Reported by Adam Martin of WrestleView.com
On Sunday, April 2, 2006 at 3:49 AM EST

Paul Nemer, Adam Martin & Ryan Droste of WrestleView.com all attended the 2006 WWE Hall of Fame ceremony on Saturday night at the Rosemont Theatre. Here are some off-air news and notes from the taping...

There was loud "We Want Bret" chants at the beginning of the show.

Around 10 minutes before the ceremony began, all of the WWE superstars entered the theatre and took their seats on the floor in the first few rows from the stage. Triple H, Stephanie McMahon and Linda McMahon were the first out and sat in the front row.

As soon as Shawn Michaels was shown entering the theatre to take his seat, he was booed and greated with "You screwed Bret chants."

Of all the wrestlers that entered who sat on the first few rows, Batista by far got the loudest reaction. It was actually pretty amazing the reaction he got.

The inductions that took place off the air were The Blackjacks, Verne Gagne, Sensational Sherri, Tony Atlas and William "The Refrigerator" Perry. Bobby "The Brain" Heenan's induction of The Blackjacks went over well with the crowd. Heenan told the fans that under one lucky seat, there is a red envelope with backstage passes to WrestleMania 22 on Sunday night. He then reminded the crowd that it was April 1st (April Fools Day). Blackjack Lanza and Blackjack Mulligan went a little longer than I'm sure some fans would have liked, but it was a solid acceptance speech nonetheless.

Greg Gagne did a good job of describing his father's accomplishments with AWA. Verne took a few jabs at Vince McMahon, but it was in all good fun.

Ted DiBiase's induction of Sensational Sherri also got a solid reaction. DiBiase got a very loud pop and threw some money out to the WWE stars in the crowd. Sensational Sherri was very interactive with the crowd and had what was possibly the most entertaining speech of the night.

WWE Champion John Cena's induction of William "The Refrigerator" Perry was very interesting to say the least. Cena was booed to an insane amount. It got so bad at one point that you almost started feeling bad for him, but couldn't help from jumping in and giving him a hard time. Triple H also had a stare down with Cena from the front row and the fans were obviously way behind Hunter. Cena's introduction of Perry used an "NFL Films" style and was very funny. They showed numerous shots of WWE stars cracking up at it. A lot of the booing fans (or hypocritical as Paul Nemer called them) cheered him for the entertaining intro. Perry's acceptance was short and sweet and said it was a pleasure to be inducted.

S.D. Jones' induction of Tony Atlas went over great as well with Jones describing all of the weight lifting encounters he would put Atlas when they were overseas. Atlas praised the United States more than once and even pointed out a woman in the crowd who gave him a home when he was homeless in the early 1990s.

We then went to the taping for the USA Network featuring the inductions of Mean Gene Okerlund, Eddie Guerrero and Bret Hart.

The Bret Hart segment was around 20 minutes, but not all of it was shown on TV. He said a few Owen jokes and a couple of Neidhart jokes.

Aside from the emotional Guerrero induction and Bret Hart, Sensational Sherri's speech was the best one of the night. A lot of laughter and jokes there. Crowd was very much into it.

Hart, Hogan and Austin got the biggest pop of the night.

During Hart's speech, he was telling a funny story and happened to mention Hogan (in a good way) and a shot of Hogan was shown with a straight face. After the Hall of Fame went off the air, Bret shook hands with the majority of the people on the set, except Hulk Hogan.

Photos from the ceremony are now up on WWE.com at this link.