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Just watched the Bret Hart shoot about the year 1992 and my God does he put himself over, it's nearly embarrassing to watch, near every question Sean asks him him about another wrestler he just rambles off and talks about himself.
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Just watched the Bret Hart shoot about the year 1992 and my God does he put himself over, it's nearly embarrassing to watch, near every question Sean asks him him about another wrestler he just rambles off and talks about himself.

 

Well, he's being interviewed. Of course he is going to talk about himself. He also talked in depth about Savage, Flair, Hall, Nailz, Davey, Owen, Hogan, Warrior... you're really painting an inaccurate picture there.

I don't think I am, he went OTT about Davey and their match at Summerslam 1992, and this pulling the sword from the stone.........please!!

 

Bret was good back then but nowhere as good as he makes out to be.

Basically saying he was a junkie, that he called the whole match, that he himself planned the match months in advance etc...

 

I thought he just should have said "Davey had some problems" instead of going to town on his drug habit.

Oh. I don't know mate, I'm kind of in the camp in the more detail the better for these type of things. I guess the point he was making was that he is proud of the effort he put in to create such an amazing match, considering he was working with a broomstick that day. It's also worth noting that he gives Davey plenty of props for getting it done that day. I believe he spoke about this at the end of that chapter to wrap it up.
Well, he's being interviewed. Of course he is going to talk about himself. He also talked in depth about Savage, Flair, Hall, Nailz, Davey, Owen, Hogan, Warrior... you're really painting an inaccurate picture there.
No he's not painting an inaccurate picture at all, every single thing Bret was asked about, specifically things that had nothing to do with him, he turned into a story about himself. The guy is so insecure about his place in wrestling because he KNOWS he was one of the worst draws ever that he feels the need to bash everybody else to try and make out he was better than them. He's so bitter its pathetic.

 

Bret needs to get a clue or get the f*ck out!

No he's not painting an inaccurate picture at all, every single thing Bret was asked about, specifically things that had nothing to do with him, he turned into a story about himself. The guy is so insecure about his place in wrestling because he KNOWS he was one of the worst draws ever that he feels the need to bash everybody else to try and make out he was better than them. He's so bitter its pathetic.

 

Bret needs to get a clue or get the f*ck out!

 

So when Bret was complimenting Scott Hall for his wonderful portrayal of Razor, complimenting Piper for doing a great job of bringing him up the card, thanking Vince for giving him a chance, praising Savage for being a locker room leader, praising Undertaker for his masterful portrayal... how does any of this fit into your "bitter" argument?

 

Or when he is asked about working with specific people, he talks about the collaboration therefore himself at times?

 

Bret takes a lot of pride in his work. It's 2014, surely you're aware of this as you check out his videos? So saying he needs to get a clue or F off is pretty rich.

ok so you're going to pick out very few positives that Bret has said and run with them as your argument against him being bitter?! Obviously a Hitman mark with the blinkers on or completely clueless as to the overall picture. If you dont think Bret is bitter, or you dont think he thinks wayyyyyyyy more of himself than he should, then you're nuts! Its so blatant and obvious in literally every single interview he ever does. I'm not going to pick out snippets here and there, I'm talking about the big picture that he paints of his career in general. How once they got rid of Hulk and Warrior and these 'cartoon guys' wrestling went the way he wanted it and he alone convinced Vince to come around his his way of thinking because he's the great Bret Hart, who couldnt draw hungry flies to fresh sh*t by the way, thats how great he and his wrestling was. People didnt give a toss. I mean, he was giving himself ranks out of 10 for looks and wrestling and promos, he gave himself "as close to a 10 as you'll ever get" which is nonsense, and even as high as an 8 for his promos which, for most of his entire career, were f*cking wretched!

 

Whining about how Shawn and Vince "stole" his idea for the ladder match even though other people were having ladder matches long before, Guaranteeing he would have had a better ladder match with Shawn than Razor did (even though they had a ladder match and it was average-to-crap). Saying how his 1-hour long borefest with Shawn at WMXII was probably the best 1 hour match ever...lol yeah whatever Bret.

 

There's taking pride in your work and then there is taking credit for most of everything you were involved in, bashing other people even when they werent mentioned or had nothing to do with the topic at hand (Hogan, Warrior, Flair etc) and generally really buying into your own bullshit hype of being the so-called best there is, was, ever will be nonsense when he wasnt even close.

 

He needs to get a clue....or get the f*ck out.

Name calling? What, when I called you nuts? lol OK mate if you want to use that as your reason to not reply because you dont have a good enough actual answer thats fine, but we both know Bret is bitter, deluded and has a bigger ego than possibly anybody else in wrestling. To deny it is stupid, fan of his or not. Its like me as a Hogan fan saying his isnt bald or wasnt selfish.

 

Whatever homey!

It may have been the blinkered eye'd Hitman mark comment as well.

 

For the record though Bret is his own biggest mark who has used Montreal (which only occured because Bret's ego meant he refused to job in Canada, lest there be a riot) and his brothers tragic death to turn himself into a martyr.

Edited by Evil Gringo

Yeah everyone gets called a mark around here. It's not name calling really, it's who we are for better or worse.

 

I liked Bret's promos. Maybe not all of them but he had some good ones and he's nowhere near as bad as some people are.

I agree, but lets not make out Bret isnt one of those guys because he is possibly worse than all of them. He really thinks he's God's gift to wrestling and we should all be thanking him for it.

 

And if you dont know how good Bret was, just ask him, he'll tell you in great detail.

Just watched the Bret Hart shoot about the year 1992 and my God does he put himself over, it's nearly embarrassing to watch, near every question Sean asks him him about another wrestler he just rambles off and talks about himself.

I watched it a few days ago and thought the same thing myself. When he was talking about judging wrestlers by their look, promo ability and wrestling ability, it was embarrassing. To say 'Hogan was a 1 at wrestling' and then 'I was as close to a 10 as you'll ever get' is laughable. Hogan wasn't the best but he wasn't a 1 either and he probably had more entertaining matches in his peak than Bret did, despite Bret working with some excellent opponents whereas Hogan dragged good matches out of dross. If Bret was as good as he thinks he was, he wouldn't have been such a failure.

The marking himself out of 10 was cringe worthy, he should watch some of Hogan's matches in Japan, Hogan could wrestle when it was needed.I always liked Bret,thought he has some very good matches down the years but he really is an uber mark for himself.
Hogan v Muta in 1993 during his break from American Wrestling - that match needs to be watched by any wrestling fan simply because it was Hogan v Muta! Its not the greatest match in the world in terms of wrestling because Muta wanted to stall and clown like he does in all his matches but when they lock horns it is pretty good.

Bret knows Hogan is well above a 1 as a wrestler, but he is insecure and bitter and doesnt like Hogan, so of course he is going to say he's a 1, his ego means more to him than his credibility.

 

I loved Bret when he was with the Anvil. Demolition and the Harts are my 2 all time favourite teams and his feuds with the Bulldogs, Rockers, Demolition, Brain Busters and all the other great teams of that era are awesome to this day. But once he because a singles guy and got the WWF belt he became an unbearable, ultra-egotistical pr*ck. The thing is, he never earned the right to have a huge ego because he could never draw! And the fact is, and thats F-A-C-T, he only ever got the big push due to the steroid deal. If that never cropped up, Bret would never have got a look in to be the champion and main event shows. Not a chance. None!

Edited by The Beltster

True, Bret and Shawn only became the stars they did due to the steroid scandal of the 1990's. I liked Bret as a wrestler and he had some great matches but man was he egotistical, I think I've seen another interview with walking round his house and the pictures in frames were of himself
The Hogan hate I think stems from the time he lost to Yokozuna and then Hogan came out and beat for the title there and then. The only reason that happened was because as has been said, Hart's numbers were in the toilet. Add in the fact deep down he knows that if Hogan hadn't been off trying to be a film star and the Warrior hadn't been let loose then his first title runs would never have been booked and it just cutts right into his fragile ego.