3 Ups & 5 Downs From WWE Hall Of Fame 2019

4. Women's Regression

Torrie Wilson Hall of Fame
WWE

The tonal dissonance between WWE hosting their first ever all-women WrestleMania main event and Torrie Wilson's induction into the Hall of Fame was put into sharp focus by Luna Vachon's half-hearted recognition later in the evening as part of the Legacy wing.

The industry coursed through the protruding veins of Luna, a legitimate trailblazer for women's wrestling, across a 22-year career in which she worked for every major North American promotion. Renee Young used the same term to describe Torrie moments before her induction speech, during which she admitted she had no wrestling skill whatsoever.

Had Luna been more, erm, marketable, and crucially, not dead, maybe she'd have gotten a slice of the thirty minutes Wilson was afforded rather than the thirty second clip nestled amongst other stars deemed irrelevant to modern audiences.

At least we got to see Stacy Keibler for the first time in 13 years.

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