Triple H was on the Stone Cold Steve Austin Podcast after Raw last night and Austin asked some good questions. Using an incident in the ring where a fan jumped in the ring as a nostalgic jump off point, Austin asked Triple H about Chyna possibly being inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame.
Via Cageside Seats,
You know, that’s one of those questions. Does she deserve to go in the Hall of Fame? Absolutely. It is a little bit of a double sided edge. It’s not just as easy as ‘should this person go in the Hall of Fame?’ Completely 100-percent transcended the business, changed the business, paradigm shifter of the business, right? Did what no woman ever did before and was awesome at it, and a phenomenal talent. All the other stuff that happened happened and I don’t need to get into any of the other stuff but there is no beef on this side with anything, and I mean that 100 percent. From a career standpoint should she be in the Hall of Fame? Absolutely.
It’s a bit difficult, though, and this is the flip side of the coin that nobody looks at… You have a, I’ve got an 8-year-old kid. My 8-year-old kid sees the Hall of Fame, and my 8-year-old kid goes on the Internet to look at… ‘oh, this is Chyna, I’ve never heard of her, I’m 8-years-old, I’ve never heard of that.’ So I go type it in, I go punch it up, and what comes up? And I’m not criticizing anybody, I’m not criticizing lifestyle choices; everybody has their reasons. I don’t know what they were and I don’t care to know. It’s not a morality thing or anything else. It is just the fact of what it is. That’s a difficult choice.
Chyna and Triple H were an off screen item as well as founding members of DX along with Shawn Michaels. Chyna, the Ninth Wonder of the World, was the only female to ever hold the WWE Intercontinental Title. Obviously her choices to go into the pornographic world is hard for the WWE to take on, or at least that seems to be the excuse by Triple H. Chyna got an avalanche of tweets asking her thoughts and she responded.
If the WWE was ever to say that I was going to be inducted, either as part of the groundbreaking DX or as an individual
— Chyna (@ChynatheIcon) February 3, 2015
Well, my answer would be what a friend of mine us to say in the ring, O HELL YEAH!
— Chyna (@ChynatheIcon) February 3, 2015
Chyna is the only woman who could wrestle with the men and you can kind of buy it. I remember seeing her and feeling bad for Jeff Jarrett and Chris Jericho. She was legitimately their size. So yes, I do believe she belongs in the Hall of Fame but the WWE HOF isn’t all about deserving the spot. Sometimes things stand in the way. If DX gets in then she and Rick Rude deserve to go in.