Talk:List of members of the WWE Hall of Fame

The inducted by column

I know I fought against this in the FLC, but I am considering getting rid of the inducted by column and instead adding free use images of various inductees on the right side of the article. Does anyone oppose this? -- Scorpion⁰⁴²² 15:12, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

Upcoming Inductions

Flair and others announced soon are not members of the HOF. They wont be until the ceremony. We should asterisk them, or something. LessThanClippers (talk) 19:30, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

First Active Wrestler

Even though WWE say Flair is the first such inductee, surely Hulk Hogan would be the first as he continues to be an active wrestler, including for WWE, since his induction and has never officially retired? --Mr Mordecai (talk) 06:24, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

Hulk Hogan isn't really an active wrestler. He wrestles matches every so often, but not to the amount that Ric Flair has done since his return to WWF/WWE in 2001. In some ways, Hulk Hogan falls into the same classification as Jerry "The King" Lawler, Dusty Rhodes, Sgt. Slaughter, or other WWE Legends that make extremely rare appearances where they actually participate in a match. (Though everything I said was just my point of view on the matter) Kogoro_9_23 06:33, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

Hulk Hogan would be considered semi-active since he only wrestles once in awhile. Like Kogoro said, Jerry Lawler still wrestles occasionally but is not considered an active wrestler anymore. TJ Spyke 06:38, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

I would actually consider Jerry "The King" Lawler to be an active wrestler. He has matches almost every week. [[User talk:Ryanrider|Ryanrider] 15:39, 27 February 2008 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.66.180.196 (talk)

I disagree. He hasn't had a match in a while, certainly not in the last month, so how does that make "almost every week"? ♥Nici♥Vampire♥Heart♥ 20:42, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

You have to only have one match every few months to be noted as a wrestler. Jerry Lawler is one because he has wrestled in the past and will likely have his next match soon. Besides, both he and Jim Ross are inducted because they are announcers.96.3.72.93 (talk) 05:18, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

1)Wrestling once every few months is NOT active, that is semi-active at most. 2)You are speculating on when he will wrestle again. 3)He and Ross being announcers have nothing to do with this, and Lawler's being one of the most popular wrestlers ever in the south likely helped him (even when he was a monster heel in the mid-90s in the WWF he was still one of the most popular wrestlers in the Memphis area). TJ Spyke 18:52, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

Jerry Lawler is on RAW every week, but he participates in matches maybe once every three months, if that. The only wrestler to be properly active on WWE, who is going to be joining the WWE Hall of Fame, is Ric Flair. There shouldn't be any need for further discussion about this, unless another active wrestler is to be inducted in the class of 2008. Kogoro_9_23 07:14, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

Flair's reigns

Wow, WWE's website REALLY contradicts itself, because here it says Flair is a six time WCW champion but here it says he's a seven time champion. And the NWA's website says he's a ten time champipon. Perhaps we should mention that Flair is credited by the WWE as being a sixteen time champion, because I doubt the IPs are going to stop changing it. -- Scorpion⁰⁴²² 18:15, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

One of Flair's reigns (i forget which one) is not recognized for some reason. I remember this from something before. LessThanClippers (talk) 19:41, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

Flair is actually a 8 time WCW World Heavyweight Champion. After WWE purchased WCW and ECW though, they decided to retcon title histories (getting rid of some title changes). They've done this to their own titles too (like pretending that Bob Backlund held the title for 5 years, ignoring that he lost the title to Antonio Inoki and also had the title held up). It's one of the reasons I disagree with using WWE's version of title histories (they've also removed US Title reigns, and ignored all ECW Championship reigns before the Shane Dougles/NWA incident in 1994). TJ Spyke 01:53, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

At least in Backlund's case they are consistant. In Flair's case, their own website contradicts itself. -- Scorpion⁰⁴²² 05:07, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

Unless anyone objects, I'm going to add "Recognized by WWE as a sixteen-time world heavyweight champion." -- Scorpion⁰⁴²² 17:21, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

Rocky Johnson

Would people consider his being one half of the first African American tag team title holders be notable enough for the notes section? LessThanClippers 00:15, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

Because he was one half of the first black Tag Team Champions? Seems pretty notable to me. If Ron Simmons ever gets inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame, we will note that he was the first black world champion in professional wrestling. TJ Spyke 00:42, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

Agreed. Gavyn Sykes (talk) 02:18, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

Should he not be noted as an African Canadian, seeing as he was born in Nova Scotia, and during his career he was billed from Toronto, Ontario. Not totally sure, but it would be more accurate. - Kogoro_9_23 10:34, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

Ric Flair induction article

I just saw this article on the web from the Miami Herald about Ric Flair which said that he was to be inducted by Triple H. I know this is not the WWE, however it is from an actual interview with Flair and in a newspaper not a website, so I wonder what people thought.

http://www.miamiherald.com/675/story/466142.html

69.28.232.125 (talk) 22:32, 22 March 2008 (UTC)samusek2

I'm not sure. Flair never says Triple H will induct him, the reporter in that article is the one who says it. The Miami Herald is a reliable source since it's one of the best known newspapers in the country, but still. TJ Spyke 22:38, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

Who cares the actual thing is about to happen then people will watch and put it themselves. Better to be accurate.141.155.125.111 (talk) 23:48, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

Gerald & Jack Brisco

Shouldn't Jack and Gerald Brisco have seperate rows? Why are they grouped? ^{-GuffasBorgz7-} 11:52, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

Because they were announced together and are listed at the HoF site together (although they do have seperate profiles). If they are inducted seperately, then they will be split up. -- Scorpion⁰⁴²² 13:42, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

High Chief Peter Maivia and Rocky Johnson were announced together, but they were split up. Why aren't Jack and Gerald Brisco? ^{-GuffasBorgz7-} 19:42, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

They were announced together but will be inducted separately. Look at last years event where The Wild Samoans were inducted as a team, or the year before when The Blackjacks went in as a team. The Briscoes are going in as a team, when Johnson and Maivia will go in as individuals. TJ Spyke 19:54, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

Gordon Solie

On Jim Ross' current blog, he stated he is inducting Solie, so I'm changing the TBA to Jim Ross. User:Danaimband 22:26, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

Can you provide an exact source? Just saying "JR's blog" isn't enough. TJ Spyke 17:17, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

Alright. Here is the link. Hope that helps. User:Danaimband 19:26, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

That is indeed JR's website, so it indeed a reliable source. ^{-GuffasBorgz7-} 02:45, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

Tag teams?

I was thinking of adding a small section that mentions which world champion tag teams/stables have had all their most famous members inducted, ie. Tony Atlas & Rocky Johnson or The Iron Sheik & Nikolai Volkoff. Does anyone oppose this? -- Scorpion⁰⁴²² 00:12, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

pictures

why are all those pictures there. they should be removed. (exepct for the Bret Hart HoF induction pic.)I'mOnBase 17:22, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Why should they be removed? They are pictures of the various inductees, so they fit with the article. -- Scorpion⁰⁴²² 17:26, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Tables need to be updated

Since this list was promoted to FL before the tightning up of the FL criteria, I updated the lead so it would meet that and other WP policies. But as I looked at the table, I saw that the notes are in small font, discouraged in FL's, and that not every thing that is sortable is wikilinked, which it should per recent FLC's because it can't be guaranteed that the reader will have the first link appear first when sorted. I just wanted to mention it before I did anything about it.--S_RX 23:54, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

Well, I have no problem with you adding wikilinks to every entry, but I really would prefer to keep it with small text. Because of the images, larger text would make the table much longer and harder to read. So if you were going to remove the small text, you would also have to remove the images. -- Scorpion⁰⁴²² 00:36, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

Okay, I did it. But I cam across something, for the inductees that had two or more inductors, what should come first (to be sorted first)? The most important person to the inductor, i.e. family? or should it just be alphabetical, like I did it?--S_RX 02:14, 3 November 2008 (UTC)