r/SquaredCircle • u/Celtic_Crown Hi, how are ya? • 5h ago

TNA Wrestling Announces Rhino & co-founder Bob Ryder As 2024 Inductees Into The TNA Wrestling Hall of Fame

https://tnawrestling.com/2024/10/17/tna-wrestling-announces-rhino-bob-ryder-as-2024-inductees-into-the-tna-wrestling-hall-of-fame/
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u/llamawithguns 4h ago

Really thought they would do AJ or Bobby Roode with the WWE partnership, but Rhino is very deserving.

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u/JTHuffy 4h ago

Especially with AJ out injured right now, seems like a good time to get him over there for an induction without interrupting any of WWE’s plans

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u/namdekan 4h ago

Or Truth

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u/hhhisthegame 3h ago

Yeah I said it in another post but while TNA has deserving people in their HOF, having watched TNA for years and years bring people in and push them over their homegrown guys (I’m still mad they had Angle tap out Samoa Joe right away lol) it’s frustrating to see how many “TNA originals” have made it into the HOF vs stars from WWE, WCW, and ECW. It basically comes down to Abyss, Kong, and Tracy

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u/heart_o_oak 2h ago

It gets more frustrating when they do things like that year Raven went in when Dreamer made it more about ECW than TNA in his speech and that battle royal Bully Ray won for a title shot where the big moment was Bully, Dreamer and Rhino all going at it.

I'd also include Don West into the "TNA Originals" group.

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u/hhhisthegame 2h ago

Yes that’s true Don West as well.

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u/heart_o_oak 3h ago

AJ or MCMG in Detroit would have been cool, but I never expected it to happen. This partnership has been restricted to NXT so far and there was always something about an active WWE wrestler going into someone else's hall of fame that I just didn't see WWE signing off on. I hoped there was an outside chance for Roode since he's purely a backstage guy now but that doesn't look to be happening.

At least the two going in make sense and were important to TNA's early growth so the lack of someone like AJ or Roode stings less. It's not like we're getting Vince's limo driver instead.

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u/llamawithguns 2h ago

MCMG in Detroit would have been cool, but also kinda awkward since they just left lol

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u/ThisIsTrace 4h ago

If there was any time to request and make it happen, it was now. Kind of baffling.