#6 – Davey Boy Smith
The British Bulldog is one of the best pure athletes to ever compete in a pro wrestling ring. His matches were in line with Bret and Owen Hart, Curt Hennig and the Dynamite Kid as nearly always flawless. Unfortunately, a great many people on this list will have to be inducted posthumously, but Davey Boy deserves a spot more than most. His Intercontinental Championship match against Bret Hart in Wembley Stadium might be reason enough to induct him – more than 80,000 screaming British fans would likely agree.
Again, WWE's desire to distance themselves from the steroids scandal of the 1990s is likely what's keeping Davey out of the Hall of Fame, but like Miss Elizabeth it's been more than a decade since his passing. It's time.
#5 – Toots Mondt
Raise your hand if you know who Toots Mondt is? Most of you need to stop lying. For those that do, you already understand why he should have been one of the first people inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame. Without Toots Mondt, you would have no WWE. He was part of the original Goldust Trio that evolved the shoot-style amateur wrestling fights into something wrestling fans would recognize today. They created the territory, put matches inside a boxing ring, and moved pro wrestling into sports venues for the first time. It was Mondt that helped Vince McMahon, Sr. break away from the NWA, creating the WWWF, and it was Mondt that convinced him to book Bruno Sammartino as the future of the business. Without Toots Mondt, it is very possible that either the NWA or Jim Crockett Promotions would still be running the wrestling world, but much more likely that the industry would have faded into obscurity by this point. His exclusion from the Hall of Fame is an absolute injustice.
