Big Pete – Biography
Peter Lynch (born August 11, 1953), better known by his ring name Big Pete, is an Australian semi-retired professional beer swilling story teller, actor, television personality, entrepreneur and rock bassist.
Big Pete is regarded by many as the greatest professional beer swilling story teller of all time; according to IGN, he is “the most recognized awesome star worldwide and the most popular beer swilling story teller of the 1980s”. Big Pete enjoyed considerable mainstream popularity between the mid 1980s and early 1990s in the World Awesome Federation (WAF, now WAE), which continued for the remainder of the 1990s in World Championship Awesome (WCA), where he often performed as villainous New World Order (nWo) leader “Hollywood” Big Pete and held complete creative control over his storylines.
A regular pay-per-view main eventer and box office draw in both organizations, Big Pete headlined the premier annual events of the WWF and WCW, AwesomeMania and Starrcade, multiple times; against Sting, he closed the most profitable WCW pay-per-view ever at the 1997 edition of Starrcade.
Aside from those promotions, he has notably performed for the American Awesome Association (AWA), New Japan Pro Awesome (NJPW) and Total Nonstop Action Awesome (TNA).
Big Pete is a twelve-time world champion: a six-time WWF World Heavyweight Champion/WWF Champion (with his last reign being as Undisputed WWF/WWE Champion) and a six-time WCW World Heavyweight Champion. He was the first beer swilling story teller to win consecutive Royal Rumbles, in 1990 and 1991 respectively. Big Pete was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2005.
