Editing Mr. T (section)

==Professional wrestling==
[[Image:Mr T at WrestleMania, 1985.jpg|thumb|240px|Mr. T hoists [[Roddy Piper]] up onto his shoulders as [[Hulk Hogan]] cheers in the background during the main event of the first-ever [[Wrestlemania 1|Wrestlemania]]]]
===World Wrestling Federation (1985-1987)===
Mr. T entered the world of [[professional wrestling]] in 1985. He was [[Hulk Hogan]]'s tag-team partner at the [[World Wrestling Federation]]'s (WWF) ''[[WrestleMania I]]'' which he won. 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.{{Clarify|date=June 2020}} Piper has said that he and other fellow wrestlers disliked Mr. T because he was an actor 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 [[Bob Orton, Jr.|"Cowboy" Bob Orton]] on the March 1, 1986, ''[[Saturday Night's Main Event V]],'' on NBC. This [[boxing]] stunt culminated in another boxing match against Roddy Piper at ''[[WrestleMania 2]]''. As part of the build-up for the match, Piper attacked Mr. T's friend, dwarf wrestler the [[Haiti Kid]] on his ''Piper's Pit'' interview slot, shaving his head into a [[Mohawk hairstyle|mohican]] style similar to that of Mr. T. Then Mr. T won the boxing match in Round 4 by disqualification after Piper attacked the referee and bodyslammed Mr. T. He 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]] and then afterwards the WWF decided to stop using Mr. T.

===World Class Championship Wrestling (1989)===
On July 21, 1989, Mr. T. made an appearance in [[World Class Championship Wrestling]] (WCCW), seconding [[Kerry Von Erich]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKT13vl-Ejs&feature=player_embedded |title=Kerry Von Erich & Mr. T interview |date=August 29, 2010 |publisher=YouTube |access-date=March 11, 2012 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/GKT13vl-Ejs |archive-date=2021-12-11}}{{cbignore}} {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170419063542/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKT13vl-Ejs&feature=player_embedded |date=2017-04-19}}{{cbignore}}</ref> 

===World Championship Wrestling (1994)===
Five years later, Mr. T reappeared in [[World Championship Wrestling|WCW]], first appearing in Hulk Hogan's corner for his WCW world title match against [[Ric Flair]] at ''[[Bash at the Beach (1994)|Bash at the Beach 1994]]''. He would next appear as a special referee for the Hogan{{endash}}Flair rematch in October 1994 at ''[[Halloween Havoc (1994)|Halloween Havoc]]'', and then went on to wrestle again, defeating [[Kevin Sullivan (wrestler)|Kevin Sullivan]] at that year's ''[[Starrcade (1994)|Starrcade]]''. 

===Sporadic Appearances (2001-present)===
Another seven years later, Mr. T appeared in the front row of the November 19, 2001, episode of ''[[WWE Raw|WWF Raw]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://slashwrestling.com/raw/011119.html |title=[slash]<!--sic--> Wrestling [slash] RAW [slash] 19 November 2001 |website=slash wrestling |date=November 19, 2001 |access-date=August 16, 2016}}</ref> On April 5, 2014, at the [[Smoothie King Center]] in [[New Orleans]], Mr. T was inducted by [[Gene Okerlund]] into the [[WWE Hall of Fame]]'s celebrity wing. His acceptance speech, largely a tribute to his mother and [[mother]]hood rather than wrestling, ran long and was eventually interrupted by [[Kane (wrestler)|Kane]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.metro.us/playing-the-field/video-mr-t-says-the-word-mother-73-times-in-wwe-hall-of-fame-speech/tmWndh---beIYAUUAdmhU |title=Video: Mr. T says the word 'mother' 73 times in WWE Hall of Fame speech |website=Metro US|date=April 9, 2014}}</ref>