WWE Hall of Fame 2014 Discussion Thread - April 5, 2014 from New Orleans, LA

[TPIB 62]

The 2014 WWE Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony will take place the night before WrestleMania XXX on April 5 from the Smoothie King Center in New Orleans, LA and will air, live, in its entirety at 9/8c on the WWE Network.

 

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Class of 2014 Inductees

 

The Ultimate Warrior (1/13/14)

Jake "The Snake" Roberts (1/27/14)

Lita (2/10/14)

Paul Bearer (3/3/14)

Carlos Colon (3/14/14)

Mr. T (3/17/14)

Razor Ramon (3/24/14)

Edited March 25, 2014 by TPIB

[Guest Ciaran The King]

With Warrior and Jake getting honoured it already feels special

[Guest The Beltster]

Agreed. And Hogan inducting Warrior, even though they hate each other, it like my wrestling wet dream, full homo! Cant wait.

[Omega 354]

If they inducted Savage and Bearer as well it'd be awesome.

[Guest The Beltster]

Savage won't go it with these big names already there I dont believe, but I've heard Bearer is going in. I hate when they put in people who have died though, they get some family member or somebody else in their place and it just can't be the same. They should have put Savage in ages ago.

[Guest Edgehead]

For some reason I thought Jake was already in there but admittedly I don't really keep track of it from one year to the next

[DC 536]

Just for you, Edgehead; here's a list of those who are currently in and the year they were inducted -:

 

 

1993

André the Giant

 

1994

Arnold Skaaland

Bobo Brazil

Ernie Ladd

"Nature Boy" Buddy Rogers

Chief Jay Strongbow

"Classy" Freddie Blassie

Gorilla Monsoon

James Dudley (Vince McMahon, Sr's limo driver)

 

1995

Antonino Rocca

"Big Cat" Ernie Ladd

George "The Animal" Steele

Ivan Putski

The Fabulous Moolah

The Grand Wizard

Pedro Morales

 

1996

"Baron" Mikel Scicluna

"Captain" Lou Albano

Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka

The Valiant Brothers

Johnny Rodz

Killer Kowalski

Pat Patterson

Vincent J. McMahon

 

2004

Big John Studd

Don Muraco

Greg "The Hammer" Valentine

Harley Race

Jesse "The Body" Ventura

Junkyard Dog

Sgt. Slaughter

"Superstar" Billy Graham

Tito Santana

Bobby "The Brain" Heenan --- BEST INDUCTION SPEECH EVER

Pete Rose

 

2005

Hulk Hogan

"Rowdy" Roddy Piper

"Cowboy" Bob Orton

Jimmy Hart

"Mr. Wonderful" Paul Orndorff

Nikolai Volkoff

The Iron Sheik

 

2006

Bret "The Hitman" Hart

Eddie Guerrero

The Blackjacks

"Mean" Gene Okerlund

"Sensational" Sherri

Verne Gagne

"Mr. USA" Tony Atlas

William "The Refrigerator" Perry

 

2007

"The American Dream" Dusty Rhodes

"Mr. Perfect" Curt Hennig

Jerry "The King" Lawler

The Wild Samoans

Nick Bockwinkel

Mr. Fuji

The Sheik

Jim Ross

 

2008

"Nature Boy" Ric Flair

"High Chief" Peter Maivia

"Soulman" Rocky Johnson

The Brisco Brothers

Mae Young

Eddie Graham

Gordon Solie

"Stone Cold" Steve Austin

 

2009

Ricky "The Dragon" Steamboat

"Cowboy" Bill Watts

The Funks

Howard Finkel

The Von Erichs

Koko B. Ware

 

2010

"The Million Dollar Man" Ted DiBiase

Antonio Inoki

Wendi Richter

Maurice "Mad Dog" Vachon

Gorgeous George

Stu Hart

Bob Uecker

 

2011

"The Heartbreak Kid" Shawn Michaels

"Hacksaw" Jim Duggan

"Bullet" Bob Armstrong

The Road Warriors

Sunny

Drew Carey

Abdullah the Butcher

 

2012

Edge

Ron Simmons

Yokozuna

The Four Horsemen

Mike Tyson

Mil Máscaras

 

2013

Mick Foley

Bob Backlund

Trish Stratus

Bruno Sammartino

Donald Trump

Booker T

Edited February 4, 2014 by DC

[Guest The Beltster]

Some piss poor years lately, they blew their stack too fast by putting in too many people per year.

[Guest Fatherof10minis]

2005 was probably the best year from top to bottom.

 

Is it tine to announce the tag team inductee? I vote for demolition.

 

Either that or Arn Anderson should go in as a singles wrestler. Easily one of the best singles wrestlers never to be a world champion.

[GENE 86]

2007 is probably the best year IMO.

[Guest Ciaran The King]

Savage eventually going in will be awesome but not this year

[Guest Fatherof10minis]

I was at WM 23 and ric flair was not inducted that year. Dusty was the headliner from that group.

[Guest The Beltster]

2005 best year for me, even without Hogan, having Orndorff go in was great and the Shiek was on form. Hogan was the icing on the cake.

[Guest Ciaran The King]

05 was a good year, I feel they should lower the number inductees per year.

[Guest Beefhead]

05 to 07 were awesome awesome classes this year will be a good one.

[Guest FreeSpirit]

Credit:

wrestling-online.com

 

WWE HALL OF FAME TO AIR LIVE ON THE WWE NETWORK

 

Here’s another reason why you should subscribe to the WWE Network when it launches on February 24: The WWE Hall of Fame induction ceremony will be airing LIVE, in full, on Saturday 5th April.

 

While USA Network has aired segments of the Hall of Fame and WWE.COM also streamed parts of it, this will be the first time that the full, unedited ceremony will be airing LIVE. In the past, a one hour version of the show would air before RAW and even prior to that, it was airing on Saturday at 11PM, leaving WWE video editors cutting the show on the fly. The Hall of Fame is released in full as part of the WrestleMania DVD and Blu-Ray a month or two after the actual event. So far the Ultimate Warrior, Jake “The Snake” Roberts, and Lita have been announced for the class of 2014. Two or three more individuals are expected to join the 2014 class!

[BRM 220]

Robets has come out and said that it wont surprise us who will induct him............. DDP then.

 

For Lita we could either have Trish returning the favor from last year or Edge. If its Essa Rios then I'd be very surprised ;)

 

 

Paul Bearer is being considered a lock for this year and its also being reported that Mr T has agreed to a induction. If Hogan is inducting Warrior then Piper is probably going to be favorite to induct him.

[Guest Jimmy Redman]

Stephanie McMahon inducted Trish.

 

Edge would actually make a lot of sense for Lita. Although they may want a woman doing it for cosmetic/PR/PC purposes, in which case it will probably be...Stephanie McMahon.

 

If only real life didn't get in the way, then they could have current Divas Champ AJ do it and tell the story of how meeting her hero as a kid inspired her to be a wrestler.

[BRM 220]

Stephanie McMahon inducted Trish.

 

Edge would actually make a lot of sense for Lita. Although they may want a woman doing it for cosmetic/PR/PC purposes, in which case it will probably be...Stephanie McMahon.

 

If only real life didn't get in the way, then they could have current Divas Champ AJ do it and tell the story of how meeting her hero as a kid inspired her to be a wrestler.

 

Heh, I've always thought it was Lita that inducted her, shows how much attention i pay.

 

Regarding your point with AJ inducting Lita. If Hogan doesn't Warrior for whatever reasons I thought Edge would be a good choice to induct Warrior given how its a well known fact that he was in the crowd as a kid that day in Toronto at Wrestlemania 6.

[Guest Jimmy Redman]

That had nothing to do with Warrior, Edge was a mad raving Hogan fan.

 

He even cut that promo at WM24 about how Warrior winning killed his innocence as a child :lol