Frankie Kazarian was recently a special guest on ‘The Kurt Angle Show‘ for a watch-along of their tag team match at Slammiversary 2012. Both men delved into a multitude of other topics, including the TNA Hall of Fame, Sting’s induction, and more.
Discussing Sting’s induction into TNA’s Hall of Fame, Angle said, “He was the most established. He was the most popular. He was the longest-running wrestler at that particular time. He was the leader. I honestly believe that Sting deserved to be the very first inductee of the TNA Hall of Fame.”
Kazarian added, “I mean he’s, you know, he should be in any Hall of Fame. He’s one of the guys like yourself Kurt, that is synonymous with the name pro wrestling. And especially at the time when TNA was going to create a Hall of Fame, he was a box office marquee guy and absolutely he had my vote.”
Angle proceeded to highlight the differences between WWE & TNA’s Hall of Fame, saying, “What’s crazy is they don’t necessarily induct people that are retired, and I like that as well. I’m not saying that you have to be retired to be in the Hall of Fame. You don’t. I did in WWE. I got inducted in the Hall of Fame before I retired. But I think it’s — you know TNA, such a young company. And I’m glad they started a Hall of Fame at a younger age so that they could induct more athletes and make it a more historical company.”
Kazarian seemed to concur, adding, “Yeah, I agree. And there are guys that you know will never get their recognition in the WWE Hall of Fame. Guys that have done great work. So it’s good, and now that TNA has been established for a while, it’s cool. It’s something people look forward to wondering who’s going to be the next guy.”
On the show, Frankie Kazarian also discussed creatively working with Eric Bischoff. He said, “At this point, we were collaborating a lot with Eric Bischoff. Eric Bischoff is a huge part of why [Christopher Daniels] and I are successful and were successful as the team we were getting. We were able to talk, which people didn’t realize we could do. We were able to like to do vignettes, show a funny side, a mean side. We were firing on all cylinders. He did nothing but great things for us.”
