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- Опубликовано: 28 авг 2024
- On this episode of Something To Wrestle, Bruce and Conrad revisit Bret Hart's up and down year of 1993. From defending the WWF Championship against Razor Ramon at Royal Rumble to losing the title at WrestleMania 9 against Yokozuna (only to have Hulk Hogan walk out as champion), being crowned King of the Ring, feuding with Jerry Lawler, and so much more!
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Happy belated birthday bret. Happy birthday nash dont tear your quad blowing out the candles
🤣😂🤓
Lol
The GREATEST wrestler of all time. Really can't understand why Bruce and Conrad always casually say Flair and HBK are like the 1A and 1B GOATS like it's just common knowledge. Bret was better than both by quite a distance. Absolutely flawless in the ring.
Anyway, looking forward to this!
Cause Prichard is an E stooge and Conrad is in the Flair fam it’s no surprise
Common knowledge? That's quite the statement
I agree. And even ppl who dont say Bret still dont automatically say Ric Flair and Shawn Michaels either. As i’ve gotten older,Shawn is a Showman. He has a great match to make SHAWN look good. Bret is going to get his opponent over and use the match to tell a story. Its all subjective of course but thats def not the “common knowledge” they think it is.
@@fartsound74 I said 'like it's just common knowledge'.
@@DickTogo712 Tbh, I love both of them. Just don't agree on this point.
If you are going to insert your "save with Conrad " ads during the video because you know people skip them at the beginning and end, can you at least select a better place than mid sentence?
My favorite Wrestler of all time! Wrestlemania 8 I became a Wrestling fan because of his match with Roddy Piper. 💀💕💕💕💕💕
I got hooked at Summerslam 90. That Harts-Demolition match is still a favourite of mine.
Bret Hart is a dual citizen of Canada and United States Bruce Prichard. His mom is from Brooklyn, NY.
Bret my all time fav wrestler! So shit the way he was treated at mania 9, but he was king of the ring in June and showed his ability in that ppv! His feud with lawler was good too! So looking forward to this! Keep them coming Bruce and Connie!
Blame Vince for the cause
After that press conference where Luger knocked out Brett from behind, there was a payoff.
They did house shows together. I remember the promos on WWF superstars at the time. Brett kept calling Luger horse face, and Lugar acted all offended by it, and then Brett finished with, “See you in the ring Mr. Ed!”
Bret Hart: The best there is the best there was the best there ever will be
Bret was the best wrestler from 94-97 without a doubt but he was treated probably the worst of any other champion before or afterward ever
Rey misteryo in 2006 says hi
Definitely was at the top of the mountain, but he was lucky in the sense that he had some GREAT dance partners. Unfortunately with Bret I see it as he thought since he was the best he shouldn't lose, but thats not how you draw in this business.
@@MohamedAli-xu3uw no
@@s0uthpaw7 why
Well when you have 0 charisma. 0 mic skills. 0 relatability with non-Canadian fans. And the personality of a jar of mayonnaise.....you tend to get treated a certain way. Just saying.
Saw Bret twice at a houseshow in Germany in 1993. The first time he beat Ric Flair (what a classic!) the second time he beat Bam Bam Bigelow. Their match was almost identical to the one from KotR of the same year. Over here Bret was a real popstar at the time. It was just incredible.
Bret beat Flair in Germany too?
@@HereIsWisdom1318 Yes. Bret was champ and it was one of Flair's last WWF matches before he went back to WCW.
@@soulagent79 I saw them in Germany, Mannheim 93 (February) -was called "Winter Tour". Great Match, my friend always said "best Match ever". After the show we meet them, they leave separat - each with a taxi.
Holy audio pop batman
😂😂😂😂 I almost threw my damn headphones away thinking they were messed up. Sucks cause no way to fix the audio unless you had another channel recording etc...
The audio is clear on Spotify but holy shit the ads are unbearable
3:06
"I've been up since 7:30 this morning." Waddaya want a cookie? I have to be at work and at my post at work by 7:30 AM. JEEZ
I Really liked this Era in The WWF! Looking forward to this episode, 1993 i was 17 and living with my High school Sweetheart and her family and we Rented this PPV at The time when you had to go to your local Cable company and pick up a Box and then hook it up to see the Event, Great Memories from my youth
Our cable place was 30 minutes away. My dad got it and picked me up at school which was half a day because of Thanksgiving Eve. Survivor Series 1992 will always be special to me.
Bruce says it wasn't a lack of confidence in Bret being the reason they took the belt off of him. But just 20 plus minutes earlier he was saying Bret wasn't exactly setting the world on fire as champion when they were deliberating putting the belt on Yokozuna. He can't even keep up with talking out of both sides of his mouth.
Bret’s 92-94 run would’ve been great to cover about 3 years ago before the show went into cruise control
I don’t know why they don’t just do one 3/4 hour episode a month. That way the quality doesn’t suffer. It’s gone to absolute shit since Bruce went back to WWE.
It's free beggars can't be choosers
“It all comes down to the money honey whether it’s rainy or snowy or sunny funny but it all comes down to the money honey I did it for the cash I did it for the cash”
Amen! Preach on.
Just getting started on this episode and I'm hoping Conrad brings up the Hogan European tour issue again lol
Yea that had legs
Classic.." we needed Hulk Hogan as champion on the European tour".. he wasn't on the fucking European tour..lol..
And yet Bret was super over in Europe, why not have him as a champ or chase the champ (Yoko) during that tour? Like I really don’t get how Hogan walking out of mania 9 makes any sense hahaha?
@@scottalderson8673 yes he was! 😂 Stop colluding. Hogan was the champ cause he was at the European tour.
Bruce is getting unbearable with his straight forward WWE responses to questions. I wish he wasn't working for WWE right now.
Bruce used to be the one guy that Conrad did podcasts with that he wasnt afraid to ask hard questions to. Now it seems like Conrad's hands are tied in that regard.
@@TheBrister So who is
Bruce is all about Bruce
Idk Bruce did protect himself prior to his 3rd WWE run, but since he rejoined he's answered questions safely 10 fold. Prior he just protected Hunter(slightly enough) and the McMahons, now he protects them tremendously and past creative and past creative decisions
Seriously lol Bret was always supposed to win king if the ring...10 min later we weren't sure what we were gonna do with the title at WrestleMania 9 until almost day of...
Conrad’s passive/aggressiveness with Bret because of whatever issues he’s had with Ric over the years is silly. First of all Ric was back working for the rival company whom Bret had just said was the minor leagues…as the new Top Guy of the Top company you’re supposed to say that. He beat Flair originally for the title and Flair was gone shortly after,that sounded more work-shoot than him just shitting on Ric. Lets not forget WWF would be doing Nacho Man and Hukster Spoofs in less than a year. WWF was def acknowledging WCW at this time.
#BretHartMark 🤘
This picture with him holding the belt looking heal is 🔥🔥✊🏿✊🏿💪🏿💪🏿 lol
Bret was initially not overjoyed having to go to Memphis, but he did end up having a lot of fun there.
He was a little miffed, though, since he had not been allowed to help out his own family in Calgary at an earlier time.
I think Jerry Lawler helped alot in getting over as a personality. I highly recommend the tremendously underrated post-match interview at Summerslam 93. That was a main event promo.
I want a Ken Shamrock episode!
I never liked Bret and even I don't think they did ANYTHING to put him over as champion. He won it at a house show without ever wrestling a world title match before, had no program against the former champ, defended against an unproven Razor Ramon, then dropped it to Yoko and got no rematch.
If they changed Lex just a little and gave him a push for years and years like roman got beating top stars he would of eventually got over also lol
Bret Hart is the greatest professional wrestler of all time. Nobody could tell a better in ring story than Bret. I think people are starting to see now more than ever how great he was.
Bret's legacy is secure. A tier below guys like Flair in the GOAT conversation and right below HBK in most critics in - ring performer pecking order. Still easily one of the all time greats and deserves recognition.
Bruce's audio "pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop"
Conrad: "i have the same audio issues on multiple of my podcasts... eh... whatever, i'll record more ads..."
1:08:12 - wow, did Jeff Gaylord beat you and steal your lunch, Conrad? Seemed like a strong remark to make
Bret is my favorite wrestler of all time and I found his book to be an absolute revelation. That said, there is a fair amount of narrative in that book by Bret Hart and the idea that either Warrior or Hulk Hogan would've submitted to a Sharpshooter in 1993 is a Bret Hart fantasy plain and simple. Babyfaces by and large did not submit as a means of working a finish in the early nineties. That is somewhat of a modern concept in professional wrestling that babyfaces can tap out and not lose their heat. There is no way that a babyface with any amount of clout (of which Hogan and Warrior had plenty) would've agreed to a submission finish in '93. I mean in late 1992 when they had to pass the belt back to Ric Flair from Randy Savage, they didn't even allow Savage to submit to Flair who was a heel at the time. They just passed him out in the figure four so Savage wouldn't lose his heat by submitting to a heel. There was no way WWE were going to allow a babyface to submit to another babyface which means that Hart's big wins over Hogan or Warrior in 1993 if they would've happened would've likely been him either small packaging them or schoolboying them for a victory (for reference see how he defeated Rowdy Piper at Wrestlemania 8).
He didn't say that was the plan. When Warrior was fired he says something like "my vision of having Warrior tap out to the sharpshooter at Wrestlemania was over.."
Keyword: Vision. Just a dream in his head.
46:31-Wait! Jerry didnt run all this by Bret. According to Bret, he was hurt that Lawler was mocking his parents. It was only when Bret realized his parents thought it was funny that he began to lighten up about it. Thats from Bret’s book.
Bret whines and cries in his books. Always rewrites history
Where in his book? I've read it cover to cover..
@@parallelrealm4806 Bret always complains.
Conrad needed some Midol today, Bruce was great all show.
I wish Bruce and Conrad were still able to crack open those cold ones.
lol of course we got some Ric Flair talk lol. I was hoping they'd address the rumor that Bret was supposed to face Ultimate Warrior at Rumble 93 according to some rumors and the finish would've seen Warrior submit to Bret which would've been interesting since he never lost by submission.
Never he was immune from submission holds once he started shaking his arms
hold the fuck back.... Warrior taking a lost to submission would have NEVER HAPPENED LMFAO
38:18 made me stop listening to this and go back to listen to the Lex Express Episode and song 5 times at work and now I'm back to finish this. Thank you Bruce for singing this!!!!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I swear, the older I get, and the more I learn, the less I understand about taking the strap off Bret and putting it on Hogan. Hogan refused to give a firm commitment, and they put the belt on him anyway?? Yeah, I'm with Conrad on that one...everything about it screams "didn't have faith in Bret."
Hogan says he sold Vince on it so he could get one last payoff and that his angle was "If you're going with Yoko let me put him over because we both know I'm pretty much finished here." Because winning the belt (in the end) from Hogan would have been a bigger deal than winning it from Bret. Except thats nonsense because Bret wasnt going to lose it to Yoko at Mania IX ; he only got told he was losing instead of winning the day before, so he only ended up losing because they were giving it to Hogan for one more run. So instead of keeping faith with Bret they decided to have another Hogan run while figuring out who else they could try, which ended up being Lex.
I miss his Figure-four on the post. 🙂
It sounds weird hearing the podcast when Bruce Prichard & Conrad Thompson are in separate rooms.
I can't wait to finally hear future episodes of the 'Something To Wrestle With Bruce Prichard' podcast the way they were recorded like in 2018/2017/etc. like that, for example, again--if that'll ever happen, that is.
There is a video of Luger attacking Bret at WM 9 breakfast brunch and they did have matches on house shows after wrestlemania. Dunno how they seem not to remember that
Yeah he hit him with his forearm finisher. I recall the coliseum video of WM 9 showing it.
@@calamaty9963 i had the WWF magazine where Bret interviewed and said “it felt like a steel plate” or something like that.
Hell when I was 13 it didn't escape me what the Brett / Owen rivalry was all about. Shit seemed so real. The little brother trying to escape his older brothers shadow.
Don't need to overthink it Meltzer
Always thought Lawler flipped him off
Almost thirteen years later, Mr. McMahon would do just that to HBK as he’s leaving on a stretcher at WrestleMania 22.
Conrad “Context is king” Thompson
I love the show, but can you do something about the ad placement? In the middle of a sentence is horribly jarring.
I thought Shawn Michaels had the best take on Hart. He said the reason fans were drawn to him because he was authentic. When he cut a promo he was trying to keep it realistic and not cartoonish like Hulk Hogan.
@Jesse Calarco Not better just less cartoonish.
@@fishhookism nah, better.
Dave compares Jan. 93 to Jan. 92 business stats. Even with the impressive ratings of Monday Night Raw, WWF's overall TV ratings are down 20% from last year. But overall, January 93 was actually the best month either WWF or WCW have had in months and was the first time since mid-92 that numbers actually ticked up instead of down
Is there a site that has these numbers for 1985-1995 era for WWF TV Stats.
@@garrettgrant7719 osw
Saturday Nights Main Event 31: (11/14 - 6.1 rating & 10.0 share on FOX. The show was seen in 5,270,000 homes by 8,000,000 viewers): Randy Savage and The Ultimate Warrior rolled over WWF World Tag Champions Ted Dibiase and IRS by count-out; Shawn Michaels overturned WWF Intercontinental Champion Davey Boy Smith to win the title; WWF World Champion Bret Hart downed Papa Shango.
Bret "HITMAN" Hart was the Best technical Wrestler in WWF (Perfect, Savage, Rick Rude & Shawn are right behind) but its close between HITMAN and DYNAMITE KID. The DYNAMITE KID was phenomenal, maybe not great on mic for interviews but could wrestle a broomstick and it be better than the Wrestling nowadays.
This has to be good hope Bruce & Conrad are in
No levi
I call BS on the main event match of WM 9 being called short due to time and Bret not knowing about it. The veteran in the ring not knowing so he can find the way to at least find the best way to work the finish as best as possible in the time allowed? But Yoko does? Sure…
Bret was never booked strong like he should have been and never been given good feuds until Shawn and Steve
I really believe Brett Hart could’ve been big in the WCW based on the aftermath of the Montreal screw job, but Eric Bischoff gave Hogan creative control and let him do whatever he wanted and this is one of the reasons that people were switching to Monday night raw during 1998 everyone was fed up with the same lame stuff WCW was doing at the time
Bret was not built to become champion. It was just handed to him at a house show 3 months after he dropped the IC title to davey boy. Hes still one of the best champions just poorly booked. The steroid scandal saw vince get rid of almost every massive guy from warrior davey boy, mauraco, etc. Vince had no choice. Bret at the time was the best possible choice but bad timing and terrible booking.
Brets my 2nd favorite all time behind Austin but I find that typical that he got mad at Razor and Shawn stealing his ideas for the Ladder Match but it’s ok he stole Bruce’s idea of having a sibling rivalry storyline and Bret said I’d rather have myself and Owen over Bruce and myself doing it lol
Bret vs Owen worked out well for themselves and the company, right?
But thats not really stealing it. Its just changing who you want to do the angle with.
@@basedelon yes. I’m saying he gets upset about people stealing his ideas like he’s never done that before.
Razor had been working for years in other companies as scott hall and the diamond stud. Was he still green than ?
A lot of bandwagon wrestling fans say Bret Hart wasn’t drawing and guys like Steve Austin were better because they made more money that might be the case, but you have to understand this. Steve Austin would not be that popular if he had not fought Bret
Hart at wrestlemania 13 that match alone made Austin a star and later in that year they screw him at the survivor series 1997 for all the work he did in the WWF that proved how shady the wrestling business really is and WCW had one of the hottest free agents fresh off the screw job, but Eric Bishoff was too busy stroking hogan’s ego and something else of his if you know what I mean, this is why Bret Harts wrestling career and did the way it did
Looking forward to that Trash Stratish show!
Bret seriously was The Best !
Conrad is not allowed to miss shows.
I came on the youtube version to see the length of this podcast here.... the one on spotify is 30 minutes longer because EVERY. FUCKING. FOUR MINUTES. Conrad breaks into a sponsor ad that lasts like 3 minutes. It's unbearable. I stopped listening to this show for three years and it wasnt like this then but now i see we've gone full sellout. I mean YES the show is free, but FFS, Conrad has his business, Prichard is now hired by the WWE again, why do you need ALL that sponsor money? This is unbearable. I mean i guess i'll just listen to it on youtube now but christ... (i have an ad blocker on here and you better believe i'm keeping it on)
Thank you Bruce! And tho WWE may be stale as eff these days, the main event stories on RAW and Smackdown are pretty good!
Who else feels like that conrad stooges off aew business to bruce lmfao
Conrad comments on and questions Bret burying Razor in his book about being green at the 93 rumble, but then doesn’t comment on or acknowledge Bret putting Razor over in his book at the king of the ring 93 talking about how much improved he had gotten and good he had become. Wtf? Stirring the pot much?
Bret couldnt turn heel in 93 simply because people loved watching his matches.
I was only 11 at the time, but I don’t remember Hogan ever defending the title between Mania 9 and KOTR. What was the point if not that they didn’t have confidence in Bret?
Savage should have won the Rumble and put Bret over at Mania. Yoko should have beaten Hogan at Mania. This would have made a Hart vs Yoko match at KOTR or SummerSlam more exciting than the match we got at Mania.
If King of the Ring was episode 276, that came out on July 2, how is this episode 279??
If there is one thing I'm more pissed at the WWE than anything else ever is not having a hart-lawler world title fued with a WrestleMania payoff
I was sleeping on the Bret Hart from '93 🤦🏿♂️ lol
Damn the audio is screwed on this one. Constant clicking. Hard to listen to.
Jesus, Conrad bias came out FULL FORCE here.
He REALLY wanted to get Bruce to say WWE viewed Bret as a flop as champ, and Bruce refused to say it.
Conrad wants so badly to put Bret down, and Bruce wants so badly to pretend that WWE was never wrong about anything, that it leaves you feeling absolutely no one was being honest.
Who Gave Connie & Bruce A Dislike???? That You Hogan??
I like Bruce but I do JR better because Bruce is too much of a company man.
“THE HITMAN”
Bret was an unsung hero in 1993. He did a great job of making chicken salad out of chicken shit at Survivor Series 93. I have seen that Family Feud match and I agree with Conrad and Bruce it was a complete clusterfuck. Like WTF. Bret and Owen had great chemistry during their scuffle at the end of the family feud match that it was the tipping point for what would be the feud of 1994.
Should be interesting!
Really good show
DUDE Bret Hart was at his Best in 97.....I honestly COULDN'T BELIEVE they let him go ....... shortly after that I couldn't do it anymore. I tried to keep watching Bret on WCW and stuff in WWF but it just got lame, within a year I was done watching both........ Bret was suuuuuch a good bad guy. Way better villain than hero....... Steve and Brett 13..... Best match EVER
pls get some better mics. The clicking in the background can be really annoying.
1:07:52 Bruce killed me😂
Why does Bret have lipstick on?
If you want Hulk Hogan to draw, don't put him in fucking tag matches everybody realizes that
legendarios senor bret sergeant hart mi primero favorito 🙌🏼
Bret ❤️
Would've been great to see Bret take that leg drop in 93.
I wonder if Bret would have flopped around like a fish with Hogan as HBK did twelve years later.
@@stfi7566 was great seeing HBK take the leg as well. Amazing that in their minds they have a problem doing a job for the biggest star of all time, far and away. That's what kind of egomaniacs some of these guys are. Laughable. Great careers and great successes, but neither are in Hogan's league.
@@JoeMastronardo - hogan's in ring ability is non existant.. Facts.
@@JoeyMartz but Hogan is the greatest worker of all time
I don’t think this show had enough ads in it…There was still parts that talked about wrestling…Hope all the ad revenue was worth it, because I won’t listen to another show again.
Rumble 1993 had 3000 buyrate and 1992 survivor seris had large attdence
Bret worked well with Razor and Diesel.
There is no modern Bret Hart.
Wrestling is just great from history to present. You have to understand that without this guy, you don't have this guy. Just insane how Bret should be at peace knowing that without him, we don't have wrestling what it is today. We don't have Austin and Shawn.
Goldberg is da man !!!!
HitGOAT
The wrestling world does not revolve around bret hart. Bret 96 to 97 unbeatable. Bret in 93. Mid carder
Truth.
Hawk Hogan
Does Terry Funk have a degree in veterinarian medicine? What is he supposed to do about a sick horse? It's kind of amazing Funk ever came back into the company with a lame excuse like that.
01:20:59
Conrad at 43:58 keeping it too real
01:20:10 LOL
The most skipped first minute in podcasting history..
Isn't bret hart that mid carder that hbk sent packing to wcw?😂🤘
I'm glad Conrad holds Bruce to Task for some stuff....... Like obviously they DIDN'T have confidence in Bret Hart and he lets him KNOW it haha .......yea I'm just gonna need you to say it haha love it........loved the sting and Hogan argument........ Think imma got watch that again right now...... With love Bruce .
Well the killed the joke with the guys name as quickly as WWE kills anything interesting in the modern era...
color me interested
How many glasses did Bret give away during his career????
12,293
@@HereIsWisdom1318 12,294 (you forgot the Sunday doubleshot in sheboygan)
@@troypalek4104 You gotta be kidding me!!!