Some fans have dreamed about what a match would’ve been like between Kurt Angle and Bret Hart.
Hart departed from WWE in 1997 after the Montreal Screwjob, while Angle made his promotional debut at Survivor Series in 1999.
While appearing on The A2theK Wrestling Show, the WWE Hall Of Famer was asked about his WrestleMania dream matches. He named guys like Kenny Omega and Bryan Danielson as those he would want to wrestle today.
However, he always wished he would’ve wrestled Hart and tried to get it done at WrestleMania 21 in 2005 or WrestleMania 22. He ended up wrestling Shawn Michaels in a classic bout instead at WrestleMania 21, and the following year, he worked a triple threat match with Rey Mysterio and Randy Orton.
“Bret Hart was always my dream match from when I started in WWE. I always thought I’d have a match with him, but right when I came in, he left. He went to WCW, and unfortunately, he got knocked out and had the concussion, and then he had a stroke. Unfortunately, I tried to get Bret to wrestle at WrestleMania, I believe, 21 or 22. I told him, ‘Listen, I’ll do all the bumping, all the selling, I’d let you beat my butt.’
But I understood why he said no because where I am in my life now, I know I can’t have the Kurt Angle match that fans expect and Bret was trying to tell me at that particular time, ‘I’m not the Bret Hart I used to be and I’m not gonna go out there and embarrass myself.’ Not that he would embarrass himself, but he wants to be at a level that nobody else is and that’s that’s where Bret Hart always was. And if he can’t do that, he’s not gonna do it at all.”
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