Jim Ross Says There Is No One More Deserving For WWE's Hall Of Fame Than Paul Heyman

It was revealed over the last week that Paul Heyman was set to be inducted into the WWE Hall Of Fame as part of the 2024 class. Following a career spanning through the likes of ECW, WCW, and WWE, Heyman has made a name for himself as a booker, manager, commentator, and countless other roles in the professional wrestling world. This has led to him being chosen to be inducted into the Hall Of Fame - something he’d turned down in the past.

When speaking on his Grilling JR podcast, Jim Ross stated that there was no one more deserving of this sort of accomplishment and honouring than Heyman.

“Oh yeah, there’s nobody going to be inducted into the Hall of Fame, past or present, that’s more deserving than Paul Heyman. I saw this brash, young manager that the booking committee did not want to work with on a regular basis because he was very smart, smarter than most of them, and very demanding, so, my idea was, ‘Well if you guys aren’t gonna use this kid, I’ll use him on the broadcast’ so it’s my idea to make him a broadcaster to start with and he’s never let me down or anybody else down that he’s worked for in that regard so, he brought the best out of me. Without question, he brought the best out of me. He knew how to piss me off, he knew how to manage it… He was great, he was great. 

“People really legitimately believed that Heyman and I hated each other. They legitimately believed that we hated each other and nothing could be farther from the truth, I’m happy to say. So I’m very happy for Paul, I’m proud of him. Although I won’t be able to be involved in his Hall of Fame day, I will certainly be watching in earnest and I’m just proud for him. It’s nobody quite like him, ever. Now or then or forever. So, good for Paul. Good dude, talented as hell and has been talented through multiple generations and multiple incarnations. So I’m happy for him to say the very least. He’s very well-deserving and I don’t know who else is going in the Hall of Fame this year but nobody that’s gonna go in is more deserving than Paul Heyman.”

Other names such as Bull Nakano and the US Express have been announced as inductees this year.

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