Hacksaw' Jim Duggan

"Hacksaw" Jim Duggan needed to toss his opponents out of the ring when he won the first-ever Royal Rumble in WWE history in 1988, and 34 years later, ...

I had my gun in my hand. I switch on ready to grab him and he goes, ‘No, no, help me, help me.’ And I’m like, ‘What?’ And I grab him and I threw out onto the porch and I’m thinking it’s a home invasion and this guy is just a diversion. I had this man down on the ground. Thank goodness I didn’t shoot him or anything because it woulda been a horrible thing to live with but the guy did break into our house. "If it was later at night because it was totally dark I woulda been coming out of the bedroom instead of the living room, I woulda had a loaded gun with me," he said. I held the man at gunpoint, down spread eagle on the front porch. As I run to the foyer, the guy comes in but trips over our step and falls in. Duggan admitted that if it would’ve been later in the night, things could’ve ended differently for the person. And all of a sudden there’s this huge pounding on our door," the legendary pro wrestler said. "We live way out in the country in South Carolina, probably 200 yards off the main road, down a dirt road. ["Fox & Friends First"](https://www.foxnews.com/shows/fox-friends-first) on Wednesday and explained to co-host Todd Piro what happened. Duggan, the WWE Hall of Famer, grabbed his gun and held the home invader at gunpoint until the authorities arrived to clear up what was going on.

WWE Hall of Fame wrestler 'Hacksaw' Jim Duggan spoke about subduing a home intruder with his gun earlier this month.

I held the man at gunpoint, down spread eagle on the front porch. Held him while the police responded,” Duggan said. While watching television earlier this month, Duggan said a man began pounding on the door. [Duggan explained ](https://www.outkick.com/famed-wrestler-jim-duggan-wrestled-down-home-invader-held-him-at-gunpoint-until-cops-arrived/)that he and his wife’s South Carolina house is “out in the country,” hundreds of yards off a main road. [Earlier this month,](https://www.outkick.com/famed-wrestler-jim-duggan-wrestled-down-home-invader-held-him-at-gunpoint-until-cops-arrived/) Duggan and his wife were involved in a frightening incident when a random person broke into their house at night. My poor wife, she’s on the phone with 911 almost in hysterics.

2022 had already been an eventful year for 'Hacksaw' Jim Duggan, who continued to battle cancer for the second time. Now it has emerged that Duggan recently ...

[statement](https://www.instagram.com/p/CmSGsj5Pv23/?hl=en) posted to his Instagram account, the 68-year-old confirmed that he and his wife were safe and thanked everyone for their concern and well-wishes. The intruder claimed that people from a nearby home were coming to 'kill' him. [Wrestling Inc.](http://wrestlinginc.com), the 1988 Royal Rumble winner noted that his home was broken into at around 6:45 PM on Thursday, December 8.