10 Incredible Wrestling Stats You Won't Believe
WCW's record attendance figure blows WWE's numbers out of the water.
Like most sports, wrestling stats and trivia can be a rabbit hole of fascinating facts. Whether it's astounding attendance figures or quirky tidbits of buried info, the numbers behind the business of pro wrestling are, more often than not, a crazy read.
While WWE will sometimes make a point of relaying these stats to the audience ad nauseam (rumour has it Booker T is a five time WCW World Champion, don't you know), the company very rarely makes the most of the juiciest details. In fact, some of the most interesting statistics are overlooked completely, while others have been purposely buried, given they detract from the narrative WWE wants to portray.
Regardless of the reasoning behind it, there's a huge wealth of facts and stats within the WWE (and wider wrestling) bubble that rarely see the light of day. While it would take an entire anthology to provide the complete statistical history of WWE, we've cherry picked ten of the most interesting for your reading pleasure.
Consider this a crash course in wrestling pub quiz trivia: some interesting, others surprising, but all worth adding to your mental miscellany of wrestling knowledge...
10. Kane Has Appeared In 19 Royal Rumble Matches
Over the course of his long and illustrious WWE career, Glenn Jacobs has seen a lot of change along the way. Not least of these were his own personas; the WWE Universe has seen him perform as Isaac Yankem, Fake Diesel, and Kane.
Since his Rumble debut in 1996, Jacobs has only missed two Royal Rumble matches. He didn't appear in the 1998 edition due to his fiery involvement in the casket match main event, while he also missed out on the 2017 event due to a self-imposed hiatus from in-ring competition. The fact that Jacobs competed in his first two Rumbles under different aliases often sees his Rumble figures skewed in favour of his Kane guise.
Throughout his 19 appearances, 'The Big Red Machine' has had a stellar run on the over-the-top-rope battlefield, eliminating a record 44 people in the process. He also set the record for most eliminations in a single Rumble in 2001, launching 11 men out during his time in the ring. That record lasted 13 years until it was beaten by Roman Reigns in 2014.
Despite dominance in most, Kane has never won the Rumble match. The closest he ever came was runner-up in 2001, as the final man eliminated by Steve Austin.