Curt Hennig

Curt Hennig, born Curtis Michael Hennig in 1958 and known as Mr. Perfect, was an American professional wrestler who died in 2003. The son of the wrestler Larry the Axe Hennig and the father of Curtis Axel, he debuted in 1980 and won titles in Pacific Northwest Wrestling and the American Wrestling Association, where in 1987 he beat Nick Bockwinkel for the AWA World Heavyweight Championship in a 373 day reign. In the World Wrestling Federation he feuded with Hulk Hogan and won the Intercontinental Heavyweight Championship twice, becoming its longest reigning titleholder of the 1990s. He later led the West Texas Rednecks in World Championship Wrestling, won the WWC Universal Heavyweight Championship, returned briefly to the WWF in 2002 and headlined events for TNA. WWE credits him with raising the standard of technical wrestling, and inducted him into its Hall of Fame in 2007.