10 Wrestlers Reveal The Worst Matches Of Their Career

3. Bret Hart

One of the greatest in-ring wrestlers ever, Bret 'The Hitman' Hart’s matches were near perfect. That being said, while a guest on Steve Austin’s Broken Skull Sessions, he spoke of one match which he felt didn’t come anywhere close to deserve being labelled perfect. It was against none other than the legendary Bob Backlund in the “I Quit” match at WrestleMania XI. Hart said he means no disrespect to Backlund, it’s just that in his opinion “I Quit” matches are hard and are not appealing:

“The match that I really hated the most was at WrestleMania XI. That was in Hartford where I fought Bob Backlund in the ‘I Quit’ match. Roddy Piper was the guest referee and he kept asking on the live microphone, ‘What do you say!?’ while Bob and I were wrestling. It turned into a real farce of a match. And I knew it would be a terrible match because they took the pinfalls out of the match - it was all submissions, so it made it even harder to have a good match. I really thought it was a disrespect to Bob to put him in that match. Me and Bob had been wrestling each other for about a year up to that point already, and it was a stretch to put us together again at WrestleMania. It wasn’t very entertaining. I never thought that match was Bob’s fault. I told Vince before we ever had it that it was going to be terrible. He said ‘no, no, it’ll be great.’ I was right. It was terrible.”

Bret Hart said much of the same in his autobiography ‘Hitman: My Real Life in the Cartoon World of Wrestling’. While Bret was usually flawless in the ring, that match just wasn’t his night. It’s a shame given it could have saved the underwhelming PPV. Thankfully Bret thoroughly redeemed himself in a submission match with his interviewer Steve Austin a few years later, which Hart and fans regard as one of the best ever in pro wrestling.