Paul Orndorff
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
90
Gender
Male
Birthday
1949-10-29 (75 years old)
Place of Birth
Brandon, Florida, USA
Paul Orndorff
Biography
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.
Known For
WWF Wrestling Challenge
Saturday Night's Main Event
Saturday Night's Main Event
WCW Beach Blast 1993
Andre the Giant
Mid-South Wrestling
SMW Fire on The Mountain 1992
WWE Old School
WWE Old School
WWE Old School
WWE Old School
WWE Wrestling at The Meadowlands: January '87
WWE Maple Leaf Wrestling: June '87
Tuesday Night Titans
Tuesday Night Titans
WWF Hulkamania 2
Hogan Knows Best
WWE The Big Event
The Best of the WWF: volume 14
Mr. McMahon
WWE Wrestling at The Meadowlands: December '84
WCW Halloween Havoc 1993
Wrestling's Living Legend Bruno Sammartino
WrestleMania 2
WCW Fall Brawl 1993
WCW Starrcade 1993
WCW Battle Bowl
WCW Bash at the Beach 1994
WCW World War 3 1995
WrestleMania
SMW Volunteer Slam 1992
WrestleMania
NWA Clash of the Champions XI: Coastal Crush
Mid-South Wrestling Giants, Midgets, Heroes & Villains vol. 1
WWE: Hulk Hogan: The Ultimate Anthology
WWE Maple Leaf Wrestling: April '85
Best of the WWF Volume 2
WWE Maple Leaf Wrestling: November '87
The Best of the WWF: volume 4
The Best of the WWF: volume 5
WWE Table For 3
WCW Clash of the Champions XXV
WWE Maple Leaf Wrestling: March '87
WCW Great American Bash '90: New Revolution
UWF Beach Brawl
WCW Clash of the Champions XXIV
WCW SuperBrawl IV
TWA Spring Spectacular
WWE Houston Wrestling: November '87
Wrestling's Bloopers, Bleeps and Bodyslams!
WWE St. Louis Wrestling: September '84
WCW Fall Brawl 2000
WCW Clash of The Champions XXVI
WWE War to Settle the Score
WWE: The Best of Saturday Night's Main Event
TWA Summer Sizzler
WWE Hall of Fame 2005
Bob Uecker's Wacky World of Sports
WWE: The History Of The WWE Championship
The WWF's Most Unusual Matches
WWE: Best of WWE at Madison Square Garden
WCW Clash of The Champions XXIII
WCW Clash of The Champions XXII
WCW Clash of The Champions XXXI
WrestleMania II
Bob Uecker's Wacky World of Sports
The Best of the WWF: volume 12
Fury Hour
WWE Maple Leaf Wrestling: December '85
Best of the WWF Volume 3
The Wrestling Classic
WCW Halloween Havoc 1994
WCW SuperBrawl III
WWE Survivor Series 1987
WCW Slamboree 1993
WWE Houston Wrestling: October '86
WWE The Brawl to End it All
WWE Houston Wrestling: December '87
Rowdy Roddy Piper's Greatest Hits
WCW Slamboree 1995
WCW Fall Brawl 1994
Legends of Mid-South Wrestling
350 Days
Andre the Giant
WWE Wrestling at The Meadowlands: July '84
WWE Houston Wrestling: November '86
WCW Bash at the Beach 1995
WCW Clash of the Champions XXVIII
WWE Unreleased: 1986-1995
WCW Clash of The Champions XXIX
