Perry didn’t take up much time and left it for the wrestlers. But he was great with his introduction of Perry as he did the old NFL films deal with the dramatic announcing and colorful wording of Perry’s career. The Fridge was in a battle royal at Wrestlemania 2 won by Andre The Giant in the Rosemont Horizon in Chicago.Īnd Chicago was the host city for this Wrestlemania as well. John Cena inducted William “Refrigerator” Perry into the celebrity wing of the WWE Hall of Fame. Blackjack Mulligan seemed to be in better spirits as the word was that he wasn’t doing well.īut Blackjack Lanza was peeved at someone as he was cracking jokes on Bobby Heenan and just telling jokes in general that were not getting over with a crowd that wanted to applaud everything.
The Blackjacks were inducted by Bobby “The Brain” Heenan and thankfully, the worst was first. He introduced all the inductors and did a fairly seamless job. The Hall Of Fame event itself was hosted by Jerry “The King” Lawler.
It’s kind of like how you can have an awards show and party for people who act. I know people will ask how you can have a Hall of Fame for a predetermined sport. It was really a fantastic Hall of Fame ceremony. He knew it would happen eventually, but not so soon, and not because of something like Eddie’s death.īecause Bret made it quite clear that he wasn’t going to be a part of the wrestling shenanigans, and also because obviously Eddie physically (though they sure as heck made sure his name was brought up on the show) wouldn’t be able to be there, the Hall of Fame ceremony was actually more so the must see event than the actual wrestling event the next day. Chavo Guerrero said it best during his speech in inducting his Uncle Eddie when he said that never in a million years would he have thought he’d be inducting Eddie into the Hall in 2006. The late Eddie Guerrero’s death was still surreal some eight months after it happened. He also made it quite clear that he was only going to be a part of the Hall of Fame ceremony and would have nothing to do with the Wrestlemania wrestling card itself. Bret Hart was never supposed to be apart of any WWE event after Vince screwed him in Montreal, and also after his brother Owen died in the ring after an irresponsible mishap.īut after the recent completion of his DVD set, you figured Bret would come around.
Vince McMahon did his damnedest to make Bret Hart a part of the Hall of Fame ceremony, much to the chagrin of wrestling fans alike. But the other reason is because of Bret Hart and the late Eddie Guerrero. Thankfully the guys put on awesome performances and the card ending up being pretty good. There were two reasons for that.įirst, the booking, build-up and match making for the card was pretty atrocious. Wrestlemania 22 was the first time in Wrestlemania history that the Hall of Fame ceremony (or any extracurricular activity) actually overshadowed the wrestling card. They televise an hour of it on television and stream it on the internet, but add the entire ceremony on the DVD as an added incentive to buy the release. For the the last three years, WWE has added a Hall of Fame ceremony as an extra event.