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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.
As actor
350 Days
Andre the Giant
WWE Unreleased: 1986-1995
WWE: Best of WWE at Madison Square Garden
Legends of Mid-South Wrestling
WWE: The Best of Saturday Night's Main Event
Mid-South Wrestling Giants, Midgets, Heroes & Villains vol. 1
WWE: Hulk Hogan: The Ultimate Anthology
WWE: The History Of The WWE Championship
WWE Hall of Fame 2005
The Greatest Wrestling Stars of the '80s
WCW Fall Brawl 2000
WCW Slamboree 1995
WCW Bash at the Beach 1995
WCW Clash of The Champions XXXI
WCW World War 3 1995
WCW Fall Brawl 1994
WCW Halloween Havoc 1994
WCW Clash of The Champions XXVI
WCW SuperBrawl IV
WCW Bash at the Beach 1994
WCW Clash of the Champions XXVIII
WCW Clash of The Champions XXIX
WCW SuperBrawl III
WCW Slamboree 1993
WCW Starrcade 1993
WCW Fall Brawl 1993
WCW Clash of The Champions XXII
WCW Clash of The Champions XXIII
WCW Beach Blast 1993