Bret Hart Brutally Buries Goldberg... Because OF COURSE (WWE News)
Bret Hart once again throws shade in Bill Goldberg's direction.
Another day, another case of Bret Hart taking a chance to bury fellow WWE Hall of Famer Bill Goldberg.
In this instance, Bret's comments come from an appearance at Ontario's Vaughan Con this past weekend. This is the same event where the Hitman lambasted WWE for not fully appreciating what he did during his years with the company, as highlighted by WWE inviting Hart to MetLife Stadium for SummerSlam earlier this month... only to then not have a seat for Bret when he got to the venue.
With the five-time WWE Champion's latest Bill Goldberg comments having now surfaced (via Fightful), Hart initially discussed how today's wrestlers often feel like actors pretending to be wrestlers, that they don't tend to work body parts, and then throwing in a Bill Goldberg dig when mentioning wrestlers' safety.
As the Excellence of Execution put it:
"My personal feeling about professional wrestling today is that the wrestlers today, for the most part, are actors pretending to be wrestlers. Nobody puts a hold on. No one has what we used to call wrestling psychology anymore, where they work on a leg or work on pinning your opponent. There’s no strategy [when compared] to what I learned in wrestling, where you tell a story and try to make things as real and believable as you can. The real art form is to never injure anybody. Two wrestlers go out there, tell their story, and come back. I think it’s still the case today, [that] the first thing they do when they come back to the dressing room is they hug and shake hands, and look at each other and go, ‘I’m okay. Nothing hurt. I didn’t break my neck or anything. You didn’t knock all my teeth out.’ You’re just so happy that you go out and give this performance. The real art is to not hurt anyone. Unfortunately, Bill Goldberg never got that memo."
Of course, Bret Hart's legendary in-ring career came to an end courtesy of an errant thrust kick from Bill Goldberg at Starrcade 1999.
Hart would actually wrestle nine more matches for WCW after Starrcade - the last of which being a January 2000 Nitro bout against Kevin Nash - but that stiff kick caused concussion issues that the Canadian was never able to recover, leading to a prolonged period of in-ring inactivity, before WCW released Bret in October 2000, and he formally announced his retirement from the ring the following week.
Bret would land in WCW in December 1997 following that infamous Montreal night, but it was such a disappointing, flat run for him in Ted Turner's promotion, often being involved in questionable creative or used as more of a background player, even though he became a two-time WCW World Champion. There were some bright spots, mind, such as the steel plate segment with Bill Goldberg, a fun El Dandy promo, a couple of excellent matches with Chris Benoit, and some solid matches with other talents such as Booker T, Sting, and Dean Malenko. And wouldn't you know it, even then, years after a planned SummerSlam match was tentatively planned between the two until Hulk Hogan nixed it, Bret Hart still didn't manage to get a clean win over Hogan during those years in WCW, with this being a point when Hulk was most notorious for playing his creative control card. Instead, Hart spent a spell dumped in the nWo alongside Hogan, and Bret would later be part of the doomed, reworked nWo 2000 of WCW's dying days.
Still, now approaching 26 years after that Starrcade 1999 contest, Bret Hart will never miss an opportunity to throw shade Bill Goldberg's way, even if the two have reportedly settled any differences over the years. Never change, Hitman.