April 17, 2006 Observer Newsletter: Bret Hart indcuted into the WWE Hall of Fame, ROH Supercard of Honor

After nearly nine years, Bret Hart returned to almost-live WWE television and Eddy Guerrero was honored at the WWE’s much-talked about Hall of Fame ceremony on 4/1 at the Rosemont Theater.

In the end, Shawn Michaels was at the Hall of Fame. Bret Hart didn’t shake Hulk Hogan’s hand, but was so inconspicuous about it that almost nobody noticed (although Hart made a point in bringing it up on TSN’s Off the Record on 4/3) and few talked about it afterwards. He didn’t reference Michaels, nor show up at Wrestlemania. In the end, Vince McMahon finally got Bret Hart back on television and the Hall of Fame got a little added credibility boost because Hart and Bruno Sammartino were the two names most often mentioned as to why you can’t take it seriously. 

Now there is only Randy Savage, who strangely has never been invited, along with Sammartino, who will likely never accept, and perhaps Bob Backlund, who also has been invited but turned it down, as the most obvious omissions in what the company has been trying to get as something that started as a joke, to now be taken seriously.

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