Kamala, Dory Funk Sr., Ivan Koloff named 2025 Legacy Inductees into WWE Hall of Fame

Three more names have been announced for the WWE Hall of Fame Class of 2025.

On Wednesday, WWE revealed that Kamala, Dory Funk Sr, and Ivan Koloff will be this year’s Legacy Inductees.

“Each one of these performers left an indelible mark on the history of @WWE. It is an absolute privilege to honor each of them and their bodies of work,” Paul “Triple H” Levesque wrote about their inductions.

“Legendary Superstars Kamala, Dory Funk Sr., and Ivan Koloff will enter the WWE Hall of Fame as the 2025 Legacy inductees.”

This will be the first time since 2021 that WWE has inducted people into the Legacy Wing of its Hall of Fame. The wing was created in 2016, and Levesque is thought to have been the driving force behind it.

Dave Meltzer wrote of the Legacy Wing in 2020: “This is the category they use to honor people who, for whatever reason, they don’t feel are marketable names to the modern audience to put in their actual Hall of Fame. It’s basically the answer to how you can have a Hall of Fame without Lou Thesz and Strangler Lewis—by quietly inducting them, just not listing them in the main Hall of Fame.”

The Legacy Wing has faced criticism from the families of past inductees for not notifying them of the inductions. Bruiser Brody’s widow, Barbara Goodish, said she only found out about her husband’s induction the day it happened.

“I didn’t get to see it or really know about it,” she explained in an interview with HannibalTV. “I was not invited and did not even know.”

The Legacy Wing was also criticized in 2021 when the family of Ethel Johnson publicly expressed their disappointment over not being notified about her induction. Additionally, WWE used footage of an entirely different wrestler in a video package announcing Johnson’s induction.