As a testament to how tough he actually is, he suffered a heart attack at the age of 50 in 2010 and was back to work within days.
In ECW, he used Salt-N-Pepa's "Whatta Man" as his entrance music when he had Jason "The Sexiest Man on Earth" (Jason Knight) as his manager and Deep Purple's "Perfect Strangers" as a member of the Triple Threat.
The Godfather talking about "1000 positions" was not the first time that had been mentioned about Malenko. Ric Flair had already used it on the September 24, 1998 "WCW Thunder.".
Along with his work as a wrestler, his family also ran a wrestling school for years. Among the wrestlers he had a hand in training are Molly Holly (Nora Greenwald), Gangrel (David Heath), Chad Collyer, and Tony Mamaluke (Charles Spencer). As a trainer for WWE at their Ohio Valley Wrestling developmental promotion, he worked with Brock Lesnar and Shelton Benjamin.