United Kingdom, April 20 -- Dennis Rodman paid an emotional tribute to the late Hulk Hogan as he was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame on Friday (17.04.26) night.

The basketball legend was part of the New World Order (nWo) along with the late wrestling legend, Scott Hall and Kevin Nash in the late 1990s and he told of how happy he was to see Hogan's son Nick in the audience at the event at Dolby Live at Park MGM in Las Vegas.

Removing his jacket to show he was wearing a Hulk Hogan nWo T-shirt, Dennis said towards the end of his speech: "I gotta speak about the person here, another person, Nick Hogan. Yeah, I've known Nick since he was like three, four years old. He's been through some tough times.

"Back in the day, he was going throug...