10 superstars who still need to be in the WWE Hall of Fame

The Great Muta

While Keiji Mutoh may not be a household name to some, his biggest persona out of the many he used over the years, The Great Muta, just might be.

Trained in the mid-1980s under the legendary Hiro Matsuda, the same trainer of the likes of WWE Hall of Famers Hulk Hogan, Paul Orndorff, Scott Hall and Bob Orton, Mutoh bounced around Japan, Puerto Rico and the U.S. before landing in the NWA in 1989. He would go on to win the NWA World Television Championship and worked some great programs with Ric Flair, Lex Luger and especially Sting, from whom he actually won the aforementioned title.

Known for his signature green mist, which would end up being used by so many other Japanese superstars throughout the years, Muta bounced around from WCW to New Japan Pro Wrestling through the 1990s, even getting into a United States Championship program at one point with an up-and-coming wrestler named Stunning Steve Austin. A six-time IWGP tag champ, a one-time NWA World Heavyweight Champion and a four-time IWGP Heavyweight Champion (that last title win coming against Shinsuke Nakamura), The Great Muta never did end up wrestling one match for WWE. However, that doesn’t really seem to be an issue for them.

Sting only wrestled for them twice, and Harlem Heat, inducted in 2019, never had a match for WWE proper. There are plenty of guys in the WWE Hall of Fame right now that never wrestled one match for WWE but gave so much to the industry to deserve induction. The Great Muta belongs in that category.