{"id":158546,"date":"2025-09-21T05:16:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T05:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/158546\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T05:16:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T05:16:07","slug":"stephanie-mcmahon-confirmed-as-first-member-of-2026-wwe-hall-of-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/158546\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephanie McMahon Confirmed As First Member Of 2026 WWE Hall of Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a surprise moment during <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrestlezone.com\/news\/1579203-wwe-wrestlepalooza-results-review-grades-card-for-sept-20\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WWE Wrestlepalooza<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/wrestlezone.com\/tag\/the-undertaker\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Undertaker<\/a> showed up to once again tell someone they\u2019d be headed into the WWE Hall of Fame. <\/p>\n<p>The Undertaker arrived tonight in his \u201cAmerican Badass\u201d persona tonight in a completely surprising moment. As he rode down to the ring in his motorcycle, he stopped next to where <a href=\"http:\/\/wrestlezone.com\/tag\/stephanie-mcmahon\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stephanie McMahon<\/a> was seated. After getting up, Undertaker took a mic and then asked if he could sit next to McMahon. <\/p>\n<p>They spoke for a moment before Undertaker asked her and the crowd if they were ready. It was then that Undertaker revealed he was there to announce that McMahon was the first official member of the <a href=\"http:\/\/wrestlezone.com\/tag\/wwe-hall-of-fame\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WWE Hall of Fame<\/a>\u2018s Class of 2026. McMahon clearly looked shocked before Undertaker jokingly said \u201cwe got ya,\u201d and the pair hugged. <\/p>\n<p>This is the second time someone has been surprised with an induction. Last year, Undertaker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrestlezone.com\/news\/1538955-report-triple-h-to-receive-2025-wwe-hall-of-fame-induction\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">also surprised Triple H<\/a> to announce he\u2019d be going into the Hall of Fame as a singles competitor. Stephanie McMahon\u2019s history with WWE is a legendary one. The daughter of Vince and Linda McMahon, Stephanie appeared regularly on-air for the company throughout the 1990s and 2000s. <\/p>\n<p>Throughout her time with WWE, McMahon took part in a litany of storylines, including tons of memorable ones with Undertaker and her now-husband, Triple H. She\u2019s also held the WWF Women\u2019s Championship one time. <\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrestlezone.com\/news\/1579203-wwe-wrestlepalooza-results-review-grades-card-for-sept-20\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WWE Wrestlepalooza Results: Review, Grades, Card For Sept 20<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a surprise moment during WWE Wrestlepalooza, The Undertaker showed up to once again tell someone they\u2019d be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,75,45076,14962,13015,82811,50582],"class_list":["post-158546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-stephanie-mcmahon","tag-the-undertaker","tag-wwe","tag-wwe-hall-of-fame","tag-wwe-wrestlepalooza"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}