Former Mid-South Wrestling and UWF promoter Cowboy Bill Watts has accepted an invitation to be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame at WrestleMania weekend this April.

Watts, also a former wrestler and of course at one time the head of WCW, will be inducted by Jim Ross.

In an email sent out to his friends and reprinted at WrestlingFigs.com, Watts wrote: “Got a very surprising call yesterday…from the offices of the WWE…(which is Vince McMahon’s pro-wrestling company)…the ‘flagship of the industry’….world-wide…and the ‘caller’… told me ‘they’ had chosen me to be ‘inducted into the WWE Wrestling Hall of Fame’…on the next Wrestlemania (which is their biggest annual event on pay-per-view)… Saturday…April 4th…and ‘would I consent and be available to attend the festivities in Houston on that date’…and for that weekend… and I can ‘assure you’…anything the WWE does like this is ‘first class and then some!’”

You can read Watts’ email in full by clicking here.

Phil Lowe
phil@ifight365.com