Demolition Say They Were Given Six Minutes For WWE Hall Of Fame Speech

Demolition (Ax & Smash) got inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame ahead of WrestleMania 42, celebrating their legendary career in WWE.

The Hall of Fame format has changed over the years, with shorter speeches being part of some cut-downs.

Speaking on their Demo Pod, Ax (Bill Eadie) and Smash (Barry Darsow) revealed how much their speech was cut.

Bill said, “I wish we could’ve gone longer. I understand we have a timeframe, but I was happy with how it came out.”

Barry added, “When they were first telling us to do all this, I had a speech that was a half hour long. I was going to tell stories about Andre The Giant and different people and how I came into the business. They came to us and said ‘you have six minutes.’ I went, ‘Six minutes? Between both of us?’ They said, ‘Yes.’ How am I going to take three minutes and Bill take three minutes? All of a sudden, you have to cut the speech down and what your whole thought process was. Mine ended up being probably four or five minutes. Bill’s was four, five, six minutes, maybe. We went over the time limit, but you’re getting inducted into the Hall of Fame? How could you not tell what you’re thinking? I noticed after on the WWE site, they just have a couple words of what I said and they have Bill’s full speech, which is fine for me, but it’s because we went over the time limit, I’m sure.”

Bill closed by saying, “They have different variations, because I saw the reverse of it. I think they do little splices. The whole thing is out there.”

Fans can watch the condensed version of their speech in the video above.

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