WWE inducting polarising legend into Hall of Fame but fans have the same question-Alistair McGeorge-Entertainment – Metro

Paul Heyman will be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame this year (Picture: WWE)

Paul Heyman has been named as the first inductee into the WWE Hall of Fame class of 2024.

The former Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) boss will be honoured over WrestleMania 40 in Philadelphia, which is fitting given that the hardcore promotion called the City of Brotherly Love its home in the 1990s.

Heyman will take his place in the annals of history at the Hall of Fame ceremony on April 5 at the Wells Fargo Center.

He told AP: ‘I consistently feel like I’m just getting started, and I’m just figuring this out. To me, what is an incomplete body of work, because there’s still things I want to accomplish, I never felt comfortable accepting that is a reflection upon an entire career.’

The big question for many fans now is who will be the person chosen to induct him into the Hall of Fame.

One fan asked: ‘Who do they have induct him?  Perhaps the entire ECW originals? [CM] Punk? All of the above?’

Heyman is the first inductee to be announced for Philadelphia (Picture: WWE)

‘Well deserved. Especially in Philly it’s perfect. Very curious who he chooses to induct him,’ pondered another fan, while a third person wrote: ‘Who’s gonna induct him??’

The Wiseman – who still appears regularly on WWE television as the special counsel to Roman Reigns and The Bloodline – also acknowledged the lasting impact of ECW on the current wrestling lanscape.

‘The extreme in ECW stood for the work ethic involved, the passion that was necessary and the extreme connection to an audience to whom and for whom we were always obsessed with underpromising and overdelivering,’ he added.

‘The legacy of ECW is firmly rooted in the very simple concepts of paying attention to the cultural curve and obsessively trying to stay a few steps ahead of it.’

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