The last WWE run of Matt Bloom as “Tensai” may not have gone down in the annals of professional wrestling as a success, but prior to that, he was tearing it up in New Japan as Giant Bernard, and did have occasional mid card success as Albert and later A-Train in the WWE. What might seriously help Bloom’s chances is his current NXT commentator run and position as the lead trainer in the developmental promotion. If that is a success, than this could be possible one day.

A top contender for Bruno Sammartino’s first WWWF World Heavyweight Championship, the Netherlands born, German billed, Hans Mortier was a solid heel for the organization throughout the 1960’s. While that was the run in which he would be known most for, Hans Mortier was an international star and his rough exterior and shoot style made him a great heel everywhere he competed.

Known for his “cast iron stomach”, Pepper Gomez was a major force in California and in Texas and competed up and down the card. Physically, Gomez was ahead of his time and was built like a concrete sculpture, not typical of the wrestlers of his era.   His feuds with Ray Stevens are still stuff of San Francisco legend.

Dump Matsumoto was one of the most vicious “puroresu” female heels of all time and throughout the 1980’s she was not just a destroyer of female babyfaces in Japan but a serious ratings draw on television and an arena filler. If the WWE Hall of Fame ever looks to induct a female combatant, they could do a lot worse than Matsumoto who actually does have experience (albeit limited) in the WWE.