Bret Hart made headlines over the weekend with a series of harsh comments during his appearance on the Johnny I Pro Show. Hart took aim at Goldberg once again, criticized modern wrestling as “too fake,” slammed Sheamus’ punches, and called Hulk Hogan and Jake “The Snake” Roberts “two of the biggest pieces of sh*t in wrestling.”
He also took shots at Ric Flair, questioned Vince McMahon and Shawn Michaels’ relationship, and admitted he barely watches wrestling today, confessing he doesn’t even know who MJF is.
Speaking on his Hall Of Fame podcast, 2-time WWE Hall of Famer Booker T responded to Hart’s comments, particularly his constant criticism of Goldberg.
“Bret Hart has been all over the place lately. It’s like, everything nuclear, everything’s just… burn, let everything burn. Why? I mean, I know Bret Hart had his issues with Goldberg, and those, those issues are deep rooted for what happened inside the ring. But one thing I must say, stuff that happens in the ring, it happens. I don’t think none of us go out in the middle of the ring and try to hurt somebody on purpose or anything like that.
Some of this stuff you just can’t walk back. You’re going to see, we got to see each other at some point in time. And to not be able to relive some of the greatest moments in the history of this business, because of bitterness… It’s got to be a lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely, dark day at the end of this ride. And I just say, I just think Bret Hart’s a much, much better person than the person that we’ve been seeing as of late. I know he is.”
Booker defended Goldberg, recalling his own experiences in WCW.
“I wrestled Goldberg. I was always aware of what good happened working with Goldberg, just because I knew the guy was green, I knew he wasn’t the most experienced professional wrestler in the world, so I was always thinking about protecting myself when I was in there with Goldberg. And that’s just the truth.
But I think it was smart at the same time. Even if something would have happened, which it could have, I wouldn’t have thought that he did it on purpose or anything like that. Because, just because I know Goldberg, I’ve been around Goldberg for many, many years, and Goldberg is someone that I could consider a friend.
I was listening to Renee Dupree talk about I broke his nose, and I actually saw the footage just yesterday. I caught it with that back elbow. Was deadly… right on the point, right on the position point. He was all busted up and bloodied up. I’ve got a guy, Paul London… I caught it with that, that back elbow, but trust me, it wasn’t out of malice or anything like that. And trust me, I was not trying to hurt those guys.
I heard Stevie Richards is talking about me, and he said we had a match on Velocity. When I started working it, he thought I was real. He thought he was shooting. He thought he was really being serious. And then after a minute, he realized that’s just the way I work.”
Booker concluded by calling out the growing trend of negative shoot interviews.
“I just refuse to give these podcasters shoot interviews about what went on with me and my peers in stories that happened inside that locker room. People have tried and tried and tried to get me to talk about Batista… and I’m like, Man, I’m not going to say anything negative about Batista. It’s not that big of a story to what we got to keep rehashing it over and over and over for someone’s… for someone else’s entertainment. And I think that’s what Bret is doing right now.
In a lot of ways, he’s being used. The person I know, I know Bret is a much better person than that, at least I would like to think that way.”
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