{"id":549044,"date":"2026-03-20T13:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T13:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/549044\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T13:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T13:18:08","slug":"sources-dennis-rodman-to-be-inducted-into-wwe-hall-of-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/549044\/","title":{"rendered":"Sources: Dennis Rodman to be inducted into WWE Hall of Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mar 20, 2026, 09:15 AM ET<\/p>\n<p>Basketball Hall of Famer Dennis Rodman will be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame, sources told ESPN&#8217;s Shams Charania on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Rodman, the five-time NBA champion with the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"4e096981-dc02-51d0-3dcd-2468fcc1e22d\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/det\/detroit-pistons\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Detroit Pistons<\/a> and <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"e588ccf1-ba03-ea43-c34c-9a9c8d1895ca\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/chi\/chicago-bulls\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Bulls<\/a>, has a four-match pro wrestling career, with three of those coming in WCW.<\/p>\n<p>He made his WCW debut in 1997 and famously skipped a practice during the 1998 NBA Finals to appear on &#8220;WCW Monday Nitro,&#8221; where he set up a tag team match in which he partnered with Hulk Hogan to face Diamond Dallas Page and Karl Malone.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/wwe\/story\/_\/id\/45457722\/say-hello-bad-guys-nwo-book-marc-raimondi-dennis-rodman-karl-malone-wcw\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/combat_rodman-nwo_1x1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>WWE has a celebrity wing to its Hall of Fame that has inducted other sports figures such as Pete Rose, William Perry, Bob Uecker, Mike Tyson and Muhammad Ali.<\/p>\n<p>The Hall of Fame ceremony will be held April 17 in Las Vegas as part of WrestleMania weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Rodman was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mar 20, 2026, 09:15 AM ET Basketball Hall of Famer Dennis Rodman will be inducted into the WWE&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":549045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-549044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549044","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=549044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}