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

4. Scenery, Formatting Improvements

WWE Hall of Fame building
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Last year’s WWE Hall of Fame ceremony was marked by a memorable induction speech from Paul Heyman, followed by a clearing out of the Wells Fargo Center as the ceremony dragged on and fans were clearly wiped out after sitting through SmackDown.

This year, WWE changed things up by holding a separate Hall of Fame ceremony at a different venue with fewer fans, all of whom elected to attend that event rather than having a three-hour ceremony tacked onto a television taping. That alone allowed for WWE to give the ceremony its own vibe and not worry about a repeat of last year’s crowd fiasco.

They also structured it differently, having the headliner – Triple H – main event rather than leadoff. Imagine if HHH had gone first and eaten up the first hour. People might have legit left in droves again rather than hanging around to watch the Natural Disasters’ induction.

The ceremony still was too long (the culprit already has been called on the carpet), but these changes were welcome… aside from the two-hour gap between the end of SmackDown and the start of the ceremony.

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Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.