10 Things WWE Wants You To Forget About Jimmy Snuka

9. Jimmy Snuka Had Already Wrestled With And Paul Orndorff And Roddy Piper

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWjGO6c-CC0 And there's Jimmy Snuka as a tag team champion in the NWA's Mid-Atlantic territory with Paul Orndorff, the man he stood across the ring from a second for Hulk Hogan and Mr. T at the first WrestleMania. Long before adding Hogan and Mr. T to the mix, Orndorff, Piper, "Cowboy" Bob Orton and Roddy Piper had faced off against and with each other numerous times in the 1970s and 1980s. One of the key reasons why the WWF's 80s territorial takeover worked so well is that you could literally shuffle the card like a deck of cards, select any two wrestlers and they'd likely worked numerous times against each other. Hogan as the draw on top was unique because save people in Memphis and Minneapolis (of whom there were VERY few in the WWF in 1985) all of the matches he wrestled were first-time attractions and thus HUGE money matches.