Bret Hart recently identified his two favorite matches from his storied wrestling career, highlighting them as standout moments.
In an interview with the Attitude Era Podcast, Hart singled out his 1997 No Disqualification Submission match against Stone Cold Steve Austin at WrestleMania 13, calling it the best match he ever had.
He also mentioned his 1996 Iron Man match with Shawn Michaels at WrestleMania XII, where he lost the WWF World Heavyweight Championship. Despite the loss, Hart described the match as beautiful, emphasizing that the outcome was irrelevant compared to the quality of the bout.
Bret also called his Iron Man Match against HBK the hardest match he’s ever had.
Here’s what The Hitman said:
“Steve was one of my favorite guys to ever work with. He was a really good wrestler. Steve would have been a great wrestler without wrestling me. I don’t want to ever say he couldn’t have been who he was (without wrestling me). But I do believe the match that I had with him was the best match he ever had. The best match… the best match I ever had.
If you ever look at a match and how it is put together, and you watch all the little layers… that has the most layers. Like, that’s a match you can’t predict anything that’s going to happen.
You sat down and said this is what they are going to do. Like if it was a Ric Flair match, you could sit there and go, ‘Okay, he’s going to take the beat off…’. You can see the whole thing.
But I mean, in that match, no one knows what’s gonna happen. And that’s what I love about it.
WrestleMania 13 was my favorite match. Just because it was so special. But the Iron Man Match is right close to it. Those are the two greatest matches I ever had. And despite the outcome of WrestleMania 12 and not keeping the title on Shawn, that’s irrelevant. The match itself is just beautiful.
It’s the hardest match I ever had. It was the one where I had to work the hardest, think the most. Of all the matches in my career, those two matches stand above. I want to see somebody else have a better Iron Man Match someday.”
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