Surprising Solo Star Touted For WWE Hall Of Fame
Jeff Jarrett wants to see one of his contemporaries honoured with a solo induction into the WWE Hall of Fame.
The WWE Hall of Fame celebrates the great and good of the company’s past by honouring solo stars, tag teams, factions, and even celebrities.
Ric Flair became the first two-time WWE Hall of Famer when he was inducted with the Four Horsemen in 2012 following his solo induction in 2008. Since then, several other groups have been inducted, including DX and the NWO, leading Sean Waltman to become a two-time Hall of Famer without being inducted by himself.
But Jeff Jarrett thinks WWE should put that right.
Jeff Jarrett Touts Sean Waltman As A 3-Time WWE Hall Of Famer
Speaking on his My World podcast, Jeff Jarrett explained why he thinks Sean Waltman’s career was strong enough for him to be honoured by himself:
I’m going to be way, way biased… It’s a no-brainer. You look at the Lightning Kid at a young age, his matches with Jerry Lynn. You can call it the X Division, before X-Division, or Junior Heavyweight, or Flyweight, or however you want to say that.
But in his earliest of days, coming on the scene, he was turning heads and making headlines as, truly, a kid. Then, when you look at his entry point into the WWF as the 1-2-3 Kid, and the huge upset he had over Razor Ramon. I know that there’s some historians that will kind of point to different things, maybe Shawn and Bret, or the smaller guys having a bigger impact, because in the 80s, I wasn’t small, I was tiny, comparatively speaking, it was just it was a different era. I know in the 70s it was pretty much a big man’s business as well.
When you kind of think of a trailblazer, somebody who broke the mold, positioned it in a unique way, that 1-2-3 Kid upset can happen anywhere. He battled some demons, like all of us do in life, but he kept rolling. You look at when he showed up on Nitro, that piece of the puzzle in the nWo, named him Syxx. He was the sixth member.
Then, him going back [to WWE], there is a lot of moments that Kid was a part of. So if you know your history, it is absolutely no disrespect to anybody that’s currently in the Hall of Fame, but, my gosh, without question.
So far, there are no three-time WWE Hall of Fame inductees. The most likely name to become the first to earn that honour is Ric Flair if Evolution are inducted as a group in the future.