3 Ups & 5 Downs From WWE Hall Of Fame 2024 (Results & Review)

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5. Bad Speech-Reading

It’s not fair to rate Bull Nakano’s induction as a negative because of her and her limited ability to speak English. Language barriers should never count against someone, nor should it be the basis for a bad grade.

However, WWE had to know heading into this that Bull would likely be delivering a more basic acceptance speech, not weaving long, captivating tales of her storied career. That is where the inductor played a crucial role. The right person could provide the color and passion to Nakano’s overall presentation.

Alundra Blayze should have been a perfect fit as her chief rival in the WWF in the mid-90s. Instead, she delivered a stilted, stale and nearly emotionless reading of a speech that sounded like it was penned by one of WWE’s junior writers, a person who broke out a thesaurus and tried to use soaring language that would never come from Blayze’s mouth.

If Alundra wrote that speech herself, someone should have reviewed it and told her to insert more personal tales of Nakano. But she sounded so uncomfortable stumbling over the words that it likely was written by someone else, with minimal feeling and personal touches from the person delivering the remarks.