Bret Hart Emotionally Opens Up About Goldberg Ending His Career, Hogan Politics, Vince & More

[Music] you know like it was not what it should have been not what it could have been and i think you can really think look at hulk hogan for that i mean i think hulk hogan was um pulling the strings on eric bischoff like a puppet and he was such a piece really [Applause] [Music] when one show happened in obviously the stuff with owen and all that kind of stuff i think it was like hell would freeze over before you would go back to wwe but in 2006 you did do the hall of fame so can you talk a little bit about what led up to you sort of letting go of some of the anger that you had towards the company and doing the hall of fame in 2006 well um let's see where would i start i mean i i was very angry for a really long time i mean that's for sure i think every anyone that knows me knows that and um you know i think for me you know my my careers was everything for me um everything i did in my career i mean in my family wrestling's not just something that i did started doing my teens i mean i was i think all my life um i was always always um tied in with wrestling everything was wrestling when i one of my first thoughts of being when i was a little kid everything was about wrestling i wish i'd had action figures when i was a kid but i sure beat the heck out of a lot of barbie dolls and stuff like that but i um you know everything was wrestling and i think when this the whole screw job happened part of me could never believe that they would do that to me after as hard as i worked for them and um you know some of you guys come up like very vader came up to me about 20 minutes before my match he goes they're gonna they're gonna screw you in the match i know it and i was like i know but what can you do all you do is go out there and try to stop it and make not let it happen and maybe believe that they they have more integrity than that but uh you know so after it did happen you know i remember going home on the airplane even after the after the um the whole thing happened and i remember the documentary guy that filmed it where we going he was so happy he was we got it we got everything you know and i'm like you didn't get any of it like how could you ever piece that together how he did feast it together as a miracle but i mean he did pieces together but i was so angry i never thought anyone would ever know my side of the story i always thought i i was i knew in my heart that i would never go back and work for him for sure and so i mean i left and went home probably pretty angry guy um it's hard to be too angry when you're going from i went from wwf and suddenly it was in wcw where i would make more money than i ever knew what to do with in my life i mean i would have figured out ways to spend it but uh i i had i was making i i got a huge uh pay and like a jump in my pay so i was making a lot of money and i was um i was trying to you know i always get annoyed when people tell me that uh or i hear that like guys like garrett bishop say that that i came to wcw with a broken spirit or i didn't have any kind of heart to you know i didn't desire to to to to go for it anymore and i was like that's so not true it makes me so mad if i ever wanted to shine or you know become the you know really show how valuable i was to a company was the wcw i was came there trying to trying to make you know make nothing but money for them and turn the tide for them and be this wrestling champion that they maybe always were looking for i was going to give them a hundred percent and i did give him a hundred percent every night that i worked but they really were a bunch of stupid idiots and i can't i can't even describe how stupid they were they were like idiots but uh so anyway they did a lot to uh you know they did a lot to um you know rain on my career too you know like it was not what it should have been not what it could have been and i think you can really look at hulk hogan for that i mean i think hulk hogan was um pulling the strings on eric bischoff like a puppet and he was such a piece of really [Applause] yeah i did i was always such a hulk hogan guy i was all all the years i was in wwe i i mean i i would have done anything for hulk i was a big supporter of his and anything i could have done to to help him you know including work hard on his cards and stuff i was a a very much a company guy i he was always um stabbed what they should have done in wcw has put me with hulk hogan right like in the first first night i came and done a big pay-per-view and i don't know i'm not saying i should have beat him or anything but i we should have started a storyline would have maybe saved that company but um they were too stupid um and then uh like when when bill goldberg kicked me in the head um and ended my career it was such a lousy way to go because i didn't know i didn't know my career was over and when i did go home and it took me a year to find out that my career was over and right around the time i found out that i couldn't my like my doctors told me that i could never wrestle again then the wcw fired me and like from the day i got hurt my million dollar salary got cut every week it got cut in half and got cut in half and got cut in half and get bit and cut in half till there was nothing left and then they just fired me which was such a lousy deal i had um you know when i was in wwe i had a like a insurance policy through vince that i mean i slipped in the shower i was totally covered my contract was paid in full but when i signed with wcw they gave me a insurance policy with lloyd's in london and if you know anybody's in london they they don't like to pay anybody they like they like those premiums they like you to keep paying those but when it comes time to settle up and pay what when they're supposed to they they are total and they they they would not pay me and i had to sue them and i had to go through court and i think when looking back on those times i i was concussed so badly that i really didn't couldn't really um digest that my career was over and sort of get my head around a part of me was like finally i'm free i don't i don't have to go anywhere this weekend and i get to do i can be home and you you like being home but when you have a concussion like the one i had you know i remember i couldn't watch tv i couldn't listen to music i couldn't um you know i had even food i remember like my whole diet like everything that i would eat i had no um like you could have the best steak in the world and it tasted like liver and nothing really mattered i remember it's like um i remember my doctor described to me as kind of like all the places that make you happy in your brain that's the part that got whacked that's the part that got kicked really hard and you know i i didn't really understand it or take it all in so much at the time but you know i got hurt by goldberg and he never he called me eight months after it happened and told me that he was sorry which you know really was irrelevant at that point um he never once called me after it happened or i don't think he ever understood or i don't know that he even does now or even cares that he cost me literally honestly cost me 16 million dollars in like two seconds and and ended my career and when i hear about bill goldberg going to saudi arabia making three million dollars for uh you know for 10 minute match in in saudi arabia i go you know you think he would have called me up and said here i'm going to send you something for it you know you know he's never thought of me once since he got hurt and or since i got hurt and uh it bothers me a little bit to see all these guys go down go there and uh make enormous sums of money for a couple minutes work i don't know i have a lot of respect for daniel bryan say who didn't go i don't know that i would have gone i don't know that i wouldn't have it's it's um you know it was a lot of money three million dollars to a pro wrestler especially goldberg who went there and wrestled for ten minutes and uh you know it's a big paycheck so i mean i if so if someone offered me the same thing i don't know if i would have turned it down or i would have accepted it um but uh anyway i didn't really had a chance to digest a lot of what happened to me and i never really had any i was always like very angry inside and then of course i know everyone knows too much about my stroke but i had my stroke about a year or two after um i i got hurt a little over a year and a half after i got injured with a concussion i suffered a stroke riding my bicycle in calgary on a path on a bike path and i think um you know when i suffered the stroke i was definitely tied in with my concussion injury but that for sure was the end of my career like like like it's like any thought of ever going back or bearing the hatchet with vince or my concussion sort of slowly getting better that enough that i could have some kind of a match or do something that was impossible at that point and that's i think when i remember being in my hospital bed and being in a wheelchair those first five or six days it was like really um just really powerfully struck me how i'll never i'll never walk out to the wrestling crowd with the hands out and stuff like that so i was very um i took all that like really bad i didn't i didn't like that and i realized that when i had my stroke i think that um there was a part of me that realized that um it doesn't it doesn't do you any good like if i was gonna give advice to everybody out there it's like when you suffer um something really um something really huge happens in your life in a negative way and you hate somebody and you're so angry about it um it doesn't do you any good to carry it around all the time you know i carried it around i was liking it to carrying a big bag of rocks around i was like every day i had to pick up these bag of rocks about how i'm mad at vince mcmahon and the screw job and you know you're lugging around every day and then of course i had the stroke and so it's like i realized after i had my stroke after about a year i maybe the first year or maybe this going into the like a year after it's like how lucky it was that i got the recovery that i did have and um i learned the kind of the hard way that doesn't do any good to carry around a lot of grief and heartache in here so um um the idea that um you know of course i would never walk out to the ring i remember thinking i'll never do that again you know that'll never happen and uh when vince when i suffered my stroke i don't know how vince got my number exactly but um i had a phone put in my room i remember the day they were plugging it in they just plugged it into the wall in my hospital room and i remember thinking like nobody knows my number no one's got it yet and as soon as i plug the phone in my phone rings and i'm going hello and it's vince mcmahon and it's like i remember thinking i was so mad and it was sort of um i gotta have a drink press on the lock on everybody i didn't know what to say to him i didn't know what to do pardon me wanted to like really you know the anger was still there and anger would still be there for quite a long time but at the same time i had once upon a time i had a pretty good relationship with vince and in a lot of ways vince was very much like a father figure to me we had a lot of a lot of trust and a lot of um we were i think close friends for a long time and i i appreciate all the things vince did do including giving me that first chance to be the champion for him so i there was a part of me that wanted to kind of make friends or reach out or at least accept him reaching out and uh there was another part of me that was just wanted to slam the phone down and hang up on him and uh so i i remember talking to him and he said you know um he said they were going to do another dvd on me if i wanted to and i talked to him about my archive and my my my my film like my whole career usually whenever i finished a match in wwe especially uh pay-per-view i'd always come back through the curtain and vince'd be clapping and he slapped me on the back and stuff like that and i would always tell him there's one for my uh archive when they do the best of bret hart dvd someday that'll be on it that match and then i'll come in and say that one will be on it then there's got to be like was like 20 matches are going to be on it then he'd say it's going to be three volumes and all that and it was like you know we i had high hopes with vince at one time and uh when he called me and told me that um that they'd like to do all that stuff still and then he told me that they would like to put me in the hall of fame and then and asked me if i would do it and i said i would i would do it and i and i knew i would i asked myself that question before he ever asked me i never asked myself is like if they asked me to do the hall of fame would i go and i remember that yeah i'd go i deserve to go [Music] you

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Id: VDyE5WGJMLw

Length: 15min 20sec (920 seconds)

Published: Wed May 12 2021