WWE Hall misses boat on Ray Stevens; Canvas King painting Macho Man; RIP Hijo ... - Charleston Post Courier
Ray “The Crippler” Stevens was one of the greatest heels in the history of the wrestling business. But nowhere was his presence felt more than in the San Francisco territory, where he earned a well-deserved reputation for being one of wrestling's biggest draws and arguably its finest worker during the 1960s. WWE is holding its highly publicized... While other worthy candidates have been left off the list in recent years, there's one that is conspicuously absent this year, and even more noticeably because of the Bay Area connection. San Francisco's storied Cow Palace was the house that Ray Stevens built. This year's Hall of Fame ceremony and Wrestlemania are being held in Stevens' old stomping ground. Sources say since WWE was finally able to land Savage and induct him posthumously, the company opted to stick by its rule of not honoring more than one deceased wrestler at the ceremony. Former wrestling great and WWE creative consultant Pat Patterson, who is 74 years old, would. Source: www.postandcourier.com
