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re: DX is getting inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame

Posted on 2/18/19 at 1:55 pm to
Posted by Tiger Prawn
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Posted on 2/18/19 at 1:55 pm to
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That would've made him 2x hofer so maybe they don't think he belonged in that group.
DX induction makes Shawn Michaels a 2x HOF'er, so doubt thats the reason Rick Rude isn't included. Guess it was because he wasn't around DX as long as the others and is probably the last member of the group most people think of when they hear DX.
Posted by Jyrdis
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Posted on 2/18/19 at 1:57 pm to
I legit look like this because of that gif
Posted by chinese58
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Posted on 2/18/19 at 2:00 pm to
I remember DX.
Posted by teke184
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Posted on 2/18/19 at 2:24 pm to
Honestly? Rock, leader of The Nation whose feud with HHH made stars of them both in 1998 and again in 2000.
Posted by teke184
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Posted on 2/18/19 at 2:25 pm to
Rude’s method of giving notice he was out of the WWE post-Montreal probably plays into it.

Showing up on a live Nitro with your beard shaved to show it was live instead of taped leaves an impression.
Posted by PrimeTime Money
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Posted on 2/18/19 at 2:31 pm to
Degenerate into somethin fool
We just got tired of doing what you told us to do
That's the brakes boy
Yeaaah
That's the brakes little man
Break it down
Posted by GeorgeTheGreek
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Posted on 2/18/19 at 2:43 pm to
Hell yeah!


BREAK IT DOWN!!!!
Posted by DJ3K
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Posted on 2/18/19 at 3:16 pm to
Didn't he appear on WCW the same day that WWF played their taped week in advanced show and bitch about Bret Hart getting screwed by Vince McMahon in the Montreal screwjob versus Shawn Michaels?

Probably why Vince did not include him as a member
Posted by LSU316
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Posted on 2/18/19 at 3:21 pm to
Time Warner and the people that hired Vince Russo killed WCW.....the fingerpoke of doom and Hogan laying down for Jarrett did way more damage to WCW than DX invading did....BUT there is no doubt that over the last 3 years of WCW that WWE was putting out better TV consistently.
Posted by Korin
Member since Jan 2014
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Posted on 2/18/19 at 3:54 pm to
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BUT there is no doubt that over the last 3 years of WCW that WWE was putting out better TV consistently.

Well of course. That was much more to do with Austin vs Vince and other wrestlers than DX though.
Posted by Korin
Member since Jan 2014
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Posted on 2/18/19 at 3:56 pm to
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Probably why Vince did not include him as a member

Really shows how petty of a person Vince is. All these years later and he still has to shite on WCW.
Posted by Brosef Stalin
Member since Dec 2011
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Posted on 2/18/19 at 4:03 pm to
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Lol. WCW should have opened that door they drove up to and let them in.

Bischoff claims he didn't know they were there but if he did he would have let them in
Posted by Bard
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Posted on 2/18/19 at 4:15 pm to
WCW pulled in crazy loads of names from WWF then proceeded to do little with them beyond dragging the NWO angle out for an obscene amount of time. Had they just left it with Hall, Nash, Hogan and Pac I think it would have gone over much better. Having pretty much everyone and their brother join then just frick up the set and ring every week got old.

And then you had a whole other tier of wrestlers they either kept completely out of it or just on the periphery (see: Jericho and Glacier). Not only that but they sacrificed those wrestlers for the sake of the NWO angle (anyone not in it pretty much did not get a push).

Meanwhile, WWF was taking their up and comers and making mega stars out of them. Austin, The Rock, Mankind, HBK, HHH, DX, Nation of Domination, Val Venus, Godfather, etc.
Posted by LSU316
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Posted on 2/18/19 at 4:27 pm to
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other wrestlers than DX though.


DX had a direct hand in driving ratings for WWF from late 97-early 2000....to say that the great product in those years from WWF was not driven by DX in addition to Rock, SCSA, etc is insane.
Posted by LSU316
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Posted on 2/18/19 at 4:30 pm to
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Jericho and Glacier


Damn those two in the same sentence....hokey shite like Glacier and the Yetayyyyy are what got WCW to bringing in the older stars like you mention.

But yeah I agree on Jericho.....even Bischoff says he didn't realize what he had in Jericho until he was already signed with Vince
Posted by teke184
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Posted on 2/18/19 at 5:00 pm to
There were a few problems with WCW with regards to Jericho.


One, he was seen as too small, hence the “vanilla midgets” comments about Benoit, Saturn, etc.

Two, WCW was paying guaranteed money to a number of main event guys who couldn’t or wouldn’t work with anyone outside that group.


Goldberg smashing his way into the forefront was definitely the exception to the rule, as most of their main event guys were ones who had been former WWE headliners like Hogan, Nash, Sid, Flair, Piper, etc.

A number of guys besides Jericho, from Raven to The Radicalz, left because there was no room for advancement.
Posted by TheAnvil
Member since Feb 2019
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Posted on 2/18/19 at 5:05 pm to
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The version that should get in is HHH/Pac/Outlaws.


have an upvote

Posted by Grateful Reb
Member since Apr 2011
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Posted on 2/18/19 at 5:45 pm to
When wrestlers get inducted into the HOF, do writers as well? Since the writers are responsible for the storyline and therefore everything that happened in their career, shouldn’t they get a shoutout for preemptively dictating a storyline worthy of the HOF?
Posted by Ric Flair
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Posted on 2/18/19 at 6:44 pm to
Posted by SCLibertarian
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Posted on 2/18/19 at 7:17 pm to
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