3 Ups & 5 Downs From WWE Hall Of Fame 2024 (Results & Review)
4. A Meandering Sermon
With infectious energy and charisma, Thunderbolt Patterson strikes his way like lightning into the WWE Hall of Fame Class of 2024.#WWEHOF pic.twitter.com/EwWTnZLPne
— WWE (@WWE) April 6, 2024
Thunderbolt Patterson clearly inspired generations of wrestlers, both in his promos and his mannerisms, so he clearly is a deserving inductee into the WWE Hall of Fame.
But his speech, which came near the end of a long ceremony, was excruciating. Thunderbolt elected not to talk about his storied career, or challenges he overcame, but to pray and speak of “spiritual warfare” and to urge people to “stop playing the race card” and stop killing one another. And that’s his right – it’s his acceptance speech.
That doesn’t mean it was a good speech. For a wrestling audience that was approaching five hours of televised programming, it had to be difficult to not chant “What?” after every couple words.
You just wish that he could have been briefer or at least tied more of his remarks to the reason he was being honored in the first place.