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The WWE Hall of Fame every year celebrates the careers and accomplishments of legends from the past. The Hall of Fame as seen some of the all-time greats inducted over the years, including Hulk Hogan, 'Rowdy' Roddy Piper, Stone Cold Steve Austin, Ric Flair (twice), Shawn Michaels, The Fabulous Moolah, the very first inductee André the Giant, the list goes on and on.
However, it is not only the legends of professional wrestling and sports entertainment that get inducted but celebrities do too. Yes, celebrities are generally inducted to help gain some media attention for the most part, but also as a way of WWE showing their gratitude for the celebrity for helping WWE make money and/or ratings and pay-per-view buys. This is something that a large portion of fans have heavily disagreed over the years, but it won't change anything, and it is here to stay. You could even argue that some of those already inducted actually deserve their spot, such as Mr. T, due to his involvement with WrestleMania 1 and 2, and even the President Donald Trump, as his involvement with WrestleMania 23 helped it be the most successful up to that point.
Here are 5 other celebrities who I believe have contributed more than enough in wrestling to be inducted into the celebrity wing of the WWE Hall of Fame.
#5 The Insane Clown Posse
The Insane Clown Posse, Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope, are a controversial hip-hop duo, that gained a cult popularity in the 90's from their style of hardcore hip hop known as horrorcore, which spawned a dedicated following called Juggalos numbering in the "tens of thousands".
The ICP's career in wrestling started thanks to Rob Van Dam and Sabu, who were fans of them and knowing they were big wrestling fans, asked the duo to appear on ECW's second ever pay-per-view, Hardcore Heaven, in 1997. ICP would then open several ECW programs by performing songs and exciting the crowd. They then moved on up to the WWE in 1998 after being asked to provide the theme music for the stable, The Oddities, and would also become members for a little while, often performing them to the ring. ICP left WWE after claiming that WWE went back on their promise to promote the duos new album.
ICP made their way to WCW the following year, where they remained for almost a year, feuding with the likes of The Filthy Animals and 3 Count. They also set up their own promotion in 1999, Juggalo Championship Wrestling, which is still active today. The ICP also worked for TNA Wrestling in 2004, where they feuded with Jeff Jarrett and they also hosted, wrestled on and booked TNA's first ever hose show event in 2006.
#4 Cyndi Lauper
Selling over 50 million records and 20 million singles, Cyndi Lauper is a pop culture icon. After Hall of Famer Captain Lou Albano appeared in two of her music videoes, the two became friends, and Dave Wolff, Lauper's boyfriend and manager at the time, was a wrestling fan as a boy and engineered the rock and wrestling connection.
Cyndi feuded with Captain Lou, where she accompanied Wendi Richter to her Women's Championship match with the Fabulous Moolah, accompanied by Lou, which also happened to be the first live women's professional wrestling match on TV, at The Brawl To End it All on July 23, 1984, which Wendi won. Prior to the match, the WWF promoted Moolah as holding the championship for the previous 28 years. Cyndi then participated in a famous angle where she was shoved by Roddy Piper, to set up his match with Hulk Hogan at The War To Settle The Score. Cyndi also accompanied Wendi Richter to her match at the very first WrestleMania.
#3 Lawrence Taylor
NFL great Lawrence Taylor participated in a shoving match with Bam Bam Bigelow at the 1995 Royal Rumble. This would lead to a match between the two at WrestleMania, not just a match in fact, but the main event.
And that alone is reason enough for Taylor to be inducted. Although most fans agree today that this match should have never been the main event, Taylor still gave a strong performance for a celebrity, probably the best one-on-one performance a celebrity has ever given.
#2 David Arquette
David Arquette was WCW Champion. Yes, Dewey from the Scream movie series held what Eddie Guerrero, Scott Hall, Dean Malenko, Bam Bam Bigelow, Mike Awesome and others couldn't.
In what is arguably the worst decision ever made regarding Championships, David pinned Eric Bischoff in a tag team match where the winning pinfall decided the Champion. He lost it 3 weeks later to Jeff Jarrett after turning on Diamond Dallas Page. The move was done just to promote the WCW film David starred in, Read To Rumble. I still, however, believe David deserves to be in the Hall of Fame, firstly because regardless of how anyone feels, he was still a World Heavyweight Champion in wrestling. Also, however, Arquette was totally against becoming the WCW World Heavyweight Champion, believing that fans like himself would detest a non-wrestler winning the title and had to be pleaded with by Vince Russo and an unwilling DDP to do so.
Also in a very generous move, all the money he made during his WCW tenure was donated to the families of Owen Hart (who died in a freak accident), Brian Pillman (who died from an undiagnosed heart condition), and Darren Drozdov (who became a quadriplegic after an in-ring accident).
David also appeared as the final RAW guest host in December 2010, where he, like all non-athletic celebrities, wrestled a match the way they should, he got his ass kicked. David was beaten up by Randy Orton and powerbombed through a table by him, so major props to David for losing a wrestling match they way all celebrities logically would.
#1 Andy Kaufman
Taxi star and performance artist Andy Kaufman is easily the most deserving of celebrities to be inducted as he basically started that trend of celebrities being involved with wrestling.
After being fascinated by wrestling and wrestling gimmicks, Andy decided to start wrestling himself, only well aware he could match up to male wrestlers physically, he decided to face women and dubbed himself the 'Women's Wrestling Champion of The World'. After being declined a partnership by Vince McMahon, Sr. Andy took to Memphis where Bill Apter introduced him to Jerry Lawler.
A match was set up between the two after months of Andy taunting Jerry and the Memphis fans, that ended by disqualification when The King used a piledriver. The ongoing Lawler-Kaufman feud, which often featured Jimmy Hart and other heels in Kaufman's corner, included a number of staged "works", such as a broken neck for Kaufman as a result of Lawler's piledriver and a famous on-air fight on a 1982 episode of Late Night with David Letterman, which was believed to be real for 10 years before people began to speculate it was a work and was finally confirmed to be a work in the 1999 Andy Kaufman biopic, 'Man on The Moon' starring Jim Carey.
Kaufman also appeared in the 1983 film My Breakfast with Blassie with WWE Hall of Famer "Classy" Freddie Blassie and has also been a playable character on the Legends of Wrestling PlayStation game series. Andy Kaufman has truly deserved his spot in any kind of professional wrestling Hall of Fame.
