Limp Bizkit Should Go Into The WWE Hall of Fame. Yes, Really.

With Wrestlemania 42 on the horizon, the speculation about who should enter the WWE Hall of Fame for its Class of 2026 has begun, save for the previously-announced Stephanie McMahon. There have been a handful of celebrity inductees, the most recent being the GOAT himself, Muhammad Ali, getting inducted in 2024 based on his role in the very first WrestleMania in 1985. Other celebrities getting their Hall of Fame rings include Ozzy Osbourne, Drew Carey, and audible sigh Donald Trump.

For this year's event in Las Vegas, though, there is a chance to do something incredible as it pertains to our nu world: induct Limp Bizkit into the WWE Hall of Fame. Yes, really.

Granted, it's been more than two decades since “WWE's favorite band in the whole world” have played much of a role in the programming, save for that one time at SummerSlam 2012 - and we'll get to that soon enough - but given recent events, putting the Jacksonville faithful in makes all the sense in the world.

The most apparent connection between the ‘Fed and Limp Bizkit is the use of “Rollin’ (Air Raid Vehicle)” for The Undertaker's entrance music. Once the license ran out on Kid Rock's “American Bad Ass,” Undertaker started using “Rollin'” in December 2000, just in time for the Armageddon pay-per-view. This would coincide with Fred Durst being included in 2001’s WWF SmackDown!: Just Bring It video game as a playable character, a move that was reportedly part of the deal to get the song licensed for the game and for the Deadman's entrance. 

Aside from this, the most fondly remembered moment of Limp Bizkit and WWF (at the time) was the "My Way" promo. The main event of WrestleMania X-Seven, widely regarded as one of the best top-to-bottom shows in all of pro wrestling, featured the second of three main event encounters between The Rock and "Stone Cold" Steve Austin. The hype package for this clash of Attitude Era titans for the WWF Championship was sound tracked by the ebbing-and-flowing track. In an era full of god-tier production and needle drops, this might sit the highest on the proverbial Mount Olympus.

While The Undertaker's walkout song would be changed to an in-house track called “You're Gonna Pay” in the spring of 2002, the LB would hit WrestleMania XIX in Seattle to play two songs: “Crack Addict,” a non-album song that was the theme tune for the spectacular, and “Rollin’” for The Undertaker, This performance, the band's first since the departure of Wes Borland, would feature guitars by Korn's Brian “Head” Welch and Snot's Mike Smith, the latter of whom would go on to assume duties live for a time.

It would take another decade for Limp Bizkit to feature on WWE programming, but at 2012’s SummerSlam in Los Angeles, Fred Durst was featured on-camera as part of the cadre of celebrities in town for the show. Defying the company's PG policy, Durst flipped the bird to the camera, the fallout of which changes depending on who's telling the story. Some have argued that this incident led to Durst being removed from the show by security, while Durst himself said that he left voluntarily to beat the traffic. Considering the main event of the show was a plodding match between Triple H and Brock Lesnar, the latter of whom was still trying to get his feet under him after a rocky return that April, it's difficult to fault Durst, should his story be true.

It feels like Durst must have pissed The Deadman off at some point, as in post-retirement appearances on WWE television, The Undertaker uses “American Bad Ass,” which he used shortly after his 2000 return and subsequent shift to the biker persona of the same name. The closest we've gotten to hearing Limp Bizkit in wrestling is in video games, albeit with a slightly remixed version more akin to what we heard on WWF Forceable Entry, the smash hit soundtrack released around WrestleMania X8 in 2002.

Recent events, however, might suggest that change is a-comin’. On the red carpet of the 2025 WWE Hall of Fame induction ceremony, then-Intercontinental Champion Bron Breakker spoke with Billboard and suggested that he wanted Limp Bizkit to do his entrance music, should the opportunity ever arise. Days later, Fred Durst himself caught wind of the plea and took to his socials to make his case. No news has broken since this, and with Bron Breakker's status for WrestleMania in limbo after surgery on a hernia the first week of February, who knows if anything will come of this in time for this year's Show of Shows.

That said, Breakker doesn't need to be ring-ready for a Limp Bizkit induction to happen. They could even get Undertaker away from his new role as AAA executive producer to induct them if they wanted to, tying up that loose end in a nice little bow. Really, the worst aspect of all of it is that founding member and bassist Sam Rivers won't be there for it, as he passed away in October 2025. This would, however, provide a perfect opportunity for WWE to make a classy move, building a bridge (no, not the Matthews) between the company and Limp Bizkit, and putting some bounce in the WWE Hall of Fame's mosh pit.