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{{quote|'''''You have just witnessed perfection. '''''|'''Mr. Perfect, after winning a match'''}}
'''[[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.
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* [[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
* [[Suspiciously Similar Song]]: His classic [[
** 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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