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Post by CM Tusk on Jan 22, 2023 21:46:32 GMT -5
All seriousness, we need Sable in. Batista as the headliner makes the most sense. I want Bam Bam in. Let’s get Shamrock in too.
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Post by The Brain on Jan 22, 2023 21:54:19 GMT -5
All seriousness, we need Sable in. Batista as the headliner makes the most sense. I want Bam Bam in. Let’s get Shamrock in too. Batista is like a 99.9% certainity. I've seen they been posting old stuff of his on YT lately.Always seems like a sign there I'd be cool with Shamrock. Crazy to think he hasn't appeared for em since 99
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Post by tmnt316 on Jan 22, 2023 21:55:03 GMT -5
Kinda off topic but wonder if they bring back the movie parodies this year.
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Post by cordless2016 on Jan 22, 2023 22:44:35 GMT -5
Always pissed me off that Christian was never inducted during his 7-year retirement when everyone thought his career was over. He’s in AEW now so won’t be getting in for a while (if ever at this point), but aways a huge/glaring hole in my opinion.
Sable should be in. No matter what someone thinks of her as a person or in-ring skills, she was over like crazy during the Attitude Era.
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Post by PJ on Jan 23, 2023 6:15:07 GMT -5
All seriousness, we need Sable in. Batista as the headliner makes the most sense. I want Bam Bam in. Let’s get Shamrock in too. Batista is like a 99.9% certainity. I've seen they been posting old stuff of his on YT lately.Always seems like a sign there I'd be cool with Shamrock. Crazy to think he hasn't appeared for em since 99 Didn’t Batista ask not to go in last year in favor of this year? I thought that happened.
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Post by The Brain on Jan 23, 2023 12:39:42 GMT -5
Batista is like a 99.9% certainity. I've seen they been posting old stuff of his on YT lately.Always seems like a sign there I'd be cool with Shamrock. Crazy to think he hasn't appeared for em since 99 Didn’t Batista ask not to go in last year in favor of this year? I thought that happened. He was originally penciled in for the 2020 class then the pandemic hit.He then said that he would go in when fans are back. 22 was the first year with a crowd again but since it was in TX Taker got the nod.With 23 in Hollywood, It makes the most sense to finally put em in
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Post by TheEvilDoink1987 on Jan 23, 2023 22:36:50 GMT -5
All seriousness, we need Sable in. Batista as the headliner makes the most sense. I want Bam Bam in. Let’s get Shamrock in too. Batista is like a 99.9% certainity. I've seen they been posting old stuff of his on YT lately.Always seems like a sign there I'd be cool with Shamrock. Crazy to think he hasn't appeared for em since 99 His departure was so damn sudden and out of nowhere as a fan. He had been heavily featured since debuting at WrestleMania 13 I just figured that he would be in the company for a long time with how quickly he adapted to the WWF style. They had just started a program with him and Jericho when he vanished. I don't think his absence was ever even addressed on TV. Shamrock was gone and hasn't been seen in or really even mentioned by the company since then. In any other era, he would have won the big belt for sure, but timing is everything and that era was loaded with generational megastars. I still think that Shamrock packed a lot into what was a relatively short WWF career.
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Post by cordless2016 on Jan 24, 2023 9:28:57 GMT -5
Batista is like a 99.9% certainity. I've seen they been posting old stuff of his on YT lately.Always seems like a sign there I'd be cool with Shamrock. Crazy to think he hasn't appeared for em since 99 His departure was so damn sudden and out of nowhere as a fan. He had been heavily featured since debuting at WrestleMania 13 I just figured that he would be in the company for a long time with how quickly he adapted to the WWF style. They had just started a program with him and Jericho when he vanished. I don't think his absence was ever even addressed on TV. Shamrock was gone and hasn't been seen in or really even mentioned by the company since then. In any other era, he would have won the big belt for sure, but timing is everything and that era was loaded with generational megastars. I still think that Shamrock packed a lot into what was a relatively short WWF career. Always loved Shamrock and felt it was a shame his WWF career didn’t last longer. He was booked for a feud with a newly-debuted Jericho, attacked by Mr. Huges, and never seen again outside of Shane showing footage of Blackman running Shamrock over with a car at Unforgiven 2000. Shamrock has recently spoke about why he left the WWF so abruptly. He says it was a combo of turning down an incest angle with his kayfabe sister Ryan Shamrock and never getting elevated to a proper main-event feud. There could be more to the story, but knowing what we know about Vince, it wouldn’t shock me if he’s held a grudge against Shamrock for turning down angles and deciding to leave after a pretty-strong push since his debut. Which is a shame as Shamrock was truly ahead of his time. Had he stuck around just another year, he’d have been having classics with guys like Angle and the Radicalz. His Backlash 1999 match was a preview of the RA era to me, as he gave Taker one of his first long, technical matches that would have gone over well today, but was showered with boring chants when it happened. The guy is a classic example of great talent in the wrong era.
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Post by TheEvilDoink1987 on Jan 24, 2023 9:50:30 GMT -5
His departure was so damn sudden and out of nowhere as a fan. He had been heavily featured since debuting at WrestleMania 13 I just figured that he would be in the company for a long time with how quickly he adapted to the WWF style. They had just started a program with him and Jericho when he vanished. I don't think his absence was ever even addressed on TV. Shamrock was gone and hasn't been seen in or really even mentioned by the company since then. In any other era, he would have won the big belt for sure, but timing is everything and that era was loaded with generational megastars. I still think that Shamrock packed a lot into what was a relatively short WWF career. Always loved Shamrock and felt it was a shame his WWF career didn’t last longer. He was booked for a feud with a newly-debuted Jericho, attacked by Mr. Huges, and never seen again outside of Shane showing footage of Blackman running Shamrock over with a car at Unforgiven 2000. Shamrock has recently spoke about why he left the WWF so abruptly. He says it was a combo of turning down an incest angle with his kayfabe sister Ryan Shamrock and never getting elevated to a proper main-event feud. There could be more to the story, but knowing what we know about Vince, it wouldn’t shock me if he’s held a grudge against Shamrock for turning down angles and deciding to leave after a pretty-strong push since his debut. Which is a shame as Shamrock was truly ahead of his time. Had he stuck around just another year, he’d have been having classics with guys like Angle and the Radicalz. His Backlash 1999 match was a preview of the RA era to me, as he gave Taker one of his first long, technical matches that would have gone over well today, but was showered with boring chants when it happened. The guy is a classic example of great talent in the wrong era. They always did protect Shamrock and make him look strong. He was always a credible talent who maintained his spot on the very top of the midcard, but only on occasion cracked the main event scene. Now that you mention the Blackman segment, it would have been so much better if it was revealed that Shamrock hit Austin with the car at Survivor Series 1999. You can easily write a convincing storyline behind his motive as well. Have him talk about Austin ducking him throughout his WWF career and how he was overlooked which resulted in his departure. The buildup of "The Most Dangerous Man vs The Toughest SOB" would be entertaining stuff. Also, that was a main event match that I don't believe ever happened on a big PPV stage. Anything would be better than what we got with Rikishi for that angle.
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Post by cordless2016 on Jan 24, 2023 9:58:17 GMT -5
Always loved Shamrock and felt it was a shame his WWF career didn’t last longer. He was booked for a feud with a newly-debuted Jericho, attacked by Mr. Huges, and never seen again outside of Shane showing footage of Blackman running Shamrock over with a car at Unforgiven 2000. Shamrock has recently spoke about why he left the WWF so abruptly. He says it was a combo of turning down an incest angle with his kayfabe sister Ryan Shamrock and never getting elevated to a proper main-event feud. There could be more to the story, but knowing what we know about Vince, it wouldn’t shock me if he’s held a grudge against Shamrock for turning down angles and deciding to leave after a pretty-strong push since his debut. Which is a shame as Shamrock was truly ahead of his time. Had he stuck around just another year, he’d have been having classics with guys like Angle and the Radicalz. His Backlash 1999 match was a preview of the RA era to me, as he gave Taker one of his first long, technical matches that would have gone over well today, but was showered with boring chants when it happened. The guy is a classic example of great talent in the wrong era. They always did protect Shamrock and make him look strong. He was always a credible talent who maintained his spot on the very top of the midcard, but only on occasion cracked the main event scene. Now that you mention the Blackman segment, it would have been so much better if it was revealed that Shamrock hit Austin with the car at Survivor Series 1999. You can easily write a convincing storyline behind his motive as well. Have him talk about Austin ducking him throughout his WWF career and how he was overlooked which resulted in his departure. The buildup of "The Most Dangerous Man vs The Toughest SOB" would be entertaining stuff. Also, that was a main event match that I don't believe ever happened on a big PPV stage. Anything would be better than what we got with Rikishi for that angle. Austin and Shamrock had two Raw main event matches in 1998 that were entertaining as hell (both are available on YouTube). Sadly I think what hurt Shamrock outside of being too-early for his time was the amount of talent at the top of the card at the time. In 1997, it was clear they were building him for huge things in 1998, but then Austin took off like crazy, Rocky Miavia found his footing as a heel, HHH took off as the leader of DX, and Foley got over as the lovable looser. Throw in other “shiny new toys” like Kane and Big Show, with Taker also maintaining his main event status, and there wasn’t much room for Shamrock to move up in 1998/1999 despite winning KOTR and multiple titles. No doubt had he stayed around for a few more years he would have moved into the main event and grabbed a world title or two. The Attitude Era was just the worst time for him to debut.
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Post by The Brain on Jan 24, 2023 15:22:07 GMT -5
With his sons wrestling for the company they need to finally induct Mike Rotunda in there. Another long overdue name
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Post by TheEvilDoink1987 on Jan 24, 2023 17:09:21 GMT -5
With his sons wrestling for the company they need to finally induct Mike Rotunda in there. Another long overdue name Hard for him to get the time off in the thick of tax season.
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Post by The Brain on Jan 24, 2023 17:14:54 GMT -5
With his sons wrestling for the company they need to finally induct Mike Rotunda in there. Another long overdue name Hard for him to get the time off in the thick of tax season.
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Post by hbkjason on Jan 25, 2023 6:45:02 GMT -5
I know due to him being a grade a up this is unlikely, but I think that The Rockers/Marty Jannetty should be in the Hall of Fame. The Rockers are arguably the most over tag team to never win the tag titles, but he also has a collection of fantastic singles matches too, not to mention he is a former Intercontinental and tag team champion as well.
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Post by The Brain on Mar 10, 2023 19:18:41 GMT -5
Strong rumor out there now stating Muta is a lock for this year.Hopefully its true
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Post by MKSavage on Mar 10, 2023 19:55:38 GMT -5
Strong rumor out there now stating Muta is a lock for this year.Hopefully its true That would be great. Shame he never wrestled in the WWF. Him in the mid 90s with Yoko, Fuji and Cornette would have been amazing. Hopefully he signs a figure deal with WWE.
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Post by The Brain on Mar 10, 2023 20:00:40 GMT -5
Strong rumor out there now stating Muta is a lock for this year.Hopefully its true That would be great. Shame he never wrestled in the WWF. Him in the mid 90s with Yoko, Fuji and Cornette would have been amazing. Hopefully he signs a figure deal with WWE. Sadly no Sting though for that 2 pack
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Post by MKSavage on Mar 10, 2023 20:06:15 GMT -5
That would be great. Shame he never wrestled in the WWF. Him in the mid 90s with Yoko, Fuji and Cornette would have been amazing. Hopefully he signs a figure deal with WWE. Sadly no Sting though for that 2 pack Maybe they get Sting to induct Muta into the HOF, and while there, they get him to sign one of those contract deals like Jake the Snake and Billy Gunn. I need this UE 2-pack:
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Post by The Brain on Mar 20, 2023 10:58:30 GMT -5
Andy Kaufman is goin in!
Long,long overdue
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Post by Grumpyoldman on Mar 20, 2023 15:22:32 GMT -5
Andy Kaufman is goin in! Long,long overdue I thought he was already in. When I heard that Hogan knew a tag team that was going in, I immediately thought it was going to be the Nasty Boys.
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