WWE Hall of Fame – Part Two

Here we go with my reactions to the most recent announced inductees to the WWE Hall of Fame:

Mike Tyson – one I have to realize that for some reason Vince McMahon feels like there needs to be a celebrity wing to his hall of fame. I have to get past the fact that there is no reason to have a celebrity wing except for one, publicity. Let’s face it that is the only reason to have it, for publicity. For that reason Vince gets what he wants as main stream media covers it every year. Never mind that they make fun of it but hey Vince loves main stream news for the WWE. So onto Iron Mike Tyson. Well at least he is an athlete and was a damn good one. He was involved in one of the best WrestleMania matches of all time with two of the greatest superstars ever. Plus I am happy Mike is a lifetime fan of pro wrestling. Hey the dude even hosted a RAW not long ago. Fine, he can go in as a celebrity. I will take him over Drew Carey from last year. My hang up with Mike is every time I think of him as a WWE ref I think about the fact he was scheduled to ref a match years ago BEFORE he lost to Buster Douglas. Once he lost Buster became the ref for the match.

Ron Simmons – not sure how I feel about this one. He was a WCW champion and was actually the first ever Black man to hold a major World Championship. So for that I will give it to him but after that I would say there are many more deserving wrestlers. Taking nothing away from Ron but he didn’t hit it big until he was part of the APA. Not excited about this one. If there was a vote he would not get mine at least not at this time.

So neither of these most recent announcements make me overly excited but it could be worse. Here is hoping the remaining inductees are more worthy than these two.