2) Tito has won a total of 26 championships in his career. His most notable title reigns include winning the WWE Intercontinental Championship 2 times and becoming a 2-time WWE Tag Team Champion, once with Ivan Putski and the other with Rick Martel.
3) In 2004, Tito Santana was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame.
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D: What is your favorite WWE memory?
Tito Santana: My biggest memory that will last forever is being the opening match at WrestleMania 1. That was quite an honor.
D's Follow Up: It's cool that he was the first match at WrestleMania and it's even cooler that he won the first ever match.
Tito Santana: My favorite match is when I beat Greg Valentine in a cage match in Baltimore.
J's Follow Up: The match was cool and looked painful because of being a cage match. It wasn't as bad as they are today though. The Intercontinental belt is one of my favorites.
Chad: We did some research on you before we came and we saw that you might be a Spanish teacher. Are you currently a Spanish teacher?
Tito Santana: Yes. I started out as a PE teacher for my first four years. This is my nineteenth year teaching Spanish. So this is twenty three years.
Chad: This guy right here is in 7th grade Spanish. Go ahead and start talking.
Jordan: No. I don't really know anything. I just know "What's your name."
Tito: Como te llamas? How do you finish "Como te llamas?"
Jordan: Me llamo Jordan.
Tito: Muy bien. You have no idea how important it is to be able to communicate in Spanish. You don't even have to be fluent, you just need to be able to communicate.
It was quite the honor to be able to meet the legendary Tito Santana with my family at the SSW Supershow in Kenosha on Saturday, December 28th. I have been watching Tito wrestle since I started watching wrestling around 7 years old. I would watch him year after year and I found it amazing that he wrestled in the first nine WrestleManias.
Of course, I also loved the fact that he is a Spanish teacher for nineteen years and started out as a PE teacher like me for his first four years. I can't even imagine what I would have done knowing that Tito Santana was my teacher.
Tito was engaging with the fans and you could hear how he grateful he was for all wrestling has given him. He even put his wrestling boots back on and won his match at the Supershow against local superstar Jeff Luxon. At 66 years old, he had the crowd chanting "You've still got it." We will remember the night we met the legendary Tito Santana.
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