BRET HART DISCUSSES THE THREE OPPONENTS HE WISHES HE COULD HAVE WRESTLED, OWEN, LAWLER AND MORE
By John Canton on 2014-08-20 12:00:25
Bret Hart Discusses Owen, Austin, CM Punk & Stu Hart Championship Belt
WWE Hall of Famer Bret Hart joined us on the TJRWrestling Radio show on Tuesday
August 19 to talk about his career and the Bret Hart Invitational Tournament at
X-Fest 2014 in Calgary on August 30 & 31. Here are some highlights of the
interview.
On Jerry Lawler: "The feud with Jerry Lawler was one of the best feuds I ever
had. He was the perfect heel and kept his heat. People hated him. I remember we
had the Kiss My Foot match and it was the best match on the Pay-Per-View for
sure."
On feuding with his brother Owen Hart at WrestleMania 10: "We had one match put
together before we got to The Garden. I remember it was the Thursday or Friday
before we left for WrestleMania I called him up and we went through the match at
my dad's house. The match we were going to present was going to be a classic
match with Owen as a bit of a babyface. The more I thought about it the more I
realized the consequence of the mistake of being wrong. There was a strong
possibility that Owen was going to become the babyface in the match and we
changed it so I told Owen he had to be the heel for sure. I told him: 'You need
to do everything you can to be the villain and you cannot mess this up for
yourself. If you turn babyface that's not what they want they want to do with
you. You've got to get over as a heel.' At the end of the night when I'm
in the ring being paraded around by the faces and Owen was staring at me you
could see his look on his face and if you really read closer into his eyes you
could see how happy he was. He was so over as a heel and so proud of his life.
It was the biggest night of his life at that time. It was a big thing for me to
see that he succeeded that night."
On working with Steve Austin at WrestleMania 13: "I remember we got to the
building and started talking about what we were going to do. The submission
match kind of limits you with no pinfalls. It changes a lot of the dynamics of
the pace of the match. You have to use submission holds for the highlights of
the match. We just went in there not knowing what they wanted. I thought the way
we started it was perfect like gun fighters staring each other down. Steve was
great with how he tackled me right off the bat. There are so many things I love
in the match that stand out today. There's no comedy or laughing, it's dead
serious. It's like a school fight with two guys fighting in the back of the
school. It was a hell of a fight. The psychology of the match was just perfect."
On three opponents he would have liked to wrestle: "I would have loved to have
worked with Kurt Angle. He would have been a lot of fun to be in the ring with.
I would love to wrestle John Cena, especially the Bret Hart of 1997 that was a
heel against John Cena the All American good guy. For the third guy I would have
to say CM Punk. Punk would have been a perfect guy for me to work with. He might
have to carry me through the match with him as the heel. I miss him on the
shows. I hope he makes some kind of comeback one day."
On the Bret Hart Invitational Tournament and The Stu Hart Championship at X-Fest
2014 in Calgary in August 30 & 31: "It's important for me that young wrestlers
get a chance to work in front of a good sized crowd. It's a great opportunity to
bring something to Calgary like that. I think Davey Boy Smith Jr. is a great
talent and some of the other guys are good young wrestlers. It's going to
be a classic looking belt. They put a lot of love and attention into it. The Stu
Hart belt is going to be a prestigious thing. We're going to make this a big
event. Hopefully the Stu Hart belt will mean more and more every year. We want
to make this a prestigious thing."
For more info on X-Fest 2014 on August 30 & 31 visit
www.XFestCalgary.com. To listen to the
full interview head over to
www.TJRWrestling.com or download it on iTunes right now.
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