The Wrestling Observer Newsletter (WON) Hall of Fame is a professional wrestling and mixed martial arts (MMA) hall of fame that recognizes people who make significant contributions to their professions. It was founded in 1996 by Dave Meltzer, editor of WON. Like many other wrestling halls of fame, such as the WWE, TNA, ROH and WCW halls of fame, WON's Hall of Fame is not contained in a building, and there are no ceremonies for inductions other than a highly detailed biographical documentation of their career in the newsletter. Inductees include wrestlers/fighters, managers, promoters, trainers, and commentators. On select occasions, groups, either tag teams, trios, or quartets, have been inducted rather than the individual members of the group. This first occurred in 1996, when The Fabulous Kangaroos and The Road Warriors entered the hall. The Fabulous Freebirds, The Midnight Express, The Rock 'n' Roll Express, The Assassins, The Holy Demon Army, The Sharpe Brothers, Los Misioneros de la Muerte, and Los Brazos among others all also entered as groups. Occasionally entire wrestling families have been inducted into the hall. This first occurred in 1996 when The Dusek Family entered the hall; in 2022, the five man familial team of Los Villanos was inducted.

Starting in 2022, it became possible for a wrestler to be placed in the Hall of Fame multiple times, much like inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. So far, five people have achieved this double honor: Toshiaki Kawada, Villano III, Argentina Rocca, Jack Brisco, and Jackie Sato. Each are inducted as a singles performer and a team member (Kawada as part of Holy Demon Army, Villano III as part of Los Villanos, Rocca as part of Rocca and Perez, Jack Brisco as part of the Brisco Brothers, and Jackie Sato as part of Beauty Pair).

Meltzer began the Hall of Fame by choosing a list of 122 inaugural inductees in 1996. Since then, wrestlers from past and present, others employed in the professional wrestling industry, and wrestling journalists and historians have been selected by Meltzer to cast secret ballots to determine annual groups of inductees. Voting criteria include the length of time spent in wrestling, historical significance, ability to attract viewers, and wrestling ability.^[1] Inductees must have at least 15 years of experience in the wrestling business or be over 35 years old and have 10 years of experience. To gain membership in the hall, potential inductees must receive 60% support on the ballots from their geographic region.^[2] Any person that gets less than 10% of the vote is eliminated from the ballot. If a person fails to get inducted 15 years after being put on the ballot, they must get 50% of the vote or be eliminated.^[3] There are 255 inductees, including the multiple teams, trios, and stables.

In 2008, a recall vote was held asking if 2003 inductee Chris Benoit, who killed his wife and son before committing suicide in June 2007, should remain in the hall. To have Benoit removed, Meltzer required that 60% of voters must agree with the proposal.^[4] Although the majority voted for Benoit's removal, they only represented 53.6% of the votes, falling short of the number required. Benoit remains on the list of inductees.^[5]

Inductees

#	Year	Image	Ring name (Birth name)	Inducted for	Notes
1	1996		Abdullah the Butcher (Larry Shreve)[6]	Wrestling	Won the WWC Universal Heavyweight Championship (3 times), NWA United National Championship (1 time), and PWF World Heavyweight Championship (1 time)[6]
2	1996	—	Perro Aguayo (Pedro Aguayo Damián)[7]	Wrestling	Won the Mexican National Heavyweight Championship (1 time), Mexican National Middleweight Championship (1 time), and Mexican National Tag Team Championship (2 times)[8][9][10]
3	1996		André the Giant (André Roussimoff)[11]	Wrestling	Posthumous inductee; won the WWF World Heavyweight Championship (1 time) and WWF Tag Team Championship (1 time)[12]
4	1996	—	Bert Assirati	Wrestling	Posthumous inductee; won the British Heavyweight Championship (1 time) and European Heavyweight Championship (1 time)[13]
5	1996		Giant Baba (Shohei Baba)	Wrestling and promoting	Won the NWA World Heavyweight Championship (3 times) and PWF World Heavyweight Championship (4 times); founded All Japan Pro Wrestling[14]
6	1996	—	Jim Barnett	Promoting	Founded Australia's World Championship Wrestling; owned Georgia Championship Wrestling[15][16]
7	1996	—	Red Berry (Ralph Berry)[17]	Wrestling	Posthumous inductee; won the NWA World Light Heavyweight Championship (9 times) and NWA Texas Heavyweight Championship (2 times)[17][18]
8	1996		The Destroyer (Dick Beyer)[19]	Wrestling	Won the WWA World Heavyweight Championship (3 times) and AWA World Heavyweight Championship (1 time)[19][20]
9	1996		Freddie Blassie	Wrestling and managing	Won the NWA Southern Heavyweight Championship (14 times) and NAWA/WWA World Heavyweight Championship (4 times); worked as manager after retiring as a competitor[21]
10	1996		Blue Demon (Alexander Muñoz Moreno)[22]	Wrestling	Won the Mexican National Welterweight Championship (3 times) and appeared in several luchador films[23][24][25]
11	1996		Nick Bockwinkel	Wrestling	Won the AWA World Heavyweight Championship (4 times), AWA World Tag Team Championship (3 times), and NWA World Tag Team Championship (2 times)[26]
12	1996	—	Paul Boesch	Commentating and promoting	Posthumous inductee; promoted the Houston, Texas territory of National Wrestling Alliance[27]
13	1996		Bobo Brazil (Houston Harris)[28]	Wrestling	Won the Detroit version of NWA United States Heavyweight Championship (9 times) and Mid-Atlantic version (1 time)[29][30]
14	1996		Jack Brisco (Fred Brisco)[31]	Wrestling	Won the NWA World Heavyweight Championship (2 times), NWA World Tag Team Championship (3 times), and NWA National Heavyweight Championship (1 time)[32][33]
15	1996		Bruiser Brody (Frank Goodish)[34]	Wrestling	Posthumous inductee; won the WCWA World Heavyweight Championship (3 times), NWA International Heavyweight Championship (3 times), and PWF World Tag Team Championship (1 time)[35]
16	1996		Mildred Burke (Mildred Bliss)[36]	Women's wrestling and promoting	Posthumous inductee; won the Women's World Championship (3 times) and NWA World Women's Championship (1 time); founded World Women's Wrestling Association.[36]
17	1996		El Canek (Felipe Estrada)	Wrestling	Won the UWA World Heavyweight Championship (15 times), CMLL World Tag Team Championship (1 time) and CMLL World Trios Championship (1 time)[37]
18	1996		Negro Casas (José Casas Ruiz)[38]	Wrestling	Won the CMLL World Tag Team Championship (6 times), CMLL World Middleweight Championship (2 times), UWA World Lightweight Championship (1 time) and UWA World Middleweight Championship (1 time)[39][40]
19	1996		Riki Choshu (Mitsuo Yoshida)[41]	Wrestling	Won the PWF World Heavyweight Championship (1 time), IWGP Heavyweight Championship (3 times), and IWGP Tag Team Championship (3 times)[41][42]
20	1996		Jim Cornette	Managing and promoting	Founded Smoky Mountain Wrestling and managed wrestlers in National Wrestling Alliance, World Championship Wrestling, and the World Wrestling Federation[43][44]
21	1996		The Crusher (Reginald Lisowski)[45]	Wrestling	Won the AWA World Heavyweight Championship (3 times), AWA World Tag Team Championship (9 times), and WWA World Tag Team Championship (6 times)[46][47]
22	1996		Ted DiBiase	Wrestling and managing	Won the NWA/Mid-South North American Heavyweight Championship (5 times), PWF World Tag Team Championship (1 time), NWA National Heavyweight Championship (2 times), and WWF World Tag Team Championship (3 times); managed the Million Dollar Corporation and New World Order stables[48][49]
23	1996		Dick the Bruiser (William Afflis)[50]	Wrestling and promoting	Posthumous inductee; won the Indianapolis version (13 times) and the Los Angeles version (1 time) of the WWA World Heavyweight Championship, AWA World Heavyweight Championship (1 time) and AWA World Tag Team Championship (5 times); owned and promoted the World Wrestling Association in Indianapolis, Indiana[51][52]
24	1996	—	Alfonso Dantés (Jose Luis Amezcua Diaz)[53]	Wrestling	Won the NWA World Light Heavyweight Championship (5 times), Mexican National Heavyweight Championship (2 times), and Mexican National Light Heavyweight Championship (3 times)[53][54]
25	1996		The Dusek Family (Ernie, Emil, Joe, and Rudy) (The Hason Family)[55]	Wrestling and promoting	Emil and Ernie Dusek won the Central States version of NWA World Tag Team Championship (3 times) and San Francisco version of NWA World Tag Team Championship (1 times); Joe Dusek promoted wrestling events in Omaha, Nebraska[55]
26	1996		Dynamite Kid (Tom Billington)[56]	Wrestling	Won the WWF Junior Heavyweight Championship (1 time), NWA International Junior Heavyweight Championship (1 time), All Asia Tag Team Championship (1 time), Stampede North American Heavyweight Championship (1 time), and WWF Tag Team Championship (1 time)[56][57]
27	1996	—	The Fabulous Kangaroos (Al Costello, Roy Heffernan, and Don Kent) (Giacoma Costa, Laurence Roy Heffernan, and Leo Smith, Jr.)[58][59][60]	Tag team wrestling	Won the Northeast version of the NWA United States Tag Team Championship (3 times) and Mid-America version of NWA World Tag Team Championship (3 times)[58][61]
28	1996		Jackie Fargo (Henry Faggart)[62]	Wrestling	Won the Mid-America version of the NWA World Tag Team Championship (10 times) and Mid-America version of NWA Southern Tag Team Championship (22 times)[61][63]
29	1996		Ric Flair (Richard Fliehr)[64][n 1]	Wrestling	Won the WWF Championship (2 times), NWA World Heavyweight Championship (8 times), and WCW World Heavyweight Championship (6 times)[65]
30	1996		Tatsumi Fujinami	Wrestling	Won the IWGP Heavyweight Championship (6 times), NWA World Heavyweight Championship (1 time), and WWF Junior Heavyweight Championship (1 time)[33][66][67]
31	1996		Dory Funk	Wrestling and promoting	Posthumous inductee; won the NWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship (1 time) and NWA North American Heavyweight Championship multiple times; promoted for the National Wrestling Alliance[68][69]
32	1996		Dory Funk Jr.	Wrestling	Won the NWA World Heavyweight Championship (1 time), NWA Mid-Atlantic Heavyweight Championship (2 times), and NWA Florida Heavyweight Championship (3 times)[68][70]
33	1996		Terry Funk	Wrestling	Won the NWA World Heavyweight Championship (1 time), ECW World Heavyweight Championship (2 times), and WWF Tag Team Championship (1 time)[71][72][73]
34	1996		Verne Gagne (LaVerne Gagne)	Wrestling and promoting	Founded the American Wrestling Association; won the AWA World Heavyweight Championship (10 times)[74]
35	1996		Cavernario Galindo (Rodolfo Galindo Ramírez)[75]	Wrestling	Won the Mexican Light Heavyweight Championship (1 time); appeared in several luchador films[75][76]
36	1996		Ed Don George	Wrestling	Posthumous inductee; won the World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship (1 time) and Boston's AWA World Heavyweight Championship (2 times)[77]
37	1996		Gorgeous George (George Raymond Wagner)[78]	Wrestling	Posthumous inductee; won the NWA Southern Heavyweight Championship (1 time), NWA Southeastern Heavyweight Championship (1 time), and Boston's AWA World Heavyweight Championship (1 time)[78]
38	1996		Frank Gotch	Wrestling	Posthumous inductee; won the World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship (1 time) and American Heavyweight Championship (3 times)[79]
39	1996	—	Karl Gotch (Karl Istaz)[80]	Wrestling	Won the IWA World Heavyweight Championship (1 time), WWWF World Tag Team Championship (1 time), and Ohio's AWA World Heavyweight Championship (1 time)[80]
40	1996		Billy Graham (Wayne Coleman)[81]	Wrestling	Won the WWWF World Heavyweight Championship (1 time) and San Francisco version of NWA World Tag Team Championship (2 times)[82][83]
41	1996		Eddie Graham (Edward Gossett)[84]	Wrestling and promoting	Posthumous inductee; won the NWA World Tag Team Championship (7 times) and NWA United States Tag Team Championship (4 times); owned Championship Wrestling from Florida and served as president of National Wrestling Alliance[84]
42	1996	—	René Guajardo (Manuel Guajardo Mejorado)	Wrestling	Posthumous inductee; won the Mexican National Middleweight Championship (2 times), Mexican National Tag Team Championship (1 time), and the UWA World Middleweight Championship (2 times) [85][86]
43	1996	—	Gory Guerrero (Salvador Guerrero Quesada)[87]	Wrestling and promoting	Posthumous inductee; won the NWA World Welterweight Championship (1 time), NWA World Middleweight Championship (1 time), and Mexican National Middleweight Championship (1 time)[87]
44	1996		Georg Hackenschmidt	Wrestling	Posthumous inductee; won the European Greco-Roman Heavyweight Championship (1 time) and World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship (1 time)[88]
45	1996		Stan Hansen (John Hansen)[89]	Wrestling	Won the Triple Crown Heavyweight Championship (4 times) and AWA World Heavyweight Championship (1 time)[89][90]
46	1996		Bret Hart	Wrestling	Won the WWF Championship (5 times), WWF Tag Team Championship (2 times), and WCW World Heavyweight Championship (2 times)[91][92][93]
47	1996	—	Stu Hart	Wrestling, promoting and training	Owned and promoted Stampede Wrestling; trained many well-known wrestlers[94]
48	1996		Bobby Heenan (Raymond Heenan)[95]	Managing and commentating	Managed wrestlers in the American Wrestling Association, Georgia Championship Wrestling, and World Wrestling Federation; provided color commentary for the World Wrestling Federation and World Championship Wrestling[95]
49	1996		Danny Hodge	Wrestling	Won the NWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship (7 times)[96]
50	1996		Hulk Hogan (Terry Bollea)[97]	Wrestling	Won the WWE World Heavyweight Championship (6 times) and WCW World Heavyweight Championship (6 times)[91][93]
51	1996		Antonio Inoki (Kanji Inoki)[98]	Wrestling and promoting	Won the All Asia Tag Team Championship (3 times), NWA International Tag Team Championship (4 times), and IWGP Heavyweight Championship (1 time); founded New Japan Pro-Wrestling[99]
52	1996	—	Rayo de Jalisco (Maximino Linares Moreno)[100]	Wrestling	Won the Mexican National Tag Team Championship (2 times) and appeared in luchador films[101][102][103]
53	1996		Tom Jenkins	Wrestling	Posthumous inductee; won the American Heavyweight Championship (3 times)[104]
54	1996		Don Leo Jonathan (Don Heaton)[105]	Wrestling	Won the NWA Canadian Tag Team Championship (15 times) and Omaha's World Heavyweight Championship (2 times)[105]
55	1996		Gene Kiniski	Wrestling	Won the AWA World Heavyweight Championship (1 time), NWA World Heavyweight Championship (1 time), and WWA World Heavyweight Championship (1 time)[106]
56	1996		Fred Kohler (Fred Koch)[60]	Promoting	Posthumous inductee; promoted wrestling events in Chicago, Illinois and helped popularize tag team wrestling in the United States[107]
57	1996		Killer Kowalski (Edward Spulnik)[108]	Wrestling and training	Won the IWA World Heavyweight Championship (6 times) and WWWF World Tag Team Championship (1 time); trained many well-known wrestlers[109]
58	1996		Ernie Ladd	Wrestling	Won the Mid-South North American Heavyweight Championship (4 times), WWA World Heavyweight Championship (1 time), and NWF Heavyweight Championship (1 time)[110]
59	1996	—	Dick Lane	Commentating	Posthumous inductee; worked as commentator for wrestling shows in Southern California[111]
60	1996		Jerry Lawler	Wrestling and promoting	Won the AWA World Heavyweight Championship (1 time), USWA Unified World Heavyweight Championship (27 times), and Memphis Wrestling Southern Heavyweight Championship (40 times)[112]
61	1996		Ed Lewis (Robert Friedrich)	Wrestling	Posthumous inductee; won the World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship (4 times) and Boston version of the AWA World Heavyweight Championship (2 times)[113]
62	1996		Jim Londos (Chris Theophelos)[114]	Wrestling	Posthumous inductee; won the World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship (1 time) and NWA/NBA World Heavyweight Championship (1 time)[114]
63	1996		Salvador Lutteroth (Salvador Lutteroth Gonzalez)[115]	Promoting	Posthumous inductee; founded Empresa Mexicana de la Lucha Libre[116]
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