WWE HOF gets ready to Suck It
 

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Here's the video of the DX Hall of Fame advertisement. I assumed something must've been said on the PPV for this to just air at late night(I didn't watch) but I guess not. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WWEHOF?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WWEHOF</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WWEChamber?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WWEChamber</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/SeanRossSapp?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SeanRossSapp</a> <a href="https://t.co/dTWYOrxAep">pic.twitter.com/dTWYOrxAep</a></p>&mdash; Aaron (@Red_Carousell) <a href="https://twitter.com/Red_Carousell/status/1097395559424577537?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 18, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Feels like they're pretty much phoning it in for the HOF this year which is kinda odd since getting The Rock or someone is a good counter to G1 Supercard.

Suppose it’s one way to get Chyna into the HOF without the acknowledgment of her as a singles wrestler and what she did.

With DX going in as a stable and The Hart Foundation going in as a tag team, that now means Triple H, Shawn Michaels, Bret Hart, and Jimmy Hart will all get a 2nd ring.

Why wouldn't the Hart Foundation STABLE go in instead of the tag team? (Bret & Anvil)

Cause that means Owen is in the HOF and Martha Hart will sue them into the stone age.

Triple H doesn't have one yet.

I don't like putting stables in because then it should be everybody that was in the stable. For example:

Jim Neidhart was in DX for a day.
Rick Rude was in DX.
Mike Tyson was in DX.

Those 3 would be getting their 2nd rings, assuming DX goes on after the Hart Foundation that night.

Hornswoggle was also in DX briefly.
Tori was in DX.

Obviously none of them will be included in the induction, but that doesn't change the fact they technically were in DX.

lol I forgot Triple H doesn't have one yet. Mandela Effect

She needs to get over it. Owen was a major part of that group and by God he needs to be in the HoF. If he hadn't have died he probably could have been WWF or WWE champion at least once.

WWE makes it official


<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">BREAKING: As first reported by <a href="https://twitter.com/espn?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@espn</a>, D-Generation X are the first inductees in the WWE Hall of Fame Class of 2019. <a href="https://t.co/rIPCM14ewY">https://t.co/rIPCM14ewY</a></p>&mdash; WWE (@WWE) <a href="https://twitter.com/WWE/status/1097541405201891328?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 18, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Who are you to doubt Tori?

Can't remember xpac wearing a green bandana ever but maybe im wrong

Nobody should cry about this but it's the internet so not happening.

My guess is either Steph or Vince inducts them.

Tori and Steph are DX too.

If they can get him, the Rock would be perfect since the DX vs Nation feud made all those guys.

This

Kane

Everyone but D Lo in the nation is gonna make it on their own

That would be good, but I kinda suspect that if The Rock were available that night they'd have just put him in and started marketing it a month ago.

D Lo had a better career than the Godfather and he's in.

Yeah that's what I'm guessing as well. Word would have been out long before now.

the nation members inducted so far

Ron Simmons
Mark Henry
Godfather


Just missing The Rock and Owen

Maybe Triple H can wear blackface again for it too.

Lol no Savio Vega, Crush or Clarence Mason!

Savio and Crush were DOA .. although i forgot they were kicked out of the nation

Lol what? Godfather was around forever.

Papa Shango
Kama the Supreme Fighting Machine
Kama Mustafa
Godfather
Goodfather
Godfather again

D'Lo feels like he was around like 4 years.

Actually Savio was Los Boricuas lol

This is true.

D Lo was around from 97 till like 2003. What did the Godfather have besides a forgettable IC title run and a horrible tag title run in all the years he was there?

Ahmed Johnson was in the Nation for a month I think

If D'Lo winds up in a producer/agent role with WWE, which seems possible, I think he's definitely going in since it's pretty much a "gold watch" anyway

Why is Shawn Michaels not in the middle? Triple H was a lackey when the group started.

One of the most over acts of the attitude era?

i wonder why rick rude was not counted in the hof dx did he still have heat with vince. billy gun is the bad one to put in since he produces aew.

He was definitely mega over for a year. D Lo was pretty over as well.

I wonder who inducts DX

Dino Bravo

I’d say more than a year. He gets huge reactions every time he comes back.

I love D Lo but his popularity never touched the godfather’s.

Kevin Nash and Scott Hall.

Eric and Vince

You could have probably given the Godfathers gimmick to anyone on the roster and it would have gotten over in that era.

Nobody gave the Godfather a gimmick though except the Extreme Fighting Machine and Papa Shango.

Loved the Godfather until the bell rang to start the match

They need to induct D'Lo AND the chest protector.

I actually loved the "match" he had with Road Dogg on RAW is OWEN

"You actually wanna do this?"
"Naw. Let's go in the back, burn one, and tell Owen stories."

On the subject of the thread:

It just occured to me that that stupid ass rapid zooming of the cameras whenever there is a strike in the ring is nothing more of a continuation of the "...lllllllets get ready to SUCK IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT!!!!" thing they used to do.

I wish they'd have left that camera trick in the Attitude Era.

Yeah I liked that too :(

Godfather's heel run in 2002 was random as fuck

Not as random as him being the "objection" to Teddy Long's wedding.

WWE HOF gets ready to Suck It (aka The Godfather Appreciation Thread)

Lol, heel Godfather. Memories of Metal or whatever the fuck that was stuck on.

Only thing I really remember about it was him wearing all black and using his cane to win matches.

Yes, and his real injury led to him being kicked out of the Nation on TV, which was when Rock joined them, and eventually he kicked Faarooq out. Cornerstone for the foundation of Rock's legacy.

lol he also objected to Billy and Chuck's wedding

he needs to interrupt every wrestling wedding

longer doesn't mean better... look at the gimmicks you wrote out.

now beefcake is in this may be the worst hof year

He was one of the most over acts of his era

really scrapping the bottom of the barrel now, Torrie Wilson does not deserve to be in the fame neither does this bloke, how many gimmicks can one have and still not get over

Baron Beefcake
Big Brother Boot
The Booty Man
Brother Bruti
Brute Force
Brutus Beefcake
The Butcher
The Clipmaster
The Disciple
Dizzy Hogan
Ed Boulder
Eddie Hogan
The Mariner
The Man With No Name
The Zodiac

He was one of the more over acts from 87-91

What did he accomplish in this time ?

I am sorry I must missing something he never stood out for me

On Charles Wright...

I recently herd Bischoff say that they were going to sign Wright to a big money deal and he would've been the NWO's head of security, but they ended up getting in touch with Virgil who agreed to a much smaller deal so they went with him. I gotta say that if Charles Wright would have gone to WCW and been an NWO member that he could have possibly had a "bigger run" in a bigger spot. Even though Godfather was on ever WWF show for like 4 years, he could've been great in the NWO.

He was one of the most over acts in the company from 87 till 91. That's what he accomplished.

I thought Brutus was really cool when I was a kid. It took me like a full year to realize that he couldn't do shit in the ring though. Like, I just kept waiting for it. I'd rented or bought like every wrestling VHS in my county and was left feeling like "he must have some real classics out there somewhere!". I loved how he'd cut the hair of the jobbers after the match. And his tights reminded me of HBK who I was watching real time and was obsessed with.

I think by the time I saw WM9 I was like okay fuck that guy.

He was horrible in WCW as The Booty Man and The Zodiac, my god. The Disciple had me excited because he looked awesome but yeah, once the bell rang...

Lol I had no idea until years later that The Disciple was Brutus

Brutus was one of those weird 80's gimmicks that was over even if he didn't win a lot. Back then though it didn't really matter.

In the 80s there were 3 levels of babyfaces.

Popular gimmick guys, who didn't really win but against jobbers but could sell merch, like Brutus or Koko.
Then there was a few guys who were gimmicks but also really good, who were there to get guys ready for Hogan, like Jake Roberts or Tito Santana.
Then there was Hogan.

Brutus won ALOT more than he lost. He's not in the Koko realm of JTTS.

Brutus main evented PPVs with Hogan. Not to mention ending Perfect’s undefeated streak at WM and being a legit IC title contender. He’s nowhere near comparable to Koko as a jobber.

It's easy to shit on the guy because of how over-the-top wrestlecrap he was in WCW. But what Gertman is saying is the truth. He headlined Summerslam, was the guy who ended Mr. Perfect's unbeaten streak, and was on his way to an IC Title reign (when it meant something) until his face got smashed.

Beyond those random highlights, he was also a tag champ on a classic team with Greg Valentine, had a cool gimmick with awesome gear.

And 87-91 was a hot period for the WWF. For him to be one of the hottest acts means something. To ignore that means you're not as "with it" as you think.

god dammit we made the same post lol

He won loads lol

He never won big matches. He won against jobbers and balding guys who would get their haircut like Ron Bass . The only title he ever won was a tag title, which was before he was even "the barber".

He ended Mr.Perfect's Win streak. He was an upper mid card guy. He also beat HTM at WM4. He hardly ever lost once he became the Barber.

Just taking a quick glance and he was beating Rick Rude and Ted DiBiase around the loop in 89

yeah I don't remember him losing as the Barber tbh

He also won in the main event of a SummerSlam with Hogan against Savage and Zeus. I’d call that a big match.

You can say he was just along for the ride with Hogan but teaming with Hogan in a main event in the 80’s isn’t exactly indicative of a jobber.

By today’s standards when there’s 20 titles that change hands on a weekly basis and everyone gets a turn, never holding a title might mean you’re a jobber. In the 80’s, not so much,

I just went back and checked : between 1987 and 1990 Brutus was only pinned once in any of the Big 4 PPVs (Rumble, SummerSlam, Survivor Series and Wrestlemania).

It happened at the 87 Survivor Series against HTM in a SS match.

Total jobber.

Chill guys. Where did I ever say he was a jobber? All I said was he deserved to be in the Hall of Fame because in the 80's you could be a huge star without ever winning big feuds or titles, because it was all setup to build heels to feed to Hogan. Hence, the only title he won was a tag title before he became the barber, meaning the dude didn't need to win titles, he was super over regardless.

I put Brutus in the tier below Jake Roberts, I never said anybody not as good as Jake Roberts is a jobber. The only time I even used the word was saying Brutus beat jobbers because he wasn't cutting the hair of most other superstars.

I was defending him as a HOFer because he was a known star.

And yes, he was bigger than Koko, I'm not saying they are the same, they are just in the same tier for how they were used on the card. That is not saying it was a bad thing.

Brutus Beefcake main-evented Summerslam, beat Mr. Perfect, Rick Rude, and Ted DiBiase. Koko literally never won matches unless it was against a jobber.

It's ok to admit you were wrong, hoss.

It's also ok to admit you misread what I wrote, and I never called the dude a jobber or that he wasn't worthy of the Hall of fame.

But you were comparing him to Koko who was literally a JTTS. Brutus was at Jake Roberts level.

You likened him to KoKo B. Ware who was a prelim guy. He was also at Jake's level if not above it. The only feud I can remember Snake winning was against Martel lol. I guess he beat Hercules who was pretty much just a jobber.

Accept that you've lost and move on, fiend.

Jake Roberts beat Andre the Giant at Wrestlemania...

I wouldn't put him above Jake. I'd put him with Jake.

Brutus was an over gimmick but not a great worker, like Koko.
Jake was an over gimmick and a great worker, like Tito.

That was the comparison.

Also, getting guys ready to feed to Hogan meant losing to those guys. It didn't mean they were bad, it meant they were trusted to make the heels look as strong as possible for Hulk.

Brother Bruti was a tag team champion. Even though he was the lesser of the Dream Team he was champion.

Over like rover.

Koko was over in Mempho and everywhere he went. JTTS at the end of his career in the WWF but he had higggggggggggh eneeeeeergggyy and Frankie. Yeahhhhh!

Both are worthy of WWE Hall of Fame because it's just what Vince says and goes.

Torrie Wilson is the new bottom for the Hall of Fame in terms of quality.

It was a non-finish if anything. He got his shit stomped and John Studd saved him IIRC. Not exactly a DDT in the middle of the ring.

That was more of a Hillbilly Jim/Hacksaw Duggan kinda role. Brutus wasn't getting fed to the Hogan monsters. He was protected big time because he was Hogans buddy

4 names reportedly rumored for the Legacy Section are Wahoo McDaniel, Jim Barnett, Luna Vachon and Playboy Buddy Rose

Awesome list.

Alright I concede, Brutus Beefcake was the 2nd best wrestler in all of WWF behind Hogan for years. Way to go Brutus. :shifty:

He was sure protected that way, even though he was hot garbage.

Not protected parasailing...

Haha no he was not

Lol the greatest thing is when Brutus made his return to the WWE and the crowd shitting all over him during his interview with McMahon in the ring. Someone yells "let's go sailing" and "kill yourself"

That was right when ECW really started gaining some steam, I'm guessing a few of that Raw fans were taking their heckling "to the, EXTREME" (insert Paul Hey man voice).

Lol It’s silly to have a “legacy” section. What makes Luna a legacy inductee instead of a regular inductee? Just makes it all needlessly more convoluted.

Yeah that makes no sense. Luna wrestled this century.

"The Legacy wing of the WWE Hall of Fame serves to honor the pre-television history of professional wrestling (or at least, the pre-modern era of professional wrestling), as a means both to pay tribute to the fact that the art form has been around and been extremely popular for well over 100 years, and to further legitimize the modern inductees that contemporary fans are familiar with."

Yep, that is Luna lol

Even Buddy Rose is weird for that era. He was doing jobs for the WWF in like 90-91

The whole point of the Legacy Wing was that it honored people from before wrestling was on TV.

Now they’re just oversatursting it.