Been waiting to post this, then a new thread appears damnit. Anyway shameless repost.
Wrestling Observer Newsletter Class of 2018
AJ Styles (US, Canada Modern)
Votes: 205 / 63%
WWE makes it happen, in 2013 and 2015 he was dropped from the ballot for getting sub 10% of the vote. Like Sting it was basically impossibly for any wrestler to make the HOF without an E run.
Mark Lewin (Australia, NZ and Pacific Islands)
Votes: 84 / 70%
Australia's favorite American apparently.
Minoru Suzuki (Japan)
Votes : 121 / 62% . Up from 37% last year
If you need WWE in America then you need NJPW in Asia. He had struggled for years before this run.
Ben & Mike Sharpe (Japan)
Votes: 122 / 63%. Up from 50% last year
Foreigners man, loving them some foreigners again.
Pedro Morales (US and Canada, Historical)
Votes: 159 / 61% . Up from 54% last year
The sort of person Meltzer could have lumped in the giant (entirely rigged) first class but struggled to get in finally the legit way.
Others Receiving 50-59%
If the voters are biased to the big ones in US and Japan, Mexico voters are a nest of hornets unwilling to let dozens of comically qualified candidates get in.
Los Misioneros de la Muerte (El Signo, El Texano & Negro Navarro) : 57%
Gary Hart : 55%
Jimmy Hart: 54%
Howard Finkel: 54%
Bill Apter : 52%
Yuji Nagata : 50%
Ultimo Guerrero 50%
Villano III: 50%
Johnny Saint: 50%
Jim Crockett Sr.: 50%
Don Owen: 50%
Jerry Jarrett: 50%
Notable
Edge: 49%
Cien Caras: 49%
L.A. Park: 49%
Blanchard/Anderson w/Dillon 45% First year on the ballot
Dr. Wagner Jr: 45%
Sgt. Slaughter: 41%
Curt Hennig 39%
Hayabusa: 37%
Goldberg: 30%. First year
Tetsuya Naito: 16% First Year
Trish Stratus: 13% First year
