So, I found this tweet of footage from the Hall of Fame ceremony where a crazed idiot ran into the ring and tackled Bret Hart with Natalya Neidhart nearby. A lot of guys came to stop the man fast including New Day, Ronda's husband Travis Browne, who was a MMA fighter as well, Davey Boy Smith Jr., among many others.
https://twitter.com/AhYezzir/status/1114691725845508096On another note, seeing Bret in that footage reminds me of the fact that it had been 9 years since he returned to the WWE to bury the hatchet with the company and Shawn Michaels and he looked old then.
On an additional note, I am reminded that it has been nine years since HBK retired at WM26 with his match against the Undertaker. People gave praise, and rightfully so, about their match at WM25, but I think their match WM26 may have been the better match for various reasons. Everyone knows that their WM25 match was going to have the highest of expectations with HBK always delivering at WM and the Undertaker been having some good feuds and solid matches with Kurt Angle, Batista, Edge in recent years at the time where people are excited for big Undertaker matches again. Thankfully, it delivered on those lofty expectations. That stated, I didn't have too much expectations for the rematch, but with the way the story was building for their WM 26 match in terms of HBK's obsession to beat the Undertaker at Wrestlemania and they made it streak vs career with no DQ or countouts, that brought me back into being hype since it feels like there has to be a winner and no cop-out endings. Plus, it was a solid match and they did some good callbacks from their WM25 match. A match worthy to retire HBK's full-time wrestling career for good (I know he did the match in Saudi Arabia, I think, but aside from that, he's been good on the retirement for the most part).
Those Undertaker/HBK matches still feel recent. How did we get so old?