30 Surprising WWE Facts You Probably Didn't Know

Given that professional wrestlers generally go by more codenames, pseudonyms, noms de guerre and nicknames than superheroes, spies and people hanging out with Sawyer on Lost, it’s perhaps not surprising that it took nineteen years before two men would wrestle in the main event under their real names.

That main event took place at WrestleMania XIX in March 2003, and featured Brock Lesnar vs Kurt Angle in a singles match for the WWE Championship.

The match featured a stipulation that Angle could lose the title if he was counted out or disqualified, thereby removing the champion’s advantage: a gimmick that Lesnar promptly rendered entirely unnecessary when he elected to give his opponent back that unfair edge by dropping himself on his own head.

Fortunately, Brock Lesnar is a stone golem animated by money and hate, and wasn’t permanently damaged in the mishap.