10 Wrestlers You Will Never See In WWE Hall Of Fame
7. Demolition
Though they started as Road Warrior clones, Ax and Smash eventually did enough with the power and paint gimmick to forge their own identity within a framework established by Hawk and Animal, dominating lesser tandems across a hugely successful run yielding three WWF World Tag Team Championship reigns.
Demolition's first run with the gold was their longest. Ax and Smash held the belts for 478 days after seizing them from Strike Force at WrestleMania IV, not losing them until they met The Brain Busters in mid-1989, with their reign standing as the lengthiest in company history until The New Day broke it in December 2016. They were unquestionably amongst WWE's most important teams during a profitable period, though the addition of Crush diluted them in 1990.
So why no induction? The fractured relationship between WWE and Bill Eadie (Ax), who, like Marty Jannetty, was part of the class action lawsuit against his former employers in 2016. Barry Darsow has also stated it would take at least a $100,000 payday for them to accept an induction despite the usual payday sitting somewhere between five and six thousand, so there's that...