Oh it's time, it's time, it's Hall of Fame Time!

[Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast]

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Vader is officially in this year's class

WWE has confirmed to Bleacher Report that Leon White, also known as Big Van Vader, will be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame Class of 2022.

The late wrestling legend will be inducted posthumously during this year's ceremony on April 1 alongside The Undertaker. The festivities will begin immediately after that week's episode of SmackDown.

Vader's career spanned nearly three decades from his debut in 1985 until his retirement in 2012. During that time, he worked for most of the major promotions around the globe.

[The Thread Barbi]

Too little, too late.

I suppose it's too much to ask to have had fulfilled a dying man's wishes?

["Evil Brood" Jackson Vanik]

Retired in 2012? What, are we just going to forget about his Ospreay match? Oh, we are? Okay, that's fine. Just making sure.

[msc]

About time, but also, too damned late.

[Pooh Carlson]

I agree, there's no reason he couldn't have been inducted before he passed.

[chrom]

Finally...

[chrom]

Mar 7, 2022 11:35:48 GMT -5 Pooh Carlson said:

I agree, there's no reason he couldn't have been inducted before he passed.

Three letters. HBK

[Eunös ✈]

I agree that it's ashame this iductuon didn't happen back when he was alive.. Especially when it was known he was on Borrowed time.

That said Undertaker and now Vader.. Looking like a pretty solid Hall of Fame class so far.

It also means that all 4 competitors in the Final Four match in 1997 are now Hall of Famers.

[Spider2024]

Mar 7, 2022 11:50:26 GMT -5 chrom said:

Mar 7, 2022 11:35:48 GMT -5 Pooh Carlson said:

I agree, there's no reason he couldn't have been inducted before he passed.

Three letters. HBK

The 3 most dangerous letters in wrestling history.

[MiLB Fan]

I wish WWE had inducted him when Sting was still with the company, because he would have been the perfect choice for the induction speech.

Vader scared the heck out of me as a kid. The first wrestling magazine I ever read included an article on the Sting/Vader feud, highlighting an altercation between the two in which Sting threw everything he had at Vader, and it didn’t even faze the big man. Then Vader went on to totally annihilate him.

And yet, there was something about Vader that I found pretty cool. I loved his entrance music; when that opening riff played you knew someone was in for a thrashing.

[Tiffany Stratton's Daddy]

Obviously nobody knows when someone's time has come... but dang, I wish Vader could be alive for this ceremony. Shocked he wasn't put in the Hall 10 years ago.

[fw91]

I hope Frankie the enforcer is there to speak on behalf of his father.

[Deleted]

Much needed. Vader was amazing.

[chazraps]

I met Eric from 'Boy Meets World' last year and he had so many wonderful things to say about Vader. I how WWE at least reaches out to him to be a talking head in a promo package.

[Legion]

I'd assume Foley does the induction

[smokinvokoun86]

Several years too late, but I am happy he’s in. He’s probably my favorite big man in wrestling history.

["Evil Brood" Jackson Vanik]

The picture they're using is where he's wearing his singlet backwards which he did to avoid washing his smelly gear.

[welshpenguin]

Mar 7, 2022 11:50:26 GMT -5 chrom said:

Mar 7, 2022 11:35:48 GMT -5 Pooh Carlson said:

I agree, there's no reason he couldn't have been inducted before he passed.

Three letters. HBK

I know they didn’t get along in the nineties but I haven’t heard anything about hbk being the cause of his exclusion.

[ChitownKnight]

Mar 7, 2022 12:14:03 GMT -5 Tiffany Stratton's Daddy said:

Obviously nobody knows when someone's time has come... but dang, I wish Vader could be alive for this ceremony. Shocked he wasn't put in the Hall 10 years ago.

He was told he had 2 years to live. Def shitty on wwes part

[Alice Syndrome]

Congratulations, that's possibly even more dickish than snubbing him in the first place.