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WWE surprised pro wrestling fans around the world when it revealed that it would start inducting matches into the WWE Hall of Fame, starting with the iconic bout between Bret Hart and Stone Cold Steve Austin at WrestleMania 13.
The match is a bonafide classic that served as one of the main sparks to the beginning of the Attitude Era.
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Now, Hart has officially responded to the honor. And it seems he couldn’t be happier.
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In an interview with with Ariel Helwani, Hart revealed that he had known about the Hall of Fame induction for a few months and felt that the magic between himself and Austin was something special.
“It’s a big honor,” Hart said. “I’m really quite proud of that match and the work that I had with Steve Austin. If you asked me in truth if I thought there was a better match somewhere, I don’t think there’s a better match. It was just magic, what we did that night.”
“I’m really quite proud of that match and the work that I had with Steve Austin. If you ask me for the truth… I don’t think there’s been a better match. It was just magic, what we did that night. It’s always been at the top.”@BretHart on his match with Steve Austin entering… pic.twitter.com/rbV6A4Knff
— Ariel Helwani (@arielhelwani) April 1, 2025
Hart then went on to rank that match compared to the rest of his career, which isn’t short of incredible match ups and rivalries.
“It’s been at the top probably since I’ve had it,” Hart said. “My all time favorites… I think the match that I had with the [British] Bulldog at Wembley was probably my first greatest match in the sense that it was the first one that I wasn’t a team. It was just me by myself going out there and putting that match together. That was a beautiful match.”
“The Iron Man match with Shawn Michaels,” Hart continued. “You can say what you want about our relationship. The truth is that it’s hard to top that match. That was a great match. Two guys in their prime pitted against each other, both going 100 miles per hour giving everything they could.”
“And those were my top three,” Hart concluded. “But the Steve Austin match was such a gem.”
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Austin shared the same enthusiasm for the match, saying that “it’s cool for people to still remember it damn near 30 years later.”
This makes Bret Hart the first wrestler to be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame three times, including the times he was inducted as an individual and as a member of the Hart Dynasty with Jim Neidhart.
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