Jeff Jarrett believes that Sean Waltman should be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame as a singles competitor.
As it stands, Sean Waltman is the only multi-time WWE Hall of Famer who does not have a solo induction. Instead, he is inducted as both a member of D-Generation X and the New World Order. Still, Waltman was a pioneer of the light-heavyweight style of wrestling that has since become the norm in most promotions, and Jeff Jarrett believes that X-Pac deserves a solo induction.
He discussed his reasoning on a recent episode of his My World podcast.
"I'm going to be way, way biased... It's a no-brainer. You look at the Lightning Kid at a young age, his matches with Jerry Lynn. You can call it the X Division, before X-Division, or Junior Heavyweight, or Flyweight, or however you want to say that. But in his earliest of days, coming on the scene, he was turning heads and making headlines as, truly, a kid. Then, when you look at his entry point into the WWF as the 1-2-3 Kid, and the huge upset he had over Razor Ramon. I know that there's some historians that will kind of point to different things, maybe Shawn and Bret, or the smaller guys having a bigger impact, because in the 80s, I wasn't small, I was tiny, comparatively speaking, it was just it was a different era. I know in the 70s it was pretty much a big man's business as well.
"When you kind of think of a trailblazer, somebody who broke the mold, positioned it in a unique way, that 1-2-3 Kid upset can happen anywhere," he continued. He battled some demons, like all of us do in life, but he kept rolling. You look at when he showed up on Nitro, that piece of the puzzle in the nWo, named him Syxx. He was the sixth member. Then, him going back [to WWE], there is a lot of moments that Kid was a part of. So if you know your history, it is absolutely no disrespect to anybody that's currently in the Hall of Fame, but, my gosh, without question."
Jeff Jarrett was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2018. He now works for AEW.
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