Newest Member Of The 2018 WWE Hall of Fame Class Confirmed

WWE has confirmed that Hillbilly Jim is the next inductee for this year’s WWE Hall of Fame class. Hillbilly Jim joins previously announced inductees Goldberg, the Dudley Boys, Ivory, and Jeff Jarrett for this year’s class. The news was confirmed today with the follow retrospective info on WWE.COM. 

When he recovered, Jim jumped back in the ring and picked up where he left off, this time with his family in his corner. Hillbilly Jim also embraced WWE’s smaller competitors, competing in a Six-Person Tag Team Match on The Grandest Stage of Them All, WrestleMania III. The match featured one of the more infamous moments in WWE history, with one of Jim’s partners, Little Beaver, being splashed by the humongous King Kong Bundy in front of 93,173 people.

Hillbilly Jim continued competing in WWE through 1990 before stepping away from the squared circle. He continued to work with WWE throughout the 90s, co-hosting Prime Time Wrestling and managing his cousins, Henry and Phineas Godwinn, to the World Tag Team Championship. Jim returned to the ring for the Gimmick Battle Royal at WrestleMania X-Seven and showed a different side of himself on the hit WWE Network reality show, “Legends House,” in 2014.

Because of his lasting legacy as a beloved favorite of the WWE Universe, there is no better nominee for induction into the WWE Hall of Fame than Hillbilly Jim.

The 2018 WWE Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony takes place on Friday, April 6, in New Orleans at the Smoothie King Center during WrestleMania 34 Week.

It’s surprising that such an established name during WWE’s 80’s ‘Rock ‘n Wrestling’ era had not already been inducted in the HOF. Jim has long enjoyed being an ambassador for the WWE outside of the ring, where he hosts a weekly country music show on Sirius XM’s ‘Outlaw Country’ channel.

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