2023 Wrestling Observer Hall of Fame results

[Chris]

HALL OF FAME BALLOTING RESULTS

Votes needed for induction into the Hall of Fame: U.S. and Canada modern 200; U.S and Canada historical 190; Japan 140; Mexico 80; Rest of the World 95

PERFORMER	VOTES	PCT	2021
ROCCA & PEREZ	199	63.2%	57%
BEAUTY PAIR	148	63.0%	----
SGT. SLAUGHTER	198	62.9%	57%
JACK & JERRY BRISCO	193	61.3%	53%
TOMOHIRO ISHII	143	60.9%	38%
BLUE PANTHER	80	60.6%	----
GEORGE KIDD	96	60.0%	51%
Los Hermanos Dinamita	75	56.8%	57%
Paul Orndorff	184	55.4%	50%
Young Bucks	183	55.1%	----
Bobby Davis	166	52.7%	45%
Roman Reigns	174	52.4%	31%
Jackie Pallo	76	47.5%	35%
Dynamite Kid & Davey Boy Smith	148	47.0%	52%
Johnny Rougeau	148	47.0%	41%
Jose Tarres	73	45.6%	36%
Big Daddy	72	45.0%	35%
Johnny Saint	71	44.4%	46%
Bobby Bruns	104	44.3%	38%
C.M. Punk	146	44.0%	41%
Jim Johnston	146	44.0%	42%
Ted Turner	143	43.1%	41%
Mike Tenay	139	41.9%	31%
Shingo Takagi	98	41.7%	----
Junkyard Dog	125	39.7%	38%
Larry Matysik	124	39.4%	38%
Kevin & David & Kerry Von Erich	120	38.1%	33%
Mark & Jay Briscoe	125	37.8%	----
Stanley Weston	114	36.2%	27%
The Royal Brothers	55	34.4%	37%
Grand Wizard/Abdullah Farouk	105	33.3%	26%
Adrian Street	53	33.1%	24%
June Byers	103	32.7%	27%
Dorrell Dixon	43	32.6%	36%
Sputnik Monroe	101	32.1%	26%
Morris Sigel	99	31.4%	37%
Randy Orton	104	31.3%	32%
Huracan Ramirez	41	31.1%	30%
Edge	102	30.7%	33%
Yoshiaki Fujiwara	70	29.8%	20%
Spyros Arion	47	29.4%	22%
Sangre Chicana	38	28.8%	30%
El Hijo del Santo & Octagon	38	28.8%	26%
Dominic DeNucci	46	28.8%	30%
Otto Wanz	45	28.1%	12%
Tony Schiavone	93	28.0%	32%
Kendo Nagasaki	44	27.5%	14%
Ole Anderson	81	25.7%	19%
Bret Hart & Jim Neidhart	80	25.4%	23%
James Melby	80	25.4%	30%
Roy Welch	79	25.1%	15%
Rick & Scott Steiner	83	25.0%	52%
Dave Brown	83	25.0%	21%
Tully Blanchard & Arn Anderson w/JJ	78	24.8%	31%
Wild Bull Curry	75	23.8%	20%
Bill Goldberg	78	23.5%	20%
Cima	55	23.4%	34%
Billy Joyce	38	23.4%	23%
Hayabusa	70	23.2%	23%
Becky Lynch	76	22.9%	20%
La Parka AAA	30	22.7%	13%
Manami Toyota & Toshiyo Yamada	53	22.6%	22%
Joe Higuchi	52	22.1%	22%
Angel Blanco & Dr. Wagner	28	21.2%	32%
Bob Caudle	64	20.3%	19%
Rossy Ogawa	45	19.1%	21%
Ricky Steamboat & Jay Youngblood	59	18.7%	29%
Iron Sheik	58	18.4%	----
Matt & Jeff Hardy	61	18.4%	30%
Bob Armstrong	56	17.8%	14%
Killer Karl Kox	28	17.5%	22%
Reggie Parks	58	17.5%	21%
Meiko Satomura	38	16.2%	18%
Cowboy Bob Ellis	48	15.2%	13%
Pampero Firpo	43	13.7%	10%
Jon Moxley	43	13.0%	----
Black Gordman & Great Goliath	40	12.7%	14%
Satoshi Kojima & Hiroyoshi Tenzan	28	11.9%	12%
Trish Stratus	38	11.4%	11%
Antonio Inoki & Seiji Sakaguchi	25	10.6%	14%
Dick Murdoch & Dusty Rhodes	33	10.5%	18%
Mad Dog & Butcher Vachon	33	10.5%	13%
Archie “Mongolian Stomper” Gouldie	32	10.2%	14%

Less than 10% of all votes from a region and dropped from next year’s ballot: Von Brauners w/Saul Weingeroff, Seth Rollins, Pirata Morgan, Mike Marino, Sanshiro Takagi

Dropped from next year’s ballot due to the 15 year/50 percent rule: Big Daddy, Jackie Pallo, Kendo Nagasaki

Will be dropped next year if not getting at least 50 percent: None

Added to next year’s ballot: Asuka/Kana WWE, Zane Bresloff, Psycho Clown, El Dandy, George Gordienko, Gran Hamada, Samoa Joe, Kento Miyahara, Cody Rhodes, Yoshihiro Takayama, Kevin Owens, Zack Sabre Jr., Mascarita Sagrada, Usos, Volador Jr., Koichi Yoshizawa, Bray Wyatt, Sami Zayn

 

[Chris]

Bolded are the new inductees which are Al Perez and Antonino Rocco as a tag team, the Beauty Pair (Jackie Saito and Maki Ueda), Sgt. Slaughter, Jack and Jerry Brisco as a team, Tomohiro Ishii, Blue Panther, and George Kidd

 

[Death By Looch]

ISHII

 

[Canadian Dragon]

Ishii, nice

Bucks will likely be in next year

 

[Chris]

Ishii, nice

Bucks will likely be in next year

Roman too, look at his jump in percentage from 2021

 

[Chris]

Also Beauty Pair now added to this list

LIST OF FIRST BALLOT HALL OF FAMERS

Note: Voting began in 1998. Tons of people in the 1996 Class would have surely been first ballot Hall of Famers prior to that.

Kurt Angle
Medico Asesino
Steve Austin
Beauty Pair (Jackie Sato & Maki Ueda)
Dos Caras
John Cena
Gedo
Akira Hokuto
Kenta Kobashi
Jushin Liger
Takashi Matsunaga
Shinsuke Nakamura
Manami Toyota
Kazuchika Okada
The Rock
Jim Ross
Kazushi Sakuraba
Akira Taue & Toshiaki Kawada
Los Villanos

 

[Canadian Dragon]

Roman too, look at his jump in percentage from 2021

for sure. roman and bucks seem like a slam dunk looking at the numbers this year and number of votes. bucks getting almost like 200 votes and not making it in is wild lol

 

[Canadian Dragon]

ishii went from 38% to in lets go

 

[Chris]

for sure. roman and bucks seem like a slam dunk looking at the numbers this year and number of votes. bucks getting almost like 200 votes and not making it in is wild lol

Yeah that's just bc there's so many more modern American voters where people abstain from the others

 

[Canadian Dragon]

Yeah that's just bc there's so many more modern American voters where people abstain from the others

all the haters gonna try to keep em out for sure

 

[Chris]

He also changed the rules a lot this year, it was experimental but looking at these results i feel like this went pretty perfect this year, it helped historical people get in and prevented people from using all their votes on everyone in a region which has overrated some Japanese votes before and thats probably why Ishii finally got in

 

[Chris]

He also changed the rules a lot this year, it was experimental but looking at these results i feel like this went pretty perfect this year, it helped historical people get in and prevented people from using all their votes on everyone in a region which has overrated some Japanese votes before and thats probably why Ishii finally got in

*bc the votes were weighed differently I should say for Ishii lol

 

[Chris]

I think Paul Orndorff makes it next year too if the same process stays

 

[Chris]

More stats by voter category

TOP 30 BY CATEGORY

REPORTERS

1. Tomohiro Ishii
2. Sgt. Slaughter
3. Young Bucks
4. Big Daddy
5. Paul Orndorff
6. Ted Turner
7. Argentina Rocca & Miguel Perez
8. Blue Panther
9. Jack & Jerry Brisco
10. Jim Johnston
11. Johnny Saint
12. Bobby Davis
13. Los Hermanos Dinamita
14. Adrian Street
15. C.M. Punk
16. Shingo Takagi
Beauty Pair
18. Junkyard Dog
19. Sangre Chicana `
20. Roman Reigns
21. George Kidd
Jose Tarres
23. Mark & Jay Briscoe
24. Dynamite Kid & Davey Boy Smith
25. June Byers
26. Stanley Weston
27. Mike Tenay
28. Kevin & Kerry & David Von Erich
29. Sputnik Monroe
30. Johnny Rougeau


HISTORIANS

1. Argentina Rocca & Miguel Perez
2. George Kidd
3. Jackie Pallo
4. Jose Tarres
5. Blue Panther
6. Beauty Pair
7. Los Hermanos Dinamita
8. Roman Reigns
9. Jack & Jerry Brisco
10. Bobby Davis
11. Royal Brothers
12. Paul Orndorff `
13. Sgt. Slaughter
14. Larry Matysik
15. Young Bucks
16. Dynamite Kid & Davey Boy Smith
17. Kevin & Kerry & David Von Erich
18. Johnny Rougeau
19. Rick & Scott Steiner
20. Tomohiro Ishii
21. Big Daddy
Kendo Nagasaki
23. Dave Brown
24. Bobby Bruns
25. C.M. Punk
26. Roy Welch
27. Dorrell Dixon
28. Morris Sigel
29, Mike Tenay
30. Mark & Jay Briscoe
Billy Joyce
Otto Wanz


ACTIVE PROFESSIONALS

1. Sgt. Slaughter
2. Beauty Pair
3. Hayabusa
4. Mike Tenay
5. Blue Panther
6. Johnny Saint
7. Roman Reigns
8. Rick & Scott Steiner
9. Argentina Rocca & Miguel Perez
10. C.M. Punk
11. Yoshiaki Fujiwara
12. Bobby Davis
13. Young Bucks
14. Los Hermanos Dinamita
15. Tony Schiavone
16. Dynamite Kid & Davey Boy Smith
17. Jack & Jerry Brisco
Johnny Rougeau
Kevin & Kerry & David Von Erich
20. Big Daddy
21. George Kidd
22. Matt & Jeff Hardy
23. Ted Turner
24. Adrian Street
Otto Wanz
26. Morris Sigel
27. Ole Anderson
Junkyard Dog
Iron Sheik
30. Roy Welch
Stanley Weston
Grand Wizard


RETIRED PROFESSIONALS

1. Randy Orton
2. Larry Matysik
3. Jack & Jerry Brisco
4. Roman Reigns
5. Manami Toyota & Toshiyo Yamada
6. Los Hermanos Dinamita
7. Paul Orndorff
8. Edge
9. Bobby Davis
10. Antonio Inoki & Seiji Sakaguchi`
11. Dominic DeNucci
12. Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima
13. Beauty Pair
14. Grand Wizard
15. Spyros Arion
16. James Melby
17. Bill Goldberg
C.M. Punk
19. Mike Tenay
20. Otto Wanz
21. Rossy Ogawa
22. Matt & Jeff Hardy
23. Ole Anderson
24. Dynamite Kid & Davey Boy Smith
Mad Dog & Butcher Vachon
26. Joe Higuchi
27. Sputnik Monroe
28. Stanley Weston
29. Becky Lynch
30. Argentina Rocca & Miguel Perez
Sgt. Slaughter
Ricky Steamboat & Jay Youngblood

 

[Canadian Dragon]

retired pros hate the bucks confirmed lol