5 Ups & 4 Downs From WWE Hall Of Fame 2025 (Results & Review)

2. ‘Two Minutes’

When CM Punk walked out to induct the Immortal Moment of Bret Hart versus Steve Austin at WrestleMania 13, he started by noting that he had been given just two minutes to introduce the moment and bring the two Hall-of-Famers out.

Punk rightly pointed out that they were two of the greatest, super-elite workers the business had ever seen and their magnus opus. He said he could speak for hours about each of those topics, but he had to confine his remarks.

Then when Hart began his comments, he also noted that he had been given two minutes to deliver his remarks. Austin was a bit lengthier, but even he seemed to constrain himself a good bit.

This might not have scanned as anything major, but when Triple H’s entire induction (video, induction speech, acceptance remarks) lasted nearly 90 minutes, one couldn’t help but feel like WWE was shortchanging one of the most important wrestling matches in the company’s history and two of its biggest stars.

Here’s hoping they don’t pull that again, because if WWE is going to ask legends and Hall-of-Famers to come back for future “immortal moment” inductions, severely limiting them isn’t going to entice them to participate.