Stone Cold Steve Austin Reacts To Bret Hart WrestleMania 13 Match WWE Hall Of Fame 2025 Induction

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Stone Cold Steve Austin has reacted to his match with Bret ‘Hitman’ Hart from WrestleMania 13 being inducted into the 2025 WWE Hall of Fame.

As announced during Friday Night SmackDown (March 28), WWE will be inducting its first ever “Immortal Moment” into the Hall of Fame, that being the Submission match classic between Bret Hart and Stone Cold Steve Austin from WrestleMania 13 in 1997.

Speaking at a recent signing with American Icon Autographs, Austin was asked if the induction means anything to him, to which he said:

“Yes and no. I mean, it was a hell of a match and we knew it at the time, I think it was good that it was in Chicago because Chicago is kind of a stronghold for me, but it would’ve worked anywhere with the fact that it happened with Bret The Hitman Hart.

“There’s a couple behind-the-scenes stories that I don’t want to talk about but it was a hell of a match and it’s cool for people to still remember it damn near 30 years later.

“Yeah, it means something to me because if it wasn’t for the fans, I wouldn’t be sitting here. So, the fact that match is relevant and it’s going into 2025 Hall Of Fame for matches and it’s the first match to be inducted, cool.”

Austin was then asked if there were any other matches from his career that he would’ve wanted to go in ahead of his match with Hart, answering:

“Man, I had a hell of a barn burner with Steamboat, 30 minute broadway at the LA Forum 100 years ago but there was nobody filming it, it was a house show, but god damn it was a good match.

“I always liked Rock and Austin at 17 in Houston at the Astrodome because we were cooking and that’s one of the best WrestleManias of all time. Everybody got off that night and everybody had a great match. So when you have to follow everything, main event, of course you’re the biggest reason that the people are there. But it’s everybody together and everybody gets off and you get off to have the best match you can, that was special.

“I always enjoyed that match with Owen Hart before I got dropped on my head. That was a bad accident but we were having a damn good match up until that point. There’s a bunch of other ones, there’s some ones where we completely shit the bed.”

The match between Austin and Hart joins Triple H, Michelle McCool, Lex Luger and The Natural Disasters (Earthquake & Typhoon) in this year’s Hall of Fame class, the ceremony of which takes place on Friday, April 18 from the Fontainebleau in Las Vegas, NV.

Both Austin and Hart have been confirmed to be in attendance for the Hall of Fame ceremony, with the Texas Rattlesnake also appearing at WWE World in Las Vegas over WrestleMania 41 weekend.

Following the announcement of the “Immortal Moment” induction, a backstage report shared details regarding WWE’s decision to induct its first-ever match into the Hall of Fame – click here for the full story.

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