Paul Orndorff
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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PHOTOS
TV Series
Hogan Knows Best
5.167
Fury Hour
0
WWE Table For 3
8
WWF Wrestling Challenge
6.8
Mr. McMahon
7.9
Saturday Night's Main Event
8.2
Movies
WrestleMania
6.6
WrestleMania II
6.375
WWF Hulkamania 2
0
The Wrestling Classic
6.1
WCW Great American Bash '90: New Revolution
0
WWE War to Settle the Score
10
WCW Fall Brawl 2000
0
WCW SuperBrawl III
0
WCW Slamboree 1993
10
WCW Starrcade 1993
0
WCW Fall Brawl 1993
0
WCW Fall Brawl 1994
0
WCW Halloween Havoc 1994
0
WCW Slamboree 1995
0
WCW Bash at the Beach 1995
3.5
Bob Uecker's Wacky World of Sports
0
Bob Uecker's Wacky World of Sports
0
WWE: Best of WWE at Madison Square Garden
9.2
WWE: Hulk Hogan: The Ultimate Anthology
7.9
Wrestling's Bloopers, Bleeps and Bodyslams!
10
Legends of Mid-South Wrestling
9.3
Best of the WWF Volume 3
0
The Best of the WWF: volume 4
0
The Best of the WWF: volume 5
0
The Best of the WWF: volume 12
0
The WWF's Most Unusual Matches
0
Mid-South Wrestling Giants, Midgets, Heroes & Villains vol. 1
0
Andre the Giant
6.2
Best of the WWF Volume 2
0
Rowdy Roddy Piper's Greatest Hits
0
WWE Houston Wrestling: October '86
0
WWE Houston Wrestling: November '87
0
WWE Houston Wrestling: December '87
0
WWE Houston Wrestling: November '86
0
WWE Maple Leaf Wrestling: April '85
0
WWE Maple Leaf Wrestling: December '85
0
WWE Maple Leaf Wrestling: March '87
0
WWE St. Louis Wrestling: September '84
0
WWE Maple Leaf Wrestling: June '87
0
WWE Wrestling at The Meadowlands: July '84
0
WWE Maple Leaf Wrestling: November '87
0
WWE Wrestling at The Meadowlands: December '84
0
WWE Wrestling at The Meadowlands: January '87
0
WWE: The History Of The WWE Championship
10
WWE Unreleased: 1986-1995
10
Andre the Giant
7.344
WWE: The Best of Saturday Night's Main Event
10
WWE Hall of Fame 2005
7
WCW Clash of The Champions XXII
10
The True Story of WrestleMania
8.3
350 Days
5.4
Wrestling's Living Legend Bruno Sammartino
0
TWA Spring Spectacular
0
WWE The Brawl to End it All
10
TWA Summer Sizzler
0
NWA Clash of the Champions XI: Coastal Crush
0
WWE The Big Event
8
WWE Survivor Series 1987
8.731
WCW Clash of The Champions XXXI
5
UWF Beach Brawl
0
WCW World War 3 1995
0
WCW Clash of The Champions XXIII
0
WCW Beach Blast 1993
0
WCW Clash of the Champions XXIV
0
WCW Halloween Havoc 1993
6
WCW Clash of the Champions XXV
0
WCW Battle Bowl
0
WCW Clash of The Champions XXVI
0
WCW SuperBrawl IV
5
SMW Volunteer Slam 1992
0
WCW Bash at the Beach 1994
6.3
WCW Clash of the Champions XXVIII
0
SMW Fire on The Mountain 1992
0
WCW Clash of The Champions XXIX
0
Biography: 'Rowdy' Roddy Piper
7.7
WrestleMania
0
WrestleMania 2
0