10 Strangest WWE Hall Of Famers Ever

4. Abdullah The Butcher

Abdullah The Butcher HOF
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A single glance at Abdullah the Butcher during his Hall of Fame induction highlights a clear incongruity between himself and his surroundings. For one, there's those scars which make his head look like tectonic plates. Then there's the fork. This was no sit-down banquet for the beaming beneficiary; he was simply showcasing his favoured implement of incision.

That's not de rigeur at these sort of prestigious galas.

Abdullah drawing attention to his cutlery cuttery likewise demonstrated how bloody weird his inclusion was. Again, it's another case of a guy who did more than enough to warrant the accolade, but by WWE's very arbitrary code of whose face fits their image not one you'd typically expect. Here was a man who almost never worked for the company, and spent the better part of five decades not so much wrestling as mutilating. With silverware. In his case, PG meant 'possible gangrene'.

Oh, there was also a high-profile hepatitis case leveled against him at the time. Apparently WWE just said "fork it" and stuck him in.

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