The New Day inducting The Freebirds into the WWE Hall of Fame

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Source: www.F4WOnline.com

By Dave Meltzer | @davemeltzerWON | Mar 23, 2016 12:46 pm

The WWE announced today that The New Day would be inducting The Freebirds into the WWE Hall of Fame on 4/2 in Dallas.

The connection is that The New Day as a three-man tag team championship team, where any two men can defend the titles, was taken from The Freebirds, of Michael Hayes & Terry Gordy & Buddy Roberts, who may have been the first team to do so with their Freebird rules.

The Freebirds scheduled for induction are Hayes, currently a WWE producer, Jimmy Garvin, Gordy and Roberts. The latter two, who have passed away, will be represented by their sons who became pro wrestlers, Ray Gordy, who worked for WWE as Jesse, and Buddy Roberts Jr., an independent wrestler in Illinois.

Yesterday the company announced that Vader would be inducting Stan Hansen. Vader and Hansen had a memorable match at the Tokyo Dome in 1990 where Vader's eye came out of its socket. It was a dream match at the time, as Vader was the foreign monster for New Japan Pro Wrestling, while Hansen had a similar spot with All Japan.

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*Insert your own joke about Michael Hayes being upset about this here*

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Should have been Von Erich, but oh well, WWE needs to promote

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Should have been Von Erich, but oh well, WWE needs to promote

That's pretty much what I was thinking, and it got me annoyed because I assumed it was the sort of hollow thing that WWE does with the HOF ceremony very often, but to my surprise, aside from this one, Big Show inducting John Studd, and "the WWE Divas" inducting Sunny (probably the absolute pinnacle of this sort of bullsh*t), I couldn't really find any other inductors who felt like WWE self promotion.