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Dâ€Lo Brown wants to see the Nation of Domination in the WWE Hall of Fame.

The Attitude Era featured many stables, but few achieved what The Nation did for The Rockâ€s career. After an underwhelming first run as the smiling babyface Rocky Maivia, Vince McMahon turned Dwayne Johnson heel by making him a member of the Nation of Domination.

The alliance proved instrumental in Maiviaâ€s transformation into the wildly popular Rock persona at the height of the Attitude Era. The Nation eventually disbanded. With each member going solo or forming new tag teams. Such as Faarooq teaming with Bradshaw (aka JBL) to form the APA. The Nation remains an important part of WWEâ€s faction history.

Dâ€Lo Brown says The Nation of Domination belongs in the WWE Hall of Fame

During a recent appearance on The Velvet Ropes with SoCal Val, former Nation member Dâ€Lo Brown said the iconic Attitude Era faction deserves to be inducted into the Hall of Fame. Explaining his reasoning, Dâ€Lo said:

“Hereâ€s my thing. I believe, not just because Iâ€m part of the Nation. If I wasnâ€t part of the Nation, I would say the Nation deserves being a Hall of Fame,†Dâ€Lo Brown said. “If you look at what a faction does, usually, a faction is to elevate one person out of the group, i.e. Flair with the Horsemen. The thing with the Nation was every member, and we think about the core unit of Rocky, Mark, Godfather, Ron and myself… every one of us got better after being in the Nation.

“So that shows what kind of foundation the Nation gave all of us. And it lifted us all up. And then for the fact that the Nation should be in the Hall of Fame, because 30 years later, anytime you put a faction of two or three black guys together, people are already calling it the new Nation. That tells you its footprint in wrestling. And just for that mere fact alone, it should be represented in the Hall of Fame with the other great acts of the last 100 years.†[H/T: WrestlingNews.co]

READ MORE: The Godfather Believes This Is The Reason Vince McMahon Put Owen Hart In The Nation Of Domination

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Depending on who you ask, Josh Alexander hasn’t had the opportunity to prove why he’s called “The Walking Weapon” on AEW programming yet. Since leaving TNA, which put him on the map from 2019 to 2025 as both a flagbearer in singles and tag team action, legends in the business like Konnan do not believe AEW fans are seeing Alexander for the prizefighter he’s known to be. A fan, who wrote into Konnan’s “Keepin’ It 100” podcast, asked the mastermind his thoughts on Alexander since his transition from Impact/TNA to AEW now.

“When he was in TNA, he was champion,” Konnan noted before addressing the question. “He was protected. He came over here, his very first match, he debuted with a loss. I think 90 percent of his matches have been losses. And then, he’s part of a team that has way too many people that don’t even look like they belong together or hang out together. You know, Don Callis has like 15 in his group.”

During the six years Alexander was with Impact/TNA, he and now “WWE NXT” star Ethan Page (collectively known as The North), served as the two-time Impact World Tag Team Champions, with their first reign becoming the longest in the title’s history at 380 days. From there, Alexander would venture over to singles competition, holding the X-Division Championship once before trading up his hardware for the Impact World Championship, and making history again, not only as a two-time titleholder, but carrying the longest reign within his second run with the belt at 335 days. Hoping to parlay all those accomplishments he had of yesteryear to now, although he has not claimed any gold in AEW yet, he does have another notch in his weaponeer belt by becoming the current and inaugural MLP Canadian Champion for Scott D’Amore’s Maple Leaf Pro Wrestling promotion. Alexander’s last victory in AEW came against Kota Ibushi via count out at “AEW Collision: Homecoming,” on October 11. Â

If you use any of the quotes in this article, please credit “Keepin’ It 100 ” with a h/t to Wrestling Inc. for the transcription.

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