Bret Hart talks The Kliq being a cancer in the WWE, Roddy Piper death and more

Bret Hart was at his outspoken best

Bret ‘The Hitman’ Hart in a recent interview spoke about various topics that he was asked about that included The Kliq, Roddy Piper and Owen Hart. He was at his outspoken best and below are the highlights:

On The demise of his close friend Roddy Piper

Hart says the death of Roddy Piper was really tough losing a brother and a mentor who was just in a different league altogether. He says, “"Roddy's a really hard one; that's like losing a brother. I can't say I've gotten over it. If anything, I haven't even really absorbed it yet. I find myself reaching for the phone all the time to give Roddy a call. He was so much more than any of the other wrestlers who worked with me. He was a guy that mentored me and helped me in the very beginning of my career. He gave me advice back at a time when nobody was giving advice to me.”

He says the big names never helped him when he really wanted it,” You can take your Jake Roberts and your Hulk Hogans and your Ultimate Warriors and a lot of these guys that were big names back then, but they never did anything for me. They never helped me, they never thought of helping me, and when they had a chance to help me they never did.” saying he owed Roddy a lot.

On ‘The Kilq rules’ Dvd

By saying that the Kliq was cancer, he was critical of their influence in the locker room. Hart says, “ I don't doubt that Shawn Michaels is sorry for a lot of that kind of behaviour. Kevin Nash was a great wrestler and a good guy, but I don't think he could be that proud of that association. It was a cancerous environment in the dressing room with those guys and they certainly did more negative than positive to the business. 

Hart bashed Scott Hall by saying, “He's a train-wreck with his own life and he was a malcontent, or a guy that when you were close to him long enough you start to feel the same way he did; you just felt so self-destructive and unhappy with your life and your job and everything. He was a guy that was infectious with his bad, bad sort of moods and unhappiness in his own life that would spread to all the other wrestlers. And you know, I'm glad I'm not remembered for that kind of stuff.

He praised his generation of stars and finds himself lucky that the he is not remembered for bad things, “'Im remembered – I think if you talk to different wrestlers from that era, the Savio Vegas and those kinds of wrestlers that were on my cards – they're all pretty proud of how I conducted myself, how I related to them and how I may have been the top guy but I didn't act like a superstar; not to my friends and not to my peers," says Hart.

On the upcoming Owen Hart DVD

 Hart is really looking forward to it but thinks it won’t be great because of the limitations that were there on the content being used. By blaming Owens widowed wife Martha he says, “Martha's taken the wrong approach and she should understand that, you know, we all miss Owen. I lost a brother, I lost a great friend and maybe one of the closest people I knew on this earth. I want to celebrate his career, I want to watch his matches back – not just with me, but with everybody he worked with.” 

He continued, ”His time with WWE, they got so much footage and so many great memories with Owen, and here she is standing in the way of that saying, "Nobody can see these videos. No one should see anything that brings back any of his career." 

You can watch the full interview below: