axe" Hennig and now his own son wrestles in WWE as Michael McGillicutty.
* [[Wrestling Psychology]]

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