10 Coolest Wrestlers Of All Time
5. Mr. Perfect
The concepts of cool and clover are connected - and Curt 'Mr. Perect' Hennig was formally successful.
Perfect made his entrance to WWF rings flanked by Bobby 'The Brain' Heenan, to whom he would nonchalantly throw his sweat towel. Heenan, without looking, would catch it. Perfect was also perfect at catching his own towel, and his own gum, which he would chew with a smarmy, superior, sh*t-eating grin. Hennig was the consummate realisation of athletic perfection - the guy you aspired to be in school, but told yourself would fail in the academy of real life. Only, Perfect succeeded. Every night of his wrestling career was the triumphant big Friday game. Perfect was a star before he even emerged through that curtain; his introductory vignettes framed him as an impeccable athletic polymath impossibly assured of his own brilliance.
Much like Bret Hart, Hennig was also a forerunner in the WWF's nascent workrate revolution of the early 1990s. His style was as eye-catching as his luminous technicolour ring gear, itself a symbol of Perfect's hypnotic cool.