10 Strangest WWE Hall Of Famers Ever

1. Every Warrior Award Inductee

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Let's make this clear right off the bat: the recipients of WWE's 'Warrior Award' are all fully deserving of recognition, either for their charitable work, indefatigable spirit, or in most cases, both.

Cynics may question the motives behind the company devising such an accolade - especially given their Chief Brand Officer is on record as saying 'philanthropy is the new marketing' - but by their own criteria, each of its individual inductees are worthy of the honour. It's not them that makes it strange.

It's the concept that's wonky. Naming an award which has venerated the work of cancer research campaigners after Ultimate Warrior - a man who openly taunted Bobby Heenan as he battled the illness - is crass. That the company purposefully misinterpreted Warrior's calls for a gong celebrating the industry's backstage personnel to do so is even more bizarre. WWE could easily have contrived a bluster-begetting blue ribbon without attributing it to a man famously outspoken against homosexuality, but inexplicably, they decided this was the best option.

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