The second part of WWE Hall of Famer Bret Hart’s interview with Forbes was released on Thursday and during the interview, Hart gave his thoughts on WWE creative, Seth Rollins as well as today’s product.
Hart, who has voiced his strong opinion about WWE’s product in the past, believes that there is too much talking on WWE’s programming, and he feels that there should be more wrestling.
“If you watch wrestling, like I do. There’s so much talking. There’s some twit back there with a pencil behind his ear writing down all these things for wrestlers to say. It all starts to sound the same. There was a difference back in my time, where we all had to make up our own verbiage. So when you watch those interviews, a certain part of you comes out, and that’s what makes those characters so great. I’ve seen today, even in my own case for the bits and pieces I’ve done in wrestling, where they give you five pages of script to go out and interrupt somebody and say this or that, it might even be really small and pretty limited sort of dialogue, but it’s hard to do. Especially when they give it to you at 3:00 and then you start to memorize it, and you have it sort of memorized at 5:00 and they come up to you at 6:00 and it’s all changed.”
Hart then talked about being safe in the ring with fellow wrestlers. Hart praised former WWE star Cody Rhodes for not hurting anyone.
“I think that Cody Rhodes is one of those wrestlers that I would put in the category of excellence of execution. Every move he does is safe and perfectly executed.”
Hart pointed out that Seth Rollins hit John Cena with a knee strike a few months ago that could have hurt Cena and that is just an example of how today’s wrestlers are not as safe as he was back when he was an active wrestler.
“There’s a lot of wrestlers today that their execution is lousy, and they’re not safe. You watch Seth Rollins who they’ve pushed as this huge mega, mega push. I watched him a few months ago, and you can watch it back on YouTube, but he knees John Cena in the face. Just knees him in the face so hard, so recklessly, so dangerously, you can easily kill somebody with a knee like that in the face.”
You can watch Hart’s interview here:
