Following a well-documented tense relationship with Vince McMahon and the WWE since 1996, The Ultimate Warrior will finally be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame the night before WrestleMania 30 this April in New Orleans.

"The Ultimate Warrior was the most intense, colorful, competitive and outspoken Superstar in sports entertainment history, and his contributions to WWE were extraordinary," said WWE Chairman & CEO Vince McMahon in an announcement. "We are thrilled to induct The Ultimate Warrior into the WWE Hall of Fame."

Best known for his exciting entrance music, disjointed interviews and beating Hulk Hogan at WrestleMania VI to unify the WWE (then WWF) Heavyweight and Intercontinental Championships for the first time ever, Warrior was in the middle of a WWE return after an almost four-year break when his contract was allegedly terminated by McMahon when he failed to show up at live events.

WWE released an uncomplimentary DVD in 2005 named The Self-Destruction of the Ultimate Warrior. WWE superstars past and present made fun of the Warrior while showing footage of his grappling career.

As a result, Warrior filed a complaint against the WWE, stating the DVD dishonored a March 2000 payment arrangement that specified both sides wouldn't criticize each other. An Arizona judge ruled that Warrior had broken his own settlement first for critical public comments about the WWE and the grievance was thrown out.

A working relationship between both parties seemed unlikely until last summer when 2K Sports publicized that Warrior would be a playable character in WWE 2K14 and highlighted him in an ambitious promotional commercial.

The Ultimate Warrior will get the opportunity to thank his avid fans in person in what is expected to be a sold-out New Orleans Arena on April 5.

This is the second year in a row the WWE made amends with an ex-superstar. Thanks to WWE executive and WWE superstar, Triple H, the longest-reigning WWE champion in WWE history, Bruno Sammartino, was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2013.

With Sammartino and Warrior now in, the late Randy "Macho Man" Savage, Owen Hart, The Rock, and Jake the Snake Roberts remain as the biggest glaring omissions to the WWE Hall of Fame.