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Wade Boggs is the "Perfect" inductor
Louie Dee
March 23, 2007
The WWE Hall of Fame Class of 2007 will be inducted the night before
WrestleMania 23 at the Fox Theatre in Detroit. Currently, six
legends have been
called to the Hall, and the final members of the Class of 2007 will be
announced Friday night on SmackDown and Monday night on Raw.
This year, WWE.com is proud to exclusively announce the chosen ones who
will induct the Class of 2007 into the Hall of Fame. A new name
will be announced every day between now and Thursday, March 29.
Prior to “Mr. Perfect” Curt Hennig’s entrance into WWE, a series of
videos were seen on WWE television proving that he was the “perfect
athlete.” One of the videos featured Mr. Perfect taking batting
practice, hitting nothing but home runs every time. Wade Boggs,
then the third baseman for the Boston Red Sox and one of the greatest
hitters in Major League Baseball
history, was seen at his side marveling at just how perfect Hennig was.
"I met Curt in 1983 in Rochester, N.Y., and we became good friends,
hunting and fishing buddies," Boggs told WWE.com. "In fact, he
once saved
my life while were were hunting in 2001; I got entangled into a barbed
wire
fence and was cut pretty badly. It took all the strength Curt had
to
free me and carry me about a mile back to the truck. He saved my
life
and has a special place in my heart; we spent as much time as we could
together, and it's a shame he was taken from us so early."
Boggs, who won five American League Batting crowns (including an
impressive four in a row from 1985-88) and collected 3,010 hits in his
career, was
certainly no stranger to great hitting. He’s also no stranger to
the
Hall of Fame, having been inducted in 2005 to baseball’s Hall in his
first
year of eligibility; he’s also a member of the Boston Red Sox Hall of
Fame
as well. So, it’s no surprise that the “perfect hitter” will
induct
Mr. Perfect into WWE’s Hall on March 31.
"It's special for me to induct Curt," Boggs beamed. "I know the
weekend I had in Cooperstown (when Boggs was inducted into the Baseball
Hall of
Fame), and I wish he was around to see his induction. He was so
passionate towards sports-entertainment and was a tremendous
showman. It's so
fitting."
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