Practically 30 years after he shocked the professional basketball world by moonlighting as a member of the professional wrestling steady (and phenomenon) the New World Order, Dennis Rodman can be inducted into the 2026 class of the WWE Corridor of Fame.
Rodman, a five-time NBA champion who was inducted into the Naismith Basketball Corridor of Fame, will enter professional wrestling immortality, WWE introduced Friday, on the 2026 Corridor of Fame Ceremony on April 17 in Las Vegas as a part of WrestleMania 42 week.
On the peak of his personal crossover stardom and recognition as a member of the defending NBA champion Chicago Bulls in 1997, Rodman appeared alongside nWo co-founder Hollywood Hulk Hogan on a March 10 episode of WCW’s “Monday Nitro.” Nicknamed “Rodzilla,” the 6-foot-7 tattooed Rodman along with his everchanging dyed hair went on to have his first match 4 months later in the course of the NBA offseason at “Bash on the Seaside,” when he teamed with Hogan in a tag match in opposition to Lex Luger and The Large.
Rodman additional blurred the strains between professional wrestling and his day job as a professional basketball participant in 1998 when he infamously skipped a Bulls’ follow following Recreation 3 of the NBA Finals in opposition to the Utah Jazz to look on “Monday Nitro” with Hogan in a scripted assault on Diamond Dallas Web page. That angle arrange a tag crew match the next month at “Bash on the Seaside,” the place Hogan and Rodman confronted off in opposition to Web page and Jazz ahead Karl Malone.
In 1999, Rodman returned to WCW as soon as extra in a feud with Randy Savage that concluded with a match at “Highway Wild.” Rodman would make sporadic appearances at professional wrestling occasions within the years that adopted, together with in 2023 with AEW.
Rodman will enter WWE’s movie star wing of the HOF, becoming a member of the likes of Muhammad Ali, Pete Rose, Arnold Schwarzenegger, president Donald Trump and Mike Tyson.
Nicknamed “The Worm” on the hardwood, Rodman performed 14 seasons within the NBA and received two Defensive Participant of the 12 months awards with the Detroit Pistons. A second-round draft choose by Detroit in 1986, Rodman retired following a 12-game stint with the Dallas Mavericks in 2000.