Bret Hart recently spoke to CBS' In This Corner podcast about his brother Own Hart, and how much it would mean to have him in the WWE Hall Of Fame, though the former WWE champion doesn't see much of the appeal that the WWE HOF use to have.
"It's pretty important I'm not gonna lose any sleep over it," Hart said. "I think sometimes the Hall Of Fame has lost a little bit of its luster anyway. I mean anybody can be in it, it doesn't matter if you were a great wrestler or what your accomplishments or contributions were to wrestling."
Hart asked, "what kinda hall of fame doesn't have Dynamite Kid in it?" He listed other notable names who are not in the WWF Hall Of Fame including The British Bulldog Davey Boy Smith and Demolition. He also mentioned how the Rock n Roll Express received an induction along with other people like The Freebirds who didn’t really make a lasting impression at all in WWE.
"Then you have the Rock n Roll Express who never even made it in WWF -- they're in it. Terry Gordy and The Freebirds, they're in it when they were too drunk to make it to most of the towns. I was there when Andre The Giant fired all three of them, they were not role models or hard workers.
"You look at some of the people in the Hall Of Fame and some of these celebrities in there and Owen to me personally not being in the Hall Of Fame, there's a lot of people who belong in the Hall Of Fame who are not in it. If it turns out that the WWE is going to keep becoming Hall Of Fame that caters to suck-ups and people that are in the company that they owe a favor to who never contributed to the business as wrestlers I question the whole Hall Of Fame itself and I wonder if there will ever be a real Hall Of Fame that caters to just the wrestlers for their contributions. WWF and the rest of the world step up a little bit and start taking care from a historical standpoint the wrestlers that really made the company."
"When I think of what Owen gave to wrestling and how important I think it would be important to be in the Hall Of Fame. It would be important to my dad and to me for Owen to be in the Hall Of Fame because I don't think it's quite the same the same without him. You can leave Dynamite Kid out of it, you can leave so many great wrestlers out of it, but why are you leaving him out of it?"