WWE's 10 least-deserving Hall of Famers

For 20 years, the WWE Hall of Fame has given wrestling fans reasons to scratch their heads.

Even among cynical fans who see the Hall of Fame as nothing more than a propaganda tool, it’s hard not to feel frustrated when deserving candidates get snubbed, and when undeserving ones get inducted.

The WWE is making some major inroads with the former problem this year, as two of the Hall’s most glaring omissions, Bruno Sammartino and Bob Backlund are both being inducted. But there’s really nothing they can do about the latter.

Debating which WWE Hall of Famers did not deserve the honor can be a bit touchy, in part because WWE has never spelled out the criteria for induction, making the whole thing entirely subjective.

That said, of the more than 100 people who have been inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame since it was created in 1993, the vast, vast majority are clearly deserving. A very small number are clearly undeserving. And a few fall somewhere in between.

Like many sports writers who vote in other pro sports halls of fame, I am of the opinion that if you have to think about it too much, then that person doesn’t belong. That shouldn’t necessarily be considered a slight on any inductee, especially considered the scores of wrestlers who have stepped into a ring over the decades and would never even be brought up in such a conversation.

But a Hall of Fame should be reserved for the very elite—not the very good. And so that’s why I think these ten acts should not have been inducted.