Bret Hart talks Owen Hart and British Bulldog in WWE HOF, and his relationship with HBK
Wrestling 101 recently interviewed WWE Hall of Famer Bret "The Hitman" Hart. Below are a couple of highlights:
If Owen Hart and Davey Boy Smith will ever be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame: "I really hope so, both of them should be in. I think that it is just a matter of time, I think WWE has just been waiting for the right time to either approach it with Owen's widow (Martha) and I don't know what the final decision is with that. I hate that Owen's widow has done so much to erase his memory and not keep his memory alive, I find that is an insult to him and his family and all the great things he did for the fans who remember him.
"I take exception for all that now and I want to bring as much of Owen back to life for wrestling fans and let them remember what a great person he was and what a great performer he was, and how much fun he was as a wrestler.
"Especially coming over to the UK I find it interesting how many fans really loved Owen for his personality and his style of wrestling and all of the little things about him. I miss all of those things about Owen as well and I would like to bring more of that back ? there must be troves of video and film of Owen doing things on tour, these are all in a can somewhere and no one is seeing them and I really think that they need to revive the great memories of what Owen did before it's too far gone, the fans that remember him start to die. It is just awful how Martha erased everything he has done."
His relationship now with Earl Hebner and Shawn Michaels:
"I always tell people you can't make peace half way, to make peace with somebody you have to make peace and bury the hatchet or you just keep fighting forever. I made peace with Shawn and we have a good relationship, we text each other every once in a while, he's a Christian and he has got a family, the wrestling world is a kind of different thing now. We revert back to old memories and sometimes we will send each other funny little messages but we are on decent terms. I'll never forget what happened that night in Montreal but the reality is I was pretty good friends with Shawn before all the bad blood happened, like I say once you make peace you've either got to make peace because you can't make peace half assed where you still hate somebody and harbour bad feelings, you either have to let go or forget about it and I let go when we made up and I've got a good chemistry with Shawn now.
"The same can be said with Earl Hebner, I think Earl may have been the biggest victim of that whole screwjob, he got the s--tiest deal out of everyone, he got nothing for it and he got kicked around for along time. He got forced into something that was really hard, I don't know if I would have done anything different to what he did if I was in his position, I probably would have done it different to most guys actually. There are a lot of wrestlers when you put their family and livelihood on the line you can't blame Earl for taking the position there and doing what he had to do, they really put him in a compromising predicament just before he walked out to the ring. I don't really have any hard feelings towards Earl, I think it was a lousy thing that they did to him, it was a lousy thing what they did to me but it was lousy thing period."
Bret also talked about his current relationship with Vince McMahon, inducting his father into the WWE Hall of Fame, his match with the British Bulldog at SummerSlam 1992 and more. You can read the full interview by clicking here.
Source: Wrestling 101