Matt Hardy should not get inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame. Jeff MAYBE but certainly not Matt. What has Matt done to have ANY sort of Hall of Fame career? If winning Tag Team championship gold is all it takes then hell Kofi Kingston is a sure fire Hall of Famer already. He's provided us more memorable moments in ROYAL RUMBLE matches alone than Matt has in his entire career.
I don't even give a damn if I take heat for saying that. Hell X-Pac deserves HoF inductions well before Matt should ever be considered.
As far as Sting goes as has been stated: once he is retired and away from the sport for a while I think WWE will reach out to him. HHH/WWE brass are no morons as much as we like to think they are. They know there is huge potential revenue by working with the Stinger. The man is a GLOBAL ICON without ever having set foot in the WWF/E! Hell the very mention of him working WM with the Undertaker set the world on fire with excitement. Nobody else in wrestling today is as big an ICON as Sting AND has yet to step foot in the WWE. If WWE doesn't induct the likes of Sting they are missing a Green and Golden opportunity.
How are you picking these guys who "shouldn't go in"? Cos logic and their actual career doesn't seem to be part of it. Some guys are Icons - they are the kind of guys who headline a HOF class, others are part of one. Not giving a damn is fine, but not knowing your stuff when comparing two careers side by side isn't.
At one time Matt was the most decorated champion in WWE history, with all his combined Hardcore, tag and Euro/IC/Cruiser and ECW titles combined. JR mentioned it regularly on his blog and in commentary - he has also an equal claim to the HOF for being involved in the TLC's and his body of work which includes a win over his brother at Mania, a memorable cage match with Edge at Summerslam and again holding EVERY WWF title bar one of the top 2 or the Diva's. Also remember how young he was when he got into the WWF - 19 in Matt's case, so by the time he left he already had over 10 years served and has plenty of scope to return one day (although it is not likely he will get one of those World titles - he was closer than many). All of this of course is solo before you count his work as part of one of the most over teams WWE has ever had.
So whatever his "demons", his WWF career is 10x that of what Kofi Kingston has ever achieved or is likely to. That is not to say KK isn't a future Hall Of Famer himself.
By the same token why would X-Pac not get one? ahead of Hardy or not? He too was part of the 2 biggest factions of an era, played a role in getting Scott Hall and Kane over and was a a big part of the WWF before 1995's ruin. Again, issues backstage but he never got busted while working for Vince - and was always pushed.
Now as to the actual thread - It's a tough one in Sting's case because he has chosen not to work with WWE to date, even when the opportunities have been there. That makes it hard for them to honor him as there is no match or moment for THEM that can be honored, it's all about WCW and their "buried after acquisition" attitude towards it, the only way it ever works is if they revive WCW itself and Sting is part of it, be it Commish or GM etc... THEN they have something they can point to and say he is part of our history and future.
Christian was a different case, he had a strong - near HOF level career before being TNA World Champ and then winning the World belt later - even if WWE skate over the gaps, he is a "classic" HOF competitor, someone who has shown upwards growth his whole career, not gotten in trouble and most importantly, shown class in how he has behaved over TNA - that TNA honored him already won't come into it, he made clear he didn't really want to show up on their show but he did it, even dropped the IC belt so he could, he even showed up to the PPV AND following RAW when his deal was expired and was clearly off to TNA... look at that, then look at Jeff Jarrett and you get an idea as to why Christian is a lock for the HOF...eventually and Jarrett is never getting near the WWE HOF, even if he buys a ticket.
Yes guys like Christian will have to wait, but that they are inducting guys like Booker now shows they are moving away from the traditional slots in the HOF class, there was always a Tag Team, a Promoter, a Celeb, A Diva a headliner and some lesser guys and of course the dreaded "dead wrestler slot". This year it's all about great workers, I was a little surprised that Harlem Heat as a team didn't go in but that Booker is going in can only bode well for guys who have been in TNA or made mistakes - remember Booker did nearly 10 years for Armed Robbery, so his induction is a triumphant one in many ways. Both Booker and Foley left under clouds but returned and are being honored. Both HOF's will eventually include many of the same people - Flair, Angle, Foley, Christian, RVD (he will be next back into the fold), Eric Bischoff, Truth, D-Lo Brown (another very decorated worker for WWE) Nash and the Dudleyz have all got the likelyhood of going into both in their lifetimes, should they beat the curse of the wrestler.
