Never Hand Over
Hall of Fame

Class #1
February '07



Manami Toyota

Ricky Steamboat

To me, the "Dragon" is one of the finest athletes that ever competed inside the wrestling ring.  His matches from ten, fifteen, and even twenty years ago still hold up amongst today's standards of great excellence inside the the four ropes of a wrestling ring.  A lot of guys will be remembered for a lot of things and will be honored in a Hall of Fame for different things; for Ricky, it's just pure wrestling ability.
- Jessie


"Million Dollar Man" Ted DiBiase

Andre the Giant

This is cliched, but people do throw the words legend, main eventer, phenom, and icon around in the wrestling business like their frisbees, but there is only one 8th Wonder of the World and there is a reason for that.  Andre was synonomous with the word respect and he earned it every where he went.  He was a main eventer all across the world, he was a physcial phenom the likes of which we will never see again and the term 'legend' was born from his career.  He will be revered for many, many years to come and I hope that the wrestling community will continue to honor the name Andre, The for his many contributions.  I know the NHO staff will.
- Jessie


Tatsumi Fujinami

Bobby "The Brain" Heenan

Bobby is undoubtedly one of the greatest minds in all of wrestling.  As a manager, he was superb.  As a heel, perfect.  As a commentator, excuse me, "Broadcast Journalist", he was the best.  His banter and sharp wit comes only 2nd to Roddy Piper and The Rock in all the years of wrestling and god damn, was he funny!  Heenan belongs in every Hall of Fame ever concevied in wrestling because he is one of it's most famous sons and he never was a full time in ring competitor.  That's saying something.
- Jessie


Owen Hart

Terry Funk

If you don't put Terry Funk on a list of all time, hard nosed, tougher than a $2 steak sons of bitches list, then you're crazier than he is.  He's the Keith Richards of wrestling.  He will never stop.  He's taken on everybody from Jack Brisco to "Screamin" Norman Smiley.  He's traveled the globe and he's taken every kind of pain you could ever cook up in wrestling and the guy won't stop.  There's something to be said for that kind of dedication.
- Jessie


Brian "Loose Canon" Pillman

Tommy Young