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Compared to the other Halls of Fame that we discuss on our website, this one is hands down the most fun and the hardest to calculate. Keep in mind, that there is no actual WWE Hall of Fame where fans can go and see their heroes. There are no set criteria to get in the WWE Hall of Fame. Wins and losses don’t exactly matter when the matches are predetermined. It does not even seem to matter if you even wrestled for the WWE as some of their inductees never drew a paycheck from Stamford. This is as subjective as they come so with that we made a criterion of our own which did incorporate (in no particular order) impact, ability, innovation championships won, legacy and their use in the WWE. The only two rules we set was that the wrestler in question was not currently an active competitor on a full-time basis unless that wrestler was 46 or over. Once a wrestler becomes 46 that individual moves from the Futures to the Main List at the time of revision.Until Then, Whatcha gonna do when Notinhalloffame.com runs wild on you!
Sincerely,
The Not in Hall of Committee.
Suffering from alopecia preventing him from growing hair, the bald head and menacing look of Skull Murphy made the Canadian a natural for the world of professional wrestling. Murphy would wrestle all over the world, including a successful run in the WWWF, where was a tag team champion and would hold tag team titles in multiple promotions with various partners.
As of this writing, there has yet to be a referee inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame, and we are not counting Teddy Long, who largely got in on his role as a manager and the Smackdown general manager. If that ever happens, our vote is for Earl Hebner.
Predominantly a heel throughout his thirty years plus in the ring, “Bulldog” Bob Brown was a consistent figure in the Midwestern and Canadian territories. Actually, his look was always consistent with his mean face, brush cut and black trunks. Brown was also a booker numerous times in his career, usually in the Central States territory. Had he ventured more East…
The story of Kenji Shibuya mirrors that of so many other Japanese-American professional wrestlers in that Shibuya was born in the U.S. but for the purposes of pro wrestling business he was born and bred in Japan.
Like many Native American wrestlers, Jay Youngblood was only portraying one as he was actually Hispanic. Youngblood found a lot of success in the Mid Atlantic area teaming up with Ricky Steamboat where the pair captured the NWA Tag Title. Youngblood may have been a very successful tag team wrestler, but in Pacific Northwest Wrestling he was able to flex…
Leroy McGuirk should have had a bigger career as a wrestler. McGuirk was the multi time NWA Junior Heavyweight Champion in the 30’s and 40’s but in 1950 a car accident took hampered his good eye (he had already lost the sight in the other one as a child) and his in-ring career was over. However, his wrestling career was…
On the WWE roster for eight years, former Diva Search winner and Miami Heat cheerleader Layla took a long time to find her groove but when she did, mostly as one half of a heel team with Michelle McCool. With McCool, she was a co-Diva Champion and at one time was arguably a focal point of the division. That can’t…
Is it probable that most wrestling fans would have no idea who Jose Lothario was had he not trained Shawn Michaels and managed him during his first WWE World Championship Run? We admit we are in that group and largely missed the hybrid of American and Mexican wrestling that he developed in Texas. Lothario may never have been a main…
For many years, Dewey Robertson was employed as a wrestler who while was technically sound was somewhat nondescript. In his mid 40’s, Robertson completely reinvented himself as “The Missing Link”. This new character was as bizarre as they came, as the bulk of his offensive move set was ramming his head into his opponent. He had a full page spread…
There really are two careers of Atsushi Onita. The first was as a young Japanese wrestler working his way up the ranks and becoming one of the early figures of All Japan’s Junior Heavyweight Division. However, that isn’t the career he is known for is it?
A big man who had few peers as powerful as he, Fred Ottman was at his best when he was Typhoon; one half of the Natural Disasters with Earthquake. He was initially brought into the WWE as Hulk Hogan’s buddy Tugboat, but as that first run ended he slid too far down the card to have a solid program with…
Blessed (or cursed) with excessive facial hair and about as legitimate a tough guy as it came, Fred Koury became the “tough man” Bull Curry at the circus to provide for his family at age sixteen. He would later become a professional wrestler, but it was not until the 1950’s when he was in his late thirties that he became…
A legitimate Olympian who competed for the United States in the 1968 Olympics, Bob Roop translated amateur credibility to a professional one. Roop competed for the Grahams in Florida for the bulk of his career and though he held their Heavyweight Championship three times and was a technical marvel, he may have achieved his greatest notoriety as Kevin Sullivan’s crazy…
The Flying Scotts (George and Sandy) were a very successful tag team all across Canada and other territories. However, it was behind the scenes where both brothers had a greater impact in the business. George Scott was working for the World Wrestling Federation during the time of the 80’s boom, and was an asset with booking, production and is widely…
When you look at the history of early wrestling promotors Billy Sandow is a name that has to come up as he is a part of the famed “Gold Dust Trio” that was an integral part of early wrestling promotions. Along with Ed “Strangler” Lewis and Toots Mondt he triumvirate helped to alter the sport to a more “sports entertainment”…
I think that we can all agree that the WWE totally dropped the ball with Dan “The Beast” Severn.
When Perry Saturn first gained attention from the wrestling world as one half of the Eliminators with John Kronus it was clear who was the true talent of the team. WCW rightfully snatched him up and considering that he could wrestle virtually any style, he was an immediate asset to the roster. Saturn was one of many younger talents who…
The Minnesota based American Wrestling Association was still a very relevant promotion in the early 1980’s and winning that company’s World Championship meant something. Many were shocked when a relatively unknown Austrian named Otto Wanz became their World Champion in 1982.
How did Scott Norton never work for the WWE? With his size and power, he would have seemed like he would have fit in brilliantly with some of the other power based wrestlers that Vince had. Don’t weep for Scott Norton though…although he was not pushed to the extent of his abilities in WCW, he reached the highest level in…
The WWE Hall of Fame has shown as of late that they respect women and Japan. If Aja Kong had had a run in the WWR, would this be a solid candidate?