5 Most Insane Things Happening In Wrestling Right Now (March 15)
3. Stevie Ray Doesn’t Know How The WWE Hall Of Fame Works
We learned this week that Harlem Heat are the latest inductees into the WWE Hall of Fame. To editorialise briefly, if the WWE Hall Of Fame was a legitimate wrestling Hall Of Fame, a decorated and entertaining home-grown WCW tag team—who flourished in a WWF-obsessed company at the mainstream height of the U.S. industry—are worthy of the spot.
Dave Meltzer disagreed, and Stevie Ray lashed out on Twitter.
“That’s fine because that’s his opinion, but I was voted in by my peers.’
That’s not strictly true, and by that, we mean it isn’t true at all. Bret Hart and Ricky Steamboat don’t pore through the archives, re-watch Stevie Ray Vs. Vincent from the July 26, 1999 Nitro, and think, “Wow. What a scientific masterpiece. We must honour Stevie’s inimitable back elbows, which he performs 15 times in four minutes.”
Vince doesn’t study a performer’s body of work to thoroughly determine whether or not the prospective inductee is indeed suitable to share the same canon as Kid Rock and Hillbilly Jim. He just makes it up as he goes along, as he does with most things.
In this specific instance, he has simply decided it will be funny when Booker T botches his speech and says “Two time, two time, two time Hall of Famer!”