SquaredCircle's List of wrestling world records

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Wrestling World Records

The pinnacle of extremes, that which stands as a bench mark for all others and is placed on a pedestal for the wrestling world to see. This is a list of the greatest and the least great, the prime examples of wrestling records that are unlikely to be broken any time soon. This is SquaredCircle’s List of wrestling world records.

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The List:

Events:

• Attendance record: 190,000 1995 Wold Peace Festival, Pyongyang Stadium, North Korea video

• Purely wrestling event, no other attractions. 93,173, 1987 WrestleMania III Pontiac Silverdome, Michigan

• Highest Japan: 67,000 NJPW Tokyo Dome

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• Most PPV buys: Wrestlemania 23 1.2 million wiki

Wrestlers:

• The oldest wrestler to wrestle a single match: November 15, 2010 "old school" edition of Raw, Young wrestled and won a falls count anywhere handicap match against LayCool, thus becoming the first person ever to wrestle in nine different decades.

• Oldest male Saleh Ghaleb 82, article link

• Oldest female to wrestle a single match: Fabulous Moolah aged 80 on September 15th 2003 Raw, vs. Victoria, Orton RKOs her afterwards video

• Oldest full time wrestler, Gypsy Joe, aged 77 wiki debuted 1951 last match January 2011. New Jack beats him up :-( shoot interview, nsfl video

• The youngest Hasruka in Stardom, and ICE RIBBON, 9 years old, or at least not much older, wrestling Kenny Omega,

• Youngest in a major American Promotion: Jeff Hardy 16 years old - 1996 Razor Ramon vs. Jeff Hardy

• Wrestled in matches in most years: Overall - Tatusmi Fujinami 34 wiki - Source Akthough this is probably debatable, what with Gypsy Joe having a combined 60 years to choose from, with most of those matches going unrecorded. Female - The Fabulous Moolah 21 wiki

• The heaviest: Happy Humphrey, 1,000 lbs or 350 kg, at 6’1’’ or 1.85m. debatable. wiki
  Giant haystacks 690 lbs. (310kg) at 6’11’ wiki
  Haystacks Calhoun, 601 Lbs. (270kg). At 6’1’’ wiki

• The Tallest - Giant Gonzalez 7'6.5" (230cm) wiki, - vs. The Undertaker - source.

• The shortest - Sky Low Low 42 inches (110 cm) wiki

• To Wrestle at a major event: Lionel Giroux 4ft 4in (130 cm) WMIII wiki

• Most PPV matches; The Undertaker 157 source

• Most retirement matches lost Terry Funk: The first: 1983 AJPW, returns November, 1984.

Matches:

• Longest wrestling match. Non deliberate record attempt: Antonio Inoki vs Masa Saito 125:42 source

• Longest Women's wrestling Match. Non deliberate record attempt: 72 Minutes - Mercedez Martinez vs. Lexxus- WSU Martinez vs. Lexxus

• Longest match, deliberate Guiness record attempt; ~ 12 consecutive hours - news story source

• Shortest wrestling match Spike Dudley vs. Willaim Regal ~ 3 seconds. video - The Rock vs. The Big Bos man ~ 4 seconds. video

• Shortest world title match, Bob Backlund vs. Diesel ~ 8 seconds video

• Quickest Battle Royale elimination, 1.00 second Santino Marella Royal Rumble 2009. source, royal ruble records - video

Championships:

• Fabulous Moolah, whose reign as the first Women's Champion lasted from September 18, 1956 to July 23, 1984 (27 years, 10 months, 5 days).

• Longest reign male. Bruno Sammartino - 11+ years (4,040 days) 1963 - 1971

• Most championship wins. Jerry Lawler 164 wiki

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