Bret Hart Claims To Have Changed Wrestling.........

[★Chuck Zombie★]

..........and I thank him for it.

Bret said things changed drastically in WWE when WWE started drug testing in 1992 and made the transition from muscle heads (Hogan, Warrior, Legion of Doom) to the workers (Bret, Shawn Michaels, Marty Janetty). When asked whether he was upset that Hulk Hogan never gave him a match at WrestleMania, he replied:

Bret Hart: I just thought that somebody preempted my run. For somebody like Hulk Hogan, when he was on his run, nobody preempted it. Everyone was happy to make him. But when I needed some of the bigger guys to make me, especially some of the bigger names like Jake Roberts or Ultimate Warrior or Hogan, when it came to passing the torch down and doing me a favor&I had always been loyal, working my ass off on their undercards and I was always respectful of those guys and paid my dues, but I always felt short changed by some of those guys who didn't do anything to help me. And that was a critical time in the business. The wrestling business back then was kind of like the stock market right now. There were some tough times business-wise, and everyone was fearful of the future, especially after they implemented the drug testing. But they handed me the ball, and back then I was only six feet tall, I wasn't a giant, I didn't have 24-inch arms, and I wasn't a good interview. Then all of a sudden I found myself carrying the torch at a tough time and trying my hardest.

Hart continued, "If you look at wrestling when I started to get my big break back in 1992, I changed wrestling from the cartoons of Hulk Hogan and Iron Sheik and the matches with the leg drop and the hand behind the ear and the playing to the crowd. They were just cartoon characters if you ask me. Hogan had the same match every night for years and so did Warrior. They didn't tell great stories, to be honest. I went out there and had those matches with Piper and Perfect and the match with Davey at Wembley. I went out there and tried to have great matches all the time, and it wasn't about Bret Hart, it was about these matches. I think I changed the style of wrestling, and even today, there's not another Hulk Hogan out there, it's guys like Edge, and it's all about work rate. When you see Bret Hart versus Steve Austin, it just seemed so much more real than Hulk Hogan versus Sgt. Slaughter. All of the storylines started to be more realistic and the belt started to mean more. I made the belt seem like the world to me and to my fans. I kind of pat myself on the back today and think that I did more good for professional wrestling than people realize."

 

[THE Brian Kendrick's Biceps]

Wasn't Hart on roids anyway?

 

[Beer Money Army]

lol hogan vs slaughter wasn't a good match...

Bret Hart is a true wrestling god...

 

[Moonlight Drive]

Bret needs to get over himself tbh.

 

[★Chuck Zombie★]

Eh, being that good deserves the ego stroke. It's when people don't deserve that it gets annoying coughjeffjarrettcough.

 

[THE Brian Kendrick's Biceps]

I still find Hart a bit much. Didn't he walk out on some 30 best Canadian wrestlers ceremony because he thought he sould have been higher up?

 

[Moonlight Drive]

If you look at wrestling when I started to get my big break back in 1992, I changed wrestling from the cartoons of Hulk Hogan and Iron Sheik and the matches with the leg drop and the hand behind the ear and the playing to the crowd

Sounds like Bret was the booker back in 1992

 

[Kizza]

Never liked Bret, always found him overrated tbh.

 

[Bloodopera]

i think we all know this.. but the fact that he has to bring it up so much is giving me a bad taste in the mouth

 

[Airfixx]

I think it's fair to say he changed the main event game in WWE for the better, but there's some real crap amongst his comments:

But when I needed some of the bigger guys to make me, especially some of the bigger names like Jake Roberts or Ultimate Warrior or Hogan, when it came to passing the torch down and doing me a favor... I was always respectful of those guys and paid my dues, but I always felt short changed by some of those guys who didn't do anything to help me.

Ok, so we know the rumours about Bret v Hogan for Summerlslam 93 and the FACT that Hogan shat all over Bret @ WM9, but Jake and Warrior weren't even on the roster when Bret won the title for the first time and by the time they both returned in '96 he was waaay above them on the card anyway.

I also notice he fails to mention one of the guys that, ture to form, WAS prepared to put him over, not just over, but clean for the title and on free TV.... RIC FLAIR!

 

[MikeRaw]

Bret did change wrestling.
You can argue over yo ulike him saying it or not, but you can't argue what it is he said.

 

[The Rated R CMStar]

I agree with what was said a few posts above mine. We all knew he did it, but I don't think I like him saying it as if bragging.

 

[Chuck Taylor's Grenade]

technically if you think about it he changed wrestling twice. If he hadn't refused to job to shawn michaels we wouldn't have had the screw job, vince wouldn't have become a mega heel and Stone Cold wouldn't have become as big a star as he did.

 

[★Chuck Zombie★]

^^Don't remind him of that one though.

 

[Travis40]

lol he's such a hyprocrite. "No one would put me over to get me over, but I won't bring up the time I refused to hand the belt to Shawn Michaels in 1997". What a prick, I think he was overrated, but a very good wrestler. He just needs to get over himself tbh