odessasteps Posted March 8 Share Posted March 8 I forgot to check earlier, but Mulligan went in the WWF HOF in 2006 along with Jack Lanza. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hamhock Posted March 8 Share Posted March 8 I wish somehow the Hall of Fame was like a combination of the Cagematch database and a video game, where every gimmick/character in a wrestler's career is inducted at the same time, and if they were in a tag team, their half of the graphic has their photo and name, while the corresponding partner is just a silhouette until they get in, whereupon the tag team unlocks and is automatically also inducted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zendragon Posted March 8 Share Posted March 8 4 hours ago, Cobra Commander said: How much of Lauper not being in is that she doesn’t want to be inducted? She was on RAW in 2012 w/ Wendi Richter so she was on decent enough terms back then Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dolfan in NYC Posted March 8 Share Posted March 8 4 minutes ago, zendragon said: She was on RAW in 2012 w/ Wendi Richter so she was on decent enough terms back then Yeah but... *gestures at the last two months* It's probably tough to explain "yeah but the rapist isn't in charge any more" to people, especially when little stuff bubbles up here and there, and god only knows if there's more lurking. I'd be wholly unsurprised if she wants to wait a year or two. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zendragon Posted March 8 Share Posted March 8 yhea that's kinda what I was getting at "back then".... also she should have gone in long before all this started anyway 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaedmc Posted March 8 Share Posted March 8 I mean it's not really worth debating because it's Vince's Hall of Fame(until this year I guess), but she probably should've gone in before any individual in the celebrity wing. Probably should've gone in with Captain Lou in '96, but they technically didn't have a "Celebrity Wing" then. But boy oh boy, looking over all the other "celebrities" selections and... it gets rough. In order: Pete Rose Refrigerator Perry Bob Uecker Drew Carey Mike Tyson "The Predecessor" Mr. T Arnold Schwarzenegger Snoop Bawitdaba William Shatner Ozzy Osbourne Andy Kaufman Bit of a sausage party. Honestly, Maria Menounos should be in over several of those people. ... I will say that I actually think Hunter, for all his faults, is a better steward of wrestling history than most folks that they could put in charge. It does seem genuinely important to him, based on his actions regarding the hall over the last several years. I think him putting US Express in, highlighting their involvement in the first Wrestlemania, might be an indicator that Cyndi Lauper has to be on the short list. If she doesn't want to do it, that's totally her call, and I respect it. But she 100% is significant part of wrestling history and deserves to be recognized as such. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supremebve Posted March 8 Share Posted March 8 I cannot support putting Mike Rotunda into any hall of fame. I would support him inducting his son, but I spent too many hours of my childhood watching him do shitty chinlocks and abdominal stretches on Superstars every week to let this travesty slide. I'm about 76% joking, but he's perhaps my least favorite wrestler of all time. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted March 8 Share Posted March 8 If you can’t induct Lauper, induct old school wrestling fan Debbie Harry. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lostinube Posted March 8 Share Posted March 8 Sure, let's just randomly induct Bull Nakano, one of the first people Rossy Ogawa went to talk to about leaving Stardom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Great ML Posted March 8 Share Posted March 8 41 minutes ago, supremebve said: I cannot support putting Mike Rotunda into any hall of fame. I would support him inducting his son, but I spent too many hours of my childhood watching him do shitty chinlocks and abdominal stretches on Superstars every week to let this travesty slide. I'm about 76% joking, but he's perhaps my least favorite wrestler of all time. The only version of Rotunda that was worth a damn was Captain Mike from the Varsity Club in 1988-1989. Anything else is a hard pass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Natural Posted March 8 Author Share Posted March 8 (edited) I think Bray Wyatt gets in like Eddie Guerrero less than a year after their passings. Guerrero passed November 2005, inductee April 2006. Wyatt August 2023, inducted April 2024. I liked IRS only because my late great Mum got a kick out of him getting annoyed by the Irrrrwinnnn chants watching wrestling as a kid with her. It was on a Bret Hart VHS. Edited March 8 by The Natural 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dogwelder Posted March 9 Share Posted March 9 Someone on Reddit posted 2 days ago what may have been a leaked list. If it's true, the rest of the inductees are: Spoiler Muhammad Ali Lia Maivia (Rock's grandmother) Thunderbolt Patterson Bray 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandon-E Posted March 9 Share Posted March 9 How come Dick Beyer and Crusher Lisowski aren't in the WWE HOF? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zendragon Posted March 9 Share Posted March 9 Dick Beyer has pretty much Zero connection to WWF and his American wrestling stops in the early 70's Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandon-E Posted March 9 Share Posted March 9 1 hour ago, zendragon said: Dick Beyer has pretty much Zero connection to WWF and his American wrestling stops in the early 70's Beyer was there in 1959 back when WWE was NWA Capitol Wrestling and had matches in WWF during 1982-1983. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted March 9 Share Posted March 9 They’ve now put in a lot of people in those “mass inductions” for people with no connections to the company. I’m not complaining but Bob Armstrong being in the WWF HOF is odd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace Posted March 9 Share Posted March 9 On 3/8/2024 at 8:10 AM, Cobra Commander said: How much of Lauper not being in is that she doesn’t want to be inducted? Lauper disputed this years ago. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobra Commander Posted March 9 Share Posted March 9 3 hours ago, Ace said: Lauper disputed this years ago. well then... yeah, not sure what sort of other things have complicated the relationship would the whole thing be potentially a little more awkward because David Wolff was the fan, and maybe the person that the WWF worked through, and once Cyndi was no longer with David Wolff, it was gonna take someone to work as an intermediary to make the deal work? I know there was a perception that eventually Cyndi's links to the WWF hindered her music career, but that might have been exaggerated and her career sorta fizzled after a few years due to more normal music industry reasons about how labels handle female artists who aren't Madonna If the WWE was still doing network documentaries, it feels like they could get a solid hour or so out of the whole "celebrities that were big wrestling fans once" sort of story. Triple H seems more like a Headbangers Ball guy than a 120 Minutes guy, so maybe the story of New Wave musicians liking old time WWF wrestling wouldn't appeal to him 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 Cyndi Lauper is one film adaption of Kinky Boots: The Musical from having an EGOT. She's doing alright. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted March 11 Share Posted March 11 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted March 11 Share Posted March 11 Them having ANY kind of affiliation with Ali and not inducting him first round is the dumbest shit ever Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted March 11 Share Posted March 11 15 minutes ago, Curt McGirt said: Them having ANY kind of affiliation with Ali and not inducting him first round is the dumbest shit ever Eh - I mean it is logical (in the context of the illogical WWE Hall of Fame) The very first class was designed to just honor Andre. Remember there wasn't even a ceremony that first year Second - Ali is clearly going in as the "celebrity" and the first time they did that was in 2004 Plus it fits the the quasi theme of this year - which honoring Mania 1 (not that again Lauper doesn't) Someone would have to double check how much they acknowledged Ali/Inoki back when Inoki was inducted Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dolfan in NYC Posted March 11 Share Posted March 11 You know, I just looked, and the only one left from the original WrestleMania main event to not be in the HoF was Ali. And that includes the referee (Patterson), the ring announcer (Fink), the announce team (Ventura & Gorilla), and even the damned timekeeper (Liberace). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChesterCopperpot Posted March 11 Share Posted March 11 44 minutes ago, RIPPA said: Someone would have to double check how much they acknowledged Ali/Inoki back when Inoki was inducted they definitely made a deal of it in Inoki's HOF induction video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rnw9UjqVUNU Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted March 11 Share Posted March 11 (edited) You can also show the Ali/Gorilla footage. once they put Ali in the video game, it was a no brainer. Edited March 11 by odessasteps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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