During tonight’s Class of 2019 WWE Hall of Fame ceremony, a fan interrupted Bret Hart’s speech for The Hart Foundation and tackled him.
The fan, who has yet to be identified, rushed the ring (where inductees were speaking at a podium) and tackled Bret to the ground live on the WWE Network.
Wrestlers and WWE staff all rushed the ring to break up the incident and pull the fan away. We posted a GIF of the incident, which will likely be edited off the on-demand version of the Hall of Fame ceremony later tonight on the network.
#ICYMI The moment a fan attacked Bret Hart during tonight's #WWEHOF pic.twitter.com/5rYAB6eZb2
— Wrestleview.com (@wrestleview) April 7, 2019
ESPN’s Chamatkar Sandhu also posted another angle of the attack below.
This is probably the best angle of the incident involving a fan (and I use that term loosely) attacking Bret Hart. Disgusting. This guy deserved everything he got in the aftermath. Glad to hear Bret was OK and able to resume his speech. #WWEHOFhttps://t.co/6j1Rf8pkMb pic.twitter.com/pXwDdcIo6s
— Chamatkar Sandhu (@SandhuMMA) April 7, 2019
As noted in Mike Tedesco’s live Hall of Fame recap, Bret resumed the speech after the situation was contained accepting the induction for The Hart Foundation.
In 25 years of being a fan of professional wrestling, that's the most despicable thing I've ever seen. A person runs in through the crowd and tackles Bret Hart during the #WWEHOF ceremony. That's literally one of the worst things I've seen. Horrible.
— Wrestleview.com (@wrestleview) April 7, 2019