12 WWE Hall-Of-Famers Who Wrestled After Being Inducted

10. Bret Hart

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Hall of Fame induction: 2006

When you talk about Bret Hart’s wrestling career, you have to get a twinge in your gut about how abruptly his career ended in 2000. One good, stiff kick from Goldberg closed the book on the Hitman’s legendary career at a point in which he should have had another 5-10 good years if he so desired.

Concussion issues made it all-but-guaranteed that we’d never see Hart lace up a pair of boots again, but then somehow in 2010, WWE managed to pull it off. They reconciled with Bret and brought him back, only to thrust him into a feud with Vince McMahon. This led to a WrestleMania 26 match between the two that was basically the Hart family pounding Vince into pudding for 10 minutes.

But Hitman would continue to compete in unusual circumstances in WWE. He defeated the Miz for the United States Championship in a no-DQ match, battled alongside John Cena in a lumberjack tag match, and joined Team WWE in a 7-on-7 elimination match against Nexus at SummerSlam. Hart would join Cena in defeating Alberto Del Rio and Ricardo Rodriguez on a 2011 episode of Raw, which would be his final match.

While he never actually “wrestled” in a sense – Hart was not allowed to be touched and didn’t take any bumps – he still competed at WWE’s two biggest PPVs of the year and won a secondary title, so you’ve got to count him.

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Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.