Sid Vicious thinks WWE HOF induction more likely with Vince McMahon gone
With new management in place, Sid Vicious is hopeful that a WWE Hall of Fame induction could be in his future.
The former WWE and WCW World Champion was recently interviewed by the Attitude Era Podcast. During the conversation, Vicious said it’s “no secret” that Vince McMahon hated him after Vicious left WWE in 1992 (his first stint with the company before returning from 1995-1997). Now that McMahon is no longer involved with WWE, Vicious could see himself being chosen for the Hall of Fame.
“You’d think that they would offer that,” Vicious said about a potential induction. “Again, Vince didn’t like me so much. I think that’s why they haven’t offered that. But with Vince being gone now, you would think those people would say, ‘Hey, this guy, we still got him on [a legends] contract. He’s still making us a little bit of money. It would help him if we did that’ — and it would help them as well. You would think that they might want to do everything they could to promote something like that.”
McMahon resigned from WWE this January following the sexual abuse allegations made against him by former WWE employee Janel Grant in her lawsuit.
This year was the first WWE Hall of Fame class fully chosen by Paul “Triple H” Levesque. It was headlined by Paul Heyman and also consisted of Bull Nakano, Thunderbolt Patterson, The U.S. Express (Mike Rotunda & Barry Windham), Lia Maivia, and Muhammad Ali.
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