Professional wrestling legend and WWE Hall of Famer “The Hitman” Bret Hart who is also a former five times WWE World Heavyweight Champion and a former four times WCW World Heavyweight champion recently said that Hulk Hogan was very limited as a wrestler.
Legends of professional wrestlers are inspirational figures to a lot of fans and current generation professional wrestlers as well. For example, the recent Indian star in WWE Saurav Gurjar who is currently working in the NXT openly admitted that he idolized the WWE Hall of Famer the Big Red Machine Kane growing up. Every wrestler has someone whom he or she idolized growing up.
Bret Hart Claims Hulk Hogan Was Very Limited As A Wrestler
Hulk Hogan has been an inspiration for a lot of fans and professional wrestlers. Live WWE Hall of famer and eleven times WWE World Champion Edge was a big fan of Hulk Hogan during his childhood. Hogan was one of the biggest in the world of professional wrestling during his time. He was the face of WWE during the 80s and early 90s.
But there are a lot of wrestlers have always complained about Hulk Hogan for not being a very good person in real life. Hall of Famer like Shawn Michaels was also unhappy of Hogan. A lot of professional wrestling fans also consider Hogan as one of the biggest reasons behind the destruction of World Championship Wrestling.
Bret Hart who is also a former five times WWE World Heavyweight Champion recently spoke to the Calgary Sun where he said that Hulk Hogan was very limited as a wrestler. He said;
“I think it all goes back to when Gorilla Monsoon called me the ‘Excellence of Execution.’ I was just a guy who did everything right. I remember when I started wrestling, I knew how everything worked. I knew how to take turnbuckle (hits to the chest), I knew how to body slam. When you want to watch how to do something in wrestling, you watch my matches back. You’ll learn how to do a Sharpshooter. That’s how you do it.
“Want to learn how to do a standing suplex? That’s how you do it. I was always that guy. I was really well taught the art of wrestling by two Japanese guys (Mr. Hito and Mr. Sakurada). I was taught how to protect myself and my opponent so he doesn’t get hurt. More important than that, it was all about what I represented.
“I have an incredible body of work with so many different wrestlers. I was so proud of those matches. And all the Canadian wrestlers like Natalya or Edge were influenced by me. I think if you look back at wrestling when it was the Hulk Hogan show, he was six-foot-eight and a one-out-of-three wrestler.
“He didn’t know a headlock from a headlamp. He didn’t know very much. He knew how to do a clothesline and maybe a body slam. He was very limited. Vince McMahon took a chance with me and made me that champion. It meant so much to me that I think I tried to live up to be that champion. It was about being the best wrestler. I gave so much as that wrestler. I was a good role model in the dressing room. All that means a lot.”