Henning was married to Leonice Leonard. She is the widow of Mr. Perfect.
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Mr. Perfect, Curtis Michael Hennig, was born on March 28, 1958. He was a professional wrestler from the United States. He wrestled for the American Wrestling Association (AWA), the World Wrestling Federation (WWF; now WWE), World Championship Wrestling (WCW), and NWA Total Nonstop Action under his own name. Hennig was the father of wrestler Curtis Axel and the son of wrestler Larry “The Axe” Hennig. Hennig made his debut in 1980 and won several championships in both the Pacific Northwest Wrestling (PNW) and the American Wrestling Association (AWA) over the decade.
He rose to prominence after defeating Nick Bockwinkel for the AWA World Heavyweight Championship in 1987, and his 373-day reign was the seventh-longest in history. Following that, Mr. Perfect joined the WWF, where he feuded with Hulk Hogan for the WWF Championship and twice won the WWF Intercontinental Heavyweight Championship, becoming the longest-reigning titleholder of the 1990s. In addition to winning many WCW championships in the late 1990s, Hennig competed on pay-per-view (PPV) for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship and headed stable and country music group the West Texas Rednecks, who released the classic tongue-in-cheek song “Rap Is Crap.”
In 2000, he won the WWC Universal Heavyweight Championship while working for the World Wrestling Council (WWC). Hennig made a short return to the WWF/E in 2002, finishing as one of the last three men standing in that year’s Royal Rumble. Prior to his death on February 10, 2003, he headlined many TNA PPV events while competing for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship.
WWE acknowledged Hennig with elevating the level of technical wrestling in the organisation, while professional wrestling journalists Bob Ryder and Dave Scherer referred to him as “one of the finest all-around fighters this business has ever produced” in a 2000 article. Former Major League Baseball star and lifelong friend Wade Boggs inducted Hennig into the WWE Hall of Fame posthumously in 2007. Hulk Hogan stated, “When they got to a building where Curt Hennig was, everyone would check their egos at the entrance because you couldn’t outwork him, outshine him, or outperform him. He was the greatest of all time.”
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Henning was married to Leonice Leonard. She is the widow of Mr. Perfect. Joseph, Amy, Kaite, and Hank are their four children. Professional wrestlers Joseph and Amy are. Hennig is survived by his parents, Larry and Irene, two brothers, Randy and Jesse, and two sisters, Sandra and Susan, in addition to his wife and four children. Not much is known about Leonice as she likes to keep her life private and she is a very devoted family woman.
