Ivan Koloff
After being inducted in the WWE Hall of Fame in 2009, Ware has been point of controversy because, working as a carpenter, he was inducted before world champions Ivan Koloff, Randy Savage or Bruno Sammartino. In 2020, 411Mania writers Steve Cook and Kevin Pantoja discussed Ware's induction. While Cook defended his Hall of Fame status since he was very over and some of his losses were historic, Pantoja described him as "the floor for inductees".