10 Wild Wrestlers Who Oversold Throughout Their WWE Careers
4. Mr. Perfect
Ric Flair may have put the concept of over-selling on the map, but Mr. Perfect brought it to the forefront of the WWF.
Curt Hennig was brought into the promotion as “the perfect athlete”. The videos featuring Hennig playing basketball, bowling a perfect game, hitting repeated bullseyes in darts and homeruns in baseball are among the greatest vignettes in WWE history. What would become even more impressive though was his ability to sell inside the squared circle.
At 6’3”, 240 lbs, Hennig was not among the giants of the World Wrestling Federation. In the land of the Hogans and Warriors and Earthquakes and Undertakers, Perfect needed to stand out in other ways and he used his incredible agility and bumping ability to do it.
Perfect’s participation in the earlier Royal Rumbles were legendary and served as inspiration to another fellow over-seller that we’ll get to shortly.
Aside from the Rumbles, Perfect’s matches against Bret Hart, Tito Santana, Ultimate Warrior, Hulk Hogan, Kerry Von Erich, and many more saw him flying all over the ring, twisting and turning upside-down several times a match.
Hennig’s selling style was his signature and that of a pioneer, and it would lead to future comparisons down the road.