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Formerly Fausto Carmona
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Is that Robin Williams in the middle?
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Never realised he looks like a cross between the elephant man and that guy from Fallout Boy.
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MVP Mark
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Why would he never be allowed in?
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King K Cool
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Did it need a thread?
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#6 |
Hazardous to Your Health
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This is quite possibly the most deserving class of all time.
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Best Poster
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Taker707 is a bloated fat ass
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#8 |
Narc stole my star
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zzzzzzzzzz
Put someone fun like Warrior in ffs, these old farts aren't interesting and nobody knows who they are. |
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#9 |
Formerly Fausto Carmona
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#10 |
His name is Jeff Harvey
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They're eating the dogs..
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Bruno Sammartino vs Bobby Jaggers 1981 and the Jap Dome was considered to be the 18th best match of 1981. Bobby Jaggers rassled as his famous gimmick "Capt. Awesome American Tough Guy". He lost via a hold of lethal ouch. DLVH or Beth can verify that. Where the hell has DLVH been?
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Daddy's Home
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King K Cool
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Along with that, I do remember reading some time ago that the WWE were looking for good locations to build an actual Hall of Fame, with Orlando or some other place in Florida being chosen. I can only assume that with Bruno accepting now, that an actual Hall of Fame will soon become a reality. |
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They're eating the dogs..
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They should induct Owen hart. Who cares if his wife is a bitter old cow. Just do it. She's Canadian so her opinion doesn't count!
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Quark is Less Impressed.
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King K Cool
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I would love to see Owen Hart in the Hall of Fame.
I just get the feeling that we would just have to wait for Martha to die or something so it could happen. |
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MVP Mark
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King K Cool
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Former TPWW Royalty
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Well ESPN managed to think it was really worthy since they are reporting it as well.
http://espn.go.com/blog/playbook/fan...rtino-into-hof |
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The Will & The Whey
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Resident drug enabler
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You have odd reasoning for what kind of news is worthy of a thread.
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Best Poster
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Good question: where the hell has DLVH84 been? Juan cyber bullied him off the forums.
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Bruno Sammartino is to wrestling what Babe Ruth is to baseball.
Maybe that's why the news of his induction got its own thread? |
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Y2KoTF
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FIT Challenge Slag People
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Nobody knows who Bruno Sammartino is?!?! That's bullshit.
Maybe a lot of today's fans don't know much about him, or much about a lot of the other past Superstars, but that's sad and they should educate themselves. |
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Resident drug enabler
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This is the strongest overall class so far that the HoF has had.
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Y2KoTF
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Can you other guys start using some common sense and stop arguing so I can stop agreeing with peep. It's upsetting.
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King K Cool
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Who here said that they don't know who Bruno Sammartino is?
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the heartbreak king
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i'd imagine most kids sitting in the stands or at home have no idea about him, and if they do it is very vague. this can be opportunity to teach them some version of wrasslin history.
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Backstage Update: Bruno Sammartino’s HOF Induction
By Ryan Clark on Monday, February 4th, 2013 at 8:12 PM EST Partial Source: The Wrestling Observer Bruno Sammartino’s WWE Hall of Fame induction is part of a package deal that will include historical features, DVD interviews and other items WWE will market to their audience. The deal was made official on Friday and, as previously reported, was largely able to come about due to the efforts of Triple H, who successfully pitched the idea of a working relationship to Bruno. Here are our reports from earlier: Legendary pro wrestler Bruno Sammartino will be announced as the next inductee into the Class of 2013 WWE Hall of Fame tonight during RAW. ESPN’s Jon Robinson already has a story up covering the big and quite unexpected news for those who have kept tabs on Sammartino’s comments in recent years. Sammartino added, “Being inducted into the Hall of Fame at Madison Square Gardens is the biggest thing in my life,” Sammartino said in an exclusive interview for ESPN Playbook. “Any time that people feel that you accomplished enough to enter into a Hall of Fame, of course this is a tremendous, tremendous thrill for me. I had a lot of my success due to appearing at the Garden. I wrestled there over 200 times, it’s where I won the title, and it’s where I picked up 630-plus pounds of Haystacks Calhoun.” Paul “Triple H” Levesque is a big reason Sammartino is accepting the invite according to the ESPN article. It had been made public that Triple H had made numerous attempts to get Sammartino as part of the Class of 2013 with the ceremony taking place at Madison Square Garden. Sammartino added, “In talking to Paul Levesque, I made it clear, I’ve had issues with WWE and wrestling in general, because there were other organizations. I didn’t like the direction they had taken. It was bothersome to me. I’m an old-school guy. I spent 25 years in this business. But after talking to Paul, and him explaining to me the changes they’ve made in their program, and how they’ve hired a doctor like Dr. Maroon, who is a world-renowned neurosurgeon, who also operated on me, and now that he has been put in charge of the company’s wellness program and their drug testing, that impressed me. I know what kind of a man he is, and he is a giant in that field, so I take my hat off to WWE because they took such huge steps to make things better for the wrestlers themselves and making sure they are healthy to perform. That was very, very important. But as Paul explained to me, WWE made a lot of other changes. There’s no more profanity, there’s no vulgarity in the current product, and that stuff had bothered me as well. When Paul first spoke to me and told me all the changes, I started watching it again, and I was very convinced that they are doing amazing things. I see the wrestlers and all the changes they made. There’s no profanity, there’s no vulgarity, and it’s a family-friendly program. That’s what it used to be, and that’s a huge role in the whole factor.” “From a legitimacy standpoint, it’s important for us to get Bruno in,” Levesque said. “He’s one of the biggest names there has ever been in the business. So for us to not have him in there, for the legitimacy of the whole thing, it was a major issue. For me, the more important thing was that nobody deserves to be recognized for being a big star and paving the way for the stars of today more than Bruno. Everything that we have today in the business, Bruno was a cornerstone of that foundation. He truly is a living legend. As we started getting into Hall of Fame season, it’s almost like this storyline wrote itself. To have Bruno Sammartino brought into the Hall of Fame in Madison Square Garden, a building he sold out more than anybody in the world, that’s a remarkable achievement. It was an opportunity to honor Bruno, but it was also an opportunity for our fans. There has been this bad blood between Bruno and the WWE for years, and we’re not trying to hide any of it, but I just felt like we are at a point where a lot of it can be resolved. Our wellness program and the way our programming is now, a lot of people are unaware of it, so I felt like if I could get Bruno on the phone and I could run down a list of those things that he didn’t like, I could show him how we changed. We’re PG, family-friendly entertainment with a wellness program that is truly based on the wellness of our performers. We want them to be healthy and live long, productive lives. So I just felt that if Bruno knew about those things, he might feel differently, and eventually, that’s what came to be. Clearly, Vince knew about this right from the get-go, and when I said I wanted to reach out to Bruno, Vince was probably thinking, ‘Well, good luck with that,’” Levesque said. “So Bruno and I established this relationship, and as we came to an understanding on all of this, Vince asked me, ‘Hey, do you think I should call Bruno? I’d like to talk to him.’ At the same time, Bruno said, ‘Do you think I should have a conversation with Vince?’ And I said no to both of them. I didn’t think it was right to do over the phone. They had bad blood for a long time, and we’ve all kind of buried the hatchet here, and it’s a new beginning and a fresh start and everybody is in a great place with this. But going back to what Bruno said about being old-school, I think we should all get in the same room together and the two of them should look each other in the eyes and shake hands. This should be in person. I don’t think it’s right to do over the phone. They both agreed to do that, and while it hasn’t happened yet, Hall of Fame is probably where we’ll make that happen. Vince and Bruno will see each other for the first time in years and officially, in person, look each other in the eyes and bury that hatchet.” |
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#32 |
the heartbreak king
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"no profanity, no vulgarity"
hahahaha ok |
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#33 |
Hazardous to Your Health
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#BUCTOBER
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the heartbreak king
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i'm not disputing that. i'm disputing that the current product has "no profanity, no vulgarity." toned down, certainly. but still very present.
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Resident drug enabler
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#38 |
the heartbreak king
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punk ass bitch fest
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#39 |
the low Art Gloominati
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Mike Tyson shouldn't be in it for a few appearances.
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I will echo the sentiment that this HoF class is amazingly strong. Best class yet.
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