How the **** did I get sniped on Andy ****ing Kaufman

Feel the same way about Kaufman.

Also I never mentioned it but DX is another one I didn’t think of and was annoyed I didn’t take, even if it would have meant Billy Gunning the draft. I would just include HBK too fwiw.

Thought of this next pick while researching Kaufman...

Round 13, Pick 6:



HoF class:

I'll do write-ups later.

Round 13, Pick 7:



Round 14, Pick 1:

I already took Kowalski

Also, aware I owe a pick. If it somehow comes around to me please give me my clock and I’ll get caught up; hopefully before then will do it though

Round 13, Pick 7:

Gene Kiniski

Kiniski was one of the first great heels in professional wrestling. Billing himself as "Canada's Greatest Athlete," Kiniski was one of the first heels to use the "arrogant, but capable" gimmicks that guys like Nick Bockwinkel and Ric Flair would run with. He had an over 3-year run as NWA World Champion after defeating Lou Thesz, and tour the world as Champion defeating a who's who of the wrestling world in the late 1960's. He was also part-owner and the face of NWA All Star (the Vancouver territory of the NWA) for about 20 years.

Round 14, Pick 1:

Gory Guerrero

There is considered to be a "Big Three" when it comes to launching the lucha libre tradition, El Santo, Mil Mascaras, and Blue Demon, but Gory Guerrero definitely deserves his place among them. While not being as popular as El Santo or Blue Demon or as well-traveled as Mil Mascaras, Gory was just as much a part of the development of lucha libre because of advancements in in-ring technique and innovative wrestling moves. He is credited with inventing the Gory Special, the Gory Bomb, the Camel Clutch, piledriver, powerbomb, and other moves seen everywhere in the ring today. He is also the patriarch of the Guerrero wrestling family, who had about 80 years of near-continuous activity in the wrestling industry.

For my makeup pick, I'll take the WWF title holders from 1997:

Hart Foundation is a snipe. Literally the only pick on my list at this moment.

I’m curious what people think of this one, and how many had him on their lists...

Round 14, Pick 2:



HoF class:

That picture never fails to make me laugh, entirely for Davey Boy trying to look tough while rocking that fanny pack.

When I think of Bill Apter, I think of him going around conducting shoot interviews with wrestlers to get their reactions to Randy Savage's death, and for some reason continually including the question, "If there was a book about Randy Savage, what should the title of it be?" To a man, they all (understandably) reacted rather awkwardly to the weird-ass question.

Bill Apter asks Bret Hart that question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c23IYT3sblk#t=02m14s

There's just something about Apter that makes me dislike him intensely. Just comes off like a shady used-car salesman to me.

That said, makes sense as an HOF pick if we're including various types of non-wrestling people (such as Jim Johnston which is a great pick I never would have thought of).

I think it’s the comb over.

For my next pick, I dare you to find a group of guys who were more over than these guys were at any time. Well, with the exception of Austin and Hogan. These three brothers absolutely set the WCCW on fire for years, but their best work was done when The Freebirds finally turned on them. After that the combination of good looks, great athleticism and and probably the greatest evil foils of all time on the other side catapulted them into the stratosphere. The only thing that stopped these guys was tragedy in the form of injuries and death. Who knows how high these guys could have gone had they not been beset by incident after incident.

My next pick for the Hall of Fame is:

Next pick:

Jimmy was on my radar (as in, nearly picked him two rounds ago and decided to wait it out and then realized I was making the wrong Hart pick).

I'm going to sort of pooh-pooh the media picks (and to a lesser extent the Jim Johnston pick, though it crossed my mind at one point); I don't think anyone 's going to a Hall of Fame and thinking "hey neato it's that reporter guy". I dunno, maybe I just underestimate the impact.

Perhaps I'm overrating him because of his contributions to other much smaller companies but I feel like this is a steal this late. I'm taking the man with the best hair in the business today:





.iso's HoF class

Dude, look at my avatar. You think I'm going to diss someone over a chrome dome?

Combing over is way, way worse than accepting baldness.

I did the combover for 4-5 years. I didn't realize how bad it was until I was on TV for the first time (local high school sports show) and realized, "Wow, that looks terrible."

But you'll just have to trust me, it's not the combover in Apter's case.

Ok. In a business full of scammers you chose Apter to give you the used car dealer vibe which is fine. I picked out his distinguishing feature that I think makes him look sgifty

There is a journalism wing in the actual pro wrestling hall of fame

DWetzel is skipped, so without further ado, at pick #98, AND NEEEEEEEEEEEEEW inductee into my Hall of Fame:

Not spew at all, I probably would’ve grabbed him with one of my next two picks.