Hulk Hogan wrote in his autobiography that Mr. T saved the main event of WrestleMania I between them and " Rowdy " Roddy Piper and " Mr. Wonderful " Paul Orndorff because when he arrived, security would not let his entourage into the building.

Roop arranged for Luger to be trained by Hiro Matsuda, who had previously trained Hulk Hogan and " Mr. Wonderful " Paul Orndorff.

The main event was a tag-team match between the WWF Champion Hulk Hogan and Mr. T, accompanied by Jimmy Snuka against the team of Roddy Piper and Paul Orndorff, who were accompanied by Cowboy Bob Orton.

In 1985, MTV broadcast The War to Settle the Score, featuring a main-event matchup between Piper and Hogan, who was accompanied to the ring by Albano, Lauper, and Mr. T. This event set up the very first WrestleMania, which pitted Piper and Paul Orndorff against Hogan and Mr. T. Orndorff was pinned by Hogan when Piper's bodyguard " Cowboy " Bob Orton interfered and mistakenly struck Orndorff instead of Hogan with his trademark " injured " arm covered in a plaster cast.

A then record crowd of 61, 470 fans saw Hulk Hogan defeat " Mr. Wonderful " Paul Orndorff by disqualification in the main event to retain the WWF Championship.

** On a special Pit on the May 11, 1985 edition of Saturday Night's Main Event, Piper berates and betrays " Mr. Wonderful " Paul Orndorff in the wake of their recent loss to Mr. T and Hulk Hogan in the main event at the first WrestleMania.

The main event match pitted Hulk Hogan and Mr. T against Roddy Piper and Paul Orndorff.

In February 1985, the two men faced each other at The War to Settle the Score, where Hogan won by disqualification after interference by Paul Orndorff and Mr. T. Their on-going feud led to their match at WrestleMania.

Piper established himself as the top heel in the WWF in 1984, and a year later joined Paul Orndorff and Cowboy Bob Orton to feud with Hulk Hogan and Mr. T. Hogan and T defeated Piper and Orndorff in the main event of the first-ever WrestleMania.

Hulk Hogan continued and increased his WWF Championship reign taking down challengers such as Paul Orndorff, André the Giant, Hercules Hernandez and Sika Anoaʻi before he was defeated by André for the title on February 5, 1988 edition of The Main Event, ending his four year reign and the third longest in the title's entire history.

The feud played a small part in the first ever WrestleMania in March 1985, when Snuka acted as a cornerman for Hulk Hogan and Mr. T when they faced Piper and Paul Orndorff ( with Orton in their corner ).

When he started, he used the character of Troy Orndorff, the fictional nephew of Paul Orndorff.

Paul Orndorff started wrestling in 1976 in Mid-Southern Wrestling where he feuded with a young Jerry Lawler.

During 1980, Orndorff started to split his time between the Alabama and the Mid-South territories, until he left the Alabama territory by the end of 1980 to focus entirely on the Mid-South territory.

Orndorff ’ s feud with Piper and Orton continued to rage on while Hogan started to defend his title against other contenders ; Orndorff faced both Orton and Piper in individual competition, usually without a conclusive outcome.

When Studd and Bundy started to double team Hogan, Orndorff did not help out ; he looked like he had hurt his eye in the collision.

With the time off, Orndorff recovered and started working out, reestablishing the physique that earned him the nickname “ Mr. Wonderful " in the first place.

Mr. Wonderful more or less immediately started feuding with " Dr. Death " Steve Williams, who attacked Orndorff to kick start the feud.

After a briefly working as a male stripper, Loman started wrestling in 1999 in World Championship Wrestling after being trained by Paul Orndorff at the WCW Power Plant.

" There, Orndorff worked mainly as a tag team competitor teaming with Dick Slater to win the NWA Southeast Tag Team Championship from the team of Jimmy Golden and Norvell Austin in October 1979.

Instead of keeping peace, Sammartino became a target for Orton and Piper, which led to Orndorff and Sammartino teaming up.

Orndorff ’ s frustrations were further fueled by Adrian Adonis, who took every opportunity that he could to mock Orndorff ( including referring to him as " Hulk Jr ."), saying that he had gone soft from teaming with Hogan.

Orndorff, the TV champion, and Rick Rude, the U. S. Champion, began teaming on a regular basis, including a PPV victory over Dustin Rhodes and Kensuke Sasaki at Slamboree.

This time, Roma took it a step further and attacked Erik Watts before announcing that he was now teaming with Paul Orndorff.

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.

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

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.

Shortly after the pair began teaming, Pretty Wonderful ( Paul Roma and Paul Orndorff ) won the WCW World Tag Team Championship.

Orndorff was unsuccessful in his challenge and soon focused on the title he gave up.

The next time that Hogan and Orndorff teamed up, against the Moondogs, Orndorff wrestled most of the match by himself in an attempt to upstage Hogan, scoring the winning pin.

At Clash of the Champions XI Orndorff defeated Arn Anderson and at the 1990 Great American Bash, Orndorff teamed up with the Junkyard Dog and El Gigante to defeat Arn Anderson, Barry Windham, and Sid Vicious by disqualification.

Orndorff signed up for a 16 man tournament beating 2 Cold Scorpio, Cactus Jack, Johnny B. Badd, and then Erik Watts in the finals to win his first WCW title.

After losing more and more matches, including a match on WCW Worldwide to Randy Savage, Orndorff lost all faith in his abilities ; the outwardly arrogant Mr. Wonderful was riddled with self doubt, until one night, after beating himself up backstage after yet another loss, he was visited by psychic Gary Spivey.

Orndorff began working for the NWA Tri-State promotion where he got involved in a feud with Ernie Ladd.

The feud with Ladd saw Orndorff win the NWA Tri-State North American Heavyweight Title from Ernie Ladd on two occasions ( on May 29, 1978 and again in June ).

Orndorff turned face to feud with Roop but found himself unable to regain the title after which he left the Mid-South Territory.

Orndorff reappeared in Georgia Championship Wrestling in early 1982 immediately launching into a feud with Buzz Sawyer over the NWA National Heavyweight Championship.

Near the end of 1984, Roddy Piper ’ s assault on Cyndi Lauper ( kayfabe ) brought Orndorff and Piper on a collision course with Hulk Hogan and Mr. T. Hogan ’ s feud with Piper also meant that Orndorff was thrust back into the main event picture ; he defeated Tony Atlas at The War to Settle the Score and then played a part in the main event.

During the Hogan feud, Orndorff seriously injured his right arm in a weightlifting accident.

Orndorff returned to the ring specifically to fire Bobby Heenan and to feud with Rick Rude.

Orndorff would also reignite his feud with Bob Orton, Jr. in the UWF, where he beat Orton for the UWF Southern States Championship on June 22, 1992 and held the title until he left the promotion.

Lee brought in Ron Garvin to fight off Orndorff ; the feud included a very publicized “ piledriver " match which was won by Garvin.

Orndorff was pinned by Cactus Jack in a subsequent Thunderdome match ; the two had an intense feud including a Falls Count Anywhere match at SuperBrawl III, which Cactus Jack won.

He returned in January 2000 as a member of the Old Age Outlaws with Terry Funk, Arn Anderson and Paul Orndorff to feud with the revived nWo, then returned to commentary in February until WCW was purchased by the World Wrestling Federation in March 2001.

That same year, he also began managing Paul Orndorff during his feud with Rick Rude.