• Why Batista Hasn’t Been Inducted Into The WWE Hall Of Fame Yet
In 2024, Batista expressed his openness to being inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame. Although he was announced as an inductee in 2020, the ceremony was postponed due to the pandemic, and Batista was unable to attend the rescheduled 2021 event due to prior commitments.
In a conversation with Chris Van Vliet, Batista revealed his willingness to be inducted in the future, stating that he had agreed to it when Triple H first approached him. He mentioned that the induction was initially set for Los Angeles, where he won his first World Title, making it a “perfect, storybook moment.”
Here’s what the 6-time World Champion said:
“Eventually, I will. I want to, and there was a good opportunity for me to go in a couple of years ago. I agreed to do it – Hunter asked me to do it – and I said, ‘Yeah, of course.’
It was going to be in LA, and I thought it was perfect; it was storybook because I won my first title here in LA. However, we couldn’t figure it out because I was working on a film in South Africa, so logistically, we just couldn’t make it happen.
But yes, I’m still open to it, and one day I would like to.”
In an update, Fightful Select reported the following about why Batista hasn’t been inducted yet:
“Scheduling is the reason I’m given every year. I ask every year and I’m told it’s scheduling every year.”
• “Be as h0e-y as possible, dress up to your a$$” – Becky Lynch Reveals WWE’s Early Demands From Female Stars
Becky Lynch has been in the wrestling business for more than two decades, starting her career in 2002 before signing with WWE in 2013. But according to her, the environment she entered was far from ideal for women trying to break into the company.
While WWE has undergone major changes in recent years, Lynch says the expectations for female talent were very different when she arrived.
Speaking on Something’s Burning with Bert Kreischer, Lynch recalled what the company wanted women to look like at the time.
“At the time when you were a girl in WWE, you always had to go to the shows in nice dresses. I was in NXT, so you have to be as h0e-y as possible, right? You have to be, like, dress up to your a$$, low as can be. Like this was the aesthetic. I didn’t suit the aesthetic, but I knew it.”
Lynch also revealed in the same interview that a male talent attempted to use his influence to control female wrestlers’ careers, threatening to blacklist women whether they rejected him or ended up sleeping with him.
