10 People WWE Should Remove From The Hall Of Fame

9. The Ultimate Warrior

Ultimate Warrior Hall of Fame
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The Ultimate Warrior's career, spectacular one-off occasions opposite career rivals Hulk Hogan and Randy Savage at consecutive WrestleManias aside, has not bothered the ballot boxes of even the most lenient pro-wrestling Halls of Fame. WWE's version really isn't one, and by its own warped criteria - chiefly, pulling power, particularly for an overblown ceremony - he was a perfect fit.

And yet before his untimely death lionised his legacy, there was something deeply uncomfortable about a man who had made a living outside wrestling spreading bigoted hatred across college campuses being given the red carpet treatment. WWE had to break through years of mutual enmity just to bring back a guy who, amongst his many distasteful comments, infamously espoused that "queering don't work", criticised black people in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, and openly mocked Bobby Heenan's throat cancer as karmic retribution.

Warrior suddenly passed away just days after making his Hall of Fame speech. Though undoubtedly a tragedy for his young family, the swell of sentiment immediately seemed to clear Warrior's slate of any wrongdoing, a final act of WWE-sanctioned legacy laundering to cap off his induction. Gallingly, the company introduced a charitable award in his honour the next year, with all pretenses of good taste hideously defenestrated. Why anyone accepts it is a mystery.

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