WWE Hall Of Fame 2011 Notes/Report

Ric Flair and Ricky Steamboat arrived together, Road Warrior Animal is

sitting with Sunny. Everyone is making their way in and this is truly an

awesome sight. I've spotted JBL, Kevin Nash, Sean Waltman it looked

like, Trish Stratus, Steve Austin and others.

* Jerry Lawler is

hosting the ceremony. Hulk Hogan's name got a bad reaction. Lawler

introduces the first induction, Hacksaw Jim Duggan. Ted DiBiase Sr.

comes out to induct Duggan. Ted talked about Duggan's football career,

his wrestling days and fight against cancer. Duggan came out to an

ovation and talked about getting into the business. He ended his speech

with a promo against the terrorists we fight and a trademark HOOOO.

Duggan's speech was met with lots of USA chants from the crowd.

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Other people we've spotted include Stephanie McMahon, Linda McMahon,

Wendi Richter, Lex Luger, DDP, Sharmell, Booker T, Pat Patterson. Just

about everybody is here.

* Road Dogg Jesse James, Scott Armstrong,

Brad and Brian come out to induct their father Bullet Bob Armstrong.

Great reaction from the fans for BG James who doesn't look much

different from his DX and TNA days. This induction was way shorter than

Duggan's.

* A fan was just ejected by security for yelling.

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All of the WWE Divas are out now to induct Sunny. Layla and Michelle

McCool put her over big as the original Diva. Nice touch with the Divas

inducting Sunny and a good speech by her. The Divas hung around on stage

with her. Sunny talked about her late husband Chris Candido and getting

into the wrestling business. She said that after tonight there is no

debate on who the original Diva is anymore. Ashley notes that only

LayCool spoke but the entire Divas roster was present for the induction.

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Lawler introduced Terry Funk next who talked about his history with

Abdullah the Butcher. Funk is great on the mic as usual. Abdullah the

Butcher was introduced next for another short speech. Abdullah got

emotional and cried when talking about his family and talked about

getting the call from WWE. He had his trademark fork with him. Big pop

from Abdullah from the crowd. He thanked God, the fans and his family.

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The Road Warriors and Paul Ellering are being inducted next. Their name

gets a huge reaction at first. Dusty Rhodes comes out to induct them

and puts over how important they are to tag team wrestling. Dusty has

the best speech of the night so far. Huge LOD chants as Animal and Paul

Ellering come out. Ellering and Animal have an action figure of the late

Hawk on the podium to commemorate him. Animal did most of their speech.

He and Ellering talked about Hawk. Animal talked about the day Hawk

died. They thanked their fans and family. Great moment.

* Drew Carey gets boo'd during his video and his jokes. Kane comes out to induct him. Drew said he doesn't care about the boo's.

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Triple H is out next to induct Shawn Michaels. Triple H came out to his

King of Kings theme and put his friend Shawn over more than anyone else

has in their speeches tonight. He said Shawn won't admit that he's in

the Hulk Hogan Hair Club for Men. He also called Shawn the greatest

performer he's ever seen. He got emotional and told Shawn he loves him.

Triple H talked about their history together and gave HBK a new nickname

- Mr. Hall of Fame. Triple H has had the longest speech yet probably.

Shawn is out next to a huge standing ovation from the crowd.

Shawn

joked about how nervous he was. Michaels thanked everyone and said

there was one name he should thank but he couldn't say the name,

obviously referring to Ric Flair. The crowd "Whooo'd" at this. Shawn

thanked the WWE Universe, his family, the WWE talents and God. Great

speech by HBK, showed a candid side of himself we don't see often. Shawn

left to DX music and was joined on stage by Triple H, Sean Waltman and

Kevin Nash.