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{{quote|'''''You have just witnessed perfection. '''''|'''Mr. Perfect, after winning a match'''}}

'''[[Curt Hennig]]''' was a wrestler in the [[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 [[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 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.

* [[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 [[WWE|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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