7 Ups And 7 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (Feb 22)

3. Scraping Bottom Of The Barrel

So far, WWE has announced two Hall of Famers for 2016: Sting and The Godfather. Wait, the Godfather, a WWE Hall of Famer? Using Koko B. Ware as the measuring stick, sure, this might make sense. But come on. You have to really stretch things to believe that he€™s €œdeserving€ in any way. If we€™re going to start naming every memorable Attitude Era star, then when do Val Venis, Kaentai and Steve Blackman get inducted? By this logic, this means that Zack Ryder could be headlining the 2028 HOF class. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH52Pc60Cxg Besides all of that, it€™s not like the PG WWE can fully explain to fans the scope what the Godfather entailed as a character and his many escorts to the ring (literally). This publicly traded company that once fired Daniel Bryan because he choked out an announcer with a tie and suspended a wrestler for 60 days for grabbing the chairman in an act of chivalry is now memorializing a guy whose entire appeal was bringing hookers and strippers to ringside, calling them hos and encouraging people to smoke up.
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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 fortunately became a fan in time for WrestleMania III and came back as a fan after a long high school hiatus before WM XIV. Monday nights in the Carlson household are reserved for viewing Raw -- for better or worse.