Paul Heyman will be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame later this year, despite turning down the honor in the past.
Heyman’s induction was announced earlier this week and will fittingly take place in the home of ECW, Philadelphia, PA.
On a recent edition of Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer addressed that Heyman had previously turned a Hall of Fame offer down. He said,
“This will be the first Hall of Fame class that was chosen by Paul Levesque (Triple H), and not chosen by Vince McMahon. So Paul Heyman is the first Paul Levesque Hall of Famer, so that’s an interesting part of it.
“He’s been offered the Hall of Fame before and turned it down with the idea that he’s still active, he didn’t think he should be in the Hall of Fame until his career’s over. But I think the idea maybe of being the first Paul Levesque inductee, and it’s in Philadelphia where ECW was from, and one of his main career claims to fame was ECW – maybe his biggest in some ways. So there’s that.
“Maybe they just needed a main eventer and he’s the guy. But he has been offered this before.”
The WWE Hall of Fame will take place on April 5, following that night’s episode of WWE SmackDown on FOX.
