Parts Unknown

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Parts Unknown is a professional wrestling term used in place of a wrestler's hometown. Billing a wrestler as being from Parts Unknown is intended to add to a wrestler's mystique. However, in the post-kayfabe era, it is used less and less. Similar locations include The Boiler Room (Mankind), The Bottomless Pit (The Boogeyman), The Edge of Sanity (Delirious), 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea (Shark Boy), TV Land (Austin Starr), The Other Side of The Track (Deuce 'N Domino) and The Darkest Depths of Hell (Vampiro). Eric Young is billed from the similar "an undisclosed location".

Bobby Heenan once jokingly claimed that "Parts Unknown" usually meant that the wrestler in question was actually from Newark. On WWE's The Self Destruction of The Ultimate Warrior DVD, many of WWE's current and former superstars jokingly speculated about where exactly Parts Unknown is. Bobby Heenan said that The Ultimate Warrior said he was from Parts Unknown because his home town was ashamed and they had paid him off. Chris Jericho suggested that Parts Unknown might be Partsunknown, Spain. Meanwhile, Edge said that Parts Unknown might be Purgatory and in between Heaven and Hell.