Professional wrestling legend and two times WWE Hall of Famer “The Hitman” Bret Hart who is a five times WWE World Champion and a two times WCW World Heavyweight Champion recently said that he wanted to be remembered as a great professional wrestler.
Bret Hart started his professional wrestling career back in 1976 at the Stampede Wrestling which was founded by his father Stu Hart. He worked eight years at the Stampede Wrestling before being signed by WWE in 1984.
Bret Hart Says He Wants To Be Remembered As A Great Wrestler
He spent a total of 13 years in WWE, back in that time it was really not easy to spend for a long time in WWE unless it was a big name. Bret indeed was a huge name. He was one of the biggest faces of the promotion back in the time.
The list of is WWE achievements is quite long. Apart from winning the WWE championship five times, he won lots of other championships as well. Duty on the person in WWE history to win two King of the Ring tournaments (1991, 1993). In 1997 he went to WCW after some real life issues with Vince McMahon.
He even spitted on the face of Mr. McMahon on television which was not scripted. He went on to work in WCW and stayed with promotion till the death of it. In 2000 he picked up a career threatening injury during a match with Goldberg which breed literally finished health in ring career.
He did however made some appearances for various independent promotions. In 2005 he buried the hatchet with WWE and returned to the promotion. He was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2006 individually.
He even won the WWE United States Championship one time. In 2019, once again he got inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame, this time with the Hart Foundation. He still makes sporadic appearances for different wrestling promotions. He is another wrestler whose career was killed by injury.
“The Hitman” Bret Hart who is a five times WWE World Champion and a two times WCW World Heavyweight Champion recently spoke to Q&A for the Canada Walk of Fame Instagram Page where he said that he wanted to be remembered as a great professional wrestler. He said;
I mean if there was something where it’s like I could wrestle Donald Trump at WrestleMania and Vince McMahon was gonna referee it or something, I’d hear it out because it’d be funny to hear it but the thought of me going in there and wrestling somebody is pretty unlikely and as far as managers and all that kind of stuff, I don’t — Bret Hart was a wrestler, not a manager and I don’t wanna be remembered as a manager and so I would never do it.
“I was a great wrestler. I don’t wanna be a referee either and I don’t wanna be a commentator because everything I say hurts. Sometimes I can be too honest.”
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