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WWE's Ron Simmons, who held the WCW World championship in 1992 and at the time was promoted as the first African-American World champion in professional wrestling will be inducted tonight into the College Football Hall of Fame during a dinner and induction ceremony in New York City.
Simmons, most known currently for muttering "Damn!" during WWE Raw cameo appearances, had a little more to say in regard to his induction, noting, "It really hasn't sunk in yet,. This is a tremendous privilege and honor. I was recruited hard by all the Georgia schools and grew up in South Georgia, and they all told me I was going to an all-girls' school without much tradition at Florida State. We proved a lot of people wrong, and it was a fantastic experience playing for coach Bobby Bowden."
Bowden was inducted two years ago by the Hall.
Simmons' Florida State number # 50 was retired in a 1988 ceremony while he was working for Jim Crockett Promotions.
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