10 Things WWE Fans Need To Know About Abyss

3. Abyss Is One Of Only Two Masked NWA World Champions

Despite winning the TNA X Division, Television and Tag-Team Titles during his lengthy run, Abyss never actually became TNA World Heavyweight Champion. Instead, he'd bag a 56-day reign as NWA World Champ in 2006-2007 before the company ditched that title's lineage in May of '07 and created their own.

That brief run with the NWA belt created some history.

At the time, Abyss' win over Sting at Genesis made him the first ever masked man to hold the famous strap. That's quite a first to crow about, and things wouldn't change until Blue Demon Jr won the thing two years later in 2008. That was after the title had left TNA's jurisdiction however.

The NWA Title has gained some recent prominence through association with Cody Rhodes, the All In event and the success of the 70th Anniversary Show promoted by Billy Corgan and Jeff Jarrett's GFW late-last year. It's pretty cool to think that Abyss created fresh records for it 13 years ago.