Bret Hart once refused to take a move from a WWE Hall of Famer because he felt it was dangerous.
During his recent interview with Dominic DeAngelo of Studio 1 Sports Channel, WWE Hall of Famer Bret Hart looked back at his match against the late Scott Hall/Razor Ramon at Royal Rumble 1993. He revealed that he refused to take Hall’s finisher, “The Razor’s Edge,” because he felt it was too dangerous and he didn’t want to get dropped on his head.
Bret Hart noted that he shot down Scott Hall’s pitch and laid out the match himself, which he claims the latter never got over. However, he called it the best match Hall ever had.
“You know, the funny thing about that match was that Scott Hall hated it. I had never worked with Scott, and I didn’t know him very well,” Bret Hart said. “I only knew he’s been in the business a short time and never made it to WWF or NWA, or anywhere else. He was an AWA wrestler, you know, worked part-time, I think, or worked in Japan, maybe. I didn’t know what his career was like before, but he was not really well-known or established.
Bret Hart says he would’ve never let anyone do that move on him, not just Scott Hall
“His finish, what we call the Razor’s Edge, he’d pick you up and drop you on your head. I go, ‘Nobody is doing that to me ever.’ I don’t care, and I would stand by that today. He goes, ‘Oh, don’t worry, I set you down,’ and I’m like, ‘No, no, not on my fu*king head, you don’t. No way. There’s no fuc*ing way. You’re 6’6 or something. You’re gonna fall backwards with me, and the first thing that hits the ground is my head, in my upper back.’ I said, ‘It doesn’t make any sense. It’s too dangerous, too stupid a move for me to do,’ and I refused to do it,” Bret Hart said.
“When I first met him, I’m like, ‘Nobody drops me on my head like that.’ I don’t know him well enough to let him do that. I actually would never let anybody do that move to me, just for the same reason that I said that I would never take a bump where I could fall and land on the back of my head and maybe break my neck,” Bret Hart said.
“If something goes wrong, there’s no way I can even stop, and I’m falling out of control backwards with no control over how I land or where I land,” Bret Hart said. “It’s a really dangerous move to do. I would never let anyone do that to me anywhere in any country, and in any company. But anyway, the match I had with him at the King of the Ring, he was more my friend by that time, and we were more comfortable with each other’s work by then.
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