the first "hall of  fame" poll is done and the winner and first t be added to my hall of fame with 75% of vote the one and only "original sheik"usely known as the sheik o f araby ,the wildman frm arabia ,the wildman from syria and now known as the grand sheik of wrestling.not to be confused with the iron sheik mostly known in the wwe in the 1980's.the ringinal sheik was the real sheik and the man who was hardcore before there was hardcore.

name:ed farhat

stats:5'11" 247 lbs.

born:1924

billed as:the sheik and other alias as mentioned above.

the sheik may be most the blame for influencing the hardcore generation of today.he influenced stars such as mick foley,the sandman ,raven ,tommy dreamer and most obvious his own nephew "sabu"....

the sheik won countless titles all over the world.he was one f the first to make an arabian character popular worldwide. also,famous worldwide as the most crazy,insane,violent,bloodthirsty ,badass of pro wrestiling.he set the standard for hardcore that wrestlers are still trying to equal ,even some 40's years after his debut.

he started his career in the 1950's.at that time the sheik was muscular,trim ,and got under the fans skin worst than anyone before and after his time.he was a top box office draw. people came and filled arenas in hope to see him in a defeat.he mostly victorious.some of his most bloody and highly heated matches were with bobo brazil,buddy rogers,antonio rocca,johny valentine,harley race,mark lewin,and tyger jeet singh and, plenty of others. the sheik was more at bloood baths than championships although he won a great fair share.he loved the violent end of wrestling that he introdued.about the only man that could stand close to him was abdullah the butcher.the sheik "the man the myth the legend the grand sheik of wrestling the first to be inducted in my hall of fame.he is truely a legend and a great man of wrestling .may the most brutal and violent man of wrestling  rest in peace.

                                     the late great ed farhat (the sheik)

                                                       1924--2003

#2 INDUTEE  "JAKE "THE SNAKE"ROBERTS".INDUCTED APRIL '27-2006 BY WINNING 62% OF VOTES.

Aurelian Jake Smith, Jr. (born May 30, 1955 in Gainesville, Texas), better known by his ring name of Jake "The Snake" Roberts,Roberts played a notorious heel in the World Wrestling Federation throughout the 1980s. He was known for his spellbinding promos and dark charisma, his extensive use of psychology in his matches and for inventing the DDT finishing maneuver.

Roberts derived his nickname from being thin and snake-like. Once he reached the WWF, Roberts would bring a huge, live python (though various snakes were used over the years, most were named "Damien") to ringside in a canvas bag. After hitting a DDT on his opponent, Roberts would coil the constrictor around the opponent's neck, with the snake then appearing to strangle the victim senseless. It was a masterful show of kayfabe, as the wrestler lay flailing and foaming at the mouth with the monstrous snake squeezing the life out of him.

Roberts later became a popular face and engaged in a long feud with André the Giant; in this storyline, Roberts used his snake to gain a psychological edge over the ophidiophobic André, to nullify the Giant's overwhelming size and strength advantage. However, Roberts' fame diminished throughout the 1990s as drug addictions and depression increasingly dominated his life. His storied career was documented in the 1999 documentary film Beyond the Mat and again in the WWE-produced, 2005 DVD set Pick Your Poison.

Jake Roberts is credited with training Diamond Dallas Page and Raven. Roberts and fellow wrestler Vader appeared on the ABC sitcom Boy Meets World for one episode.Roberts started his career in 1975 in the Georgia area and made his name in the NWA as part of Paul Ellering's heel stable The Legion of Doom. He feuded with Ron Garvin in the 1980s over the NWA World Televison Championship.

One of the more memorable moments in his career was when he had Alice Cooper in his corner during WrestleMania III in 1987. Jake's WrestleMania III opponent the Honky Tonk Man brutally attacked Jake with a guitar on Jake's interview segment "The Snake Pit." In reality, The Honky Tonk Man's guitar shot legitimately injured Jake's neck. Jake admitted in interviews that the shot was prior to the use of breakaway guitars, so when Honky clubbed him, he really got hit hard. Jake started using pain killers following the injury.

Perhaps his best-known feud was against "Ravishing" Rick Rude, who was doing a gimmick where he would select a woman from the audience to kiss after each match. Rude inadvertantly chose Jake's real-life wife Cheryl, who refused the kiss; Jake rescued her before Rude could attack. At another event, Rude wore a pair of tights emblazoned with a visage of Mrs. Roberts, which an irate Jake tore off, sending Rude running apparently naked from the ring.

Jake also began a brief feud with Hulk Hogan, but the angle was dropped when Roberts started receiving cheers from the crowd (even though Jake was initially intended to be a heel). This was seen as bad for business considering that Hogan was the top box office draw for the WWF. Jake was also supposed to wrestle the UltimatE Warrior after SummerSlam 1991, but due to a financial dispute that the Warrior had with the WWF around this same period, nothing was fully materialized.

Roberts had an extremely intense feud with "Macho Man" Randy Savage (around 1991), in which Jake famously used a cobra to bite the Macho Man's arm. WWF president Jack Tunney reinstated Savage, who had lost a retirement match earlier that year, as an active wrestler to get revenge for the attack, and he and Roberts feuded for the next few months.

Jake feuded with The Undertaker in early 1992, following his run with Savage, but he left the WWF after WrestleMania VIII, upset that WWF chairman Vince McMahon didn't offer him a position on the writing staff despite being promised previously. After Pat Patterson stepped down from his the writing staff, Vince decided that out of respect for Patterson, the spot would be left vacant. Jake felt that he was not only lied to but also betrayed. In response, Jake threatened to no-show WrestleMania VIII if he wasn't given a release from his contract.

Jake went to work for World Championship Wrestling alongside his father, Grizzly Smith, where he aligned himself with The Barbarian and Cactus Jack to feud with Sting and Nikita Koloff. His one WCW pay-per-view match, against Sting at Halloween Havoc 1992, was the company's top-selling PPV for several years, but Jake soon left WCW after his wife gave him an ultimatum to either focus on his career or his family. The two would divorce not long afterwards.Jake returned to the WWF in 1996, as a Bible-reading face (his new snake was named “Revelations”). Roberts claimed to be a changed man who regretted his past, though some in the industry felt he was holding religious seminars as a way to make money rather than out of genuine faith. Roberts was pushed as a "Cinderella story" and faced Stone Cold Steve Austin in the final match of the King of the Ring tournament. Austin won, and as Roberts was helped to the back, Austin mocked the Snake's recital of the biblical passage John 3:16, saying "Austin 3:16 says I just whipped your ass!" "Austin 3:16" became a catchphrase that helped propel Austin to the top of the WWF and pro wrestling for the next three years.Jake later feuded with Jerry "The King" Lawler, who went to great lengths to ridicule Jake's past bouts with alcoholism. Roberts later said this angle was personally uncomfortable; at one point Lawler spat real whiskey at Roberts.

Roberts was fired from the WWF in 1997 for failing to show up for work during a series of house shows. He competed briefly in Mexico, where he was shaved bald by Konnan, and began appearing in the indepedent circuit in the U.S. and Great Britain.Jake's career was derailed by problems with drugs and alcohol. He still wrestles on the independent circuit, though along with his drug and alcohol abuse (well chronicled in the documentary Beyond the Mat) his career has also been hampered by a series of legal problems. In one notorious 1999 PPV show, Heroes OF Wrestling, he cut a rambling, incoherent promo in which he heavily slurred his words. Minutes later, he staggered toward the ring, apparently drunk, for his scheduled match with Jim Neidhart. During the match, when his snake wriggled free from the bag, he waved the snake toward the audience while it was protruding from his crotch

On October 20, 2002, Jake Roberts became the NWA (UK) Hammerlock Heavyweight Champion in Maidstone, Kent, England by defeating "Vigilante" Johnny Moss. Moss defeated him for the title the next night in Ashford, Kent, England though. In November 2002, Jake started his own wrestling promotion in the UK, called Real Stars of Wrestling. Jake's legal troubles continued, after he was accused of animal cruelty for leaving the snakes at his house unfed for several days.Jake made a WWE appearance in March 2005, where he confronted Randy Orton. He worked with the company to create a DVD retrospective of his career, which was released later that year.