Bret Hart says he has a hard time watching today’s wrestling: ‘It’s too fake for me’
Bret Hart isn’t a fan of today’s professional wrestling.
While appearing on the Johnny I Pro Show, Hart said he has a hard time watching today’s wrestling, preferring to watch wrestling from the 1990s instead. He feels today’s wrestling is too ‘fake,’ comparing wrestlers to actors.
“It’s too fake for me,” he said. “But I love watching the old 90s wrestling, I really do. When I watch my matches back, just in almost any match, even obscure Stampede Wrestling matches, there’s something about the realism, the punches and the kicks, and even just the way the presentation is. It just seems to me to be more onus put on the workmanship of learning the craft of being wrestlers. I think that today’s wrestlers are actors, most of them are actors pretending to be wrestlers, and you know, they don’t actually know how to wrestle and they don’t even know what a headlock is.”
“Everything is a high spot,” he continued. “Everything is high spots, like, I want to get my move in. It’s like, I don’t know, I always thought wrestling needed to actually pretend to be wrestling. I miss the wrestling aspect and the psychology of the 60s and 70s wrestling, like the presentation of trying to, you know, pretending that it’s a real sport.”
Later, Hart singled out one current wrestler’s punches in particular: Sheamus.
“Whenever I see him I’m like why don’t you take ten minutes and go down and have someone teach you how to throw a punch instead of throwing that embarrassment of a punch?”
At this year’s WWE Hall of Fame, Hart was inducted for a third time, with his match against Steve Austin at WrestleMania 13 being named the first-ever ‘Immortal Moment.’
Bryan Rose is an editor from California that has been covering professional wrestling for well over a decade. He officially joined F4WOnline as an editor in 2017.