10 Non-Wrestlers Who Need To Be In The WWE Hall Of Fame

10. Ted Turner

It'll be a cold day in hell when Vince McMahon honours his greatest rival, but you can't say he doesn't deserve it.

Advertisement

Ted Turner is a media mogul and businessman, perhaps best known as the founder of American news network, CNN.

However, to wrestling fans, Turner is known as the man who started the Monday Night Wars.

In 1988, Turner purchased wrestling company, Jim Crockett Promotions, and transformed it into World Championship Wrestling. With Turner's money, WCW became a major player in North American wrestling and very nearly put Vince McMahon out of business.

Without Turner's investment in WCW, the WWF would have had no real competition in the 1990s. It was this competition that drove the company to take their programming in an edgier, young-adult oriented direction. In short, without Ted, we'd have had no Attitude Era.

By bringing the WWF to its knees, Ted Turner played a huge role in the world of wrestling as a whole. And he wasn't even a part of weekly television.

Advertisement