10 People WWE Should Remove From The Hall Of Fame
10. Abdullah The Butcher
The scars left on the Hall of Fame by Abdullah the Butcher's inclusion don't run quite as deep as the famously quarter-grasping creases carved into his head, but his craggy cranium offers a hint as to WWE's likely remorse over his ring-fitting. His face simply doesn't fit.
The butcher's choice was shaky to begin with. Though Lawrence Shreve's fork unquestionably left a bloody mark across the industry during a decades long career known for its longevity, if not it's quality, his hardcore innovations - if that's even to be celebrated - came outwith the confines of the sanitary Stamford.
Even if the Madman from Sudan had had any particular prior association with the Big E, his 2011 induction was typically tone deaf. At the time, Abdullah faced allegations from Canadian wrestler Devon Nicholson that he'd infected him and others with hepatitis C as a consequence of sharing a blade. For once, the old scare stories proved true, with a court upholding the claims and ordering Shreve to pay over $2 million in damages.
The upshot is that WWE now have a Hall of Famer, one who never worked for them, legally condemned for spreading blood disease through barbaric business practices - a business they claim as their own. It's not a good look.