-- Paul Heyman is finally going into the WWE Hall of Fame this year after previously declining the offer multiple times feeling that it wasn't the right time as well as the fact that he felt he was still active at a headliner level. The Wrestling Observer Newsletter reports that a combination of things caused Heyman to change his mind.
-- Those reasons include it being WrestleMania 40 and the event being in Philadelphia - the home of ECW where he was booker and later owner - as well as being the first person announced for the first class that was decided by Paul Levesque.
-- For the last point, in years past, it was completely up to Vince McMahon who he wanted in the Hall of Fame and who he didn't and those often just came down to his whims. McMahon also had instituted unwritten rules for Hall of Fame inductees each year such as each class needing to have a woman, a person of color while avoiding people who had passed away or whose primes came before 1984.
