Getting inducted into the Hall of Fame is one of the biggest honors in WWE. It is also a way the company pays respect to the legends who paved the way for the next and upcoming generations. Recently, the Brooklyn Brawler shared his thoughts on possibly being inducted.
Recently, the Brooklyn Brawler was a special guest on Chris Van Vliet’s Insight podcast. During the interview, the Brawler mentioned that his gimmick has made a lot of contributions to the company and thus should be in the Hall of Fame. But at the end of the day, the decision is in the hands of WWE. He also believes that he will one day receive that honor.
“I think The Brooklyn Brawler has more contributions more accolades to be in the Hall of Fame. I believe that being in the Hall of Fame is their choice. I am not losing sleep over not being in the Hall of Fame. But I believe that there’s no way in life that one day I won’t be in the Hall of Fame. I just hope it’s not when I’m dead. You know what I mean? I’ve done so much. And the one thing that no one can ever take away from me is my memories. My memories are second to none.”
Brooklyn Brawler nearly became the WWE World Champion
During the same interview, the wrestling veteran shared the story of how he almost became the WWE Champion.
“Bret Hart said to Vince, and you could ask Bret this. He said ‘I will not drop the belt to Shawn Michaels’, that’s the Montreal Screwjob. ‘But I will drop it to Steve Lombardi.’ And he said that I quote him, and he would tell you right now if you interviewed him, he will tell you that he said that. But of course, Vince wouldn’t do it. I told him that and he goes to me if you did wrestle me in The Garden I wasn’t gonna kick out. I said, ‘You know what would have happened Bret? I would have got fired. Because if I didn’t throw my body off for you, Vince would have said it was my fault for pinning you.’ He goes, That’s not fair. I said, Life isn’t fair.” On his popularity in New York:
“I could walk out right now in Barclays Center on Monday, which I tweeted out. I don’t know if you’ve seen that. I said, ‘What would happen if the Brooklyn Brawler walked out in Barclays Center on WWE Raw?’ That’s all I said, 200 likes in like 20 seconds. People would become unglued because I was at one time the first show ever in the Barclays Center, and I won a six man match. It was me, The Miz and Del Rio against 3MB and I beat Jinder Mahal in a Boston crab, they call it the Brooklyn crab, whatever, they put a spin on it. But the funny part about it was now this is something no one knows about.
Vince McMahon was unhappy that the Brooklyn Brawler’s picture was on a wall in the Barclays Center
“After I did this, they put a picture on the wall in the Barclays Center of me and Jinder Mahal on the wall, right next to Madonna, and all these different people. And Vince hated it. He hated it. So Vince said, ‘You should take it down.’ So then all of a sudden, he’s like, it’s your fault the picture is up there. I said, ‘How’s it my fault? I don’t own the building. I don’t own anything.’ He was playing a stupid joke. But anyway, he took it down.
“He took it down and the picture the boys were loving it. They were like freaking out, I move the boys would take a picture of it, tweet it out, and it would do all this stuff. And then he said to me, ‘Well, I’m putting you in the ring with Ryback.’ He wanted to punish me the following day. Ryback comes up to me, he goes, You know what? I’m gonna give you a match like you are a main eventer,” Brooklyn Brawler said.
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