What's so great about him? He never even held a major title.
2007-02-22 10:23:43 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sports ➔ Wrestling
You obviously never saw him wrestle. To start off, he was the longest reigning WWF Intercontinental Champion of the 1990s. He was a solid wrestler, one of the best of his time, a true athlete and good on the mic. You can look at the list of wrestlers he took on and always had good matches out of them: Tito Santana, Scott Hall, Ted Dibase, Ric Flair, Lex Luger and I haven't even mentioned WCW yet. As far as his finisher being "weak", the times were different. It was the 1990s, when DDTs and superplexs were still finishers. The true test is his matches, they will stand the test of time. By the way, Dan Marino never won a Super Bowl, yet he's still considered one of the best quarterbacks ever, you don't have to win a World Title to be considered the best, I point to Rowdy Roddy Piper, he never held a "major" worlds title either, but no one will ever question his greatness. Curt "Mr Perfect" Hennig is in the same boat.
2007-02-25 18:31:06 · answer #1 · answered by Prime Time™©® 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are a number of reasons why. The first and formost is the fact that he was so well loved by the fans. He was also a great technical wrestler from an incredible wrestling background-his father was the great Larry The Axe Hennig. At the time of his death he was quite young but had been in wrestling for many many years!
2007-02-22 22:30:53 · answer #2 · answered by gus_zalenski 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ummmm....he was only one of the great technical wrestlers of all time. He may not have ever been a wwe champ but he was an i.c. champ a couple of times & was a great performer. I was very happy to see him inducted this year. He deserves to be in the hall of fame.
2007-02-22 18:45:39 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Umm. maybe the fact that he was an amazing wrestler and the least they can do after his death is induct him into the WWE hall of fame
2007-02-22 18:31:19 · answer #4 · answered by Brian 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
he was a 2 time IC champ and held titles in wcw and i think he was AWA heavyweight champ. You dont have to be wwe champion in order to be in the hall.. Just look at lasley and bortista, mr.perfect is a thousand times better then them. Oh by the way.. HE'S PERFECT!
2007-02-22 18:34:36 · answer #5 · answered by twiztid642 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i saw in wrestle hulk during the 80's in a live match ring side in rochester ny it was a non title match and he out wrestled hogan and won the match if you had seen this match you know why hes going into the hall of fame it was one of the great ones
2007-02-26 16:01:54 · answer #6 · answered by mrnice98765 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because he was a good wrestler.Also it could be because he died like 2 years ago,which seems weird that they haven't inducted Owen Hart.So maybe Owen might be next in line to be inducted.
2007-02-22 20:00:33 · answer #7 · answered by Topher 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not about holding major titles, its about a persons impact on the industry and honoring them for their accomplishments and hard work. Curt Henning did that in spades, and should be remembers as a ledgend of this bussiness.
2007-02-22 18:43:15 · answer #8 · answered by no more heroes 2001 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think because he had great agility and technique. He had also been in the industry for a very long time so why not induct him
2007-02-22 18:42:02 · answer #9 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He was really good, he did great TV promos showing how great he was as being "perfect", and he did a move called "The Perfect Plex"
2007-02-22 18:30:30 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋