Bret Hart shared a strong opinion about WWE Hall of Famer Hulk Hogan following Hogan’s tragic passing.
During an interview with The Ringer Wrestling Show at SummerSlam weekend, Bret Hart opened up about the personal and professional issues with The Hulkster. He explained that some wrestlers helped younger talent grow, but he believed Hulk Hogan never did that.
“WrestleMania 8, when I fought Roddy Piper, Roddy Piper was one of the few guys that reached down and pulled me up to his level… Roddy Piper made me and contributed back to the next generation. But there was a lot of wrestlers that that didn’t do that. Hulk Hogan never did that for anybody he never pulled anyone else up. Jake Roberts… never did anything for anybody else, he only did for Jake Roberts.”
Hart also compared Jake Roberts to Hogan, saying both men focused only on their own success and rarely lost matches. According to him, the tension between them started when WWE chose him to lead the company after Hogan first left.
Bret Hart expected Hulk Hogan to support him when he led WWE, he said, “I always thought the day I won the belt, I always thought Hulk Hogan would come up and pat me on the back and tell me how glad he was that I was the guy that they picked to pull the sword out of the stone for him. And, you know, unfortunately, that’s not how it was. He, he the second I won the belt, I was the enemy. I had what he wanted, and we were never really friends, ever again.”
Bret Hart accused Hulk Hogan of trying to derail his WCW career, calls him a bullsh*tter
Bret Hart didn’t hold back when he and Hulk Hogan were in WCW in the late 1990s. “I always will shake my head and wonder what it was that why he was such a roadblock for me, like he he wouldn’t do anything for me. And he made sure, and I know this to be a fact, but he made sure that, like when I was in WCW, he made sure that they didn’t do anything with me, like, ‘don’t do anything with them. Just leave them, let them sit in the bench’… WCW would fly me down in first class, first class airfare, first class car rental, first class hotel, first class everything. And then when I got to the building, they’d tell me I was off and I’d just fly home.”
Talking about Hulk Hogan’s character, Hart called him a bullsh*tter, “When I was a little kid, you go to school and elementary school, there’s just always some kids that are bullshitters, that just tell bullshit and are just classic… that’s just the way they are,” he explained. “I think Hulk Hogan was a bullshitter.”
He also recalled a moment when Hogan criticized him, saying that Hart believed he was the greatest wrestler of all time. “It was Hulk Hogan talking about me… and he said, ‘The problem with Bret Hart is… he really thinks he was the greatest wrestler of all time.’ And, you know, I don’t argue with that.” [H/T: wrestlingnews.co]
While Bret Hart continues to be critical following Hulk Hogan’s passing, it’s worth noting that Hogan, in an interview on Impaulsive last year, said he didn’t understand why Hart was still bitter.
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