Lanny Poffo claims his brother would only go into the HOF if his whole family went in with him.

An interesting video has surfaced on YouTube that has significance to the WWE Hall of Fame.   As you may have heard “Leaping” Lanny Poffo (the brother of our number one selection, Randy “Macho Man” Savage) has stated that Savage had turned down the Hall unless his entire family (Lanny and their father, Angelo) were inducted too. Poffo has again taken to YouTube, this time with his mother to corroborate that statement.

As we don’t really have any reason to doubt Lanny, we raise this question: Should it happen?   It can be easily argued that if this is the only way to get Savage in, then so be it, but the obvious counter is that Lanny (who did have a long career in the WWE) was not HOF material, nor was his father who was at best a journeyman wrestler and whose promotion in Kentucky was not exactly successful.

In the video, Poffo states that Savage wanted to do this (inducted as a family) when the Von Erichs were inducted as a unit a few years ago. When that family was inducted, it included the patriarch and promoter of World Class and (very successful wrestler in his day) Fritz Von Erich and his six sons. This included Chris Von Erich, who only had a handful of matches and committed suicide over the fact that his career was not successful. Poffo especially made reference to Chris being in the Hall and how he and his father were more worthy than the youngest member of the Von Erich clan.

Surely the gesture to put Chris (and Mike for that matter) in with the Von Erich Family to the HOF was done out of respect to the family as a whole, but again with all due to respect to the Poffos, it cannot be argued that the Von Erichs controlled a major territory in wrestling and generated far more impact than the Poffos did as a family. Allegedly, Randy crowbarred his father into the WCW Hall of Fame which was not exactly received warmly by other wrestlers, so it is not hard to believe that a similar request was made of the WWE.

One thing we do know….Randy Savage should be in the WWE Hall of Fame. We just don’t know if we will ever see it.