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The last time HTM was on The Mayhem, he was very adamant about not returning to World Wrestling Entertainment. But as many already know, in the wrestling business, "you never say never." To the surprise of many, he did appear at last year’s WWE Cyber Sunday Pay-Per-View, and received the biggest crowd pop probably of the night. "It was really an ambush on me. I really didn’t know what they were doing. Someone had e-mailed & told me they were doing this Santino Marella thing, and when they first approached me about it, I said no I’m not interested, I could care less. And when I went back & looked at some the stuff they had been doing, then I called them back, and said ‘This is really neat what you’re doing.’ It was a great idea & great how they did it. It’s too bad it didn’t last longer, I wish it would have both for him & for me, because I think he (Santino) is a fantastic talent."
After inducting Koko B. Ware into the WWE Hall Of Fame several months ago, WrestleMania XXVI is going to be held Honky’s home city of Phoenix, Arizona. Journalists, fans & fellow superstars like have said for years that The Honky Tonk Man should be in the WWE Hall Of Fame…next March may be his perfect time to be enshrined. Todd Vincent asked him about the odds of going in at this upcoming WrestleMania. "I’m not sitting here like a dog waiting on a bone. If it happens, it happens, and if it doesn’t, it doesn’t. If for some reason I’m booked that weekend somewhere, I’m not gonna cancel my booking for the Hall Of Fame. I will continue on doing what I do, because this independent thing I’ve been doing for so long has fed my family, kept me alive, & kept me in the spotlight, and I will not give that up for one payday from the WWE." Blade mentioned that with the possibility of both Honky & rumored induction of The Ultimate Warrior, hell will have truly frozen over in the WWE Universe. "This is a company, the WWE, that office is extremely unpredictable. Just when you think you have the answer to the question, they change the question."
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