Poll results: Cyndi Lauper/WWE hall of fame, Joey Ryan deserve a second chance in wrestling?
– Should Cyndi Lauper be inducted into the WWE hall of fame?
Yes (77%, 406 Votes)
No (23%, 119 Votes)
Total Voters: 525
photo credit: Lee South/Impact Wrestling
– Does Joey Ryan deserve a second chance in wrestling?
No (72%, 363 Votes)
Yes (28%, 141 Votes)
Total Voters: 504
Did Joey Ryan deserve his first chance in wrestling?
If you go with the “hindsight is 20/20” approach, no. But for a long time he just had a sleazy gimmick before it wasn’t a gimmick. Huge differences in scale here, but it’s kind of like judging Chris Benoit or Hulk Hogan’s entire careers through the lens of the crappy things they did near/at/after the end of them. It’s human nature for stuff like that to color our perceptions, and maybe it’s even right that it does, but should it negate what they accomplished? I don’t know, but I do know that “accomplished” is a very generous term in Ryan’s case, so I’ll stick with my first answer for him.
@What?
I asked that question with solely Joey Ryan’s wrestling “career” in mind, I don’t care what he did outside the ring.
Joey Ryan’s biggest accomplishment in wrestling was doing a YouShoot. And not a good one.
Hey, you’re talking about the innovator of the “penis plex.” That’s Hall of Fame material on its own. Seven Meltzer stars right there. 🙄
@What?
I still remember Meltzer defending him on Jim Cornette’s podcast eons ago: “It works for that audience”…