10 Deluded Wrestling Shoot Interview Revelations That Will Melt Your Brain
4. "I'm Cool, I'm Cocky, I Have Bad Takes"
The Honky Tonk Man once referred to Bret Hart as a "good Intercontinental Champion" - even though he was "very one-dimensional". You might deem this hypocritical of the Honky Tonk Man, but he was a chickensh*t heel who dressed up like Elvis Presley.
That's two dimensions.
Honky also, in awful taste, poked fun at Bret's stroke. Honky seems bitter. The guy hates everybody: Dusty Rhodes, Jerry Lawler, Hulk Hogan, everybody. This bitterness, as bitterness often does, has warped Honky's perception of himself. Now, if any pro wrestler (beyond the murderers and child molesters) is worthy of a burial, it is the Ultimate Warrior. You can despise the man for his rancid humanitarian beliefs, his sh*tty WCW run, his sh*tty 1996 WWF run, his sh*tty career post-1991, but for a few years, Warrior was a charismatic spectacle, and people loved him.
Not according to Honky. People were desperate for Honky to lose, he reckoned, but "not to that guy!"
No, not to the overnight sensation who audibly generated a massive pop and sustained that level of popularity long enough to convince Vince McMahon to promote his first-ever all-babyface WrestleMania main event years before that dynamic truly drew, if indeed it ever really did much after the fact.
Not that guy!