The movie will follow the rise and tragic fall of the Von Erichs, a North Texas-based wrestling family who achieved superstardom in the 1980s.
The brothers have struggled to meet the voter threshold in recent years — but, with their family's upcoming biopic, now might be their best shot at induction.For the unaware: The Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame is considered by many in the industry to be the most legitimate hall of fame that wrestling has.
Their father, Fritz Von Erich, was already inducted in the inaugural class of the hall in 1996, and deservedly so. But Fritz's three sons have struggled for years now to meet that minimum 60% of voter approval required to enter the hall. One argument seen before is that the three Von Erich brothers as a trio do not have a long list of matches to their name. But just last year, the Villanos, a famous group of five brothers from Mexico, were inducted into the Hall of Fame, and the Villanos never wrestled a single match where all five of them teamed with each other. So the case for the brothers, it could be argued, extends far past just their matches as a trio.
The fifth-highest attended wrestling event of the 1980s is also a WCCW show: The Cotton Bowl Extravaganza was held in the football stadium of the same name on Oct. 6, 1985, and headlined by two of the three candidates, Kevin and Kerry Von Erich, against Chris Adams and Gino Hernandez in a hair match. This drew another impressive attendance number, as well, with 30,214 people packing the Cotton Bowl to see the Von Erich brothers get their revenge and shave the heads of Adams and Hernandez.
Ric Flair himself says in his book that he and Kerry Von Erich's Christmas 1982 match drew the first $100,000 wrestling gate in Texas history. They worked together around the world as well, selling out in locations like Hawaii and Japan. , they state that 200,000 households were tuning into WCCW's TV every single week in 1984.
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