A 26-year-old man was arrested on Saturday for slugging WWE legend Bret 'The Hitman' Hart in the face as he was making a Hall of Fame speech at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, police said. As Hart was accepting induction for the second time — this time as part of the tag team The
A 26-year-old man was arrested on Saturday for slugging WWE legend Bret"The Hitman" Hart in the face as he was making a Hall of Fame speech at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, police said.
The scene after a fan jumped the barrier and attempted to tackle Bret Hart during the WWE Hall of Fame ceremony.— SportsCenter April 7, 2019 The live broadcast on the WWE Network was interrupted as several people, including many wrestlers, rushed in the ring to pull the man away from Hart, who was alongside Neidhart's daughter, Natalya. Natalya, who is a WWE wrestler herself, was also slung to the ground during the skirmish.
Natalya, whose real name is Natalie Neidhart, responded to the attack after the ceremony, saying her uncle"didn't deserve to be attacked or have his moment or my dad's diminished." Jim Neidhart died suddenly last August.
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