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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2019 10:38:32 GMT -5
I wonder if they're gonna be tighter on the speeches after the Hillbilly Jim mess. Judging from a lot of wrestler podcasts right afterward, a whole lotta people were mad about it. I started to listen to a podcast interview with him once, he was definitely a chatty fellow and the interviewer had a tough time reigning him in. It should've been known by anyone who's heard him interviewed that he'd go on... Poor guy just has his cows and mule to talk to on most days at the farm. Perfectly understandable for him to pour his heart out to the audience.
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Post by edgestar on Feb 25, 2019 10:55:25 GMT -5
I wonder if they're gonna be tighter on the speeches after the Hillbilly Jim mess. Judging from a lot of wrestler podcasts right afterward, a whole lotta people were mad about it. Lest we forget Bill "gonna keep this short......keeps going on for 3 hours, because he forgot to mention his son's former kindergarten teacher" Goldberg??
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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2019 14:21:31 GMT -5
I started to listen to a podcast interview with him once, he was definitely a chatty fellow and the interviewer had a tough time reigning him in. It should've been known by anyone who's heard him interviewed that he'd go on... Poor guy just has his cows and mule to talk to on most days at the farm. Perfectly understandable for him to pour his heart out to the audience. He had a Sirius XM radio show for a while (still does?) so he did (still does?) get out of the house often.... Hillbilly was a guy I long figured was going in; when I was a kid he was one of the few wrestlers that non-wrestling outsiders just *knew* existed.
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Post by PTBartman on Feb 25, 2019 16:03:15 GMT -5
who inducts them? Vince? Shane? Hall and Nash? As weird as this sounds, yeah, and throw in Hogan. Theres something cool about DX being presented by the NwO
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Post by PTBartman on Feb 25, 2019 16:08:14 GMT -5
I know a lot of people think of their falling from grace later on like X-Factor, Billy Gunn's horrible singles career, or Road Dogg's crappy job as Smackdown booker, or the former Outlaws' time in TNA as the "Voodoo Kin Mafia," or that feud with Christy Hemme where somehow the chauvinistic, misogynistic douchebag was the face. But X-Pac and the Outlaws were rockstars in the Attitude Era. The NAO in particular were one of the most over teams I'd ever seen and carried the torch for the tag division before you had the Hardys, E&C, and the Dudleys hitting it out of the park every night. X-Pac was also IMO incredibly underrated as a worker. And Chyna, she absolutely deserves to get in. She made history as the first and only woman to ever win the IC Championship, and that was when the IC Championship was booked to actually be an important title.
He was a real innovator; a lot of highly regarded guys like Daniel Bryan have cited him as a big influence on their careers, and bah gawd was he over in 98-99.. His pops weren't all that much smaller than the ones the top guys were getting. That heel turn just wrecked everything and completely changed the narrative on his career. I'm not sure that I've ever seen anything else like it. The 1-2-3 Kid Storyline was one of my favorites, Razor was perfect as the smug heel and then this scrawney kid comes out of nowhere. it was just really good story telling.
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Post by PTBartman on Feb 25, 2019 16:32:49 GMT -5
30 minutes from whoever is inducting them 30 minutes each for Road Dogg, Billy Gunn, and X-pac 15 minutes for Chyna 45 minutes for HBK 60 minutes for HHH Maybe DX will be the only inductees because they won't leave time for anybody else. I don't even know if I'm being serious here or not. Just put Regal in there already. Dude is retired and deserves it. That is one speech that I'm looking forward to whenever he goes in. It'll be emotional, funny, and just entertaining all round. And Mr T still ahs to finnish thanking his mother
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Post by fw91 on Feb 25, 2019 16:37:17 GMT -5
So no news for another inductee to possibly be announced tonight?
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Post by HonkyTonkMan on Feb 25, 2019 16:45:29 GMT -5
So no news for another inductee to possibly be announced tonight? Traditionally, when WWE has officially revealed who the headliner inductee would be for a WWE Hall of Fame class, WWE has usually waited for two weeks to finally get around to revealing who the second inductee of a WWE Hall of Fame class would be. So, when WWE confirmed on Monday, February 18th that D-Generation X would be the headliners of this year's WWE Hall of Fame class, I had expected WWE to wait until Monday, March 4th to finally get around to revealing exactly who the next inductee for this year's WWE Hall of Fame class would actually be.
So, I would be extremely surprised if the next inductee of this year's WWE Hall of Fame class doesn't get announced by WWE next Monday.
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Post by fw91 on Feb 25, 2019 16:53:13 GMT -5
So no news for another inductee to possibly be announced tonight? Traditionally, when WWE has officially revealed who the headliner inductee would be for a WWE Hall of Fame class, WWE has waited for two weeks to finally get around to revealing who the second inductee of a WWE Hall of Fame class would be. So, when D-Generation X was confirmed by WWE as the headliners of this year's WWE Hall of Fame class on Monday, February 18th, I had expected WWE to wait until Monday, March 4th to finally get around to revealing exactly who the second inductee for this year's WWE Hall of Fame class would actually be. Yeah but they are way behind schedule this year
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Feb 25, 2019 16:54:22 GMT -5
I was at the 2009 Hall of Fame which was WM25. This was the year after The Rock and Ric Flair spent well over two hours with their speeches. There was a timer opposite the stage for the inductees to keep track of. They gave them five minutes each, except for Stone Cold, who got ten. Yes, the biggest star ever got ten minutes in his home state. And Terry Funk had to split five minutes with his brother. As a result, we got a pretty good class (yes, I know Koko was that year) and yet, I doubt many people can remember anything about any of the speeches. I understand they want to not go all night long with the speeches but cut down on the number of inductees per year or cut some of the slack. Like do we need Dana Warrior spending ten minutes every year telling us how great her husband was?
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Post by crowley1986 on Feb 25, 2019 17:11:42 GMT -5
hell start the show earlier, cut the "fashion show/carpet" crap and just go ahead an hour or so earlier...or keep the inductees to 5 and the warrior award - resulting in spreading out the inductees over the years instead of throwing in 8 or 9...Headliner, A Woman, Tag Team, a Midcarder and maybe an international or a local star
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Post by auph10imitated on Feb 26, 2019 6:53:10 GMT -5
Is anyone else rumoured yet? I feel like they have left it all last minute with this particular class.
I would add:
Rick Martel (as the alive mid carder) Jim Neidhart (as the posthumous inductee as they can use Bret to induct him and Nattie, Ellie and Jennie to accept) The Natural Disasters (Tag Team, Typhoon is still alive, get Jimmy Hart to induct) Cyndi Lauper (Celeb Wing) Warrior Award
Since the DX induction will take a good portion of the show then I think that would be enough.
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Post by Crappler El 0 M on Feb 26, 2019 12:08:50 GMT -5
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Post by CMWaters on Feb 26, 2019 12:14:19 GMT -5
So I guess we have Elias' next opponent.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 26, 2019 12:16:38 GMT -5
Congratulations to the one member of Hogan's entourage that left 1994 WCW because he thought jobbing was beneath him.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 26, 2019 12:25:01 GMT -5
Ugh.
That is all.
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Post by realist on Feb 26, 2019 12:25:12 GMT -5
This is actually kind of a big deal. He claims that he has been turning down the offer to go into the Hall of Fame for years for one reason or another, be it the money offer or the control that WWE wanted over indy bookings.. If that is true, it is nice to see him back on decent/good terms with the company.
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Post by Crappler El 0 M on Feb 26, 2019 12:34:00 GMT -5
This is actually kind of a big deal. He claims that he has been turning down the offer to go into the Hall of Fame for years for one reason or another, be it the money offer or the control that WWE wanted over indy bookings.. If that is true, it is nice to see him back on decent/good terms with the company. He says he had a deal for a set of appearances that was paying him more than the WWE offered, which he couldn't have done if he did the HOF. So he turned it down. This was before he agreed to induct Koko B. Ware, so it's not like he turned it down on principle. He just made a financial decision.
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Post by MolotovMocktail on Feb 26, 2019 13:03:01 GMT -5
I’m all for this. He was really one of the last big names of the 80’s who hadn’t gone in, was one of the biggest heels of the era, and kayfabe-wise still has the record for the longest IC run. I’ve wanted him to go in the last few years.
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Post by Ben Wyatt on Feb 26, 2019 13:25:54 GMT -5
Someone check the temperature in hell.
But seriously, I have no problem with this. Dude held the IC title for over a year back when the title meant something. He drew money because people wanted to see him get his head kicked in. Casual fans know who he is.
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