White T-shirt with an autograph of basketball player Dennis Rodman

After Rodman was suspended from NBA games until the end of the 1996/97 season, he seriously took up his hobby — professional wrestling. His debut took place on March 10 during the Monday Nitro broadcast of the World Championship Wrestling Federation, when he entered the ring with his friend "Hollywood" Hulk Hogan. In March 1997, he took part in the Uncensored show as a member of the nWo group. His debut fight took place in July 1997 at the Bash at the Beach, where he and Hogan lost in a tag team match to Lex Luger and the Giant. In August 1997, on the Road Wild show, he appeared in the guise of Sting and hit Luger with a baseball bat. Thanks to his intervention, Hogan won the match and won the WCW World heavyweight title.