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Post by Nickybojelais on Jan 23, 2017 12:39:38 GMT -5
So I'm watching the 2013 ceremony for reasons I wont elaborate on So my question is, why on earth was Foley not a headline induction? Especially when Edge was the headliner the previous year. I mean, I really like Edge but there is no way that Edge should be headlining a Hall of Fame class and Foley doesn't.....right? *Just to clarify, I'm not saying that Bruno isn't a worthy headliner. My point is why not use Foley for a year where they are short of headline inductions (like 2012 for example)
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Post by Gravedigger's Biscuits on Jan 23, 2017 12:48:44 GMT -5
Edge didn't have Sammartino in his class.
In the importance of WWE history, Bruno is bigger than Foley.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Jan 23, 2017 12:54:07 GMT -5
Yeah, I love Mick... but Bruno is one of the most important figures in WWE's history.
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Post by Nickybojelais on Jan 23, 2017 12:57:12 GMT -5
I guess my issue isn't Bruno headlining over Foley in 2013, I've got no problem with that as Bruno is one of the Mount Rushmore of WWF/E legends. But why put Foley in as merely a support act when his contributions surely deserved to be celebrated as a headline act, put him in the 2012 class or hold him off for a less stacked year in the future.
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Post by Gravedigger's Biscuits on Jan 23, 2017 12:58:44 GMT -5
I guess my issue isn't Bruno headlining over Foley in 2013, I've got no problem with that as Bruno is one of the Mount Rushmore of WWF/E legends. But why put Foley in as merely a support act when his contributions surely deserved to be celebrated as a headline act (eg. in 2012) I think they just really wanted to induct Foley at MSG.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Jan 23, 2017 12:59:59 GMT -5
I guess my issue isn't Bruno headlining over Foley in 2013, I've got no problem with that as Bruno is one of the Mount Rushmore of WWF/E legends. But why put Foley in as merely a support act when his contributions surely deserved to be celebrated as a headline act (eg. in 2012) I think they just really wanted to induct Foley at MSG. Probably, I mean it was the place where Foley decided he was becoming a wrestler.
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Post by Captain Stud Muffin (BLM) on Jan 23, 2017 13:00:14 GMT -5
I guess my issue isn't Bruno headlining over Foley in 2013, I've got no problem with that as Bruno is one of the Mount Rushmore of WWF/E legends. But why put Foley in as merely a support act when his contributions surely deserved to be celebrated as a headline act, put him in the 2012 class or hold him off for a less stacked year in the future. Foley had the unlucky case of being put on the ballet with a man on the Mount Rushmore list. Besides that maybe they thought Mick couldn't be a person to headline a class. Don't get me wrong he's one of the greatest and can tell a hell of a story but it just seems Mick wasn't high enough on the totem pole to warrant his own class
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Post by Push R Truth on Jan 23, 2017 13:23:34 GMT -5
I"m trying to think of guys that would be placed over Bruno that aren't part of the McMahon Family.
Hogan is the only one I got and even that is a maybe.
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Post by Zen411 on Jan 23, 2017 13:57:26 GMT -5
They announced mick before announcing Bruno. I believe they still didn't think Bruno would accept the invitation and went ahead and announced mick. Then when they announced Bruno he had to be the top billed star. I almost wish they had saved mick for another class where he could be the top headliner.
Opposite goes for the year where DiBiase was the headliner. I don't think he was big enough to be the main headliner. Wasnt there talk of inducting warrior that year and it didn't work out so DiBiase got the top spot?
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Post by Tiger Millionaire on Jan 23, 2017 15:05:01 GMT -5
Same reason Roddy Piper wasn't a headliner.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 23, 2017 15:18:33 GMT -5
Foley was originally suppose to be the headliner. He was announced before Bruno accepted his HOF inductions. I think they announced Foley just a little before HHH started meeting up with Bruno. I also don't think Foley doesn't mind not being a headliner in any HOF class unless Marc Mero was the headliner. I'm sure he was happy to be inducted and happy to be inducted in MSG in his homestate of NY and I don't think he mind taking a backseat to Bruno and understood the importance of MSG to Bruno and WWE inducting him in a now or never situation. Bruno only wanted to be inducted in MSG and with his age, he might not still be alive or in good condition the next time Wrestlemania was in NYC.
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Post by edgestar on Jan 23, 2017 15:29:44 GMT -5
Maria Menounos is still there, stating Bob Backlund facts one of the people in the group I was with, was mad Foley was the headliner, then calmed down, when it became Bruno as headliner.
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Post by Perfect Timing on Jan 23, 2017 16:15:22 GMT -5
Should of inducted Al Snow the same year as a rib on Foley.
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Post by Big Bad Kahuna on Jan 23, 2017 16:24:38 GMT -5
Whoever thinks that's important (being headliner or not) doesn't get it
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Post by MrElijah on Jan 23, 2017 16:41:58 GMT -5
Mick can always say I was in the same class as Backlund and Bruno.
I mean Kayfabe wise 2013 might be the most stacked class ever.
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Post by Nickybojelais on Jan 23, 2017 17:23:06 GMT -5
Whoever thinks that's important (being headliner or not) doesn't get it I'm not quite sure what I'm supposedly not getting. The modern production of the Hall of Fame ceremony has put the biggest name of that year's class on last. I consider Foley to be a name worthy of being the biggest name in a class. I don't quite know why you felt the need to respond to me in such a derogatory manner.
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Post by Big Bad Kahuna on Jan 23, 2017 18:03:10 GMT -5
Whoever thinks that's important (being headliner or not) doesn't get it I'm not quite sure what I'm supposedly not getting. The modern production of the Hall of Fame ceremony has put the biggest name of that year's class on last. I consider Foley to be a name worthy of being the biggest name in a class. I don't quite know why you felt the need to respond to me in such a derogatory manner. Because it doesn't matter, simple as that Everyone gets tons of time to speak, is treated as a deserving honoree...why should anyone care if you appear first or last or inbetween?
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Post by edgestar on Jan 23, 2017 18:35:21 GMT -5
I'm not quite sure what I'm supposedly not getting. The modern production of the Hall of Fame ceremony has put the biggest name of that year's class on last. I consider Foley to be a name worthy of being the biggest name in a class. I don't quite know why you felt the need to respond to me in such a derogatory manner. Because it doesn't matter, simple as that Everyone gets tons of time to speak, is treated as a deserving honoree...why should anyone care if you appear first or last or inbetween? The OP was just stating his opinion.
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Post by madness50 on Jan 24, 2017 0:47:07 GMT -5
Only thing that really stood out to me was how unbelievably annoying that NYC crowd was that night.
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Post by This Player Hating Mothman on Jan 24, 2017 0:55:29 GMT -5
I"m trying to think of guys that would be placed over Bruno that aren't part of the McMahon Family. Hogan is the only one I got and even that is a maybe. I think from a general respect standpoint Bruno had to be the headliner, but Hogan would never play second fiddle to anyone, so I think even if they were desperate enough to want some kind of all-star hall of fame class for some reason and the two of them were eyed for the same year, the second Hogan tried to say he should be at the top, they'd be silently slipping him into the next yer just to avoid the problem.
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