WWE Hall of Fame Speeches Now Use Teleprompters Instead of Fully Self-Written Promos

Kevin Nash says WWE’s Hall of Fame speeches don’t happen the same way they used to, revealing that today’s process involves teleprompters and collaboration instead of wrestlers simply writing everything themselves.

Speaking on his Kliq This podcast, Nash explained that modern Hall of Fame speeches are often structured with help from writers and production teams. He said talent now works from prepared material that shows up on screens, rather than walking out with something completely their own. Nash described how that process works today, making it clear that he doesn’t necessarily have a problem with it—as long as what appears on the screen still reflects the performer’s own voice.

“You would have collaboration. I would think that was bullet point because it's on a teleprompter which you know it was one of those like and my whole thing is if it's easier it's like when you're told what to do and it's going to be on a teleprompter and it's just like okay that's fine as long is what I'm reading on that teleprompter is what I want to read, right?”

Nash contrasted that modern approach with how things worked during the earlier years of WWE’s Hall of Fame ceremonies. According to him, talent once handled everything themselves, without scripts or production shaping what they said.

He pointed directly to Scott Hall’s iconic Hall of Fame speech as proof of how personal those earlier moments really were, stressing that the words fans still remember today came straight from Hall—not from a writer.

“I remember the first time we did this, like we just wrote our own [stuff]… you know, like we inducted each other and we wrote our own [stuff] and like nobody [stuff] wrote Scott’s [stuff]… you know, ‘Bad Times won’t last,’ you know, nobody wrote any of that. That was all our [stuff].”

Scott Hall’s “Bad Times Don’t Last” speech remains one of the most emotional moments in Hall of Fame history, and Nash’s comments suggest that kind of authenticity came from wrestlers speaking freely rather than reading prepared lines.

WWE’s Hall of Fame ceremony has grown into a highly produced part of WrestleMania weekend, but Nash’s remarks make it clear that the way those speeches come together behind the scenes has changed a lot over the years.

Do you think WWE Hall of Fame speeches are better with teleprompters and structured planning, or should wrestlers go back to delivering completely self-written speeches? Let us know what you think and drop your feedback in the comments.

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