7 Most Insane Things Happening In Wrestling Right Now (March 3)

7. People Are Up In Arms That Beth Phoenix Beat Chyna To The Hall Of Fame...

...even though it means nothing.

The WWE Hall Of Fame is a house built on marketing and the whims of Vince McMahon. That's it. Think of the names that aren't a part of it: Rikidozan. Mitsuharu Misawa. Kenta Kobashi. Bruiser Brody. Giant Baba. Even the founding father of the industry - and WWE architect - Toots Mondt isn't an inductee. Now recall who is: Koko B Ware. The Godfather. Rikishi. Tenure and politics overrides actual achievement, so it's no shock that Beth Phoenix has stolen a march on Chyna, even though the Glamazon followed the trail the Ninth Wonder of the World blazed by becoming only the second female Royal Rumble entrant.

Besides which, WWE rarely inducts more than posthumous performer per year, lest they call attention to wrestling's unseemly underbelly. If rumours are to be believed, Ravishing Rick Rude is set to meet that quota. Chyna will have to wait until the dark clouds of her drug-addled death and hardcore pornography career disperse. Even then, the abuse accusations she levelled at Triple H render the possibility remote at best.

Did Beth Phoenix have a Hall of Fame-worthy career, supposing for a moment that accolade means anything? She was a better performer than her swimsuit model contemporaries, for sure, but by that logic, Three Count deserve an induction for making 2000-era WCW a less depressing place.

WWE plans on celebrating women's wrestling at WrestleMania 33. That might have something to do with it.