WWE legend Jim Duggan was terrified taking down a house intruder

When “Hacksaw” Jim Duggan received the inaugural Royal Rumble in WWE historical past in 1988, he needed to throw his opponents out of the ring. 34 years later, he used the identical approach to drive a burglar out of his South Carolina house.

This month, Duggan, 68, and his spouse skilled a terrifying episode when a stranger barged into their house and claimed he was being pursued by people who have been making an attempt to kill him.

The WWE Corridor of Famer took out his revolver and held the intruder at gunpoint till assist might be summoned from the authorities.

On Wednesday, he went on “Fox & Mates First” and detailed what transpired to co-host Todd Piro.

“We reside method out within the nation in South Carolina, in all probability 200 yards off the primary highway, down a dust highway. It was completely darkish. My spouse was the one one who had Christmas lights on in the entire avenue. I am watching TV, she’s making the mattress. And impulsively there’s this large pounding on our door,” mentioned Duggan.

“Now we have glass doorways. Our yard is all fenced in. It is 70 yards from the highway. As I run to the lobby, the man is available in however journeys over our step and falls in. I swap on able to seize him and he goes, ‘No, no, assist me, assist me.’ And I am like, ‘What?’ And I seize him and I threw out onto the porch and I am considering it is a house invasion and this man is only a diversion.”

“In order my spouse is watching him, I seize my gun. It simply occurred to be a .44 Magnum – the previous ‘Soiled Harry’ gun which is a fairly intimidating weapon. I had that in my hand, ready for another person to come back. Nobody else confirmed up. This man is screaming, ‘Assist me, assist me, they’re gonna kill me.’ So now I am considering different persons are coming after to kill him. My poor spouse, she’s on the cellphone with 911 nearly in hysterics. I held the person at gunpoint, down unfold eagle on the entrance porch. Held him whereas the police responded. Thank goodness every little thing ended quietly but it surely was fairly an expertise.”

The police arrived simply in time to de-escalate

To handle the incident, the Kershaw County Sheriff’s Division got here on the scene. Duggan acknowledged that the individual’s state of affairs might need modified if it had been later within the night.

“If it was later at evening as a result of it was completely darkish I woulda been popping out of the bed room as a substitute of the lounge, I woulda had a loaded gun with me,” he mentioned. “However this manner, I got here into the lobby, he was already in the home, I grabbed him and thew him out. And by the point I grabbed the Magnum, issues slowed down sufficient and I noticed he wasn’t a risk. Thank goodness I did not shoot him or something as a result of it woulda been a horrible factor to reside with however the man did break into our home.”

Though Duggan mentioned he did not know who the person was, it seems that he visited roughly 4 extra properties in want of help.

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“, you run by way of eventualities in your head – what you’ll do in a state of affairs like that. After which all of it goes out the window when one thing like that occurs,” he mentioned. “Your adrenaline, your coronary heart is pumping. I used to be scared to loss of life. I had this man down on the bottom. I had no thought who he was. I had him unfold eagle. I had my gun in my hand.”

“My spouse was screaming. Different individuals within the highway have been yelling, ‘We’re gonna get you, we’re gonna get you.’ I had no thought what the state of affairs was or what this man dropped at my home however thank goodness for the good response to the Kershaw County Sheriff’s Division.”