Better late than never for Randy Savage to enter WWE Hall of Fame

Randy "Macho Man" Savage should have been in the WWE Hall of Fame years ago.

He had earned Hall of Fame Status before he retired as a full-time wrestler, and the WWE Hall of Fame was never 100 percent legitimate without him.

With that said, I'm glad that he's going in this year. It is a case of his induction being better late than ever.

Although I, along with legions of wrestling fans, am happy to see Savage take his rightful place in the Hall, there's still a part of me that wishes Savage were still alive to take in this honor.

Unfortunately, a heart attack took him and any chance for fans to pay proper tribute to the madness away from us 2011. It was much too soon.

Why Savage wasn't in the WWE Hall of Fame until this point remains one of the great mysteries in wrestling. It could be any number of things, most of which is merely rumor and hearsay.

Regardless of the reason, what it really comes down to is the politics of the wrestling business. Politics exist in all walks of life, but wrestling is over-saturated with it.

You would think an industry with big, tough grown men wouldn't deal with this level of politics, but for whatever reason it does.

You thought baseball had a bunch of unnecessary unwritten rules? Wait until you hear some the stories about the rules of a wrestling locker room.

Whatever happened between Savage and Vince McMahon way back in the day  to cause such a rift between the two should have never gotten in the way of what is right for business, not to mention it's old news that men the stature of Savage and McMahon should have swept it under the rug a long time ago.

Instead, none of that happened. And while fans will rejoice when Savage is inducted on March 28 the night before WrestleMania 31, there's still going to be something missing from all of the festivities, and that will be the man of the hour, the tower of power, and a man that was too sweet to be sour. He was funky like a monkey, too hot to handle and too cold to hold.

That man was Randy Poffo, better known to the world as the "Macho Man" Randy Savage.