Awesome / Harley Race

• His EIGHT reigns as NWA World Heavyweight Champion puts him only behind Ric Flair (10) for most reigns, and ahead of both LOU THESZ and Jeff Jarrett (6 each).
• According to a story by Kevin Nash, Harley Race was the driver for Nash and a couple other guys in the car. Race, naturally, is going the wrong way down a one way street at ninety miles an hour. When a cop pulled them over, Race immediately barked out, "I'm Harley Race! I need to get to [insert the name of the city they were going to.]" The flustered cop gave him the info, and Race took off another two blocks down the wrong way before turning. Nash later mused that the cop must've figured that Harley Race was someone important, because "only someone who was SOMEONE would pull a stunt like that."
• Go watch one of his promos. The man radiates intensity.
• On October 6, 1978, Race became one of the few wrestlers to slam André the Giant.
• Speaking of which, Andre said he only ever was afraid of two people: Race himself and Meng.
• The Hell's Angels incident. As the story goes, while wrestling one night in Oregon, Race was heckled relentlessly by a mob of Hell's Angels bikers who were convinced they could take him. When they confronted him after the show looking for a fight, Race picked the biggest biker, broke his nose with a full force headbutt and proceeded to turn his lights off with a sleeper hold. The other bikers wisely decided they wanted no part of him anymore.
• There's an old story that Race asked a wrestler ^note  Some versions say it was a young Curt Hennig what his finish was. The wrestler responded a dropkick off the top. Race replied "I'll move."
• Mick Foley tells a story of early in his career when he got busted open on a botched guardrail spot. The state in which they were performing had a rule that the local commission would cover medical care for a wrestler for any injury inside the ring (but not for any that happened outside the ring). When Mick got backstage, the doctor smugly noted it was a shame Mick’s injury happened outside the ring and therefore wasn’t covered. Harley (who had participated in a ringside role in the match) noted “It was, uh, a headbutt. And it happened inside the ring.” The doctor called out Harley on the Blatant Lies, noting it was pretty obviously from the guardrail spot. Harley then more sternly reiterated “I SAID. IT WAS A HEADBUTT. AND IT HAPPENED. INSIDE THE RING.” The doctor without missing a beat then turned to Mick and said “We’ll get you taken care of, Mick, don’t worry about it.” Mick then notes the doctor “had the fear of Harley put into him.”