Henning has gone down as one of the greatest technical wrestlers in history. A second generation star, he is the son of Larry "The Axe" Hennig, and father to current superstar Curtis Axel. Mr Perfect wrestled for the American Wrestling Association, WWE, WCW, and TNA but found his greatest success in WWE as Mr Perfect, a nickname introduced in his second run with the company which gradually became his official ring name. Hennig held the AWA World Heavyweight Championship for 373 days (the seventh-longest reign in history). He won three additional world championships: the WWC Universal Heavyweight Championship once and the i-Generation World Heavyweight Championship twice. A two-time WWE Intercontinental Champion, Hennig has been named by WWE as one of the greatest Intercontinental Champions of all time and was the longest-reigning champion of the 1990s. In addition to winning multiple championships in WCW during the late 1990s, he was a member of the New World Order and leader of The West Texas Rednecks, who recorded the tongue-in-cheek song, "Rap is Crap". Hennig returned to the WWE for a brief period in 2002, making it to the final three of that year's Royal Rumble. He later challenged for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship in TNA. Henning was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2007 by former Major League Baseball third baseman, and long-time friend, Wade Boggs. On February 10, 2003, Henning was found dead in a Florida hotel room. He was 44 years old. The Hillsborough County Medical Examiner's Office declared acute cocaine intoxication to be the cause of his death.His father Larry said that steroids and painkillers also contributed to his death. Hennig was survived by his parents, Larry and Irene, two brothers, Randy and Jesse, two sisters, Sandra and Susan, wife Leonice, two sons Joe (Curtis) and Hank and two daughters Amy and Kaite.
