page_title: Paul Orndorff
section_title: Post-retirement appearances, one-night return (2005–2017)
hierarchical_section_title: Paul Orndorff / Professional wrestling career / Post-retirement appearances, one-night return (2005–2017)
caption_attribution_description: Paul Orndorff at a taping of the 25th Anniversary of WrestleMania 1 near Boston, Mass in March 2009.
context_page_description: Paul Parlette Orndorff Jr. is an American former professional wrestler, best known for his appearances with the World Wrestling Federation and World Championship Wrestling, nicknamed Mr. Wonderful.
  After seven years working around the National Wrestling Alliance, Orndorff became a star in the 1980s WWF wrestling boom, and featured with manager Bobby Heenan and champion Hulk Hogan extensively, including in the main events of the first WrestleMania and Survivor Series. With an untreated neck injury, he left the WWF for WCW in early 1988, where he won the WCW World Television Championship and the WCW World Tag Team Championship with Paul Roma.
  Arm atrophy from his nagging injury led him to retire in 2000. He was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2005 and the National Wrestling Alliance Hall of Fame in 2009. After wrestling, he trained others and survived cancer in 2011.
context_section_description: On February 3, 2005, Orndorff was announced as one of the inductees for the Class of 2005 into the WWE Hall of Fame. He was inducted on April 2 at the Universal Amphitheatre in Los Angeles by Bobby Heenan. In 2009, Orndorff was elected by a committee of his peers to the Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame, then located in Amsterdam New York, now located in Wichita Falls, Texas.
  On April 6, 2014, Orndorff made an appearance at WrestleMania XXX. Marking the first time being on WWE television since the 2005 Hall of Fame. He appeared with Rowdy Roddy Piper, Hulk Hogan, Mr. T, Pat Patterson who was part of the main event at the first WrestleMania and Gene Okerlund who was conducting an interview with Hogan when the rest appeared.
  On August 11, 2014, Orndorff made an appearance at Hulk Hogan's birthday celebration on WWE Raw, celebrating in the ring with many other WWE legends, including Hogan himself, Ric Flair, Kevin Nash, Scott Hall, Gene Okerlund, Jimmy Hart, and Roddy Piper.
  On May 3, 2017, Orndorff had his first match since 2000. The event was a CWE (Canadian Wrestling's Elite) held in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada. Where he won in a six-man tag team match at age 67.
caption: Orndorff in 2005
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