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The WWE Hall of Fame announced that the Hulk Hogan vs Andre the Giant WrestleMania III World Heavyweight Championship match will be inducted as the second WWE Immortal Moment Award.  This is the second match to receive this accolade, as last year, the WrestleMania XIII match between Bret “Hit Man” Hart and “Stone Cold” Steve Austin was inducted.

In the WM III main event, Hogan pinned Andre to retain his WWF World Title in a sold-out Pontiac Silverdome.  Andre was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame as the first member following his death in 1993.  Hogan passed away last year and was inducted into the Hall in 2005, later as a member of the New World Order.

It was announced that Bad News Brown will be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame.

Born Allan Coage in New York City, Brown was an accomplished judoka who won Bronze at the 1976 Olympics.  He went to Japan to train under Antonio Inoki in professional wrestling, where he spent much of his career.  He competed in the then-named WWWF in 1979 under his real name, but throughout the 1980s, he wrestled primarily in Japan and in Calgary, working for Stu Hart.  By 1988, at the age of 45, Cage joined WWE and was christened Bad News Brown.

Brown promptly won the Wrestlemania IV battle royal and went on to have a months-long program with Bret “Hit Man” Hart, the man whom he double-crossed to win the event.  He later moved up the card to begin a program with WWF World Heavyweight Champion Randy “Macho Man” Savage, and would have a televised match on Saturday Night’s Main Event in a loss to Hulk Hogan.  Brown later feuded with “Rowdy” Roddy Piper and Jake “The Snake” Roberts, but left the promotion after Summer Slam 1990.

Brown joins Stephanie McMahon, A.J. Styles, Demolition, Dennis Rodman, and Sid in the Class of 2026.

Following WrestleMania, we will start updating our WWE Notinhalloffame Hall of Fame list.

We at Notinhalloffame would like to congratulate Allan Coage’s family on this upcoming honor. 

This is a question that a lot of wrestling fans are asking, and it’s a fair thing to ask. If this were about résumé alone, John Cena would be the headline draw for this year’s class. He might even have earned the right to be the only person in it. No serious wrestling fan, regardless of which promotion they prefer to follow, would describe Cena as anything other than a first-ballot WWE Hall of Famer. That part isn’t really up for debate by anybody sensible. Cena is one of the biggest stars WWE has ever produced, one of the company’s most recognisable crossover names, and the sort of figure who doesn’t even need an argument made for him. 

And on the face of it, 2026 should have been the cleanest possible year to do it. Cena’s in-ring career officially ended last December after his loss to Gunther at Saturday Night’s Main Event, and WWE has now announced that he’ll be back for WrestleMania 42 in Las Vegas as the event’s host. Retired. Available. Still massively relevant. Still a headline attraction. That usually sounds like Hall of Fame timing. 

So why isn’t he in the class?

Because WWE doesn’t have rules, it has strategy

The first thing to remember is that the WWE Hall of Fame has never behaved like a normal hall of fame. Technically, it doesn’t even exist. There’s no physical hall, no fixed criteria, and no tidy formula. WWE doesn’t operate this thing like baseball or football. It operates it like content. If an induction happens, it happens because the company wants that moment now, not because some eligibility alarm went off. 

That matters here, because the 2026 class already has a clear shape. WWE announced on 2 March that the ceremony would be headlined by Stephanie McMahon, AJ Styles and Demolition, with more names to follow. Since then, WWE has added Dennis Rodman and the legacy inductions of Sid and Bad News Brown. So this isn’t a year where the company forgot to book star power. It already has a headliner in Stephanie, a modern-era in-ring giant in AJ, a classic tag team in Demolition, a celebrity-wing headline in Rodman, and two legacy names. Cena’s absence doesn’t look accidental. It looks curated. 

AJ Styles going in right away kills the easy excuse

If Cena were still active, or if WWE had some informal waiting period, you could at least make that case. But AJ Styles undercuts it completely. WWE has already confirmed that Styles retired and will enter the Hall immediately as part of the 2026 class. So the company has already shown that “he just finished up” is not a barrier this year. If WWE wanted Cena in, Cena would be in. 

That’s why this feels less like a no and more like a “not yet.”

WWE has put Cena in a different role this year

Cena is not missing from WrestleMania season. He’s being used differently. WWE has him hosting WrestleMania 42, which means he’s still part of the weekend’s central promotional push without also swallowing the Hall of Fame ceremony whole. And let’s be honest, if Cena went in this year, he wouldn’t merely be “part of the class”. He would become the class. AJ Styles would be pushed down the card. Stephanie McMahon’s night would suddenly become half about Cena. Even someone as colorful and outspoken as Rodman would feel like background decoration. WWE knows that. 

So the smarter reading is that WWE is spacing its attractions out. One year, Cena gives you the retirement tour and final match. The next spring, Cena gives you the WrestleMania host role in Las Vegas. Then, once the company can clear enough space around him, Cena gets his own Hall of Fame year and owns the whole weekend. From a promotional point of view, that’s classic WWE.

In other words, they’re placing their chips carefully

Let’s use a gambling metaphor here, because it’s appropriate to the event’s setting. WrestleMania 42 is in Sin City, Las Vegas. The Hall of Fame ceremony is at Dolby Live at Park MGM, and WWE has spent the past few years showing it’s perfectly comfortable turning wrestling names into gambling-adjacent products. WWE partnered with Microgaming and All41 Studios on WWE Legends: Link & Win in 2021, then in 2025 WWE and Fanatics rolled out five WWE-themed online casino games, including WWE Clash of the Wilds. All of these games have proven to be enormously popular at UK sister site casinos, which demonstrates the company’s international appeal. Cena himself is one of the featured stars in Clash of the Wilds

When you’re gambling, the whole point is to have fun and play sensibly. If you go all-in too early (and yes, that was an AEW reference), the chances are you’ll lose your whole pot and spend the rest of the game watching from the sidelines. A good gambler always keeps something in reserve, and WWE knows that. It doesn’t throw every top-name chip onto the table at once unless it has to. This year, Cena’s chip is on hosting WrestleMania in Vegas, not on going into the Hall. 

So is this a mistake?

Maybe, a little.

There is still a perfectly fair argument that 2026 was the ideal moment. Cena is retired, still hot, still useful to the TV product, and still central enough to make the Hall ceremony feel major. There’s also something very WWE about missing the obvious window because the company would rather optimise the calendar than honour the moment in front of it.

But that doesn’t mean he’s been slighted. It just means WWE is doing what it always does with its biggest names: stretching the value. Cena is too bankable to be used up in one neat burst. The company clearly believes it can get one WrestleMania host run out of him now and one Hall of Fame headline slot later.

And that, more than anything else, is the answer. John Cena isn’t going into the 2026 WWE Hall of Fame because WWE doesn’t think this is the year to cash that ticket. It thinks the payout will be bigger if it waits.

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