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Last Wrestlemania Update Before The Show? Partial Hall of Fame Acceptance Speeches Now on WWE.com, Full Transcript of Bob Uecker's Speech, Women's Match and Pre-Show Battle Royal Added To Wrestlemania 26 Card

Bob Uecker doing what he doesn't do best (Getty Images)

In the Hall of Fame area of WWE.com, they've posted edited versions of every acceptance speech from last night's ceremony, in addition to photos of the event.  The clips are pretty short, and they haven't posted the presenters' induction speeches in any form (with Roddy Piper, Stan Hansen, Dick "The Destroyer" Beyer, and Pat Patterson doing some of those speeches, as well as the emotional element of Stu Hart being inducted by his grandchildren and Ted DiBiase Sr. being inducted by his sons, they sound like they're worth watching), but with no live stream this year, they're better than having nothing until the Wrestlemania 26 DVD set comes out

Of the clips on the site, the best are the speeches from Bret Hart (accepting for his late father Stu while flanked by all of his surviving siblings), Wendi Richter (appearing for the company for the first time in 25 years), who was clearly thrilled and honored to be inducted, and Antonio Inoki, because he got the whole building to yell "ICHI!  NI!  SAN!  DAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" with him.  On top of all that, The Milwaukee Journal-Setinel's Brewers Blog has posted a full transcript of Uecker's acceptance speech.

Meanwhile, according to the official Wrestlemania 26 program, a 10 woman tag match featuring who you'd expect after this past week's TV shows: Alicia Fox, Vickie Guerrero, Michelle McCool, Layla, & Maryse vs Beth Phoenix, Eve Torres, Gail Kim, Kelly Kelly, & the returning Mickie James.  It had seemed like they were building to this match so it's pretty strange that they didn't just announce it on Smackdown.  There will also be a dark match battle royal not long before the PPV goes on the air.  It's WWE's way of getting those who didn't make the main card a Wrestlemania match and payoff.  They're not showing it on WWE.com as they have at times in the past, but we hope to have the result when we start live blogging the show tonight at 7 PM Eastern Time.

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In any post with the Wrestlemania 26 logo, click on the logo to see all of our other related coverage of Wrestlemania 26 and the Wrestlemania Weekend festivities, including the WWE Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, the Wrestlemania Weekend shows held by Ring of Honor and Dragon Gate USA, and tonight's live blog coverage of Wrestlemania 26 itself at 7 PM Eastern Time.

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