10 Things you didn't know about WWE history

Vince McMahon really did appear on TBS in 1984
Vince McMahon really did appear on TBS in 1984

#9 Shane McMahon was the 'evil' voice of Kaientai

Taka Michinoku and Sho Funaki, the evilest tag team in WWE history.
Taka Michinoku and Sho Funaki, the evilest tag team in WWE history.

In the late 1990s, one of the major selling points for WWE rival WCW was not the nWo, but the cruiserweight division.

Men like Dean Malenko, Chris Benoit, Jushin Thunder Liger and many more had made the WCW cruiserweight division one of the most exciting and unpredictable draws in wrestling of the day.

The WWE sought to copy this success with their Light Heavyweight division. They hired Taka Michinoku as their star Light Heavyweight. They even brought in an entire stable, Kaientai, to be his villains.

But the Light Heavyweight division never took off. Eventually, the division was retired and Taka joined Kaientai. The remaining members, Funaki and Taka, embarked on a gimmick where they were dubbed into English--badly.

The man who voiced the 'evil' voice of Kaientai was none other than Shane McMahon. Try dropping that tidbit the next wrestling trivia night.

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