Bret Hart’s recent interview continues to make headlines as the WWE legend refuses to hold back on today’s product.
The Hitman was one of the company’s top stars in the 90s after breaking through his father, Stu Hart’s, Stampede Wrestling in Calgary in the 80s.
It was a different era of wrestling where some people still believed the product was real and protecting the secrecy of the business was everything.
It’s still an important part of the industry, of course. Fans want to suspend their belief and the action they see in the ring has to help them do that.
For Hart, he doesn’t think that is happening. And he’s named one of the biggest culprits in his eyes.
“The punches and the kicks … I think that today’s wrestlers are actors. Most of them are actors pretending to be wrestlers,” Hart claimed. ”
“Who’s that Irish guy? Sheamus … I see him, I’m like, why don’t you take 10 minutes and go down and have someone teach you how to throw a punch instead of throwing that embarrassment of a punch?”
Sheamus is widely considered one of the hardest hitting wrestlers in WWE today.
Furthermore, the last few years he has become synonymous with his catchphrase ‘banger, after banger, after banger’ which is in direct reference to the quality of matches he has been having for the last three or four years.
His matches with Gunther over the Intercontinental title garnered critical acclaim from the industry over.
However, from a technical aspect, Hart has obvious seen something that he is not a fan of and as far as technical wrestling goes, Hart is more than qualified to have his say.
The Irishman, now 47, is a four-time world champion in WWE and outside of winning the IC belt, he has done everything there is to do. He was won Money in the Bank, has won the Royal Rumble, has won King of the Ring and every other title in the company.
The Hitman commands so much respect in the industry, Sheamus would probably take the criticism on the chin, but Hart’s outspoken nature rarely sits well.
Speaking to Virgin Media, he said: “I was doing IT. I think everybody in the late 90s and early 00s just ended up doing up IT. Somehow it was a thing, it was like ‘what are you going to do’ and it was ‘I’ll just do IT’. I ended up getting into IT that way.”
Sheamus continued: “Funnily enough, I met Bret Hart in Lillie’s on a night off. He gave me some information about schools. In 2002, I packed up the job and went over to New Jersey.
“I saw him there and went over and talked to him. He was super cool man, very chatty and very conversational.
“He gave me his agent’s number. I emailed her and she gave me a bunch of schools.”
