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Post by Milkman Norm on Mar 13, 2019 10:04:51 GMT -5
I think next year WWE should troll fans by inducting The Masked Superstar and Krusher Kruschev separately and never acknowledge their connection.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2019 10:10:59 GMT -5
Is it just me or is this years feel like it’s randomly thrown together. The tag team / group inductions make it feel like they've already run out of people to put in that they know will say yes and this is the best way to fill the HOF roster this year. Chyna and HTM going in are 2 big "FINALLY" inductions, though, which is good.
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Post by Feargus McReddit on Mar 13, 2019 14:42:06 GMT -5
I think next year WWE should troll fans by inducting The Masked Superstar and Krusher Kruschev separately and never acknowledge their connection. I personally want a Black Scorpion induction myself.
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Post by Magic knows Black Lives Matter on Mar 13, 2019 14:44:31 GMT -5
Booker T is one of my all time favorites. For a little black kid that didn't have many people that looked like me on TV, he was pretty important to my childhood.
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Post by PTBartman on Mar 13, 2019 17:59:23 GMT -5
I could see Triple H potentially having this be his sole induction, if only because plenty of people who suggest the only reason he'd get in was due to the McMahon connection, despite having become WWF champion the first time before he so much as dated Stephanie yet, if I recall, as well as being one of the most significant opponents of Rock, Foley, and Austin by that point. But optics are optics, and inducting yourself is always going to raise eyebrows. On the flip side, I could see him going in solo, then also putting himself in with Evolution, The Kliq, The Authority, Triple H & Shawn Michaels tag-team, Hunter & Steph, Jean Paul Levesque, Terra Ryzing, The Cerebral Assassin, and in the celebrity wing, as well. I would mark for this, IF, that's the entire class one year. It would be worth it just to see this board explode each week as another incarnation of Trips is announced. That would amuse me to no end. It would end with a pitchfork and torches mob, clad in F.A.N. T-Shirts storming the ceremonies and hanging HHH in effigy from light poles. And then the swerve, they don't induct any of them, but induct Cena instead. Cena wins, LOL.
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Post by Milkman Norm on Mar 13, 2019 18:21:11 GMT -5
My thought on the this years class in general is along that of @knapp. Obviously there are several big name former or current stars (Rock,Undertaker,Kane, etc.) who won't go in yet either because they are working somewhere else (Jericho) or WWE is waiting for the right market for them (lots of others) or ?. But I expecting all of those headlining level guys to go in. But I'm not sure about the mid-tier guys, for lack of a better term,. Once Honky goes in it's pretty much down to Beefcake & Rick Martel from the Hogan era and I think Beefcake gonna go in next year as a Tampa guy. Then you have the New Generation and Attitude Era guys. That list seems pretty short even with their fake criteria. People that fans remember and go "Oh yeah ____. I remember them!" Bob Holly, Steiner Brothers, Al Snow maybe? The other thing is that the guys that are not in WWE good graces but the company could get great PR from reconnecting with is non existant. I mean as a fan a Demolition induction would be cool. The reality is Bill Eadie is not on good terms with Vince and unlike Bruno or Warrior Paul Levesque reaching out to him is not gonna get coverage from the national news media. So it's probably not going to happen.
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Post by MrElijah on Mar 13, 2019 19:23:40 GMT -5
I think next year WWE should troll fans by inducting The Masked Superstar and Krusher Kruschev separately and never acknowledge their connection. Only if we get Uncle Ivan and Nephew Nikita with comrade Kruschev!
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Post by Woo on Mar 14, 2019 4:57:56 GMT -5
Torrie Wilson? Lmao that's a disgrace. Who's next The Kat?
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Mar 14, 2019 9:27:07 GMT -5
Something wrong with that you no-good, beatnik fruit booty? [ ] Does that mean Stevie's slapjack is inducted too? That’s just between you, me, and the 5,000 people watching at home.
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Post by The Barber on Mar 15, 2019 4:15:16 GMT -5
Btw is Triple H going in with DX? I assume he is and I assume he's gonna go in as a solo star later. It seems a little odd that he'll already be a HOF when he headlines a class. You DO know who you're talking about, right?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2019 4:25:41 GMT -5
Torrie Wilson? Lmao that's a disgrace. Who's next The Kat? I dunno, one was around for years across a couple of companies, prominent many times, consistently over, and remembered enough that she still got a good pop showing up in the Rumble last year. The other's entire time doing anything of any sort of note in the wrestling industry consisted of only an 18 month period. Totally the same thing.
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Post by Milkman Norm on Mar 15, 2019 9:42:20 GMT -5
On a serious note hearing what Triple H and X-Pac have to say about Chyna will be interesting and probably very emotional.
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Post by Allie Kitsune on Mar 15, 2019 11:42:25 GMT -5
Uh, Stevie, that's not how the WWE HOF works. Well it is technically, because people working within WWE are his peers. You don't have to be just a wrestler to be a peer, you just have to work in the business and its clearly discussed between a group of people working within WWE and given the green light by Vince. So he is technically correct. From a certain point of view.
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Post by hassanchop on Mar 17, 2019 3:18:06 GMT -5
If Harlem Heat is in, will they acknowledge Big T/Ahmed Johnson?
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Mar 17, 2019 14:34:16 GMT -5
This has probably already been discussed but I read somewhere there won’t be any Inductors this year?
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Post by HonkyTonkMan on Mar 17, 2019 16:50:31 GMT -5
Am I the only one here that has noticed WWE's failure thus far to add Torrie Wilson's profile to the Hall of Fame page on WWE's official website? It took WWE a long time to finally add the profiles of D-Generation X and The Honky Tonk Man to the Hall of Fame page on WWE's official website. I think that WWE added the profiles of D-Generation X and The Honky Tonk Man onto the Hall of Fame page on WWE's official website on the exact same day, but, I don't remember exactly which day that it was when I first noticed that WWE had finally added their profiles onto the Hall of Fame page. I know that it was the exact same week that Torrie Wilson was announced as the newest WWE Hall of Fame inductee when I realized that D-Generation X and The Honky Tonk Man had been added onto the Hall of Fame page on WWE's official website.
During the week that The Honky Tonk Man was revealed as the newest WWE Hall of Fame inductee, I checked the Hall of Fame page on WWE's official website each day from Tuesday, February 26th to Saturday, March 2nd
only to discover that the profiles for D-Generation X and The Honky Tonk Man hadn't yet been added.
WWE added Harlem Heat's profile onto the Hall of Fame page on WWE's official website on Monday, March 11th. I wonder if Vince McMahon is even aware that Torrie Wilson's profile still hasn't been added onto the Hall of Fame page on WWE's official website.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2019 21:38:50 GMT -5
This has probably already been discussed but I read somewhere there won’t be any Inductors this year? It's been rumored but there's been no real confirmation. Honestly this whole thing reeks of they swapped Takeover and the Hall of Fame back without thinking about it then remembered, "Oh, shit, right, we swapped it to not being the night before Mania for a reason," and now this year they're desperately fumbling about trying to avoid the usual problems that come with it.
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Mar 17, 2019 21:45:13 GMT -5
I wonder if Vince McMahon is even aware that Torrie Wilson's profile still hasn't been added onto the Hall of Fame page on WWE's official website. I very much doubt Vince McMahon goes anywhere near the website that often and if he did I can’t see him looking at the profiles. I also think he doesn’t really give a shit if someone hasn’t been added to the Hall of Fame page yet.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2019 6:55:11 GMT -5
This has probably already been discussed but I read somewhere there won’t be any Inductors this year? Huh. They'd have announced at least one by now along with the person they're inducting. Strange. If this is how they intend on cutting time from the HOF ceremony, it's literally taking the shortest speeches and just getting rid of them. Also it takes away a fun appearance from other older stars in the process. Solves nothing, really.......... WWE!
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Post by Susan "Poison" Candy on Mar 18, 2019 10:27:01 GMT -5
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