10 Fascinating WWE King Of The Ring 1993 Facts
3. Jim Ross Alluded To IRS' Past As Mike Rotunda
In the early 1990s, It was par for the course for recognizable veteran wrestlers to be painted over with over-the-top gimmicks in WWE, with no mentions of their prior lives. The Iron Sheik became Colonel Mustafa, Ricky Steamboat was streamlined as simply "The Dragon", and Mike Rotundo was reincarnated as Irwin R. Schyster, a role that is likely his most well-known.
Jim Ross went back a ways with Rotundo, calling his matches in NWA/WCW, and JR damn sure knows his wrestling history. As a fountain of facts, Ross revealed during an eight-man tag at the King of the Ring that Schyster was a four-time WWE World Tag Team Champion (later five time) with three different partners, although that was erroneous: he meant two partners.
In addition to his reigns with Ted Dibiase in Money Inc, Schyster had two prior reigns with Barry Windham in 1985 as The US Express. In the kayfabe era, this is the only known connection ever made between the Schyster/Rotundo identities.