During this week's 83 Weeks podcast, Eric Bischoff and Conrad Thompson talked about 1993's WCW Halloween Havoc. What was in the news at the time was also covered, including then WWE Superstar Bret Hart's disparaging remarks about WCW and performers in the company using drugs.
Bischoff would, of course, one day sign Bret to a lucrative deal, but a career-ending injury in a match with Goldberg meant his time there was cut short. So, what is the former SmackDown Executive Director's opinion on Hart? He didn't like him then and doesn't like him now by the sound of it!
"This is typical of Bret Hart then and now," he said. "If Bret doesn’t have somebody to bury, criticize or blame, he can’t really have much of a conversation. He doesn’t have much to say. It didn’t resonate with me, I think partially because WWE, Vince McMahon, federal court, indicted, drug distribution, goes back a long time."
"I think Bret was probably trying to clear the smoke in his own room by creating it in somebody else’s as much as anything. To add to that, that is Bret. I’ll actually use his words in this context. I don’t mean to say anything bad about anybody, but Bret has a tendency to be a winy b****. I told you a few months ago, I said I was going to take the high road. But he continues to rehash this negative nonsense and bury people. It doesn’t make me angry. That’s Bret. Whether he is burying Ric Flair or whether he is burying Mick Foley or Vince McMahon or Eric Bischoff or Bill Goldberg, he is just a negative, miserable guy.
"That’s how he goes through his daily life. He was doing that in 1993 and he is still doing it today," Bischoff concluded.
There's clearly no love lost between these two, and Bischoff isn't exactly wrong when he says that Bret always seems to be burying someone or other in interviews! What's your take on the former WCW boss's assessment of "The Hitman"?