- A bizarre incident took place earlier tonight at the Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame dinner in Waterloo, IA involving former WWE Champion Bret "The Hitman" Hart.

Hart was giving a speech after accepting the Hall of Fame honor for his late father Stu Hart when he called out Greg Oliver of SlamWrestling, who was there to be given the Jim Melby Memorial Award for wrestling journalism along with partner Steve Johnson. Hart proceeded to go off on Oliver, talking about the sacrifices that wrestlers have made and the loved ones they have lost. Hart said that one of us don't deserve to be here and said either he goes or I go. Oliver didn't leave and the report from the Wrestling Observer is that Johnson did leave to try and diffuse a bad situation.

Bret eventually left when Oliver didn't and several of the other wrestlers left with him, creating a very bad vibe for the event. Hart's beef with Oliver goes back to Oliver's book, "Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame: The Canadians," which listed Hart as #14 in the list of greatest Canadian wrestlers over. The book did acknowledge Hart as the best known of all the Canadians but said "Hart can hardly claim to be the best ever.