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I'm sure you probably got a lot of emails on this, but I thought I'd send another one. Hulk Hogan was just on the Bubba The Love Sponge show and was a bit drunk, and while he was on the air he got a phone call from Vince McMahon's secretary Ann Russo. She wanted to go over the list of names for possible induction into the Hall Of Fame this year. What she didn't know was that Hogan put her on speaker phone so all the names went out over the air. When he eventually told her she was on the air, she said she'd get in trouble and sounded rather shocked.
Anyway, the list of names were (I wrote them down as she
read off the names):
The Von Erichs
Ultimate Warrior
The Original Sheik
Ric Flair
Mr. Fuji
Nick Bockwinkel
Muhammed Ali
Mr. T
Mike Tyson
Howard Finkel
Jim Ross
Ken Patera
King Curtis
Ted DiBiase
Jake "The Snake" Roberts
Honky Tonk Man
Randy Savage
Dusty Rhodes
Dick Ebersol (NBC Executive responsible for creation of Saturday Night's Main Event)
The Wild Samoans
Big Boss Man
Bob Backlund
Rick Rude
The Bushwhackers
Rocky Johnson
The Brooklyn Brawler
Hogan was then asked to pick 10 names, and he said, "the names I pick go into the Hall Of Fame?" He then picked:
Big Boss Man
King Curtis
Dusty Rhodes
Randy Savage
Wild Samoans
Von Erichs
Rick Rude
Bushwhackers
Hogan then he picked Howard Finkel once he got off the phone.
He did say that was a "heat getter" and I can't imagine Vince will be too happy once he finds out. Anyway, it was great radio.
Shawn
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