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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.
We are positive that we are not the only ones who wish that Dan Spivey did not retire in 1995. This was the year that he returned to the WWE as ‘Waylon Mercy”, which was a persona that he held only for months but is still talked about as one of the greatest “what ifs?” in wrestling history today. Prior…
Trained by Karl Gotch, Akira Maeda definitely seemed to have the intention to change the world of Professional Wrestling. Maeda disliked the worked style of wrestling and sought to bring a more realistic style to the ring. Maeda was a big part of the origin of three pseudo shoot promotions in Japan (UFI, UWFI and RINGS) and was himself a…
It may be hard to believe now, but there was a time in the mid 90’s where Ahmed Johnson was the most over babyface in the WWF with the exception of Shawn Michaels. Johnson was big and powerful and with his quiet yet fierce demeanor, fans bought into his street guy made good image. Numerous injuries combined with an ill-advised…
Another star that competed mostly in Texas, “Iceman” King Parsons was one of the top stars in World Class. Parsons was a decent wrestler whose skills with the microphone allowed him to be a face or heel with great ease. With his butt bump and catch phrases, Parsons looked different than anyone else and in a profession full of cookie…
We like to think of Minoru Suzuki as the Chuck Norris of professional wrestling. The older he gets, the more the legend of his toughness grows.
Some people have said that Brad Armstrong was the best wrestler never to make it. This is an unfair statement as Armstrong was a part of the NWA and WCW for a long period of time and never needed to beg for work in the business. With that said, Brad Armstrong was an amazing talent who was one of the…
Many Japanese wrestlers learned early in their career in Mexico, but it was Hiroaki Hamada who first embraced Lucha Lubre, and created a unique style all his own. Hamada wrestled more in Mexico in Japan, and would even marry a Mexican woman, and they had two daughters who would also wrestle professionally, mostly in Mexico. He won multiple titles in Mexico…
A master of the sleeper hold who cut his teeth in the Ohio territory and the Pacific Northwest, Ed Francis would become better known for his role in performing and promoting the Hawaii territory throughout the 1960’s. and the 1970’s.
The San Francisco territory was a vibrant territory and it was under the guidance of Roy Shire, who built the Cow Palace into a West Coast Mecca for Professional Wrestling. While Shire was a major figure in growing the business in Northern California, he did not get inducted during the Wrestlemania festivities in the Bay Area, a clear indication that…
A legend on the Canadian Gridiron and a star in the National Wrestling Alliance, Angelo Mosca may be best known now for a viral YouTube video where he fought on stage with another former CFL star.
Buck Robley did not get a lot of the credit he deserved until he passed away, but one of the great minds of the wrestling business was owned by Buck Robley. The “Colonel” perfected the art of the Cowardly heel, and his “Don’t call me yellow” shtick never got old. Had the tail end of his career got seen in…
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…