<Tr> <Th> Founder </Th> <Td> WWE </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Members </Th> <Td> 105 individuals 11 groups (31 members) 9 celebrities 3 Warrior Awards recipients 16 Legacy inductees (164 total inductees) </Td> </Tr> <P> The WWE Hall of Fame is a hall of fame for professional wrestling personalities maintained by WWE . It was announced on the March 22, 1993 episode of Monday Night Raw where André the Giant, who had died nearly two months prior, was announced as the sole inductee . The 1994 and 1995 ceremonies were held in conjunction with the annual King of the Ring pay - per - view events . In 1996, the ceremony was held with the Survivor Series event, for the first time in front of a paying audience as well as the wrestlers, after which, the Hall of Fame went on hiatus . </P> <P> In 2004, WWE relaunched the Hall of Fame to coincide with WrestleMania XX . This ceremony, like its predecessors, was not broadcast on television . However, it was released on DVD on June 1, 2004 . Beginning with the 2005 ceremony, an edited version of the Hall of Fame was broadcast on Spike TV (2005) and on the USA Network (2006--present); these were aired on tape delay . Since 2005, the entire Hall of Fame ceremony has been packaged as part of the annual WrestleMania DVD release, and from 2014, has been broadcast live on the WWE Network . In 2015, historical WWE Hall of Fame ceremonies became available on the WWE Network . </P>

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