Pretty Wonderful

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Pretty Wonderful
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Tag team
Members	Paul Orndorff Paul Roma
Heights	5 ft 11 in (180 cm) – Orndorff 5 ft 11 in (180 cm) - Roma
Combined weight	499 lb (227 kg)
Debuted	1993
Disbanded	1994
Promotions	WCW

Pretty Wonderful was a professional wrestling tag team comprised of "Mr. Wonderful" Paul Orndorff and "Pretty" Paul Roma who competed in World Championship Wrestling in 1993 and 1994

1 History
2 In Wrestling
3 Championships and Accomplishments
4 External Links

[edit] History

[edit] The Making of the Team

Leading up to Orndorff and Roma teaming together Paul Roma was a part of the 4 Horsemen while Paul Orndorff came off a stint as the WCW World Television Title.

After the 1993 WCW PPV Battlebowl the Horsemen Paul Roma and Arn Anderson faced the semi-regular team of Paul Orndorff and ”Stunning” Steve Austin on WCW Saturday Night. During the match Roma acted very indifferent to his tag-team partner sewing the seeds to his heel turn. Next Roma teamed with Erik Watts to take on the team of Orndorff and Austin once again, this time Roma took it a step further and attacked Erik Watts before announcing that he was now teaming with Paul Orndorff.

[edit] Pretty Wonderful

Under the tutelage of manager Masked Assassin the team quickly began to work well together, leading to a match against Marcus Alexander Bagwell and 2 Cold Scorpio at Starrcade 1993. Pretty Wonderful was successful in their first major match as a team, but lost a rematch to Bagwell and Scopio only a month later at Clash of Champions XXVI

The in the following months both Roma and Orndorff focused their individual careers before reuniting around may, this time without their manager and now officially known as “Pretty Wonderful”. With both men rededicated to teaming they soon targeted the then WCW World Tag-Team Championship Cactus Jack and Kevin Sullivan, especially one incident stands out as Pretty Wonderful establishing them in the title chase. The Champions had one last defense against former champions The Nasty Boys that also saw Kevin’s injured brother Dave. The match degraded into a brawl that saw Pretty Wonderful make an appearance using Dave’s crutch to attack the champions. Before the team left the ring they also took a couple of shots at the Nasty Boys for good measure.

Going into Bash at the Beach 1994 Pretty Wonderful had the advantage as both champions were suffering from injuries inflicted by the challengers. Cactus Jack and Kevin Sullivan were unable to hold off Roma and Orndorff’s blend of speed and experience and Pretty Wonderful left the ring with the gold. After winning the titles Pretty Wonderful was immediately challenged by the Nasty Boys who had not forgotten their attack. The Nasty Boys gained a non-title victory over the duo at Clash of the Champions#Clash of the Champions XXVIII:Clash of the Champions XXVIII but when the gold was on the line Pretty Wonderful retained.

The next challengers for the gold was the recently created duo of Stars’N’Stripes (Marcus Alexander Bagwell & The Patriot) at Fall Brawl the champions retained but a week later the championship changed hands when Stars’N’Stripes got the 1-2-3. Pretty Wonderful was granted a rematch against the new champions with a match booked for Halloween Havoc, Pretty Wonderful regained the titles when Roma used one of the title belts to knock Bagwell out cold.

At Clash of the Champions XXIX Stars’N’Stripes were granted one FINAL shot at the tag-team titles, but the challengers also had to put up he Patriot’s mask on the line, if they lost he would unmask. After a controversial double pin finish Stars’N’Stripes were declared the winners and thus the champions putting the end to Pretty Wonderful’s second and final run with the gold.

[edit] After it ended

After the Clash Roma and Orndorff went back to wrestling singles matches, with Roma being fired less than 3 months later while Paul Orndorff remained with the company until an injury cut his in ring career short at the end of 1995