Dennis Rodman To Be Inducted Into WWE Hall Of Fame

Dennis Rodman will be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame, ESPN, WWE's pay-per-view partner in the United States, has revealed.

Rodman will join Stephanie McMahon, AJ Styles, and Demolition in the 2026 class of the WWE Hall of Fame, with the induction ceremony taking place on Friday, April 17 over WrestleMania 42 weekend.

Rodzilla is most famous for his basketball career, where he is a five-time NBA champion with the Detroit Pistons and Chicago Bulls, but Rodman was notably a member of the nWo in World Championship Wrestling during the late 1990s.

Rodman made his WCW debut in 1997 and teamed with Hollywood Hogan at Bash at the Beach that year against Lex Luger and The Giant. Rodman famously skipped practice during the 1998 NBA Finals to appear on Monday Nitro, and he would wrestle two more times for WCW, facing Diamond Dallas Page and another NBA player Karl Malone at Bash at the Beach 1998, and then Randy Savage in a Hardcore Match at Road Wild 1999.

Rodman then wrestled three matches against Curt Hennig for I-Generation Wrestling in 2000, which were the final matches of his career. The NBA legend, however, appeared for TNA on the July 2, 2004 episode of IMPACT, and he made two appearances for All Elite Wrestling in September of 2023, which included accompanying The Acclaimed and Billy Gunn to the ring for their match against Jeff Jarrett, Jay Lethal, and Satnam Singh at All Out. Rodman also won Hulk Hogan's Celebrity Championship Wrestling reality television show in 2008.