Trivia / Mike Awesome

• Creator Backlash:
  • He said that of all the bad gimmicks WCW gave him, none of them he hated as much as That 70's Guy, on the sole fact that he could barely wrestle wearing that outfit they forced him to use in the ring.
  • Awesome did NOT look back on his WWE career fondly.
  "Being in the WWE sucked. I hated it. You had to kiss everybody's ass... You had to be on your political toes all the time. You would not believe the backstage politics. You were getting stabbed in the back constantly. I was so happy when I was told I was gone."
• Fake Nationality: Had the distinction of being part of two groups called "Team Canada" in both FMW and WCW despite being obviously American (and from Florida, which is as far from Canada as you can get in the contiguous US).
• Real Song Theme Tune:
  • (in FMW and AJPW): Scorpions' "Every Minute, Every Day"
  • (in ECW):
  • Nirvana's "Dive"
  • Guns N' Roses' "Welcome to the Jungle"
  • Anthrax's Cover Version of Metallica's "Phantom Lord"
  • Bruce Dickinson's Cover Version of the Scorpions' "The Zoo"
• Screwed by the Network: At least according to Awesome, one of the reasons he got booked so badly in WCW later on was because he was a relative to Hulk Hogan, and when Hogan left, Vince Russo tried to purposely make Awesome look bad.

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