Manager, executive Paul Heyman chosen for WWE Hall of Fame
Associated PressPHILADELPHIA — Paul Heyman first hustled his way into professional wrestling as a teenager with a press pass at Madison Square Garden in the 1970s. Heyman and WWE told The Associated Press that the 58-year-old wrestling lifer will be the first member of this year’s class. Heyman will be inducted April 5 at the WWE ceremony at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, the city that served as home base for his old Extreme Championship Wrestling promotion in the 1990s. “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.” Heyman and the rest of the inductees — yet to be named — will be feted on the first WrestleMania weekend without Vince McMahon. Before Heyman formed WWE’s Bloodline stable, his ECW was as bloodthirsty and violent as pro wrestling would get — think barbed-wire ropes and flaming tables — and many of its ideas and performers were later absorbed by WWE into the mainstream.
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