5 facts about "Mr. Wonderful" Paul Orndorff

#3. Paul Orndorff and the Psychic Friends Network

"Mr. #1derful" - years before hashtags were a thing.

In 1992, Paul Orndorff found himself on the WCW roster and if you know anything about WCW in the early 1990s, you might be able to see where this is going.

During this second WCW run, Paul Orndorff actually saw some success, albeit it on the mid-card. He won a tournament for the then-vacant World Television Championship, and began teaming with the then-United States champion "Ravishing" Rick Rude - who was, arguably, the hottest talent on the roster at the time.

While he and Rude never held tag gold, he would win the WCW Tag Team Championship a year later with a different partner - "Pretty" Paul Roma. The team of "Pretty Wonderful" would actually have two runs with the belts before the team split up.

By 1995, however, Orndorff's career began to stall, and following a loss to Randy Savage on WCW Worldwide (which there really is no shame in, come to think of it), "Mr. Wonderful" began to have serious doubts that he was even "Mr. Wonderful" anymore. Then this happened:

We had to show you that video because if you had never seen it before and we described to you what happened, you would not believe us. At all.

In the clip above, Paul Orndorff is in the middle of a crisis of confidence freakout when in walks Gary Spivey of the Psychic Friends (or, as Orndorff calls it, "Companions") Network. It may actually have been "Companions" now that I think about it. I dunno. Whatever, the fact is he's one of those TV psychic guys.

Captain Brillo Pad Head up there informed Orndorff that he had a "vision" and knew he needed help. He assured Paul that he was still "Mr. Wonderful" and he just had to believe in himself. And believe in himself he did, as he would quickly begin to take the moniker way more seriously, even taking a hand mirror to the ring with him, as to admire his own wonderfulness. As one does.

This wouldn't last particularly long, though, as later that year it was determined he would have to retire for good due to the problems with his arm. Fortunately, Paul Orndorff got to go out the way a legend of the ring the caliber of Paul Orndorff would want to to go out: by getting the snot beat out of him by the Four Horsemen.

And, yes, I know. "Why didn't Gary Spivey see that coming?" Ha ha. Very funny. Shut up.