AEW doesn't have a Hall of Fame…so naturally, Pro Wrestling Forever decided to build one.
Professor Degree and Blade Daily sit down to answer a deceptively complicated question: What should an AEW Hall of Fame actually look like?
Before anybody gets a plaque, the fellas have to make the rules. When should the Hall of Fame open? Does a wrestler need to be retired? How much of someone's career needs to have happened in AEW? Should accomplishments in NJPW, ROH, CMLL and other promotions count? And should Ring of Honor have its own Hall of Fame entirely?
Then comes the fun part: who actually gets in?
Sting and Mr. Brodie Lee present very different but compelling cases. Kenny Omega, The Young Bucks, Jon Moxley, Chris Jericho, Hangman Page and Hikaru Shida helped define AEW's history. Cody Rhodes helped create the company—but left. Jay Briscoe never wrestled an AEW match. And then there's the wonderfully uncomfortable question of CM Punk.
Plus: tag teams and factions, contributors like Tony Schiavone and Jim Ross, the danger of inducting too many people too quickly, and the future stars already building first-ballot résumés.
By the end, Professor Degree and Blade must stop arguing long enough to establish the rules and choose their inaugural AEW Hall of Fame class.
Because wrestling history is serious business.
Even when the Hall of Fame we're arguing about doesn't exist.
Pro Wrestling Forever — wrestling history, nostalgia, debates, what-ifs and all the wonderfully weird stuff that made us fans in the first place.
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