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Laurence Turead
Statistics
Ring Names	Mr. T
Height	5 ft 10 in (178 cm)
Weight	220 lbs (100 kg)
Born	May 21 1952 (1952-05-21) (age 60)
	Chicago, Illinois
Died
Resides	Chicago, Illinois
Billed	Chicago, Illinois
Trained by	Hulk Hogan
Debut	March 31, 1985
Retired

Wrestling

Mr. T entered the world of professional wrestling in 1985. He was Hulk Hogan's tag-team partner at the first WrestleMania. 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. Mr. T was ready to skip the show until Hogan personally talked him out of leaving. Piper has said that he and other fellow wrestlers disliked Mr. T because he was an actor coming into wrestling and had never paid his dues as a professional wrestler.

Remaining with the WWF, Mr. T became a special "WWF boxer," in light of his character in Rocky III. He took on "Cowboy" Bob Orton on the March 1, 1986 edition of Saturday Night's Main Event, on NBC. This boxing stunt ultimately culminated in another boxing match against Roddy Piper at WrestleMania 2. Mr. T returned to the World Wrestling Federation as a special guest referee in 1987 as well as a special referee enforcer confronting such stars as the Honky Tonk Man.

Seven years later, Mr. T reappeared as a special referee for a Hogan-Ric Flair match, in October 1994, at Halloween Havoc, and then went on to wrestle again, defeating Kevin Sullivan at that year's Starrcade.

Mr. T returned to wrestling another seven years later, appearing in the front row of an episode of WWF Raw on November 19, 2001.

See also

• List of Celebrity guest stars in wrestling

External Links

• Mr. T Profile at CAGEMATCH.net