Cash Wheeler on what Vince McMahon told him after he punched Bret Hart’s attacker

During the 2019 WWE Hall Of Fame, Bret Hart was giving an induction speech for the Hart Foundation. Then suddenly someone jumped across the barricade and tackled Bret Hart.

 


 

Many people were gathered in the ring to break things up. Dash Wilder hit the assailant with a stiff uppercut. He spoke to Jim Cornette regarding this incident. Here is what he said:

“The dude’s hand they’re not restrained. He’s still threatening everybody like ‘let me go let me go’ I won’t go into too much detail. But….his hands were free. He’s still making threats, he’s obviously not mentally stable at this point in time. We just did what we had to do to neutralize the situation.”

“He stated that he wasn’t going to let anybody take the risk of thinking the guy was bluffing that he’s not gonna hurt anybody. He noted that the fan had already shown that he’s gonna he’s going to attack people and do some stupid things. “None of us are willing to take that risk of saying we hope he’s lying.”
Then he talked about a conversation he had with Vince McMahon. McMahon wanted to know what really happened. There was more than enough evidence to justify the necessity of Wilder’s uppercut.

“I did have a meeting with Vince McMahon and I did have to show him the video from multiple angles so he could see that the guy wasn’t restrained. There were no cuffs, no cops, no security, just the boys, and a mentally unstable guy whose hands are not being restrained at all. As soon as he saw the video and I told him kind of like what the guy had been saying, everything changed.”

“He wasn’t mad to begin with, he was just worried. Once he saw the video, once he saw the guy was not restrained, he was still a threat and that was the case, he was like, ‘that’s completely justified, that’s self-defense, you guys had to do what you had to do in a blink of an eye to make sure no one else got hurt.”

Thankfully the assailant was stopped before Bret got seriously hurt.

Harrison Carter
Harrison Carter
Harrison Carter has been a huge pro wrestling fan since 2002, and it's been his first love ever since then. He has years of writing experience for all things pro wrestling. His interests outside of wrestling include films, books and soccer.

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