The WrestleZone Hall of Fame

[Uncle Sam]

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Is under new management. No longer will who goes into our Hall of Fame be dictated to us by the tyrannous Slyfox and his army of pie-charts and spreadsheets. No, it's time to start having some fun. You know, as much fun as your empty life will allow.

No longer will voting be conducted every three months. No, we've got a lot to do and little time to do it in. A poll will go up at the start of every month. We will have one week of discussion, then two weeks of voting (and some more discussion if you'd like).

To qualify for our highly legitimate Hall of Fame, candidates must receive 80% of the vote or over in order to enter.

Paul Heyman was well liked by our voters, but only achieved approximately 75% of the vote. This was not good enough to qualify. Perhaps one day Paul will get the chance again, but he'll be on the shelf for some time now. It's time to move onto pastures new.

The Hall of Fame as it stands is composed of just one man:

"The Nature Boy" Ric Flair​

The man that will never retahhh. Flair might be old, saggy and worn out now, but he was one of the greatest wrestlers of all-time back in his day, or at least our voters argued. Well, I suppose you don't get to be a sixteen time world champion by resting on your laurels... unless you're Edge. I suppose I should throw in the arbitrary "woo": Wooooo!

The second man to be inducted will be the winner of the Third Annual WrestleZone Tournament. Voting for the third - who will be decided by me and my elite panel - will begin on the first of July.

 

[Uncle Sam]

Hulk Hogan​

I had a nice little comment here once upon a time. It even mentioned Milkyway and the overwhelming popular demand that Hulk Hogan be inducted into our Hall of Fame. Alas, 'twas not to be. The site decided that the "Save" button was in fact the "Delete" button. Apparently, I should have clicked the "Vote Now" button. Brother.

Swathed in controversy, but still capable of controlling the adoration of millions of Hulkamaniacs, our Hall of Fame now contains the two greatest Aryans in wrestling history.

 

[Tastycles]

I'm reopening the WrestleZone Hall of Fame, because it deserves to have more than two people in it, even if they are TNA's hopes for the future. I intend to do this by having people nominate those they wish to be up for election in a spam thread somewhere, before opening a candidacy thread for the most popular. I don't know how often I'll make these threads, but I'll play it by ear. There will be an induction ceremony every three months or so.

 

[Tastycles]

Bret "The Hitman" Hart - Inducted by goodlay

I appreciate that these early inductions might be a bit processional early on, but it's important that we do it all fairly. The next potential inductee is Bret Hart, who needs little introduction, but I'll give it anyway.

Hart was born into the most famous wrestling family in Canada. After a brief career as an amateur wrestler at a local level he was trained in his father's dungeon and began working with greats such as Dynamite Kid in his father's Stampede Wrestling promotion. After 8 years in the promotion, during which time he was a pioneer of the ladder match, Hart himself and the promotion as a whole was acquired by the WWE.

Hart started off without real direction, before being put in a heel tag team with Jim Neidhart, his legitimate brother in law in 1985. The Hart Foundation were managed by Jimmy Hart. He had his WrestleMania debut at WrestleMania 2, in a battle royal. They won the tag titles in February 1987 and held them over six months before dropping them to Strike Force. During this period, they had some high profile feuds with the British Bulldogs, including a six man tag match at WrestleMania 3 alongside Danny Davis against the Bulldogs and Tito Santana.

After losing their titles the Harts turned face in early 1988 as Jimmy Hart betrayed them for the Rougeaus. After a few abortive breakout attempts, Hart won his second tag title at Summerslam 1990 and they held the titles until WrestleMania VII, when the team finally split for good.

Hart won his first singles title soon afterwards when he beat Mr. Perfect in what many people consider the greatest match ever at Summersam 1991. He lost the title to The Mountie, who in turn lost it to Roddy Piper who lost to Hart in a torch passing moment at WrestleMania VIII.

He held the title for a few months until dropping it at Wembley to The British Bulldog, yet another brother-in-law at Summerslam 1992. Just two months later, he beat Ric Flair at a house show to claim his first WWF Championship, which he held until WrestleMania IX, dropping it to Yokozuna, who immediately dropped it to a returning Hulk Hogan.

He was supposed to face Hogan and win at Summerslam 1993, but Hogan dropped the title and left after the first PPV King of theRing tournament. Hart would win that tournament, beating Mr. Perfect, Razor Ramon and Bam Bam Bigelow to do so. He then engaged in a feud with Jerry Lawler, which led to a Survivor Series match between Lawler (though he was replaced by Shawn Michaels) and his knights against the Hart brothers. Only Owen was eliminated and that planted the seeds of his next major feud.

Owen turned on Bret at the Royal Rumble in 1994, but Hart was still able to win the event jointly with Lex Luger. In the interest of fairness, he faced and lost to Owen at WrestleMania X before beating Yokozuna for the title later that night. He feuded with Owen over the title until Owen cost him the title against Bob Backlund at Survivor Series 1994. Hart then faced and beat Backlund in a non title match at WrestleMania XI.

Hart feuded sporiadically throughout with Jerry Lawler and his dentist Isaac Yankem, before beating Diesel for his third WWF Title at Survivor Series 1995. He held the title until WrestleMania XII when he lost in sudden death after an ironman match against Shawn Michaels. Hart disappeared until Survivor Series of 1996, when he returned to face Steve Austin in a winning effort.

Hart won the 1997 Royal Rumble, only for Austin to return and eliminate him, setting up a Fatal Fourway for the number one contendership. However, after Michaels got injured, the match was for the WWF Title, which Hart won only to lose it the next day when Austin cost him it. This lead to a submission match at WrestleMania 13 which was won by Hart, but in a manner so brutal he turned heel and Austin face in the process.

Austin beat Hart the next month after interferance from The British Bulldog, which established Hart as a foreign heel in charge of the heel Hart Foundation, which included Owen, Neidhart, Bulldog and Brian Pillman. Heels in the USA, but faces everywhere else they fought.

He managed to beat Undertaker for the title with inadvertant help from Shawn Michaels at Summerslam 1997, and held it until Survivor Series 1997, when he lost the title in the Montreal Screwjob, which is too boring to go into detail about again.

That led to him leaving WWF and arriving in WCW at Starrcade 1997, when he complained about the result in the Sting and Hogan match. Whilst that was bizarre, he had a decent face push in early 1998 but quickly turned heel by attacking Randy Savage. He beat Savage a couple of times, before setting his sights elsewhere. He beat DDP for the vacant US title, dropping it to Lex Luger and regaining it shortly afterwards. He exchanged the title with DDP a further time in late 1998, and ultimately dropped it to Roddy Piper.

His next action was to goad Bill Goldberg, and trick him into spearing an iron plate, before disappearing from WCW for a while. Over this time, Owen Hart died so Hart didn't return until September. He beat Goldberg, for the first time, to win the US title for the fourth time and to progress in the biggest tournament of all time. He lost the title to Scott Hall in a ladder match soon afterwards, but he managed to win the tournament, and his first WCW title at Mayhem 1999.

He and Goldberg briefly held the WCW Tag Titles, but lost them to the Outsiders. Hart faced Goldberg at Starrcade, winning, but being concussed in the process. He vacated the title, due to the dusty finish at Starrcade only to win it back as the nWo reformed and beat down Goldberg. Hart was the WCW Champion for much of January 2000, but his injuries proved too much and he was forced into retirement.

Ten years and a stroke later, he has returned to the WWE, inducted his father into the HOF and beat Vince at WrestleMania, finally closing the door on the Montreal Screwjob.

 

[goodlay]

Without a doubt, yes. Bret Hart was one of the best technical wrestlers of all time in WWE. From his humble beginnings with Neidhart in the Hart Foundation up to the Screwjob, Hart left a damn impressive body of work behind. He "won" the Royal Rumble, he was a 2 time KOTR winner, 2 time Tag Champ, 2 time IC champ, and 5 time WWE champion which may not sound impressive by today's standards with guys like HHH having like 15 world titles. But in the old days a world title meant so much, just look at HBK's first title win at WM 12 and how special it was to him. Or look at a guy like Ted DiBiase, a man being inducted into the WWE HOF this year, and he never even won a world title. But today even a guy like The Great Khali has had a world title, so that shows how things have changed.

Forget the many accomplishments and accolades though; think about his classic matches. WM 8 against Roddy Piper for the IC title. WM 10 against his brother Owen and his epic cage counter with Owen as well. WM 12 - The legendary Iron Man Match with HBK. WM 13 - Submission match with Austin that shot Austin's push through the roof. The Summerslam classic with Taker and so many more, those are just off the top of my head.

Bret is one of my all time favorites, so he absolutely deserves to be in the WZ HOF. I think we all know his match with Vince at Mania this year won't be a technical wrestling exhibition, but at least for people like me, we can see Bret in the ring one last time.

 

[Tastycles]

So, the votes are in and we have our first inductees into the WZ hall of fame in 2010. This ceremony thread will stay open for the rest of May, until it is merged with the actual hall of fame thread and we repeat this process for May's inductees. If you want to nominate people to be inducted, please do so at this link:

Nominations Thread

This month's ceremony will feature the inductions of Randy Savage, Bret Hart and Harley Race.

Randy Savage - Inducted by MoneyMack

Randy Savage is by far one of the biggest names of his era. Born to the recently deceased Angelo Poffo, he debuted in the 70s before moving to Poffo's own outlaw ICW promotion where he feuded his brother Lanny. There, he won the title many times, before moving to CWA, an AWA affiliate. There, he and Lanny teamed and had a noteworthy feud with the Rock 'n' Roll Express that included a huge table spot in 1984.

However, it was in 1985 that he made his first big splash, debuting in WWF alongside his wife and manager Miss Elizabeth. Early in his WWF tenure, he was second in The Wrestling Classic 16-man tournament. Savage was a heel when he arrived, and even managed a countout win against Hulk Hogan in a WWF Title match, before lowering his sights to the Intercontinental Championship.

Following a lengthy feud with Tito Santana, he won the title in early 1986, and defended it at WrestleMania 2 against the veteran George "The Animal" Steele, who had developed an unhealthy obsession with Elizabeth. He spent the rest of 1986 feuding with the legendary Bruno Sammartino and Jake "The Snake" Roberts, before engaging in a lengthy feud with Ricky Steamboat, culminating in one of the greatest matches of all time at WrestleMania III.

Having lost the title, he turned face, winning the King of the Ring tournament later in 1987, before attempting to win his title back from Honky Tonk Man, who had won it off Steamboat. He was subject to a beatdown from Honky and the Harts, but Elizabeth got Hogan to save him, planting the seeds for what happened next.

After a few more failed attempts at beating Honky, he entered the tournament at WrestleMania IV. After big wins in the early rounds, he faced Ted DiBiase, supported by Andre the Giant in the final. Again, Hogan came to help him and the Mega Powers were born as Savage won his first WWF title.

1988 was spent with Savage defending his title and fighting various heels alongside Hulk Hogan until turning heel after Hogan's perceived closeness with Elizabeth got too much for him. The MegaPowers exploded at WrestleMania V and Savage dropped his title. After a bit of a continuation of his feud with Hogan, he beat Jim Duggan for the "King" title that had come through Harley Race and Haku and replaced Elizabeth with Sensational Sherri.

He plodded through the rest of 1989 and 1990 with largely pointless feuds, most notably with Dusty Rhodes who he faced in the WWF's first intergender match alongside Sherri, while Rhodes was accompanied by Sapphire at WrestleMania VI. He then started to feud with WWF Champion Ultimate Warrior, eventually costing Warrior the title at the Royal Rumble in 1991.

This led to a retirement match at WrestleMania VII, which Savage lost. He was beaten down by Sherri after the match, until Elizabeth saved him. He stayed around on the product without wrestling, even marrying Elizabeth at Summerslam, before beginning a feud with Jake Roberts, who crashed the wedding reception. He returned to the ring and beat Roberts at This Tuesday in Texas, though the feud continued into 1992.

He then embarked in a feud with Ric Flair, beating him for his second WWF Title reign. He held the title over the Summer, feuding with Warrior, before dropping the title to Flair. He faced Flair and Razor Ramon at Survivor Series 1992 with Perfect, a replacement for the sacked Warrior.

The rest of his WWF career was on the wind down, mostly performing as a commentator on the new Raw show, though he did come second in the 1993 Royal Rumble, becoming the first man to ground Yokozuna. Following feuds over ex-Demolition luminaries Crush and Repo Man, Savage left the WWF for WCW in late 1994.

He debuted as a face at Starrcade, and didn't do much for his first few months in the company. Eventually he started to feud with Flair again, and won the vacant WCW World Title at World War 3 in 1995. He and Flair exchanged the title back and forth over the next couple of months. Savage's next major storyline was being a part of the WCW's defense against the nWo.

He briefly left the promotion, only to return in early 1997, having joined the nWo. He was reunited with Elizabeth, despite being divorced in real life, and feuded with DDP. After this, he won his third WCW title, setting in motion the events that caused the nWo to split into the Wolfpac and Hollywood factions, but he lost the title the next night and left the company for knee surgery.

He redebuted with his new girlfriend and valet Gorgeous George, named for the 1940s wrestler whose trademark Savage owned, in tow. Shortly after redebuting, he was joined by more valets, Madusa and a young Molly Holly as "Miss Madness" forming Team Madness. Sid Vicious helped him to win his final World title in a tag match, only for him to lose it to Hogan the next day. Team madness disbanded,and following a feud with Dennis Rodman, he joined the Millionaires Club until he left the company.

That was it for Savage in wrestling, except for a brief toe in the water in TNA in a tag match. He has spent the rest of the time since his career as a voice for a few cartoons and had a brief role in Spiderman.

 

[MoneyMack]

I voted YES & there was ZERO doubt in my mind about it. Being older now, im more of a fan of the heels- they are just more entertaining to me. But when I was younger- it was all about the faces: Hogan, Hart, British Bulldogs, guys like that. BUt even when I was a kid- my main man was The Macho Man, hands down!

The fact that we shared the same first name was obviously very cool to me at age 7 or so. Being with Miss Elizabeth didnt hurt the cause either. I loved how FIRED-UP he got in every interview. Then 2 seconds later...he's basically whispering. Then screaming again 5 seconds after that. He worked the stick like it was going out of style! & back then- I didnt even know what mic-work was.

I loved the music he came down to the ring to. I loved the glittery 'robe' ...I guess you would call it. I always wore my sunglasses when I watched him, does that tell you anything about how much Randy Savage was my boy? The elbow drop off the top rope, always preceeded by the fixing of the tights & the swirl of the finger!

My favorite wrestler EVER!! "Cuz- Im The Macho Man Randy Savage. Im the tower of power, too sweet to be sour. Im funky like a monkey. Skyyys the limit & space is the place!"

OHHHHHHHH YEAHHHH! DIG IT!

 

[Tastycles]

Harley Race - Inducted by Tenta

This week's inductee is the first to have come from outside the WWE bubble. Harley Race first started wrestling in the early 60s, having spent his late teens performing a range of oddjobs such as carting about Happy Humphrey, one of the most disgusting human beings of all time, weighing over a third of a ton. However, shortly after debuting he was in a horrendous accident, his pregnant wife died and he almost lost his leg, being told he'd never wrestle again.

Undeterred, he returned to the Funks' promotion in Texas and for the first time in his life began competing under his real name, something he did from this point onwards. There he started teaming with Larry Hennig and the two moved on to the AWA, the first of three major promotions that he would gain notable recognition in. He and Hennig won the tag titles 3 times, before Hennig got injured and Race wrestled with a series of different partners until his return. However, their reunion did not last long as Race left AWA for the NWA.

Unlike most of the great NWA Champions, Race never had a true home territory, instead jumping about them winning local titles in the process. He finally managed to win the NWA Championship in 1973, from old rival Dory Funk before losing it to another great member of a set of wrestling brothers in Jack Brisco. He made a point of collecting more regional titles until he could get another shot at the world title, including the first reign of what is today the WWE United States Championship.

He got his chance against another Funk in Terry, and beat him in 1977 for his second NWA Title. He defended his title an incredible 6 times a week at times, including in interpromotional feuds with Nick Bockwinkel, Eddie Graham and Bob Backlund. He held the title for two and a half years, before dropping it to Dusty Rhodes for a week. Giant Baba benefitted from two single week reigns too, as did Tommy Rich, but this aside, Race held the title for a further two years, making for a total of six reigns.

Race was unable to beat Rhodes, for the title, but he did manage to win his seventh title, against a young Ric Flair almost 18 months after losing the title.Race put a bounty on Flair to stophim getting the title back, but it proved futile with Flair winning a brutal and bloody cage match in the main event of the first ever Starrcade. He briefly regained the title on a tour to New Zealand, which gave him his 8th and final title, but he lost it to Flair two days later.

Race's days as a top champion were over, and he spent the next couple of years buying up territries in his native Missouri. However, Vince McMahon began to invade his territory and he lost out financially to a huge extent. He was forced to re-enter the ring, feuding briefly with his old partner's son Curt Hennig in AWA, before eventually signing for the WWF in 1986.

Reluctant to acknowledge his NWA acheivements, Race was quickly given the King of the Ring title as an alternative. He feuded with some of the biggest faces in the WWF at the time in Jim Duggan, Junkyard Dog and Hulk Hogan. Unfortunately, he injured himself and the King crown was given to Haku. He lost a match at Royal Rumble 1989 to regain the crown and left the WWF.

He spent the next couple of years in various promotions, including competing for the US title against Lex Luger and the AWA title against Larry Zbyszko. He eventually retired aged 48 and became a manager in the fledgling WCW, managing people including Vader and Lex Luger. A second huge car crash cut short his management career, and Race left the business before creating his own training academy and promotion, World League Wrestling in 1999. He continues to run this promotion and was inducted into the WWE hall of fame in 2004.

 

[Tenta]

Tasty, thank the good Lord, sir. You've actually brought in a proven draw to the Hall of Fame, and I couldn't be happier. I had a good thread all worked up, before the internet connection was lost on the forums. But, I'll keep it simple.

Why Harley Deserves It:​

Greatest NWA Champion of All Time

Yes, some Thesz and Flair fans will get on me for this, but I stand by it. An eight time champ, this guy took on all the great names of the NWA, in a time when it was the best wrestling promotion around. He worked fantastic matches with all of the greats during the 70s and 80s; Brisco, Bruiser Brody, Giant Baba, Andre, and the like. You name it from that era, and this man has probably faced them, even stretching out to names like Bob Backlund, Billy Graham, and the like when the NWA, AWA, and WWF would wrestle supercards. Still, the man is probably best known for putting over a legend in his own right.

His Work With Flair

He also had some great work putting over Dusty Rhodes, which was no easy task in itself. But his best work in putting someone over had to be Flair. Simply put, without Harley Race, Ric Flair wouldn't exist. Flair needed the legitimate toughness of Harley Race to rub off on him, if he was to ever hope to catch on with the fans. With Race, I still argue Flair would have went to the WWE, where Vince didn't care about his lack of amateur skills, and would have made him mid card fodder, and maybe feed him to Hogan down the line. If Flair wanted any credibility in thr NWA, Flair needed for Harley to sign off on the guy, and label him the truth. He was never a tough man, and needed the toughest man in wrestling, Harley Race, to put him over to the fans.

Starrcade

Without Flair and Harley Race headlining Starrcade, WCW would have never had it's flagship pay per view. Starrcade became the embodiment of what the NWA/WCW was all about; every angle and storyline built to WCW. This may seem really speculative, but I argue, to this day, that if Starrcade failed, we'd never even have Wrestlemania. Vince would see how poorly it drew, and would have went elsewhere. Starrcade opened up the flood gates for what PPV could do for the wrestling world, because so many people wanted to see Flair and Harley in the cage, in what I still say is the greatest cage match of all time.

I could write an essay based on Harley's work, and his contributions to the business. But this man is well deserved as a member of the Hall. Vote for him now, damnit.

 

[Tastycles]

The Rock - Inucted by Dave​

The Rock was the first third generation World Champion, and held a lot of world titles over a short period of time. Undoubtedly the best talker in the history of wrestling, he was eventually able to cross into the mainstream and make a series of great films, one of which got a coveted one star review recently in the Evening Standard.

As for his wrestling career, he began as Rocky Maivia, the dullest face in the history of wrestling, before eventually turning heel and joining the nation of Domination. It was here that his The Rock persona was allowed to fluorish and he quickly became a big deal. When that group disbanded his growth continued first as a face, but then as part of The Corporation when he became World Champion for the first time.

This lead to him losing the title and winning it back a few times from Mankind, before losing to Austin at WrestleMania. He would later lose to Austin again at Mania X-Seven, before winning one back at WrestleMania XIX.

The Rock was a prominent character for the WWF uring the invasion, and remained a big deal into 2002, eventually losing the Undisputed title to the up and coming Brock Lesnar. Periodic appearances followed, but The Rock certainly won more than his fair share of gold during his comparitively brief stay.

 

[Dave]

Wow! 90% of the vote for the most electrifying man in sports entertainment.

I am very happy about this because of a number of reasons. Firstly, as a 11/12 year old, The Rock was the best thing on a WWE television show. His charisma was and is totally unmatched by any one else to ever step into a WWE ring.You could watch a Rock promo10 years ago and that same promo today and you would enjoy it just as much, if not more. In today's wrestling business, there is no one that can come remotely close to being as entertaining on the mic as The Rock was. John Cena is probably considered the upper-echelon of charismatic wrestlers in the WWE and as much as I like him, he can't even touch the Rock.

However, The Rock was not all about being good on the mic. Sure, that is what he was best at but people will also remember him for how good he was in the ring. He is a multiple time world Champion and had done it all inside a WWE ring. He was an Undisputed Champion and had reached the top of the WWE pile on many different occasions. He also gave me one of the best moments of my life and that was watching him at WrestleMania X-7. The feud against Austin, where two worlds collided and the biggest swerve in the history of wrestling was created as Stone Cold teamed up with Vince McMahon.

At the end of the day, The Rock is an absolute icon that was undoubtedly the best talker in the WWE. He could have been a train-wreck inside the ring but people would still have gone wild for him. He was a character that people couldn't help but like and his popularity with wrestling fans will be forever cemented in gossip about wrestling John Cena and undoubted inductions into Hall Of Fames. His immense popularity, both inside and out of the ring, will always shine through and this has been shown here.

 

[Tastycles]

Stone Cold Steve Austin- Inducted by Mr.Angel

Steve Austin is unquestionably the face of wrestling in the 90s. Debuting as Stunning Steve Austin, he first entered WCW and immediately exchanged a couple of TV title reigns with Barry Windham. However, it was in 1993 when his career truly took off.

In January of that year he joined Brian Pillman in a team called The Hollywood Blonds. They quickly won the WCW tag titles, and defended it for half the year before dropping the titles when Pillman was injured, and Austin defended them alongside William Regal in a losing effort.

However, when Pillman got back, Austin attacked him, setting in motion a long term feud that would continue across companies. Austin beat Dustin Rhodes for the US title at Starrcade, before losing it to Steamboat. He was reawarded the title, briefly, after Steamboat was injured, but Duggan beat him quickly and the reign was over. Two injuries later, Austin found himself sacked, famously because Eric Bischoff found him unmarketable.

Austin went to ECW as Superstar Steve Austin, doing in-ring interviews, before finishing out 1995 in a feud with Mikey Whipwreck. Following that, he left and found himself in the WWF in Ted DiBiase's Million Dolllar Corporation as The Ringmaster. Following a decent showing in the Royal Rumble and having been given the Million Dollar Title, The Ringmaster was the apple of DiBiase's eye. However, following a rematch with Savio Vega, having beaten him at WrestleMania XII, Austin lost, causing DiBiase to get fired.

Now, freshly bald headed and now using the stunner as his finisher, Stone Cold Steve Austin was born. He won the 1996 King Of The Ring tournament, and famously made his 3:16 promo, and his rise to the top was on the move. He spent the rest of 1996 feuding with both Pillman, breaking into his house, and Bret Hart, who he cheated out of a Royal Rumble win in 1997.

He ended up missing out on the WWE title, instead fighting Bret Hart in what is one of the most notorious matches in WWF history. At the end of the match, he turned face, and became a top priority for the company. Austin continued to feud with Hart and his family, and won the tag titles twice - once with Shawn Michaels, and then with Dude Love, when the latter came to help him after he had initially tried to win the titles on his own.

His feuds with the Harts led to a match against with Owen at Summerslam. He won the IC title, but not before breaking his neck, which led to him vacating the title. After a few sporiadic appearances, including one where he stunned Vince for the first time. He returned to win the title at Survivor Series. He vacated the title after throwing it in a river to prevent himself from having to face The Rock.

He then got into a feud with all of the gangs that existed at the time, culminating in a Royal Rumble win when they were all trying to get him. This led to amatch with the newly injured Shawn Michaels at WrestleMania XIV for the WWF Title. He won thanks to assistance from enforcer Mike Tyson. This led to the biggest feud in WWF history.

McMahon did anything in his power to get the title off Austin, eventually succeeding when Kane beat him, only for Austin to get it back. Austin lost a triple threat to the Brothers of Destruction, and then kept getting screwed out of the title by McMahon. After losing the Royal Rumble, he was able to get the title shot by beating Vince thanks to Paul Wight at the St. Valentine's Day Massacre.

This lead to victory against the Rock at WrestleMania XV, for the title, which he lost to Undertaker at Over The Edge. Austin continued to feud with McMahon, this time over the power of the company. McMahon won, but Austin regained the title, only to lose it to Mankind. Eventually, he feuded with Triple H, but was run over before he faced him. In reality, he was getting neck surgery and was out for a long while.

The perpetrator of the hit and run was revealed as Rikishi, and after a brief feud, he was revealed to have been paid by Triple H to do it. This lead to a long feud, which included a third Royal Rumble win for Austin. After a bloody three stages of hell match with Triple H at No Way Out, he won the WWF Title at WrestleMania X-7, thanks to siding with McMahon to beat The Rock.

This heel turn was his first for a while, and he formed a tag team with Triple H called the two man power trip. They monopolised the titles available at the time, before Triple H was injured. After briefly feuding with Benoit and Jericho, Austin was injected into the Invasion angle. He betrayed the WWF and joined the Alliance, briefly exchanging the title with Angle, who then joined him.

In the payoff of the angle, Angle turned on the Alliance, but Austin returned the next night, sided with Ric Flair and retained his WWF title until losing it against Chris Jericho. He finished the year beating Booker T. He started 2002 feuding with Jericho then the nWo, but was unable to agree terms to face Hogan, and instead beat Scott Hall at WrestleMania X-8. Austin left the WWE soon afterwards, having briefly feuded with Big Show and Taker.

He returned briefly to face to, and lose to The Rock at WrestleMania XIX, but then his career was over. Over the last few years, he has returned a few times in order to stunner people and special referee a few matches, and was recently a guest host on Raw, but he mostly spends his time on straight to DVD film projects.

The question is, should he be in our Hall of Fame?

 

[Goliath Uterus]

Of course Stone Cold should be inducted, the man did it all. He was part of a fantastic tag team in WCW (that should have been pushed harder) then became a solid mid carder who could work with anybody and then went to ECW, had a short but promosing run. THEN he went to WWE where eventually he came to be the man we know and all love, Stone Cold Steve Austin, the beer drinking, bird flipping, foul mouthed, rebellious, born-in-Texas, ass kicking, tough sumbitch, and the fans loved him to death then, and they still love him to this day. Austin could work with anybody and it would be entertaining just cause Stone Cold was in the ring, watching him stun his boss every damn week was one of the main reasons that WWF beat out WCW in the ratings war. He was one of the biggest draws and had one of the best gimmicks that anyone has ever seen, he has highly underrated wrestling skills and very, very good promo skills and charisma, his backstage interviews are some of the most entertaining and memorable segments the WWE has ever seen and thats saying something. All in all, Austin deserves to be in any wrestling hall of fame, and I have a feeling he'll make his way into this one.