Hulk Hogan may have died last month, but Bret Hart's disdain for his fellow WWE Hall of Famer lives on. Reflecting on the Hulkster's legacy while appearing on The Ringer Wrestling Show, the Hitman explained when his disdain for Hogan started.
According to Hart, he became Hogan's "enemy" when he won the WWE Championship in 1992. Things only got worse between the two pro wrestling icons when Hogan allegedly tried to hold Hart down when he signed with WCW years later.
"WrestleMania 8, when I fought Roddy Piper, Roddy Piper was one of the few guys that reached down and pulled me up to his level," Hart recalled. "Roddy Piper made me and contributed back to the next generation. But there were a lot of wrestlers who didn’t do that. Hulk Hogan never did that for anybody; he never pulled anyone else up."
"Jake Roberts never did anything for anybody else; he only did for Jake Roberts. I look at Jake Roberts and I look at Hulk Hogan as just two guys; he never, ever lost. He always got their hands raised."
He continued. "I always thought the day I won the belt, I always thought Hulk Hogan would come up and pat me on the back and tell me how glad he was that I was the guy that they picked to pull the sword out of the stone for him. And, you know, unfortunately, that’s not how it was. The second I won the belt, I was the enemy. I had what he wanted, and we were never really friends, ever again."
"I always will shake my head and wonder what it was that why he was such a roadblock for me, like he he wouldn’t do anything for me," Hart said of his time in WCW. "I know this to be a fact, but he made sure that, when I was in WCW, they didn’t do anything with me. 'Don’t do anything with them. Just leave them, let them sit on the bench.'"
Hart has never been one to mince his words, and when it came to how he feels about Hogan now, the Canadian professional wrestling icon was holding nothing back.
"When I was a little kid, you go to school and elementary school, there’s just always some kids that are bullshitters, that just tell bullshit and are just classic...that’s just the way they are," he explained. "I think Hulk Hogan was a bullshitter."
He concluded by reflecting on his and Hogan's last war of words. "It was Hulk Hogan talking about me, and he said, 'The problem with Bret Hart is he really thinks he was the greatest wrestler of all time.' And, you know, I don’t argue with that."
Hogan remains a divisive figure among fans and the locker room, but Hart is one of the few people out there who isn't afraid to say things how he sees them. And, when it comes to the late wrestler and actor, there's clearly no love lost.
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