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Another DX video of them causing all kinds of havoc for the McMahons and other people over the years. We go back to Corey and Renee, who throw us to the video for Harlem Heat, our next inductees (they even included the infamous Spring Stampede promo of Booker calling Hulk Hogan something very not nice, though they cut the clip before he said the word). No inductor again, and out come Stevie Ray and Booker T. They both look every bit as ready to go as they ever did. Stevie is still a monster. Booker talks about how Stevie always had his back since he was little, and he just wanted to do everything Stevie did. They lost their parents when they were young and he had to watch Booker's back even more. He ended up going to prison, but Stevie still had his back, and every time they did it would be about wrestling and what Hulk and Piper were doing. When he came home, his brother had his back, and he helped Booker get a job, on the condition that he does it to his best no matter what it is. To this day, he's been doing that job to the best of his ability. He wouldn't be here today if it weren't for his brother, because he is truly living Stevie's dream. He had weight belts made for them that said Mr. Ebony 1 and Mr Ebony 2, and to this day, he still wants to be like his big brother. He's going to pass it to his brother now because he's been living his dream, and it's time for him to wake up.
Stevie said they never started out as Harlem Heat, and they never planned to be a tag team, and they were trained by Ivan Putski and Scott Casey, and they started out in Putski's organization, but that company closed down within months. Booker thought it was over before it started, but then they got a call from Tugboat Taylor and eventually wound up in the GWF, and he was supposed to go there as a solo tryout, but brought Booker with him and Eddie Gilbert, who was booking at the time, and Booker looked like a wrestling version of John Shaft, so Gilbert asked if Booker worked too, and decided to put them together as a team. A week later, they come back to Global and wants to make them a babyface team even though they had never tagged before, they came up with Stevie Ray and Booker T and became the Ebony Experience, and they got the worst team ever as a tryout, Eddie Gilbert got fired, and Booker again thought it was over before it started. Stevie says they are going to do what Scott Casey taught them to do, went out there and made the bad team look better than they ever did in their lives. Stevie got the hot tag and went over, and Global said they're not giving them a job but to come back next week, and a month later, the place was sold out for the Ebony Experience. Booker says that's when they went to Atlanta, and it all started with this lady right here, and a picture of them with Sherri comes up on screen. Booker says Sherri Martell was a big, big part of the women's revolution, and Stevie says someone wanted to come down and try out with us to see how good they are, so he got a partner and did a tag match with him and his partner, it went great, and Sid later told him that the partner was his best friend who was not a wrestler, but he was impressed when they made him look good. They went to WCW, had a great match, and Ole Anderson brought them into his office and says that they told him to send them back to Texas, and Booker again thought it was over before it started, but Ole says he saw something in them and isn't getting rid of them. He wants them to change their gimmick and not let him down, and they want Ole to know they are here and they did it. Working in WCW was a challenge, and they always got to work with top talent, but they weren't getting anywhere. Then a new guy came in to evaluate talent and told the office that they were the best team in the company, and that man was Hulk Hogan. They got Sherri, won ten World Tag Team Titles, main evented, and because of that one opportunity, they became what they became. He wants to give an extra big thank you to a man who shook their hands and offered to help them, and that was Arn Anderson, and after that, Stevie did the same for everyone who came into the company after that. Arn taught him that respect is everything in this business, and he wants to relay that to everyone in the business. Stevie tells everyone to watch that they don't get slapjacked, and Booker says to all the teams still representing, especially the New Day, and they put over Kofimania. They thank their family, and now he's a 2 time Hall of Famer, and can we dig that, SUCKAAAAAAAAAAAAA?
Corey and Renee hit the video package, then introduce our final inductees of the evening, Degeneration X. In true character, DX rides in on a jeep with a cannon on the back, and Tripel H says they've always broken the rules, but he's office now, so they have to set some boundaries. He says it's like Fight Club: you don't talk about it, and you don't say Vince McMahon. They all proceed to say Vince McMahon about three or four dozen times. They experiment with Kennedy, and Road Dogg asks who says they can't say it, and Triple H says Vince McMahon. Road Dogg asks what happens if the fans say his name, and the fans start a Vince McMahon chant. Triple H says that makes him mad, but what really pisses him off is thanking him, so of course the fans chant that too. Shawn says he will never, ever thank Vince McMahon, especially for giving him two rings. Billy says at least Vince can't fire him, and that pops the rest of them. Triple H says Vince will buy that pissant company just to fire him again. OH SNAP! Shawn says everyone knows that DX likes to have fun, but they want to thank one member who is not out here tonight. The fans stand up and chant "thank you Chyna" as an image of her appears on the screen. Shawn says the word trailblazer gets thrown around a lot, but DX would not have become what it had without Chyna. The fans chant "she deserves it" as Shawn puts her over, then Road Dogg pulls out about 50 pages of paper to do the Hillbilly Jim speech, and Triple H has his glasses on with crooked eyes, and Shawn has glasses with a giant nose, and they realize they got each other's glasses. Road Dogg thanks God for his sobriety, for being inducted into the same Hall of Fame his father was inducted into, and he doesn't have a ton of friends, but most of them are on stage with him. Mostly he wants to thank his wife, and he thanks God for her because he put her through hell, and she stayed there beside him the whole time, and he loves her with all his heart. He has trouble talking to guys that way, so he put something together to show his friendship, and we see a hilarious video of DX being friendly, and then a dog humping someone's leg finds its way into the video. Billy says this is the part where they let him talk, and Triple H says not to make them regret it. He wants to thank the Bruise Brothers, Bill DeMott, his family, and he gets a bit emotional as he thanks his wife because without her, he wouldn't be standing here now. Now Billy says they've done a lot of stuff together, they remember some better than others, but this was the coolest of them all. He says excuse me while he whips this out, and he pulls out a Super Soaker and pulls the trigger...and only a trickle comes out. Triple H says it's okay because that happens sometimes at their age, no matter how many times you pump it, sometimes it just dribbles out. Shawn says we can always count on Billy Gunn to over promise and under deliver, and this must be what he meant by being All In. X-Pac asks if it's his turn, and Triple H reminds him not to make them regret it. The fans chant "123" as Triple H said they were going to have him come out as the Kid and shave his eyebrows. X-Pac says he never thought he'd be here, or what he'd be inducted for, whether it's 123 Kid, DX, NWO, but he wasn't sure he'd live to see this day. His family is here, and he's so grateful to have a relationship with them again, and he worked really hard, and he has tons of notes and everyone has been making fun of him backstage. The fans chant that he deserves it, and he wants to thank everyone because to know the things he did, we can look it up on the Network, and asks if it's still $9.99. He wants to thank Ric Flair and Dusty Rhodes, and says the first show he was ever at had Flair and Dusty in the main event for the NWA Title, and that's when he decided this was what he wanted to do with his life. He wants to thank the Great Malenko, as well as Joe and Dean Malenko for training a skinny 15 year old with no money, also Jerry Lynn because he's one of the greatest wrestlers ever, and he wouldn't be here without Jerry, but he also wants to thank the Bad Guy, Razor Ramon. Scott Hall stands up and shows respect to his longtime friend, and X-Pac says Hall made him, and he wouldn't be here today if it weren't for him. He also wants to thank the rest of the Clique, because they were responsible for DX and the NWO, and he also loves Big Kev and laughs at him for not standing up because his knees are killing him. He makes a joke about a torn quad, and Triple H said that's not funny. He wants to thank Bret Hart for giving him the best match of his career, and to this day one of the best matches ever on Raw. He also wants to thank Eric Bischoff for bringing him to WCW as part of the NWO, then firing him just in time to come back and join DX and help win the Monday Night Wars. He wants to thank his fellow DX members, especially Billy for not beating him up with he superglued his hat to his head before he came to the ring. Last but not least, and he thanks Maria Menounos and a guy I don't recognize for bringing him to LA and giving him a show. He thanks his girlfriend Angela, and finally thanks Chyna, calling her the magic ingredient in the DX recipe. He suggests naming the women's battle royal at Wrestlemania the Chyna Battle Royal, and the fans seem to like that. X-Pac says one of his favorite parts of their time back then, was when women showed their boobs. They say boobs over and over while asking if boobs is acceptable to say on TV. X-Pac still keeps in touch with some of them, and we see a picture of the first one ever on the screen, and then a photo of what she looks like now, and gravity has taken over. We see more and strategically covered photos of naked old ladies with DX logos over their boobs. Triple H says he's sorry, but X-Pac needs to be done. Now it's Shawn's turn to thank his family, except that they didn't come, and he's here all alone with nothing, and some of that's on them because his wife and kids are embarrassed of them. Triple H says it wasn't them, he wore a cowboy hat and assless chaps, and even Bret Hart knows better than that. Triple H comes up and the fans chant NXT, and he wants to thank Killer Kowalski, as well as everyone who ever stepped foot in the ring with them because they're nothing without the guy standing across the ring from them. He thanks the Clique, they do the Wolfpac hand signal, and does Too Sweet. They're all brothers, and they usually just pointed a camera at them and they were off, and that was how they did things. He wouldn't be where he is without her, DX wouldn't be what they became without her, and it's fitting that we're here a night before the women headline Wrestlemania for the first time, and Chyna's sister is here in the crowd, and Triple H says she's here, the real her. The fans chant their thanks to Chyna, and Triple H tells his daughters he loves them more than they love him, he thanks the Big Pop because he can't say Vince McMahon, he thanks Linda (and jokes about her getting his taxes audited), he thanks Stephanie and says it's forever for them, and he thanks his parents as well. They said and did a lot of things they shouldn't have, they mooned a lot of people, they had to shave Shawn, and it was immature and they made a lot of genitalia jokes, juvenile humor, and he wants to tell the world a little known fact: his mother wrote most of that stuff, and she'll act like she didn't, but she absolutely did because she is the master of the penis joke, so if you ever got suspended from school for imitating them, blame her. Shawn says they corrupted an entire generation, and he knows that's true because just LOOK at these fans, and they're disgusting. They owe not just the WWE Universe, but the world an apology, so the DX podium comes up on stage, and Shawn walks up to the podium, takes a minute to compose himself, and tells the Kid he as always the eloquent one, and tells him to lead them off with something from the heart, understanding what they did to an entire generation. X-Pac says our ass is grass and he's gonna smoke it, and to raise some hell and make a little noise. Triple H doesn't think that's what Shawn meant, so Road Dogg comes in to do the New Age Outlaws promo. Now Triple H takes the podium, Shawn and the rest hug him from behind real manly like, Shawn fondles Triple H's chest, and he just needs to know one thing before he apologizes: are you ready? No, he said ARE YOU READY? They line up, and he says for the thousands in attendance and the millions watchign at home, and because DX is now officially in the Hall of Fame, let's get ready to SUCK IT! Road Dogg says someone's gotta bring it home, so here comes Billy Gunn, taking off his jacket, and he says there's still a roof on this place, but if you're not down with DX being in the Hall of Fame, they've got two words for us. DX gets their now fully-functional Super Soakers out and spray the crowd to close us out.
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