Wrestling legend Konnan believes that Joanie ‘Chyna’ Laurer is deserving of a posthumous WWE Hall of Fame induction on her own.
Chyna would be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2019 as part of D-Generation X, three years after her passing in 2016.
During a recent edition of his “K100” podcast, Konnan made his argument for Chyna’s solo induction. He said,
“You got to remember, her character was over and that’s just as good as if her wrestling was good because she was the first woman to dominate men. She’s like an enforcer. I think she was the first woman in the Royal Rumble. She started DX, which was a revolutionary group, right?”
“I remember they used to call her the ninth wonder of the world. Remember Andre was the eighth? If you remember, she’s the original Mami, what Rhea Ripley is doing now. Remember the whole thing with Eddie.?I remember that Eddie didn’t want to do that gimmick with her because he felt he was playing second fiddle. I was like, ‘Bro, just show them you can do this and they’ll use her for everything else.’ Yeah, so she definitely does deserve to be in the Hall of Fame by herself.”
Debuting in 1997, Chyna left WWE in 2001 as a one-time Women’s Champion and two-time Intercontinental Champion, the first (and to date, only) woman to hold that title.
