The WWE Hall Of Shame

Ok i know this has been beaten to death but I am going to throw my two cents in. Before i get into who I think should be in the WWE hall of fame let me list some of the people that are in: Johnny Rodz, Pete Rose, William Perry, Koko B Ware, Drew Carey, and Bob Uecker. If some one could please explain any of these inductions I would gladly listen to an intelligent argument for any or all of them. Now on to the meat of this blog, I am gonna list in no specific order the wrestlers i believe are a glaring omission to the hall.



"Macho Man" Randy Savage


The argument could start and end with this wrestler. From a time between the mid 80's to the late 90's Savage was continually a top card wrestler involved in some of the best angles in wrestling history. He was a multi time world champion in both the WWF And WCW. The only thing holding Savage back from being in the hall is some personal issue between him and Vince McMahon.



Bruno Sammartino


He had 2 WWWF championship reigns that combined equaled over 10 years. For a two decade period he was the man. He was the face of Vince McMahon Sr's WWWF and was a draw well after his prime. He has been reportedly offered a spot in the hall, but has turned it down for personal reasons.



Bob Backlund

A great technical wrestler who many have written off and ignored. He had a 5 year run as the WWWF/WWF world champion. Had a resurgence in the mid 90's with the Mr. Backlund character.


The Fabulous Freebirds

An influential tag team that was the top team in several organizations during their run. They invented what would be known as the "Freebird" rule where the members of the team could be interchanged keeping the opponents guessing as to who would be facing them.


Jake "The Snake" Roberts

The impact Roberts had on the wrestling industry is seriously hurt by his long time drug addiction destroying what was a great career. Roberts was the master of ring psychology, while never the biggest, strongest, or fastest wrestler Roberts was able to psych out opponents with his mannerisms and the giant python he would use.

Their are several others that could be included but in my opinion these are the most glaring omissions. What do you think? Who else should be a sure thing for the hall of fame?

Where Have You Gone Barry Horowitz?

I want to take the wrestling fans back to a simpler time. Way back to the days when Vince McMahon was destroying the old territory system that had been around for close to 100 years. Back when wrestling shows had such grapplers as Iron Mike Sharpe, George South, and the before mentioned Barry Horowitz wrestling in the main events regularly.

You see back in the old days the real main event wrestlers were kept away from each other except for on house shows and special events like pay per views. What would happen on a regular basis is guys that were called "enhancement talent" or "jobbers" were used to put over the name wrestlers. This made fans clamor for the special occasion when their favorite face would get his hands on the dastardly heel. Wrestlers would build feuds by promos, random attacks, and just good old fashioned who is better than who, so when Hulk Hogan finally got his hands on someone like King Kong Bundy it was a big deal.

The decline of these type matches happened in the mid 90's when you had the WWF and WCW involved in a monday night war over ratings. Little by little each company started doing away with the squash matches in a way to one up each other. In the short run this was great fans got to see matches like Ric Flair vs The Giant and Mick Foley vs The Rock on free tv on a weekly basis. This spiked the ratings for a long while and wrestling dominated cable viewer ship.

The WWF finally won the monday night war and WCW was bought out by Vince McMahon. This created what should have been another boom period to wrestling fans, alas this was not to be the whole WCW/ECW invasion angle was poorly done. The WWF became the WWE and slowly got stale over time. 

The other day I was thinking about how there hardly ever is a 1st time ever match on a pay per view anymore, and I don't mean Snooki wrestling. How much more special could John Cena vs The Miz be if we haven't seen it 50 times on Raw? Now on to the reason for this blog, the WWE and TNA should bring back the squash matches. There are a ton of guys on the roster that have no real purpose either use them or drop them and bring in new guys for the role. Besides the reasons i listed before for these kind of matches you could also use them as a way to get young talent valuable tv time and experience. Before you scoff at that idea think of this Mick Foley, The Hardy's, Triple H, Edge, Daniel Bryan, and AJ Styles were all at one point early in their careers used as jobbers. 

Just my opinion, what do you think? 

The Top 27 Wrestlers @ Wrestlemania

This is my list of the top 27 wrestlers only based on Wrestlemania appearances

27. Batista-barely edged out some other like the Honky Tonk Man and Ted DiBiase
26. Ravishing Rick Rude-an all time great heal who stepped his game up for the event
25. Kane-one of the best big men of all time
24. Demolition-technically a team but its my list so I can put them in as one if I want to
23. Kevin Nash/Diesel-his matches always had a big game feel to them
22. Ric Flair-probably the greatest wrestler of all time, suffers here from the few appearances he had
21. Mick Foley-one of the big time players in the attitude era
20. Ultimate Warrior-had all the potential to be an all time great but ego and other issues halted that
19. Rowdy Roddy Piper-Piper has some of the same issues as Flair but a little better overall WM performer
18. Eddie Guerrero-always entertaining, Eddie just had that it factor
17. Andre The Giant-unfortunately WM was at the tail end of his stellar career
16. The Legion Of Doom-the best tag team of all time
15. Ricky "The Dragon" Steamboat-had the greatest match in the history of the event and stole the show years after he retired
14. Scott Hall/Razor Ramon-always brought his a game to the grandest stage
13. Chris Benoit-I am not employed by the WWE so I am not going to pretend he didn't have some amazing matches
12. Kurt Angle-had some amazing showings at WM before leaving to go to TNA
11. Bret "The Hitman" Hart-this was one of the hardest decisions on this list for him not to be top 10

10. Randy "Macho Man" Savage-had the greatest match in WM history and several other stand out performances

9. John Cena-the face of the pg era, and i mean that in a good way

8. Chris Jericho-outstanding matches no matter where he was on the card

7. Edge-from money in the bank to tlc and all the way to the main event great performer

6. The Rock-he isn't called the great one for no reason

5. Triple H- it's good to be the king

4. Stone Cold Steve Austin-one of the big reasons for the success of the attitude era

3. Hulk Hogan-main evented more manias than anyone else

2. The Undertaker-18-0 I don't have to explain any further

1. Shawn Michaels-Mr Wrestlemania, The Show Stopper, and all other accolades do not even explain the brilliance of his career