2. Curt Hennig rescues his friend from bleeding out in a remote forest
Hennig was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame on March 31, 2007, by close friend and Red Sox legend Wade Boggs. In a DVD about him called “The Life and Times of Mr. Perfect”, Boggs recounts one particular incident where the former Superstar had saved him from a slow and certain death while on a hunting trip in 2001.
Prior to his return to the WWF as “Mr.Perfect”, Hennig had appeared in a number of promotional vignettes with other athletes, arrogantly exhibiting sporting skills which transgressed the limits of a wrestling ring. One of them was Boggs, whom he had met in 1983, and the two had developed a fast friendship over shared interests of hunting and fishing.
In 2001, Hennig and Boggs were hunting game inside a thick patch of woods when the latter got entangled in a barbed wire fence. Immobilised due to deep lacerations on his leg, Boggs would have certainly bled to his end had Hennig not interfered. Uncoiling the jutting steel of out Boggs’s limb, Hennig carried his injured friend over his shoulder through dense and impassable vegetation all the way to their truck which was parked nearly a mile outside. Curt then drove the bleeding man to a hospital immediately, reaching before any substantial blood loss and thus, saving his life.
An incomparable technician and a rigorous worker throughout his career, Curt Hennig blazed a trail for countless Superstars to walk on. He was an efficient heel, cutting sharp promos and an entertainer capable of arousing a gamut of emotions. Despite all his talents, he never held any World titles when with the WWE.
This does not discount the amount of respect he commanded among his peers. Hulk Hogan had the following to say of the towel wielding, gum slapping gem of a human being. “Everybody would check their egos at the door when they came to a building that Curt Hennig was in, because you couldn’t out-work him, you couldn’t outshine him and you couldn’t out-perform him. He was the best of the best.”
