D’Lo Brown Makes the Case for Why the Nation of Domination Belongs in the WWE Hall of Fame

Former WWE Superstar and Intercontinental Champion D’Lo Brown recently joined The Velvet Ropes with SoCal Val to discuss his career, being a part of WWE’s Attitude Era, and more. During the interview, D’Lo Brown made the case for why his old stable, The Nation of Domination, belongs in the WWE Hall of Fame. Below are some highlights from WrestlingNews.co:

On Snoop Dogg Visiting Monday Night Raw

“Snoop comes rolling in, and he’s dapping and he’s hanging with the boys, and all of a sudden, him and Godfather… disappear into this room. And like clockwork, five minutes later, the entire bottom bowl of the arena smells of the funka 40,000 years. It is… it is weed central… as Vince comes rolling up… here’s Godfather. Open the door, and it’s like something out of Cheech and Chong, a puff of smoke comes out… as Godfather tells the story, he walked out, look at Vince, and he goes, ‘What you expect me to do? You put me in the room with them.’ And Vince goes, ‘All right, pal.’ It keeps walking on.”

D’Lo Brown on Why the Nation of Domination Belongs in the WWE Hall of Fame

“Here’s my thing. I believe, not just because I’m part of the Nation. If I wasn’t part of the Nation, I would say the Nation deserves to be in the Hall of Fame. If you look at what a faction does, usually, a faction is to elevate one person out of the group, i.e., Flair with the Horsemen. The thing with the Nation was every member, and we think about the core unit of Rocky, Mark, Godfather, Ron, and myself… every one of us got better after being in the Nation. So that shows what kind of foundation the Nation gave all of us. And it lifted us all up. And then for the fact that the Nation should be in the Hall of Fame, because 30 years later, anytime you put a faction of two or three black guys together, people are already calling it the new Nation. That tells you its footprint in wrestling. And just for that mere fact alone, it should be represented in the Hall of Fame with the other great acts of the last 100 years.”

Brown on His Biltmore Hotel Ghost Story

“I call the front desk… ‘I think you guys need to send security up… this man and woman are having a full-blown fight.’ And the lady at the front desk goes, ‘Hold on.’ And she comes back. She goes, ‘Sir, what room are you in?’ And I tell her again. She goes, ‘Sir, there’s no one registered in the room next to you.’… I go, ‘What?’ She goes, ‘There’s no one in the room.’ And she goes, ‘You do know the reputation of this hotel?’… I throw my clothes back on. Now I’m sober. I’m stone cold sober… I run back downstairs… I just had a ghost encounter in my room… I’m just pounding drinks because I’m like, if I’m gonna go back here and go to sleep, I’m just gonna pass out, and if the ghost wants me, then they can have me.”

Other past members of the Nation of Domination who have been inducted separately into the WWE Hall of Fame include Mark Henry, Ron Simmons (aka Farooq), and The Godfather (aka Charles Wright).