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00:03Hit my music.
00:05She's got legs. She knows how to use them.
00:11Boy, Stacey Keebler, he has come out here with a purpose, with a vengeance.
00:16But who knows what could happen when Stacey Keebler is in the ring.
00:305'11", her signature 42-inch legs.
00:34What about those legs? Look at them!
00:37It's hard not to notice Stacey Keebler.
00:40The spotlight always found her, even when she was just a toddler learning to dance.
00:45Stacey earned a coveted spot on the Baltimore Ravens cheerleading squad when she was only 18.
00:52Then she called an audible.
00:54World Championship Wrestling presents Monday Nitro!
00:59Entering a nationwide contest to become a Nitro Girl.
01:05Beating hundreds to win it all.
01:07To the right! To the front! To the back!
01:10About to play all night!
01:13Stacey quickly waltzed her way to becoming the alluring Miss Hancock.
01:18And her towering presence was felt immediately.
01:22Oh, right at the table!
01:23I will give you what you want to see right now.
01:31Stacey's next move.
01:33It's Stacey Keebler!
01:35WWE.
01:37Becoming a cunning and crafty manager.
01:40Giving her superstars a leg up.
01:43Hit in a steel chair to Bubba Ray.
01:46That's a wondrous woman.
01:48You mean to tell me that's Stacey Keebler? That masked woman?
01:51Stacey also proved herself in the ring where her career had legs.
01:56Woo, look at that extension!
01:58And so much more.
02:00What has this young lady done?
02:02You don't tug on Superman's cape, you don't spit in the wind, and you don't catch Austin's beer!
02:15Stacey's breaking a cold one!
02:17Look at that!
02:18With the Texas Rattlesnake!
02:20Woo-hoo!
02:26Get out of here!
02:28Come on!
02:30So ready!
02:32You got ready!
02:34I'm ready!
02:36It's our great honor to welcome Stacey Keebler into the 2023 class of the WWE Hall of Fame.
02:52And the hardcore icon, Mick Foley!
02:52Here to induct Stacey Keebler, please welcome WWE Hall of Famer's Tori Wilson and the hardcore icon, Mick Foley!
03:23Thank you so much!
03:25It's an honor to kick off this year's Hall of Fame induction ceremony!
03:30Fully, Fully, Fully!
03:33Fully, Fully, Fully, Fully, Fully, Fully, Fully, Fully, Fully!
03:38Fully, Fully, Fully!
03:38Thank you!
03:39That's very nice for this evening.
03:40It's not about me.
03:42It's about Stacey Keebler.
03:47for those of you wondering what in the heck is mick foley doing helping induct stacy kebler
03:53into the hall of fame i've been asking myself the same thing for the last two weeks
03:59all i know is i received a text message and it said mick this is stacy would you do me
04:05the honor
04:05of inducting me into the hall of fame with tory and i said yes i did not say let me
04:11check my
04:11schedule let me try to juggle a few things i said yes and i've been smiling for the last two
04:17and a
04:17half weeks because that's the effect stacy kebler has she is one of the kindest human beings i've
04:27ever met in my entire life and if stacy feels like she has one match left in her may i
04:35suggest stacy
04:36kebler and molly holly
04:41in a battle to determine the nicest person ever in the history of wwe
04:49i'm so grateful to be here uh i know my my co-hall of famer booker t was talking about
04:57stacy on his
04:57radio show and he said she is one of a kind there's no one like stacy kebler and no one
05:05turned
05:06the channel when stacy was on now i know there's a lot of new fans here who only know the
05:12women's
05:12revolution may not know the women who preceded them but let me tell you something these women
05:20were such a pillar of the company i
05:29they were amazing ambassadors for wwe and i say that as someone who worked hand in hand
05:35with stacy on so many occasions i say that as somebody who spent 10 days in shanghai china
05:40with tory as ambassadors for the company and i cannot wait until tory shares some more news
05:47but i would like to take you back to the last time i saw stacy before this night it was
05:53december 26
05:562005 17 and a half years ago i'd received the word that stacy was going to be on dancing with
06:02the stars
06:02and i just had a feeling it was going to be a life-changing experience for her and we were
06:07texting
06:07back and forth and stacy said hey i'm at a jets game right now and i texted back i said
06:12i'm at a jets
06:14game right now and we went about meeting up and when i tell you it was like something from a
06:19movie
06:19i'm not exaggerating i had to make that long walk down to the 50 yard line and the cameras picked
06:26up
06:26on it and it was like something out of a movie and when we hugged you had thousands of people
06:31applauding and cheers and it was
06:41and it was an incredibly special moment and an incredibly special night but not as special
06:48as this moment not as special as this night because i remember what it was like to address
06:54the hall of fame audience 10 years ago tory you remember was it 2019
07:012019 tory was inducted these are memories we carry with us for the rest of our lives
07:07and it gives me so much pride and so much happiness to think that decades from now
07:14stacy keebler will look back and remember that she allowed me to share a little bit of that magic night
07:21with her thank you
07:27now without further ado or should i say a dude i bring to you hall of famer tory wilson
07:40all right you guys i'm gonna do my best not to cry i love stacy so much
07:46um i met a 19 year old stacy keebler in the women's locker room the night she became a nitro
07:53girl
07:53dancer after asking me to take a picture with her she turned around a change and the entire room of
07:59women tried their best not to stare stacy stood there in all her glory legs up to here and complete
08:08perfection you could hear a pin drop as we all glanced at each other in disbelief is this girl for
08:14real
08:14her beauty and presence could easily be intimidating but the second she opens her
08:21mouth stacy's friendly carefree personality wins everyone over every time naturally the women who
08:29witnessed her in the locker room weren't the only ones to recognize her stunning statuesque presence
08:35were we stacy's popularity skyrocketed so fast that within weeks i'm talking weeks of being hired
08:44she was moved from the new nitro girl dancer to the main roster
08:50this is where her 15 years of dance lessons and a lifelong love of performing came pretty handy
08:58and also where she quickly learned that wrestling is a far cry from ballet talk about a learning curve
09:06i'll never forget the way we both bawled our eyes out the day we first learned how to take a
09:11bump
09:12i'm not joking even though this business is crazy physical stacy embraced the ultimate skill that
09:20matters first tenacity it's a key factor to success and without it you ain't coming back to anything
09:29that's hard especially a bump behind the beautiful shell we all see is a fierce blend of mental strength
09:38persistence and a why not me energy that's helped her forge a path that's only hers to claim
09:45stacy's presence helped create a new era for women in wrestling one where feminine and strong
09:52can happily coexist one that helped push an evolution leading us to the superstars of today
10:07and as every superstar of today knows our value is heavily weighed by all of you wanting to watch
10:17someone well needless to say none of us could keep our eyes off of stacy both in the ring and
10:25when she
10:26danced her way into people's heart again on dancing with the stars where she quickly became a household
10:33name and broke barriers to become the first female superstar to find success crossing over into hollywood
10:41fame stacy is bold and fearless in every way she slayed every red carpet from the slammies to the oscars
10:51she was named one of people magazine's most beautiful people and those 42-inch legs were insured by lloyds of
11:00london for good reason but the boldest and most beautiful thing to me about stacy is that despite
11:09incoming offers for film and television she stepped out of the limelight to be the best mom and wife she
11:16can
11:21be
11:21stacy continues to mesmerize me with her tenacity her dedication to work on her spiritual self her
11:29positivity her zest for life and her ability to be the life of the party wherever she goes and the
11:37way
11:37she's mesmerized you guys know and the way she's mesmerized the wwe universe is why we celebrate her today
11:47stacy helped pave the way for wwe stars to expand across hollywood
11:53she catapulted from the wwe to television movies fashion fitness but she was the first and she
12:01certainly wouldn't be the last
12:04yes we love her i was grateful she inducted me into the hall of fame and now i get to
12:10return the favor
12:11to the coolest classiest boldly unapologetic gal you'll ever meet my friends my ride or die
12:21here we go stacy keidler
12:28she knows how to use them
12:33she never fades
12:36she knows how to choose them
12:41she's only
12:45wondering how to feel them
12:49would you get behind them
12:52if you could only find her
12:58she's my baby
13:02she's my baby
13:07it's all right
13:09it's all right
13:10it's all right
13:12it's all right
13:13all right
13:15she's got hair
13:18down to her hair
13:39i am so grateful for everyone who has been a part of my wwe journey
13:44most importantly the greatest fans in the world
13:52you are the real reason i am standing here today wwe and all of its fans empowered me to be
13:59the best
14:00entertainer i could and i say entertainer because that's what the wwe is sports entertainment
14:07you gave me the confidence to entertain you and wwe gave me the stage
14:14i loved being on stage since i was little i actually earned my first paycheck in show business
14:20at the age of seven for a cough syrup commercial but never in my wildest dreams did i think that
14:27it would lead me to this stage to be able to entertain the best fans in the world
14:54it was you who shaped my career
14:57you who gave me the strength
15:00you inspired me and you are the magic of our show so thank you
15:11i always tried my best to honor the fans who show up every week who love wwe
15:25i was a super fan first and i will always be a super fan
15:38i saw an ad for a dance contest to be the next wcw nitro girl i was a dancer so
15:44i thought well if i
15:45enter it i make it to the finals maybe i could meet bret hart
15:51never in a million years did i think i'd win that i make a career out of it that my
15:56life would change
15:57forever and never did i think that the little girl from baltimore who sat in the stands wearing her
16:03nwo shirt would have the biggest pinch me moment of all being inducted into the wwe hall of fame
16:21it's surreal i still feel like i'm sitting out in the stands with all of you
16:27because we are all connected and that's the power of this community i truly feel like you all are
16:34entering in the hall of fame with me the hall of fame celebrates excellence and preserves history
16:39everyone in the hall is unique but there are traits and values associated with all of its members
16:44commitment courage endurance fortitude but most of all integrity the word hidden in the middle speaks
16:54of the world's volumes grit and every person that works for wwe is full of grit through my time in
17:02the wwe
17:03and since i've tried to demonstrate grit with grace grit is when you continue through knockdown
17:10setbacks and the failures it's something inside of you that won't let you give up it's what i try
17:16to teach my children grit is about getting up after you fall down and pushing through the obstacles that
17:21make you stronger grace is allowing the setbacks to become lessons for how to rise how to be a better
17:28human how to move forward and i am humbled and proud to be accepted into this gritty graceful group
17:45people always ask me did you really wrestle does it hurt yes it hurts but no matter how much pain
17:56i
17:56went through i always found a way to rally up the strength put on a brave face and find the
18:01grit within
18:02me i didn't know i had and when my music hit and the fans stood up and the place erupted
18:07i walked
18:08through that curtain and all my pain went away and that is the power of the wwe universe
18:18i wouldn't be standing here with the help of a lot of people let's start off with some amazing women
18:24my first teacher was medusa and boy did she kick my butt after my first day training with her i
18:34couldn't get out of bed i felt like i got hit by a train i had to call the hotel
18:37and ask them to bring
18:38ice up and ice my whole body but what i know now is medusa was pushing me to be my
18:44best and i am grateful
18:45to her and all the women who came up with me and before me trish lita molly holly ivory jacqueline
18:55jazz victoria and gail kim thank you also to fit finley for trying your best to teach this dancer how
19:03to
19:08wrestle
19:08to the deadly boys you are my greatest teachers
19:17and shane helms i love you buddy
19:23and to the felma to my louise the laverne to my shirley
19:27tori wilson i was a big tori wilson fan to begin with
19:34and that only grew from the moment i met her
19:36the first day i entered the women's locker room she greeted me with a big smile and a bikini and
19:41a
19:41full-length mink coat we became fast friends and she always had my back we were in the trenches
19:48together roadies rivals even roommates when we moved to la tori embraced me and took me under her wing
19:56she showed me and the world what it meant to be strong smart sexy fierce
20:05driven powerful and most of all kind our friendship is proof of what's possible when women empower
20:12and lift each other up so thank you tori
20:21i am so honored that two of the nicest people showed up for me tonight thank you tori and mick
20:28mick we hit it off his friends day one and you will always have a special place in my heart
20:33thank
20:34you for the kind words that you said thank you
20:39to my husband jared my rock my family's champion thank you for loving all aspects of me and pushing me
20:52not only to be the best version of myself but the most authentic version of myself your hard work
21:02discipline and dedication is inspiring and i am grateful to be on this journey with you
21:08to our three incredible children ava bode and bella i know you don't fully understand what's going on
21:16tonight and one day you'll google it but i am so grateful you're able to experience this with me
21:22and soak in the energy from this amazing crowd
21:33and to my number one fans my mom and dad thank you for always telling me to go for it
21:37for your
21:38unconditional love no matter what for instilling good morals and values in me and making sure i never
21:43forget where i come from taking me to every single dance practice competition modeling job acting
21:50audition coming to every raven's game i cheered staying up late sewing my costumes and watching
21:55every single episode of wwe in my entire career
22:06love is the strongest force and i have felt such an enormous amount of love this week from
22:12everyone thank you guys i love you all more than words can say
22:21but lastly to the fans you were with me from the beginning you voted for me to win the nitro
22:28girl contest supported me through my wwe career voted for me again on dancing with the stars
22:34you are the heartbeat of the wwe
22:43and i hope where i could i inspired you to be the best versions of yourself to stay positive and
22:51manifest all of your dreams because you helped me manifest mine and there's a quote i like dreams
23:00not just handed to us they must be chased and caught with courage passion hard work and perseverance
23:07thank you all for making my dreams come true
23:17i accept this incredible honor on behalf of all of the amazing wwe fans all across the world
23:24i love you all i love you all thank you
23:31you
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