Adam Copeland

Adam Joseph Copeland^[7] (born October 30, 1973)^[10] is a Canadian professional wrestler, better known by his ring name Edge. He is currently signed to World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) on its SmackDown brand, but is currently inactive due to an injury.

Copeland rose through the ranks as one half of the tag team Edge and Christian, alongside his real-life childhood friend and storyline brother Christian. He is noted for being one of the most decorated tag team champions in WWE history, winning a record 14 tag team titles.^[11] He is also a nine-time World Champion (having won the WWE Championship four times and the World Heavyweight Championship five times), and is the only wrestler to have won all six major championships featured on Raw and SmackDown (WWE, World, Intercontinental, United States, World Tag Team, and WWE Tag Team Championships). In addition to his championship accolades, Copeland also won the 2001 King of the Ring tournament and the 2005 Money in the Bank ladder match.^[12][13]

Aside from professional wrestling, Copeland has appeared in Highlander: Endgame and made guest appearances in television shows, including The Weakest Link, Deal or No Deal, MADtv, and Mind of Mencia.

John Cena

John Felix Anthony Cena^[6] (born April 23, 1977)^[4] is an American actor, amateur hip hop musician, and professional wrestler currently employed by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) on its Raw brand.

In professional wrestling, Cena is a five time world champion having won the WWE Championship one time while on SmackDown and two times while on Raw and won the World Heavyweight Championship while on Raw. In addition to these championships, Cena has also won the WWE United States Championship three times^[7] and the World Tag Team Championship two times (once with Shawn Michaels and once with Batista).^[8] Cena also won the 2008 Royal Rumble match.^[9]

Cena started his professional wrestling career in 2000, wrestling for Ultimate Pro Wrestling (UPW), where he held the UPW Heavyweight Championship. In 2001, Cena signed a contract with the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) and was sent to Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW) where he held the OVW Heavyweight Championship and the OVW Southern Tag Team Championship (with Rico Constantino).

Outside of wrestling, Cena has released the rap album You Can't See Me, which debuted at #15 on the US Billboard 200 chart, and starred in the feature films The Marine (2006) and 12 Rounds (2009).^[10] Cena has also made appearances on television shows including Manhunt, Deal or No Deal, MADtv, Saturday Night Live, and Punk'd. Cena was also a contestant on Fast Cars and Superstars: The Gillette Young Guns Celebrity Race, where he made it to the final round before being eliminated, placing third in the overall competition.

John Layfield

John Charles Layfield (born November 29, 1966)^[3] is a retired American professional wrestler and a current commentator/host for mixed martial arts promotion Vyper Fight League.^[4] Layfield is best known by his ring names, Bradshaw, John "Bradshaw" Layfield or JBL from his time in World Wrestling Entertainment, where he is the longest reigning WWE Champion in SmackDown history with a reign lasting 280 days.

Layfield's main gimmick as John "Bradshaw" Layfield (JBL) – a wealthy, gladhanding businessman – was based on Layfield's real-life accomplishments as a stock market investor. Layfield is a regular panelist on Fox News Channel's The Cost of Freedom, has appeared on CNBC, and has written a best-selling book on financial planning called Have More Money Now. (ISBN 0-7434-6633-0). Layfield also hosts a weekend talk radio program, syndicated nationally by Talk Radio Network, in which he discusses his conservative political views.^[5] Layfield is also employed by Northeast Securities as its Senior Vice President.^[6]

In WWE, Layfield is a one-time WWE Champion, one-time United States Champion, a one-time European Champion, a seventeen-time Hardcore Champion, a one-time WWE Intercontinental Champion and a three-time World Tag Team Champion with Faarooq as part of the Acolytes Protection Agency (APA).^[7] He is the twentieth Triple Crown Champion, and the tenth Grand Slam Champion.

Eddie Guerrero

Eduardo Gory "Eddie" Guerrero^[1] (October 9, 1967 – November 13, 2005)^[1] was a Mexican-American professional wrestler born into the Guerrero wrestling family.^[2] Guerrero wrestled in Mexico and Japan and in several major professional wrestling promotions in the United States^[2] He wrestled in Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW), World Championship Wrestling (WCW), and in World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). Guerrero's gimmick was that of a crafty, resourceful wrestler who would do anything to win a match. His catch phrase became "Cheat to Win." Despite being a villain for most of his career, he got over in and outside the ring. Another one of Guerrero's famous slogans was "I Lie! I Cheat! I Steal!," which was used in one of his entrance themes. Guerrero partly used this phrase in his autobiography Cheating Death, Stealing Life.

Throughout his career, Guerrero encountered various substance abuse problems outside of wrestling, including alcoholism and an addiction to painkillers. His problems outside of the ring were sometimes integrated into his angles. Notwithstanding these issues, he won numerous titles during his career, including the WWE Championship. He was posthumously inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2006.

Brock Lesnar

Brock Edward Lesnar^[4] (born July 12, 1977 in Webster, South Dakota) is an American mixed martial artist as well as a former professional and amateur wrestler.^[5] He is currently the UFC Heavyweight Champion.

Lesnar was an accomplished amateur wrestler, winning the 2000 NCAA wrestling championship and placing second in 1999, losing in the finals to future New England Patriots offensive lineman Stephen Neal.^[6] He then gained prominence in World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), where he was a three-time WWE Champion and the youngest person ever to hold that championship. Lesnar was also the 2002 King of the Ring, and the winner of the 2003 Royal Rumble.^[7][8]

After leaving WWE in 2004, Lesnar pursued a career in the NFL.^[9] He played during the preseason for the Minnesota Vikings, but ended up being a late cut.^[10] Lesnar returned to professional wrestling at the end of 2005, and joined New Japan Pro Wrestling, where he won the IWGP Heavyweight Championship in his first wrestling match since leaving the WWE.^[11] He was stripped of the title in July 2006, although he held the physical belt until June 2007.^[12]

Lesnar started a career in mixed martial arts and had his first fight in June 2007.^[13] He then signed with the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) in October 2007. He lost his first fight to Frank Mir, but has since remained undefeated, capturing the UFC Heavyweight Championship from Randy Couture on November 15, 2008.

Chris Jericho

Christopher Keith Irvine (born November 9, 1970)^[2] better known by his ring name Chris Jericho, is an American-born Canadian professional wrestler, television and stage actor, author, radio host, television host and rock musician. He is currently signed to World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), wrestling on its SmackDown brand, where he is one half of the Unified WWE Tag Team Champions. He is also known for his appearances with World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) and internationally in Canadian, Mexican, and Japanese promotions.

As a part of WWE, he is credited as being the first-ever Undisputed Champion in WWE. Also, he has won the WWE Intercontinental Championship a record nine times.^[1] Jericho is a five-time World Champion, having won the WCW World Heavyweight Championship twice, the World Wrestling Federation Championship once, and the World Heavyweight Championship twice. His first reign as WWF Champion and his second reign as WCW Champion (then known as the World Championship) together make him the first Undisputed Champion in history. In addition, he is also the ninth Triple Crown Champion and the fourth Grand Slam Champion.

Outside of WWE, Jericho is the frontman of Fozzy, an American heavy metal band, and a star of the wrestling documentary Bloodstained Memoirs.^[5][6]

Kurt Angle

Kurt Steven Angle (born December 9, 1968) is an American professional wrestler, actor and 1996 Olympic gold medalist. He is currently under contract with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, where he is the current TNA World Heavyweight Champion.

Angle was involved in amateur wrestling during both high school and college. In college at Clarion University of Pennsylvania, he won numerous accolades, including being a two-time National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I champion.^[5][6] After graduating, he won the 1995 World Championship tournament.^[5] Angle then competed in the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, where he won a gold medal in heavyweight freestyle wrestling.^[6][7]

Initially turning down an offer to join the World Wrestling Federation (WWF),^[6] Angle signed a multi-year contract with the company in 1998. His first big push in the company was in February 2000, when he held both the WWF European Championship and the WWF Intercontinental Championship.^[8] Not long after, Angle began pursuing the WWF Championship. He continued to be a part of main event matches until August 2006, when Angle was granted a release from his contract.^[9] Throughout his tenure in the company, he was a six-time world champion (four-time WWF/E Champion,^[10] World Heavyweight Champion^[11] and WCW Champion),^[12] WCW United States Champion,^[13] WWF Intercontinental Champion,^[14] WWF European Champion, ^[15] WWF Hardcore Champion^[16] and WWE Tag Team Champion (with Chris Benoit).^[17] In addition, he was the winner of the King of the Ring tournament in 2000,^[18] the tenth Triple Crown Champion, and the fifth Grand Slam Champion.

After leaving WWE, Angle joined Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), where he became the second wrestler in TNA to win TNA's Triple Crown and the first man to hold all three TNA championships simultaneously.^[19] While in TNA, his real-life wife Karen began accompanying him to the ring and playing a part in his on-screen storylines. Angle has also made appearances for New Japan Pro Wrestling and Inoki Genome Federation, where he was the IWGP Third Belt Champion.^[20] Also a three-time (and current) TNA World Heavyweight Champion, Angle is a nine time World Champion overall, though TNA bills him as a thirteen-time world champion when adding the IWGP Third Belt Championship, his 1996 Olympic Gold Medal, and 2 NCAA World Freestyle Championships. He is also the 2007 and 2009 King of the Mountain winner at Slammiversary.

Paul Wight

Paul Donald Wight, Jr. (born February 8, 1972), better known by his ring name, (The) Big Show, is an American professional wrestler and actor currently signed to World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), wrestling on its Raw brand where he is one half of the Unified WWE Tag Team Champions with Chris Jericho. Wight is also known for his career in World Championship Wrestling (WCW), where he wrestled as The Giant from July 1995 to December 1998.

In WWE, Wight is recognized as a five-time world heavyweight champion having won the WWF/E Championship twice, the WCW World Heavyweight Championship twice, and the ECW World Heavyweight Championship once. He also won the 1996 WCW World War 3, and is the only man in history to win the WWE, WCW, and ECW Championships.

Vince McMahon

Vincent Kennedy "Vince" McMahon (born August 24, 1945)^[1] is an American professional wrestler, promoter, in-ring announcer, play-by-play commentator and film producer, known by the ring name Mr. McMahon. He is also the Chairman of the World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) Board of directors and majority shareholder of WWE. He is the creator of most WWE television programs. After acquiring World Championship Wrestling in 2001 and Extreme Championship Wrestling in 2003 two years after its closure, McMahon's WWE became the sole remaining major American professional wrestling promotion (prior to the national expansion of Total Nonstop Action Wrestling and to a lesser extent Ring of Honor).

As an on-camera character, he mainly appears on the Raw brand but makes appearances on the SmackDown and ECW brands, as well. McMahon plays a character based on himself in the world of the WWE, and is a two-time World Champion: a one-time WWF Champion and one-time ECW World Champion. He was also the 1999 Royal Rumble winner.

Triple H

Paul Michael Levesque^[5] (born July 27, 1969)^[5] is an American professional wrestler and actor signed with World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), currently wrestling on its Raw brand.^[7] He is better known by his ring name Triple H, an abbreviation of his former ring name, Hunter Hearst Helmsley,

Before joining WWE, Levesque began his wrestling career with World Championship Wrestling (WCW) in 1993, wrestling under the ring name Terra Ryzing and later as Jean-Paul Lévesque.^[1] Levesque joined the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) in 1995 with the on-screen persona of wealthy sophisticate Hunter Hearst Helmsley.^[2] He later changed his name to Triple H and adopted an alternative image in the stable D-Generation X (DX). After the dissolution of DX, Triple H was pushed as a main event wrestler, winning several singles championships.^[3] As part of a storyline, Triple H married Stephanie McMahon, who later became his real-life spouse. In 2003, Triple H formed another stable known as Evolution,^[3] and in 2006, briefly reformed DX with Shawn Michaels and once again reformed DX in 2009.^[8]

Overall, Levesque is a thirteen-time World Champion having won the WWE Championship eight-times, and the World Heavyweight Championship five-times (Triple H is also recognized as the first World Heavyweight Champion under WWE's lineage).^[9][10] In addition, Levesque won the 1997 King of the Ring, the 2002 Royal Rumble, and was the second Grand Slam Championship winner.^[3]

Outside wrestling, Levesque has made numerous guest appearances in film and on television.

Mick Foley

Michael Francis "Mick" Foley, Sr.^[1][3] (born June 7, 1965)^[1][3] is an American actor, author, voice over, and professional wrestler, currently signed with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), where he is the storyline "Executive Shareholder". He has also worked for many other wrestling promotions, including World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE, formerly World Wrestling Federation), World Championship Wrestling (WCW), Ring of Honor (ROH) and Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW). He is often referred to as "The Hardcore Legend", a nickname he shares with Terry Funk.

Throughout his wrestling career, Foley has wrestled for many different promotions, both under his real name and under various personas (most notably Cactus Jack, Mankind and Dude Love). He was the first ever WWF Hardcore Champion and he also became a three-time WWF Champion as Mankind throughout his WWF career. He is also an eight-time WWF Tag Team Champion, a two-time ECW World Tag Team Champion, and a one-time WCW World Tag Team Champion. After retiring from a full-time wrestling schedule, Foley appeared occasionally with WWE as a special guest referee and, later, a color commentator for the SmackDown brand. After leaving the company, he signed with TNA in 2008, where he is the storyline majority stock holder of the company, and formerly, the TNA World Heavyweight Champion, TNA Lengends Champion, thus marking his fourth world heavyweight championship.

In addition to wrestling Foley is a multiple-time New York Times bestselling autobiographer.^[3] He was also a subject of the documentary Beyond the Mat, which followed him at the peak of his career. More recently, he has signed on for Bloodstained Memoirs, another wrestling documentary.^[5]

Dwayne Johnson

Dwayne Johnson^[1] (born May 2, 1972)^[2] also known by his former ring name The Rock, and occasionally credited as Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, is an American actor and retired professional wrestler.^[3] Johnson was a collegiate football player, and in 1991, he was part of the University of Miami's national championship team. He later played for the Calgary Stampeders in the Canadian Football League, but was cut two months into the season.^[4] This led to his decision to become a professional wrestler, like his grandfather, Peter Maivia and his father Rocky Johnson.

He gained mainstream fame as a wrestler in World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), originally known as the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), from 1996 to 2004, and was the first third-generation superstar in wrestling history. Johnson was quickly given a push in WWE, first as "Rocky Maivia", and then as "The Rock", a member of the Nation of Domination. Two years after he joined the WWE, Johnson won the WWF Championship, and became one of the most popular wrestlers within the company for his engaging interviews and promos. Since 2001, he has focused on an acting career, though he still makes occasional WWE appearances.

In professional wrestling, Johnson was a nine time world champion, having won the WWF/E Championship seven times (with his last reign being the WWE Undisputed Champion) and the WCW Championship two times. In addition to these championships, Johnson has also won the WWF Intercontinental Championship two times and the WWF Tag Team Championship five times. He is also the sixth WWF/E Triple Crown champion and was the winner of the 2000 Royal Rumble.

Johnson is also an actor, with his first leading role in 2001, in The Scorpion King. For this film, he received the highest salary for an actor in his first starring role, earning $5.5 million. He has since appeared in movies such as The Rundown, Be Cool, Walking Tall, Gridiron Gang, The Game Plan, Get Smart, Race to Witch Mountain, and Planet 51.

Glenn Jacobs

Glenn Thomas Jacobs (born April 26, 1967 in Madrid, Spain) is an American professional wrestler and actor better known by his ring name, Kane and is currently working for World Wrestling Entertainment on its SmackDown brand.

Jacobs began his wrestling career in 1992 working on Independent circuits. He wrestled in Smoky Mountain Wrestling as Unabomb where he won the SMW Tag Team Championship as a member of The Dynamic Duo, and in the United States Wrestling Association where he won the USWA Heavyweight Championship as Doomsday. He later joined his current promotion, the World Wrestling Federation (which later became World Wrestling Entertainment in 2002) in 1995 where he currently wrestles as Kane, the story line half-brother of The Undertaker. Together, he and The Undertaker have teamed up as the Brothers of Destruction. The specialty match connected to Kane is the Inferno match.

Jacobs has accumulated fifteen championship accolades during his WWE career. He has been a two-time world heavyweight champion (one-time WWE Champion and one-time ECW Champion), a two-time WWE Intercontinental Champion, a ten-time world tag team champion (nine-time World Tag Team Champion and one-time WCW Tag Team Champion) and a one-time WWE Hardcore Champion. He is also the Third Grand Slam Champion in WWE history.

Stone Cold Steve Austin

Steve Austin (born Steven Anderson on December 18, 1964, later Steven Williams),^[3] better known by his ring name "Stone Cold" Steve Austin^[1], is an American film and television actor and retired professional wrestler. Austin wrestled for several well-known wrestling promotions such as World Championship Wrestling (WCW), Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) and most famously, the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), which later became World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) in 2002. In the late 1990s, Austin gained significant mainstream popularity in the WWF as "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, a disrespectful, beer-drinking antihero who routinely defied his boss, Vince McMahon.^[7] This defiance was often shown by Austin flipping McMahon off and incapacitating him with the Stone Cold Stunner, his finishing move.^[8]

Austin had his first starring film role as Jack Conrad in the 2007 thriller The Condemned. He will next star as "Dan Paine" in "The Expendables" for director/star Sylvester Stallone. Austin recently wrapped production on "Damage," a hard-edged, bare-knuckles fight film that focuses on the tough choices people make in times of recession. The film is the first in a multi-picture deal between Austin, Nasser Entertainment, and Caliber Media. Austin also recently signed a television development deal with Original Media and Caliber Media.

Austin has won the WWF Championship six-times, the 1996 King of the Ring, and the 1997, 1998 and 2001 Royal Rumbles, and is the only man in WWE history to win the Royal Rumble three times. He is widely regarded as the biggest star in the history of professional wrestling, and has been described as such by prominent industry figures such as Vince McMahon, Paul Heyman and Ric Flair.

Sid Eudy

Sidney Raymond "Sid" Eudy (born July 4, 1963 in West Memphis, Arkansas) is a retired American professional wrestler, better known as Sid Vicious in World Championship Wrestling, and as Sid Justice and later as Sycho Sid in the World Wrestling Federation. He is a four time world champion, having won the WWF Championship and WCW World Heavyweight Championship twice each. In addition, he is a one time United States Heavyweight Champion.

Shawn Michaels

Michael Shawn Hickenbottom (born July 22, 1965), better known by his ring name Shawn Michaels, is an American professional wrestler. He performs for World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), formerly the World Wrestling Federation, on its Raw brand. Hickenbottom is one of the senior performers in WWE, having joined in 1988.

Hickenbottom began his wrestling career with Mid-South Wrestling, now known as Universal Wrestling Federation, and American Wrestling Association (AWA). During his time with AWA, he performed in partnership with Marty Jannetty, as The Midnight Rockers; winning the AWA World Tag Team Championship twice. Hickenbottom and Jannetty then signed with World Wrestling Federation (WWF), while in contract with AWA. They returned to AWA, only to go back to the WWF in 1988.

Hickenbottom later worked as a sole performer, taking on a new persona of "The Heartbreak Kid." He was the leader of a backstage group known as The Kliq, which was known for performing an unscripted act during the Madison Square Garden "Curtain Call" incident in 1996. The following year, he teamed up with Hunter Hearst Hemsley, who often was referred to as Triple H (HHH), and Chyna to form D-Generation X (DX). This group of wrestlers was known for their sophomoric crude humor. That same year, Hickenbottom took part in one of the most controversial matches in wrestling history, dubbed as the "Montreal Screwjob." After a back injury forced him to retire following his WWF Championship loss at WrestleMania XIV, Hickenbottom opened a wrestling academy, called The Shawn Michaels Wrestling Academy, in which he trained upcoming wrestlers. He made his in-ring return at SummerSlam in 2002. In 2006, Hickenbottom and Triple H briefly reformed DX, but after an injury that Triple H sustained, Hickenbottom returned to singles wrestling.

Among other accolades, Hickenbottom is a four-time world heavyweight champion: a three-time WWF Champion and a former World Heavyweight Champion. He was also the winner of the 1995 and 1996 Royal Rumbles and was the company's first Grand Slam Champion. Aside from professional wrestling, Hickenbottom is a born-again Christian, husband, and father of two children.

Kevin Nash

Kevin Scott Nash (born July 9, 1959) is an American professional wrestler and actor. Nash has wrestled under various ring names, but most notably by his own name, for World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and wrestled by his own name and as Diesel in World Wrestling Federation/Entertainment (WWF/E). He currently works for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) where he is the current TNA Legends Champion. Nash is a six-time World Champion (five-time WCW World Heavyweight Champion and former WWF Champion), eleven-time World Tag Team Champion (nine-time WCW World Tag Team Champion and two-time WWF Tag Team Champion) and former WWF Intercontinental Champion. He also won the 1998 WCW World War 3 match.

Rodney Anoa'i

Rodney Agatupu Anoa'i (October 2, 1966 – October 23, 2000)^[5] was a Samoan-American professional wrestler. He was best known for his appearances with World Wrestling Federation where he wrestled under the ring name Yokozuna. The term yokozuna refers to the highest rank in professional sumo wrestling in Japan. Although the "Yokozuna" character was portrayed as a champion sumo wrestler, Anoa'i had never competed as an actual sumotori. Though Yokozuna wrestled as a representative of Japan, he was of Samoan origin and was accordingly billed as hailing from Polynesia (although he was managed by Mr. Fuji, who would follow Anoa'i to the ring with a wooden bucket of salt, and waving a Japanese flag).^[1]

In WWF, Anoa'i was a former two-time WWF Champion^[6] and two-time WWF Tag Team Champion,^[7] as well as the winner of the 1993 Royal Rumble.^[8] Anoa'i was the first wrestler of Samoan descent to hold the WWF Championship as well as the first Royal Rumble winner to receive a world title shot at WrestleMania, as a result of direct stipulation.

Bret Hart

Bret Sergeant Hart (born July 2, 1957) is a retired Canadian professional wrestler, amateur wrestler, author, and actor, best known for his time in World Wrestling Federation and World Championship Wrestling under the persona, "The Hitman." A son of wrestling patriarch Stu Hart, he was born into the Hart wrestling family. His seven brothers were either wrestlers or involved backstage with the wrestling business; his four sisters all married professional wrestlers. Three of his brothers-in-law, the Dynamite Kid, Davey Boy Smith, and Jim Neidhart, had successful careers in the business. His youngest brother, Owen Hart, became a decorated wrestler in his own right before his death in 1999.

Hart competed as both a villain and a fan favourite during his professional wrestling career. In terms of in-ring ability, he is regarded by many prominent industry figures as one of the greatest professional wrestlers in history.^[3] Vince McMahon has described him as being "in a class by himself," with "unparalleled" storytelling and technical wrestling skills. Jim Ross has referred to his in-ring work as "art," while Gene Okerlund has asserted that Hart should appear in anyone's top ten wrestlers of all time.^[3] Peers such as Stone Cold Steve Austin,^[4] Chris Benoit,^[5] Road Warrior Animal,^[6] Steve Lombardi,^[7] Shawn Michaels^[8] and Roddy Piper^[9] have named Hart as one of their all-time favourite opponents.^[3] Hart himself frequently described himself as "The best there is, the best there was, and the best there ever will be" (derived from the 1984 film The Natural), which he justifies through three claims: he never injured an opponent through any fault of his own; through the entire course of his career he missed only one show (as a result of flight difficulties); and that he only once refused to lose a match—his final WWF match with Shawn Michaels at the Survivor Series event in 1997, which culminated in the now infamous Montreal Screwjob.^[10]

Among other accolades, Hart is recognised by WWE as a seven-time world heavyweight champion (five-time WWF Champion, and two-time WCW World Heavyweight Champion). He is the only two-time King of the Ring in WWE history, having won the 1991 tournament and the first King of the Ring pay-per-view in 1993. Hart was also the 1994 Royal Rumble co-winner (with Lex Luger). Hart is widely regarded as one of the most universally popular and gifted technical professional wrestlers of all time.^[11] He was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2006 by Steve Austin.

Ric Flair

Richard Morgan Fliehr ^[3] (born February 25, 1949)(^[3] better known by his ring name, Ric Flair, is a retired American professional wrestler. Also known as "The Nature Boy," Flair is one of the most well known professional wrestlers in the world.^[5]

Flair is recognized by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) as a 16-time World Heavyweight Champion (8-time NWA Champion, 6-time WCW Champion, and 2-time WWE Champion) although his actual tally of World Championship reigns varies by source. In World Championship Wrestling (WCW), he also had two stints as a booker—from 1989 to 1990 and again in 1994.^[6] Flair also won the 1992 Royal Rumble and was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2008. Flair ended his 36-year in-ring career in 2008 at WrestleMania XXIV.

The Undertaker

Mark William Calaway (born March 24, 1965)^[4] is an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name The Undertaker. He is signed to World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), currently wrestling on the SmackDown brand.

Calaway began his wrestling career with World Class Championship Wrestling in 1984. He joined World Championship Wrestling (WCW) as "Mean" Mark Callous in 1989. When WCW did not renew Calaway's contract in 1990, he joined the World Wrestling Federation (which later became World Wrestling Entertainment in 2002) as The Undertaker in November of that year. Having remained with that company ever since, Calaway is currently one of the senior performers in the WWE.

The Undertaker has two contrasting gimmicks which are the Deadman and the American Bad Ass. The Undertaker's half-brother is Kane, whom he has teamed up with as the Brothers of Destruction. The Undertaker is undefeated at WrestleMania with a 17–0 record and is recognized by WWE as a six time world champion, having won the WWE Championship four times and the World Heavyweight Championship two times. He was also the winner of the 2007 Royal Rumble in which he became the first man to win the Rumble at number 30

Sgt. Slaughter

Robert Remus (born August 27, 1948) is an American former WWE personality, and semi-retired professional wrestler better known by the ring name Sgt. Slaughter. From the late 1970s to the early 1990s, Slaughter had success in the National Wrestling Alliance, American Wrestling Association, and World Wrestling Federation.

The Ultimate Warrior

Warrior (born James Brian Hellwig^[2] on June 16, 1957) is a retired American professional wrestler. He is best known for his appearances in the World Wrestling Federation throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s as the Ultimate Warrior, during which time he won the WWF Championship and pinned Hulk Hogan in the main event of WrestleMania VI.^[3] Hellwig legally changed his name to Warrior in 1993. He wrestled both as a heel and as a face.^[4]

Warrior retired from professional wrestling in 1999 and embarked on a public speaking career. On June 25, 2008 he returned to wrestle one final match, and defeated Orlando Jordan in Barcelona, Spain in a match booked by the Italian Nu-Wrestling Evolution promotion.

Randy Savage

Randy Mario Poffo (pronounced paw-foh) (born November 15, 1952),^[2][3][4] better known by his ring name "Macho Man" Randy Savage, is a former American professional wrestler and actor who is best known for his time with the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) and World Championship Wrestling (WCW). For much of his tenure in the WWF, he was managed by his real life wife, "Miss Elizabeth" Hulette.^[4]

Savage was recognizable by wrestling fans for his distinctively deep, husky voice; colorful attire (often comprising sunglasses and a bandanna, gaudy robes, and a cowboy hat); intensity exhibited in and out of the ring; his entry to the strains of Sir Edward Elgar's "Pomp and Circumstance" and his signature catch phrase, "Oooh, yeah!"^[4]

In WWF, he was a two-time WWF Champion,^[5][6] a former Intercontinental Champion^[6][7] and the winner of the 1987 King of the Ring tournament.^[6][8] In WCW, he was a four-time WCW World Heavyweight Champion,^[6][9] his first reign a result of winning the 1995 World War 3 battle royal.^[6][10]