The WWE Hall of Fame is the ultimate honor for any wrestler who appeared in the WWE, and each WrestleMania anticipation builds up to see who will be the latest inductees into the WWE Hall of Fame. However, each year there is a discussion of who is still left to be inducted into the Hall, and who has been omitted.
Some wrestlers have criticised the WWE for not having an actual Hall of Fame location, as opposed to conventional Halls of Fame, like the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield or the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton. The induction ceremony allows celebrated wrestlers from history to relive their glory days, and each inductee receives a special Hall of Fame ring that marks their achievement.
The British Bulldogs
The British Bulldogs, a tag team consisting of cousins Davey Boy Smith and Tom Billington, wrestled in the WWE from 1985 to 1988. They were some of the finest examples of British wrestling in the promotion, alongside the likes of William Regal, Fit Finlay, and Pete Dunne.
Long associated with the Hart family, after training under family patriarch Stu Hart and wrestling in the Stampede Wrestling promotion before joining WWE. However, the boys took it a step further and married into the extended Hart family with Davey Boy Smith marrying Diana Hart and Billington marrying Bret Hart’s sister-in-law.
In 1986, the Bulldogs won their first and only WWE Tag Team Championship, defeating the Dream Team of Brutus Beefcake and Greg Valentine at WrestleMania 2. The Bulldogs held the tag team belts until they lost them to the Hart Foundation almost a year later on an episode of Superstars due to favoritism from referee Danny Davis.
Los Guerreros
Los Guerreros were a tag team made up of Eddie Guerrero and Chavo Guerrero Jr, both of whom were members of the legendary Guerrero wrestling family. Eddie, who has already been inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame for his work as a singles wrestler, was the son of Mexican-American wrestler and promoter Gory Guerrero, while Chavo was Eddie’s nephew as his father, Chavo Guerrero Sr. was one of Eddie’s brothers.
Despite their generational difference, Eddie and Chavo grew up together due to their close ages. Both of them began their respective wrestling careers by wrestling each other during the intermission of shows put on by Gory Guerrero.
Even before their runs with Tag Team titles, Eddie and Chavo Jr were involved in storylines while in WCW, with Eddie refusing to let Chavo join the Latino World Order. In WWE, the pair held the WWE Tag Team title twice, holding the titles for a combined reign of 114 days.
Brothers of Destruction
The Brothers of Destruction are the kayfabe brother pairing of The Undertaker and Kane. Together, the two formed a formidable team during the late Attitude Era of WWE, running through until the Ruthless Aggression Era. Both wrestlers have been inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame for their respective individual careers, but they also deserve to be inducted for their work as a tag team as well.
The pair held the WWE Tag Team titles twice, the pair also held the WCW Tag Team titles during the second reign with the title, becoming the first team to hold both titles concurrently and the first team since the Steiners to have held both titles.
Given their legacies, it is only fitting to see the Brothers of Destruction enter the WWE Hall of Fame for their work as a tag team.
The Hardy Boyz
While technically still active, the Hardy Boyz are likely at the tail end of their in-ring careers and should be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame as a pair. Debuting at the height of the Attitude Era and originally billed as The New Brood, the Hardys made a name for themselves as Team Extreme thanks to their exciting high-flying maneuvers.
Alongside The Dudley Boys and Edge and Christian, the Hardy Boyz put their bodies on the line multiple times, innovating the first ever tag team Tables, Ladders, and Chairs Matches. In WWE alone, the pair held tag team titles on 9 different occasions with a variety of titles including the World Tag Team Titles, the WWE Tag Team Titles, the Raw Tag Team titles, the SmackDown tag team titles and the WCW Tag Team titles.
Given WWE’s current relationship with TNA, where the Hardys currently wrestle, it is also fitting to note their work in that promotion, where the Hardys are currently in their third reign with the TNA World Tag Team titles.
Demolition
One of the most glaring tag team omissions from the WWE Hall of Fame has to be the fact that Demolition has not yet been inducted. Demolition, originally formed by Ax and Smash and later joined by Crush, the team held the titles for almost 700 days over three reigns with the title, including a record-setting 478-day title reign which was only broken in 2016 by The New Day.
It is likely that the pair were not inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame as a result of their involvement in multiple lawsuits against WWE in the past. In the mid-1990s, Ax filed a lawsuit against WWE for rights to the Demolition name, and then in 2016, Ax and Smash joined the class action lawsuit filed against the WWE by multiple wrestlers regarding traumatic brain injuries which was dismissed in 2018.
However, it looks like the pair are set to be inducted shortly as they have reportedly signed a Legends Deal with the company, allowing them to return to the promotion and finally receive the Hall of Fame induction that they truly deserve.