HHH on Why It’s The Right Year For Chyna To Go Into WWE HOF
WWE Legend Chyna will be inducted into The WWE Hall Of Fame Class Of 2019 as part of D-Generation X along with Triple H, Shawn Michaels, X-Pac, Road Dogg & Billy Gunn. Triple H recently joined CBS Sports’ State Of Combat Podcast and talked about Chyna’s induction, the delay in her joining The Hall Of Fame and how she likely inspired many of today’s female WWE Superstars.
Firstly, Triple H said that he couldn’t think of another woman who made as big of an impact as Chyna did.
“It’s awesome. I’m thrilled for her as the human being that I knew, for her family and for her sister, who I knew,” Triple H said. “There is probably not a woman who has ever made as big of an impact as she did. Somebody that transcended the business on her own and I’m sure will be in the Hall of Fame sometime on her own. I think it’s fitting she is in there with DX in the beginning because it’s how she started, and I think it’s what it should be.”
Triple H then said that Chyna’s 2001 departure from The WWE may have caused the delay in her being inducted into The WWE Hall Of Fame.
“After she left the business and everything else prevented [her Hall of Fame induction] for a period of time, it’s funny because people look at it and go, ‘Finally, they are putting her in,’” Triple H said. “But she’s going into a class with Honky Tonk Man. Like, he’s just getting in there and is a generation before. It’s not a time-limit type thing. … I’m thrilled that it’s this year, partly because finally the time has passed where everything can just happen and it can be right for her where the moment of putting her in the Hall of Fame for this manner is about her accomplishments and not about anything else. That was always my bigger point of this. You can’t do it when [the negative] becomes the conversation. The conversation needs to be about her accomplishments and what she did here.”
Triple H then said that Chyna probably inspired many of today’s female WWE Superstars.
“If you could go back and say it to her, it’s something that in that point of time you would be like, ‘No way, that would have been inconceivable,’” Triple H commented. “She probably inspired a lot of the women that are doing what they are doing right now, and it couldn’t have been any more of the right time and the right spot, and it all happened for a reason that way.”
The WWE Hall Of Fame Class Of 2019 Induction Ceremony takes place this coming Saturday from The Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.