History Wrestling / JesseVentura

In late 2003, Ventura hosted a show on Creator/{{MSNBC}} called ''Jesse Ventura's America''. In 2004, he was inducted into the Wrestling/WWEHallOfFame. He returned to broadcasting in 2009 with ''Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura''.

* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: A key part of his victory in the gubernatorial election was a combination of Minnesota's same-day voter registration laws and campaign workers accosting young men in the street and saying, more or less, "Hey, you! Jesse Ventura is running for governor! You want to vote for him?" "Hell, yeah!" After the election, his office printed up t-shirts that were just an outline of Minnesota, with the words "My governor can beat up your governor."

* RealMenWearPink: Wore extremely color outfits as a wrestler and a commentator, including a pink suit!

* ExpansionPackPast: Navy SEAL (technically, UDT, or Underwater Demolition Team, which merged with the [=SEALs=] after he left), bodyguard for Music/TheRollingStones, [[BadassBiker member of the outlaw motorcycle gang "The Mongols"]]...

* NiceHat: Ventura wore a pilgrim hat during his three Survivor Series broadcasts (the show aired on Thanksgiving night back then).

* MoneyDearBoy: Ventura by his own admission, went to work for WCW in 1992 simply because he was offered a lot of money.

He was elected mayor of Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, in 1990, serving from 1991 to 1995. In 1998, he successfully ran for the office of governor of Minnesota, serving from January 1999 to January 2003. He ran as a member of the Reform Party, Ross Perot's short-lived political party. [[note]]Although he later broke from the Reform Party and became a member of the Independent Party of Minnesota and then a member of the Green Party[[/note]]. This was the first such occurrence in modern political history.

He was elected mayor of Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, in 1990, serving from 1991 to 1995. In 1998, he successfully ran for the office of governor of Minnesotaserving from January 1999 to January 2003. He ran as a member of the Reform Party, Ross Perot's short-lived political party. [[note]]Although he later broke from the Reform Party and became a member of the Independent Party of Minnesota and then a member of the Green Party[[/note]]. This was the first such occurrence in modern political history.

He was elected mayor of Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, in 1990, serving from 1991 to 1995. In 1998, he successfully ran for the office of governor of Minnesota (as a third-party candidate, the first such occurrence in modern political history), serving from January 1999 to January 2003.

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[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Ventura The Other Wiki]] has the basics about his life and different careers.

* ItsPersonal: Genuinely hates Wrestling/HulkHogan because Hulk [[TheStoolPigeon "stooged" him]] to [[Wrestling/VinceMcMahon Vince]] over Jesse's idea to unionize the WWF.

* ItsPersonal: Genuinely hates Wrestling/HulkHogan because he [[TheStoolPigeon "stooged" him]] to [[Wrestling/VinceMcMahon Vince]] over Jesse's plans to unionize the WWF.

* ItsPersonal: Genuinely hates Wrestling/HulkHogan because he [[TheStoolPigeon "stooged" him]] to Vince McMahon over Jesse's plans to unionize the WWF.

* YouKeepUsingThatWord: He helped Wrestling/{{Sheamus}} on his way to become WWE Champion after declaring there was a conspiracy to keep the belt on Wrestling/JohnCena. Problem? Conspiracy implies something is covered up, kept secret, etc. WWE has not been the least bit shy about letting the whole world know about its favoritism of John Cena.

James George Janos (born July 15, 1951) is an American retired professional wrestler, actor, politician and broadcasting personality from Minneapolis, Minnesota. He performed in the Wrestling/AmericanWrestlingAssociation and the [[Wrestling/{{WWE}} WWF]] under the name Jesse "The Body" Ventura, a {{Heel}}, from the mid-1970s until the mid-1980s, when he had to leave the ring due to blood clots in his lungs (which he claimed were the effects of exposure to Agent Orange). At that point, he took up color commentary with both the WWF and Wrestling/{{WCW}}. He also competed in the NWA Central States territory in UsefulNotes/KansasCity, NWA Pacific Northwest Wrestling in UsefulNotes/{{Portland}}, OR and NWA UsefulNotes/{{Hawaii}}. .

* BerserkButton: Increasingly, lately--seemingly just for someone daring to challenge him confidently on an issue. [[JerkassFacade Could be an act, though.]]

* BlatantLies: His claims about having "hunted men." Ventura never saw combat in Vietnam, though he frequently claims otherwise. Although he frequently claims to have been a Navy SEAL, he was instead a member of an Underwater Demolition Team on active duty (the two had the same training pipeline (the infamous BUD/S course), but SEALs were combatants and frogmen by and large weren't), and only served in SEAL Team One as a reservist, after Vietnam was over and reservists were never called up in any case.

* BlatantLies: His claims about having "hunted men." Ventura never went to Vietnam, though he frequently claims otherwise. He was also never a SEAL, but a frogman who opted not to take the additional 26-week SEAL qualification course after completing BUD/S training.

* TheConfidant: He was on commentary with Wrestling/{{Vince McMahon}} and Wrestling/BrunoSammartino on the May 30 (taped May 12), 1987 ''WWF Superstars''. There was a tag match with The Can-Am Connection (Wrestling/RickMartel and Tom Zenk) vs. The Islanders ([[Wrestling/{{Meng}} Haku]] and [[Wrestling/TheTongaKid Tama]]). Vince talked about how Wrestling/BobbyHeenan was going to reveal a new tag team, with Jesse [[EvilLaugh laughing]], since he clearly knew something Vince and Bruno didn't. Of course, Heenan came out and distracted the Can-Ams, leading to them losing by countout, and the Islanders and the Brain embraced, turning them heel. Jesse said that he knew ahead of time.

* BecauseISaidSo: During the Team Strike Force[[note]]Strike Force (Wrestling/TitoSantana and Wrestling/RickMartel)[=/=]The Young Stallions (Paul Roma and Jim Powers)[=/=]The Rougeau Brothers (Jacques and Raymond)[=/=]The Killer Bees (B. Brian Blair and "Jumpin'" Jim Brunzell)[=/=]The British Bulldogs (Wrestling/DynamiteKid and Wrestling/DaveyBoySmith)[[/note]]-Team Hart Foundation[[note]]The Hart Foundation (Wrestling/BretHart and Wrestling/JimNeidhart)[=/=]The Islanders ([[Wrestling/{{Meng}} Haku]] and [[Wrestling/TheTongaKid Tama]])[=/=]Wrestling/{{Demolition}} (Ax and [[Wrestling/BarryDarsow Smash]])[=/=]The Bolsheviks (Wrestling/NikolaiVolkoff and Wrestling/BorisZhukov)[=/=]The New Dream Team (Wrestling/GregValentine and Dino Bravo)[[/note]] match at ''Wrestling/SurvivorSeries 1987'', he and Gorilla Monsoon got into an argument over the pronunciation of Islander Tama's name.

As for his in-ring achievements, he is a former [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/awa/awa-t.html AWA World Tag Team Champion]] with Adrian Adonis, a former 2x [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/pnw/nwa/pnw-h.html NWA PNW Heavyweight Champion]], a 5x [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/pnw/nwa/pnw-t.html NWA PNW Tag Team Champion]] (2x w[=/=]Wrestling/PlayboyBuddyRose, 2x w[=/=]Bull Ramos and 1x w[=/=]Jerry Oates), a 1x [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/centralstates/nwa/cs-t.html NWA Central States Tag Team Champion]] with Tank Patton, a 2x [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/tn/cwa/awa-s-h.html Southern (Memphis) Heavyweight Champion]] and a 1x [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/hi/hi-t.html NWA Hawaii Tag Team Champion]] with Steve Strong (better known as Steve [=DiSalvo=].)