WWE announced earlier today that The Dudley Boys would be inducted into the 2018 Hall of Fame class during WrestleMania weekend.

PWInsider reports that the word going around backstage at Sunday’s Royal Rumble event that Mark Henry and Lisa “Ivory” Moretti were also going to be inducted into this year’s class.

Already announced is Bill Goldberg, who will headline the 2018 class. Inductions will be held at the Smoothie King center on Friday, April 6th, 2018.

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WWE announced today that The Dudley Boyz will be going into the 2018 WWE Hall of Fame class.

BREAKING: As first reported by @CBSSports, @bullyray5150 and @TestifyDVon are the next inductees into the @WWE Hall of Fame Class of 2018! #WWEHOF https://t.co/ZaLsW20GWt

— WWE (@WWE) January 29, 2018

The Dudleyz join Bill Goldberg as confirmed names for this year’s class. The induction ceremony will take place on Friday, April 6th from the Smoothie King Center in New Orleans during WrestleMania 34 weekend.

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On today’s episode of The Taz Show, Taz will discuss the classic match between Nakamura and Ibushi from Wrestle Kingdom 9.

Taz mentions that NJPW’s production is unbelievable, and they’re basically the only company in the world that can compete with WWE production-wise. They pull out all the stops here for Wrestle Kingdom, with pyro and multiple video walls to ensure a jam-packed arena full of people are satisfied. Taz points out that this is Japan’s WrestleMania.

Taz says he’s a big fan of Nakamura’s work, and he doesn’t mean to disrespect him today because he’s never met him, but this is when Nakamura was booked “Cool”. He urges his fans to check out the video of this entrance from Wrestle Kingdom 9, because this is when Nakamura truly was a “rockstar”.

He points out that we’ve seen this plenty of times before, and Taz has actually been through this himself. As a Superstar in the business you feel like your career is going great and then you finally make it to WWE and things change drastically. For whatever reason, WWE seems to struggle with capitalizing on momentum that incoming performers have.

Taz likes that Nakamura and Ibushi are wearing opposite colour ring gear during this match. He informs that this is an unwritten rule in the business, and in some cases it actually is written in the Gorilla Position in WWE. Ibushi wore white and Nakamura wore black for this bout.

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Daniel Bryan is being advertised for WrestleMania Axxess for the VIP sessions on April 8th, 2018.

This is newsworthy because historically WWE doesn’t have individuals that are performing at WrestleMania appear at AXXESS earlier in the day. This is a strong indication that WWE doesn’t have plans for Bryan to return to in-ring action at WrestleMania 34 this year. That would also suggest that WWE doesn’t have any plans for a swerve job that would result in him winning Sunday’s Royal Rumble match to face the WWE Champion as earlier rumors suggested.

Bryan mentioned in recent interviews that if he doesn’t compete for WWE by WrestleMania that he would be leaving the company once his contract expires. It will be interesting to see what happens between now and WrestleMania. WWE could always remove him from the AXXESS listing if he does get cleared but this is definitely a strong indication that WWE doesn’t have plans right now for him to compete at Mania’ this year.

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Garcia welcomes Becky Lynch to the show.

Lynch informs that she predicted there’d be a Women’s Royal Rumble match within the next two years several months ago. She feels that a Women’s Rumble is a natural progression for the women who’ve already made history in several different ways over the last year. For this reason, the announcement wasn’t a big surprise to her.

She informs that she’s kept a journal her entire life, and after hearing that there was going to be a Women’s Rumble match she immediately wrote in her journal that winning the Rumble was her main goal for 2018.  She informs that another goal of her’s is to main event WrestleMania someday, and whether she does or not, she thinks it’s only a matter of time before women main event ‘Mania.

Garcia informs that she recalls a time backstage when everyone would get up to get a drink or use the washroom when the women’s match came on. She remembers seeing the frustration on the face of the women at that time because they didn’t know what they had to do in order to change things. She’s very happy that the women on the roster today don’t have to deal with those frustrations.

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Russo is joined on today’s show by his co-host, Jeff Lane, and Glenn Gilbertti.

Russo opens today’s show speaking about the ongoing controversy surrounding the severity of Paige’s neck/back injury. He points out that PWInsider’s Mike Johnson reported that Paige’s in-ring career was definitely over, and then all the other dirt sheets ran with that news.

WWE failed to announce Paige’s in-ring retirement last week and Russo thinks Johnson should have been 100% certain before running with this news. Johnson needed to have sources and evidence proving that Paige’s career was over before he published that story in Russo’s opinion.

Speaking about Dave Meltzer’s 5-star rating system, Gilbertti says the one ingredient that can be found in every 5-star match is that the two competitors look like they’re actually fighting. Gilbertti thinks there’s a misconception out there that being a good worker means you can do all kinds of crazy offensive moves. In reality, being a good worker means you can make your opponent’s offence look good.

He urges all young wrestlers today to watch Bret Hart versus Steve Austin from WrestleMania 12 because that was the best match of all time in his opinion, and both guys looked like they were actually fighting each other.

Given the way wrestlers work today, Gilbertti isn’t even sure how writers are supposed to write good promos for them. Promos can only work if the in-ring action looks like a fight, and when wrestlers go in the ring and work choreographed flip-flop matches, it’s impossible to take any of their promos seriously.

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Hulk Hogan recently spoke to APNews about not being at the 25th Anniversary of RAW this upcoming Monday but mentioned that he would still like to have one more match in WWE.

“Brother, if I’m not there, I’ll definitely be there in spirit,” Hogan said. “One way or the other, Hulk Hogan influenced each and every one of those guys you’re going to see on TV Monday night. And that includes Vince McMahon, too.”

“I don’t know if they want me back. I think the fans want me back. I think that I’m part of that company from the ground up. Triple H I know is a huge fan of the guys that gave their blood, sweat and tears and their personal life to make this happen. I know Triple H would love to see me back on the inside again.”

“I’m 64 years old and right now I could go out and tear WrestleMania down,” he said. “I might have that one more match where I really beat the hell out of Vince. I’ve still got one in me.”

WWE issued a statement to The Associate Press and indicated that they have no plans to bring back Hulk Hogan.

“At this time, WWE remains committed to its decision,” WWE said in the statement.

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There has been a major shift in the betting odds for the winner of the men’s Royal Rumble match. Daniel Bryan, who previously had the worse odds to win the match, is now one of the favorites to win the match.

Bryan went from having a 66/1 chance to 9/1 or 10/1 odds of winning on several betting sites such as Skybet, Paddy Power and Betfair. The reason this shift is interesting has to do withDaniel Bryan not being cleared to wrestle and Bryan recently mentioning that if he’s not cleared by WrestleMania, that he’d be leaving the company.

As of this writing, we are unable to confirm that this shift has to do with any “smart money” bets. Historically, “smart money” bets come in just a few days before the event. We will keep you updated if we hear anything regarding Daniel competing at The Rumble.

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While speaking to the With Spandex podcast, The Big Show was asked if he believes that The Undertaker is finished with wrestling and revealed that he doesn’t think that’s the case.

“No, man, I’m telling you — The Undertaker, they don’t call him ‘The Phenom’ for nothing bro, I’m telling you. An Undertaker at 30 percent is better than most everybody else at 90 percent, I’ll tell you that much. If that makes any sense at all. He’s just that damn good.”

As previously noted, The Undertaker is being heavily advertised for the RAW 25 Anniversary event on January 22nd, 2018. Taker is also being rumored to have one more match against John Cena at this year’s WrestleMania 34 event.

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X-Pac opens today’s show by informing that he’s really looking forward to RAW’s 25th anniversary show at the end of the month. He’ll be returning to WWE for this show, but he jokes that he wasn’t happy about being left out of the announcements on RAW and Smackdown this week which named several of the returning legends.

He says he texted people at WWE to voice his displeasure about that, but he can understand WWE’s decision to leave his name out of these types of announcements. He knows that this is backlash for the way he lived his life for about 10 years. Luckily he’s in a much better place now and he’s thrilled to be invited back.

X-Pac welcomes WrestleZone’s Nick Hausman to the show.

Hausman recalls the night that X-Pac “tore his butthole”. Hausman was at the event that night and when the accident happened he leaned over to Hausman and told him what had happened. Hausman was in shock but the match continued. After the match X-Pac got 13 stitches in his butt and he didn’t miss one of his bookings, wrestling the following weekend wearing a diaper.

Hausman asks X-Pac if he thinks Cody and The Young Bucks can draw 10,000 fans to their “All In” event in 2018. X-Pac thinks they can definitely draw that many fans, especially if CM Punk is involved. The event is to be held in Chicago, and X-Pac thinks that Punk would definitely be interested in returning to the wrestling ring for this type of event.

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