Bret Hart SHOOTS On HBK Injury, EPIC RAW Moment From 1997 & More!
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- Опубликовано: 22 янв 2023
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Ahead of RAW 30, we wanted to release this clip of Bret Hart from an ITR live show talking about Shawn Michael losing his smile and an epic RAW moment from 1997. Subscribe to the channel for more clips of our live shows and interviews, and don't forget to like and comment too!
Shawn lost his smile, Austin won permanent main event status.
Yep, between Triple H and Shawn, with their actions they basically gave use the Texas Rattlesnake much much sooner!
And Bret lost his ability to walk and chew gum at the same time without having a seizure!
And Shawn is running NXT who beat AEW in the ratings
@@TeddyKGB12Where is HBK and Hunter now? Ruling WWE
@@chadk890 When did I say something bad about them??? Are your parents brother and sister?
The sigh from Bret when the guy says Shawn lost his smile 😄
Austin v Bret is one of the most underrated/greatest feuds in wrestling history
Who "underrates" the Bret Austin fued?
@Yo Holmes lol no one. It's almost universally regarded as a legendary feud. Not sure who underrated it.
Matter of fact it also led to the Hart Foundation vs Austin program in the summer that helped saved the company from bankruptcy since Austin was red hot and Bret was also red hot as a heel in the US.
I wish they would have fought when Austin really really picked up steam during 98..... That would've been epic....
Also Brett vs The Rock when the Rock came into his own.... Man... What could've been......
@@apostolostvableThere were so many great feuds in the 90s. The Austin/Hart feud often gets overlooked. Ask yourself, looking back at every wrestlemania from the 90s, is the WM13 match really the first one you think of? Lol
Underrated? Bret made Austin’s career
The best there is....the best there was...and the best there ever will be!
Oh, you mean Hulk Hogan 😂😜jk
The fact that Stone Cold went out there in a fatal 4 way match with the flu takes some doing 👏🏻
Makes me wonder if the plan was changed slightly, because Austin was sick.....he was the first one eliminated, though I assumed that was because at that time he wasn't yet quite as over as the other guys. Very good match for all of them though, if Shawn had actually been injured and couldn't compete anymore long-term, this match showed that they could survive without him.
I thought it was Vader who was the first one elected eliminated.
People get heated about the Bret and HBK stuff, calling Bret bitter etc. Just to show the bs Bret dealt with, HBK lost the belt when Jose Lothario had a heart attack, Sid lost when he was hit with a camera, Hogan lost with fire in the eyes to Yokozuna, Yokozuna and Hart lost with salt in the eyes at Mania 9, Andre with a twin ref. What’s my point? The WWF title history was filled with almost every title change going on some sort of controversy, Bret put Shawn over clean dead center of the ring to a super kick. He was repaid by Shawn losing his smile, retiring and coming right back after Mania, and Bret got pushed out.
Exactly. It wasn't that Bret was not ok with jobbing, or dropping the belt at all. It was simply how the WWF went about it. If it didn't serve a storyline, or benefit the characters involved, that's when he had a problem with it. He still did the job, and did what he had to do even if he disagreed with it. Regardless of whether Sean Michaels was seriously injured or not, nobody could believe a word of what Sean said at that point in his life because he was a huge deck of lies, deciet, and had too much power for a performer. I don't blame Bret thinking that Sean was probably lying about being injured, at least in a serious manner. I do know that Sean's back injury was serious later on, but I really think he just didn't want to drop the belt legitimately, and was hitting rock bottom mentally, so he needed some time off. Instead of just coming out with his baggage to Bret man to man, instead he chose to not do business that night, and go for the crowds sympathy with an injury angle. Sean even lied to Brets face about not being involved in the Montreal Screwjob later on. Sean said God was his witness, and his hands were clean on that one. Bret had something like 2 weeks left before leaving, yet Vince started to panic, so he got Sean to screw Bret over in the ring out of fear of the WWF belt ending up in WCW's trash can again on live television. Bret has made it clear several times that he simply didn't want to drop the belt in a way that would make anyone sympathetic towards his character, and that Montreal was the wrong place to do the job at that moment. Instead of trusting Bret who would never screw Vince, or put the WWF belt in the trash, they embarrassed Bret on television, and made his fans eternally sympathetic towards Bret when that is the exact opposite of what Bret actually wanted to happen when leaving the WWF for WCW. Bret still has to hear about that event all these years later, along with the WCW fiasco that Bret had to go through to end his career. Before that night in Montreal, Bret was on his way to ending a perfectly clean storybook career. The WWF muddied those waters, and screwed the good guy. They buried the guy who gave his all to the company, and actually took pride in his work, and didn't screw other wrestlers with bullcrap lockeroom politics. Just because pro wrestling is somewhat fake, it still meant something to Bret for him to have a clean run at the top of the mountain as one of the top tier guys. Instead, he was left with a great career that ended in controversy, and eventually life changing injury.
Shawn never would have never dropped the title to bret, that's how much shawn disliked bret, bret was more than happy to drop the title to him at wrestlemania 12 so shawn should have done the same instead of making excuses
I was here in South Florida and Rowdy Roddy Piper came in the store asking for directions to I-95 and then Brett came saying hurry up.We drove to the interstate and they waved bye. I didn’t really know who Brett was but I Star Struck with Piper. I wish I could have gotten his autograph.
Amazing story. One of my favorite WrestleMania 8 matches
❤ Brett and his fam
I just think Shawn was so jealous of bret that he didn't want Bret to succeed as much as he should of witch is such a shame
I think that he got paranoid because he was champion in 1996. Back then, when you were in the main event your political opponents were just waiting for you to fail so they could take your spot (and shawn made a lot of enemies). With the pressure of being champion in an awful year and with his drug problems, he probably thought Bret was one of those guys, and that he came back only to get Shawn's spot.
Kevin Nash said it best "Shawn's like a school teacher, he only works 9 months out of the year" hence losing his smile
Which is still more than Nash in WCW
Love that Bret is crushing a Guinness
Damn why the King in House of The Dragon look like old Bret Hart though. Just keep waiting for him to say "Best there is, best there ever was, best there ever will be"
I remember the Syracuse incident that led to Shawn's "I lost my smile" speech--maybe if he wasn't acting like the pr*ck he was then, it wouldn't have happened. I've heard Bret say before that Shawn's injury was bs but this is the 1st time I've heard him explain why--it makes sense why some ppl haven't forgiven Shawn for his prior acts. I heard Taker say about Vince's attitude about illness: "If you can walk, you can wrestle." I have to give Austin a lot of credit--he was a hard and dedicated worker.
Yet Shawn got all the time in the world off and remained on 14,000 a week. That tells u something about their relationship
The best...
Wow, this sounds so much better than the Attitude Era.
97 was low key the most interesting year I can remember as a WWF fan. It had its flaws and the card wasn't overall very strong, but the booking insanity and overall GREATNESS of Bret's heal run draws me more than anything Vince and Austin ever did, even though that was great in his own way
agree. @@ChrisSuswal-de9tj
Bret still the best! 🙌🏽
Honestly, after watching Reliving the War and getting to the Mania 13 buildup, Shawn shouldn't have regained that belt in the first place at the Rumble. He probably didn't get injured but he did "lose his smile", and he needed to get his shit together, because he was clearly crumbling mentally with the pressure of being the WWF champion in a time of horrible business while the competition was booming.
But hey, it was 1996 and these things weren't taken into consideration back then.
Shawn is the only wrestler to have got 14,000 a week to sit at home for months on end. Everyone else it was if u don't work u don't get paid. Even JR said when he was in charge if the payroll that it must have been a mistake & so went to Vince McMahon to report it. McMahon said yeah i know just leave it alone don't touch that and Jim was like WTF?
Was friends with the Sidmore boys. Intensity in everything they did. Threw up when Sid snapped his leg.
Why would u give up a mania match. I'm sad that there was an hbk match mania 97
Love Dusty Rhodes so much. His family is also pretty awesome people
Shawn screwed Bret
Bret also made Shawn Cry
@@wrestlingtapes2036 Shawn gets 3 million for 1 match Bret gets Zero
Bret screwed Bret
@@wrestlingtapes2036Shawn was crying after the Screwjob because he was afraid that Bret was going to beat the living shit out of him.
In all fairness to HBK, I wouldn't have wanted someone with Bret's strength at that point to beat the shit out of me, either. 😄
Austin V Bret 🤤
it wasn’t his knee bret i think it was hbks back on the casket that took him out 😅
Bret you changed your story in a middle of a sentence
That plan wouldn't have happened because Austin was the most over guy in the company already
No, not yet
Would have been history making if he would have stayed. He would have inherited the creative spot next to Vince
Makes me laugh bret said he didn’t want to lose in Canada then doesn’t like it when he got screwed
What does lost his smile mean????????????????????? Like became depressed?
Drug induced psychosis
It was an actual line from Shawn when he basically took his ball and went home because at that time in his career he was notoriously hard to work with and he wasn't getting his way
His tooth fell out.
@@chrisbennett9048 It had already been agreed upon at that time that he would drop the belt to Bret at WrestleMania, and Shawn doesn't drop belts or do jobs for anyone. Everyone assumed his injury in the casket match at Royal Rumble '98 was him losing his smile 2.0 so that he could get out of dropping the belt to Austin as well.
I think Shawn might've gotten that line from his mother when she talked about how her son seemed unhappy.
I agree with a hitman Shawn faked his injury so he didn’t have to drop the belt to Brett and I think Vince was in on it, and I think it was a deal between Shawn and Vince. Vince had some obsession with Shawn Michaels for what I don’t know, but a lot of wrestlers said they didn’t think it was real, and they didn’t have any sympathy at all for him so Michaels is the biggest crybaby the biggest whiner, he got away with everything in the wrestling business
He was the only one that got 14,000 a week from Vince to stay home. Everyone else didn't get paid when out
@@cutekanjii I remember the road warriors saying that they felt there was something sexual going on between Shawn and Vince and why Shawn was getting all that time off. Yeah he fake it and Vince was in on it
Most people dont know that shawn lost his smile because he couldn't find his drugs.
Bret did cocaine with Adrian Adonis. Oops
First!
People still do this ? 😅😅😅 lame.
Shawn wasn't injured he was having trouble at home with his wife and needed time off to sort it
He wasn't married
Bret n Shawn faced each other over 100 times in they career which to only 3 times Shawn went over on Bret...so who ain't wanna put who over
Bret Hart is a fn baby and a joke
I don't think he was injured and just used it as and excuse too whine like a baby
everytime bret open his mouth its about crying for a title - or goldberg lol he never talk about money and what was good for business like undertaker and austin and the rock etc - its all about titles and being selfish - him and hogan are the most selfish wrestlers ive ever seen
Weather Brett leaves Shawn Michaels was injured not doesn't matter this is Bret in his own mind narrative of what he thinks was going on versus what was really happening
Something he will never take into account and this is part of the lost his smile he did get injured and it did require surgery and they came up with the promo about losing the smile and him surrendering the belt but there was another part of that if he said in the biography channel documentary he was still doing drugs that he started out with Marty jannetty when they first started working the territories and even when they got to WWE they were still using off and on and when he became a singles wrestler he managed to avoid a lot of the drug testing that they had at that time which was not real drug testing
And part of that whole deal was Vince gave him an opportunity to take some time off stop using drugs get your priorities in order come back when you're ready and we'll continue as planned that didn't happen because Bret didn't want it to happen that nothing to do with Sean Michaels
Dude. Punctuation! Periods! Sentences! You make good points, but it's nearly impossible to follow because it's one enormous, rambling, incoherent mess!.
That's all well and fine, but drop the belt like a man then. Don't forfeit the belt like you are too good to lose.
The same situation would happen to him in 98 when he hurt his back. Instead, this time, he did the right thing, dropped the belt, and kick-started the greatest Era in WWE history. That's how you do it right by the business.
@@JK0705 When you have the Undertaker threatening you if you don't do the business....I'd comply also.
I found a new sleeping aid, Bret telling wresting stories 😴
The more I hear Brett Hart talk, the more I think he's the biggest cry baby of all time
Such a creative comment…now say something about Nash’s quads
I felt that way about Bret a long time ago honestly
CM Punk.
The guy was done wrong
@@bryanmack4054He has to move on with his life . Shawn did and doing a good job in NXT
Is he still crying 😭 about this??? Let it go already! It's been almost 25 years. Don't act like you weren't an ego-driven diva too! Mr "I can't lose in Canada even though I'm leaving the company", and "I can't take Diesel's finisher, it'll make me look weak". He was a douche every bit as much as Shawn was! They both thought waaaay too much of themselves, seeing as how the WWF flourished when they were both gone!
Milking it 25 years latter STILL.
It kinda funny that the company improve when they both left
I'm a fan of both wrestlers, but you aren't wrong. Once Bret and Shawn were gone and Austin and Mr. McMahon stepped into the spotlight is when WWE finally started beating WCW in the ratings. If they both stood and the story stood the same. I wonder what the outcome would have been. Probably wouldn't have allowed the Rock to spread his wings either.
@@michaeldepinto3562 yeah it a unknown what would have happened if they both stayed I know shawn didn't like anyone at the time being over him. And Bret was a very good wrestler and had some heat with some of the stars and coukd have been good if put in intense storylines like the rest. And owen hart might be still alive to this day
Bret has admitted a few times that some of the problems were his fault...but honestly he's not wrong here about Shawn's supposed "career threatening" knee injury. You don't come out the the ring and dance around and do back flips with that kind of knee injury. I mean Bret went out to have legit knee surgery and came back in a wheelchair and then was on crutches for a bit and even when he started wrestling again he had an extra knee brace on under his tights.
Also just briefly touching on the Screwjob, Vince told Bret he was breaking their contract in September and even before that he wasn't sure if he was going to keep Bret. It was not some sort of surprise, they both knew for months that Bret would be leaving. My questions are one, why the hell would you put the belt on him in the first damn place and second, why the hell wouldn't you take the belt off him sooner? It makes no damn sense why you would keep the belt on a guy for months when you know he's leaving.