AEW Star Pushes For WWE Veteran’s Solo Hall Of Fame Induction

Published: Jul 7, 2025 by Dave Adamson | Last Updated: Jul 7, 2025 by Dave Adamson

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A two-time WWE Hall of Famer deserves a solo induction, with an AEW star and wrestling veteran calling the decision a “no-brainer”.

Having been inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2019 and 2020 as part of D-Generation X and the nWo, respectively, Sean Waltham is the only multi-class inductee to not have a solo entry.

This is something that AEW’s Jeff Jarrett thinks needs correcting, describing it as a “no-brainer” in comments made on his My World podcast.

Jarrett would look back at X-Pac’s career in WWE and WCW, reflecting on the innovation he brought to the business, saying:

“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 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.”

The list of multi-time WWE Hall of Fame inductees is a relatively short one, with, Booker T, Triple H, Kevin Nash, Scott Hall, Shawn Michaels, Ric Flair, Bret Hart and Hulk Hogan all being inducted as part of their respective teams or stables and as solo entries.

Hart was also inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2025 for “Immortal Moment”, specifically his match against Stone Cold Steve Austin at WrestleMania 13.

Having last competed in 2022, Sean Waltham has previously teased the possibility of one more match.

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