Source: Bret Hart Sharpshooter podcast
On his response to the following fan submitted question about whether or not he was ever nervous to take Yokozuna’s Banzai Drop:
BH: Not most of the time. One time when we were in India and everybody had gotten really sick. I remember they told me Yoko was so sick he couldn’t wrestle but they didn’t have any replacements. It was in Delhi or something like that. It was in India and it might have been 80-90,000 people watching at a big soccer stadium. It was a huge crowd and they insisted that he had to go out and wrestle me. I remember Yoko got up and, like I said, he was sick all day. Not feeling well but he sucked it up like you do in wrestling or did back then. He went out and had the match with me and I remember him climbing up on to the second rope and I remember looking at the back of his ass and he had completely sh*t his trunks. There was sh*t everywhere. It was like he sat in a big puddle of pea soup. I remember thinking as I was lying there, “Oh my God!” He bravely jumped backwards and did his Banzai Drop and I moved out of the way and it reminded me of a stamp pad. Like there was a big brown stamp right in the middle of the ring where he landed and bounced. I felt bad for old Yoko because he was sicker than a dog. Nobody should have made him wrestle but he went in there and wrestled. After about five minutes he must have just let it rip. That was the only time I was ever scared of a Banzai Drop (laughs).
On Jesse Ventura wanting to start a wrestler’s union in WWE back in the 80s:
BH: I remember him back years ago when he was one of the first guys trying to get a union going in wrestling. He was making his arguments and talking about it in the car. I can remember going, “This guy knows what he is talking about.” I wish back then that, well, I think that was about the only time we could have gotten a union going in wrestling. I wish that Hogan had never stabbed him in the back and killed that. Ventura really was steamrolling a union for the first time and it was a time when Vince was making nothing but money. Hogan was the key to everything. If Hogan had taken a stand and got wrestlers a union we would have had a union.
On who goes in to the WWE Hall of Fame and who doesn’t:
BH: There’s so many people that they haven’t called forward to be in there. If you’re going to induct The Freebirds, and I have no objection to that, but what about Demolition? What about The Hart Foundation? What about The British Bulldogs? These were not just your average teams. These were some of the greatest tag teams that ever stepped in to a wrestling ring. I think there’s a real lack of acknowledgement of their own Superstars. It’s all great that The Freebirds did what they did down in Texas and whatnot. They never made history in the WWE so much as The Bulldogs, Demolition or The Hart Foundation. Then they go and induct Big Boss Man, which I am really glad for, I think it’s long overdue. Rick Rude is another one that should be inducted. I think they shy away from inducting different wrestlers because they died of drug problems. Maybe that’s why they don’t induct Davey Boy. The Nasty Boys aren’t in there. The Bushwackers are in there. How can you induct The Bushwackers and not induct The British Bulldogs? It doesn’t make any sense to me. No disrespect to The Bushwackers. I am sure they’d tell you the same thing. The Bulldogs ought to be in there before them. Even The Hart Foundation, we really raised the bar with tag team wrestling back in the 80’s and 90’s. How they go about voting people in, the decision made to induct The Freebirds who did all their business mostly in Texas and a few other places. They never really did any great things with WWE. It is what it is. They should start recognizing these other people that really paved the way. The Bulldogs, Dynamite and Davey, I think they above all belong in the Hall of Fame. Dynamite’s in a wheelchair and he’s crippled and broken down more than any wrestler in the world. He’s just a train wreck over in England. I think it would mean the world to him to be inducted in to the Hall of Fame. I sort of watched as they inducted these other guys but they aren’t more deserving than Dynamite Kid.
WWE Hall of Famer Bret Hart commented on Hulk Hogan’s lawsuit against Gawker during the debut episode of The Sharpshooter Show. Here is what he had to say:
I am not a big Hogan fan but I will say that when someone tapes you without your knowledge and uses it against you… he’s got a good case maybe that way. As far as damages and stuff. You can never take away what he said. All of the stuff that he said came right out of his own mouth and was his own words. It did a lot of harm to his image. It cost him his relationship with the WWE. Probably for a lot of fans, especially black fans, I think they really saw a side of him that they’ll never really bond with again. Maybe rightfully so. As soon as I saw all that stuff happen I was like, “Wow! How could he make that kind of mistake?” When you’ve got friends like that Bubba guy that would actually tape you doing all these things and then try to sell those tapes. It sounds like a bunch of slimy people. Hogan is a slimeball and it seems like the kinds of people he hangs out with are slimeballs. Everybody got messy. Everybody got dirty out of that thing. If he makes a lot of money on it, I dunno, I can’t put a price tag on integrity and reputation. You’d never catch Bret Hart saying the things Hulk Hogan said.”
On fans that are upset that Natalya is not pushed more prominently in the WWE Divas division:
BH: Natalya is a big part of the Total Diva’s show which is it’s own sort of vehicle and it’s got it’s own strengths. It’s a really popular show, highly rated and I think Vince and WWE tend to push someone who is not on the show. They keep them kind of separate. Whether that is the reason or not I think Natalya is not just a great wrestler. Maybe one of the greatest female wrestlers of all time. You just look at how she wrestles and her style. She never has a bad match. She is always in the right position. The way she moves and executes… any young girl watching wrestling, I can tell you, if you want to watch wrestling and learn how to do stuff you watch what Natalya does. Almost all of the girls in the backstage area they all watch Natalya. They all go to her when they need to know how to put something on or how to do this move or, “how would you go about this or that?” She’s the go-to girl. Pound for pound she is one of the greatest of all time.
On the decision to have Triple H beat fan favorite wrestlers like Dean Ambrose & Dolph Ziggler to get heated up for WrestleMania 32:
BH: Nepotism is running rampant in that company. I don’t know. You gotta do what they tell you to do. Usually you like to think there’s some kind of motive or there’s a direction or there’s a target that they are aiming for or a reason for why they do things. It’s hard to say. You go back to saying, “Does it really make sense for Triple H to be nineteen time World Champion?” I don’t know. There’s a lot of things that I question. I look at the Royal Rumble as where it really starts. Whatever happens at the Royal Rumble really sets the stage for WrestleMania. I thought Royal Rumble was one of the worst PPVs I ever watched. The way they used certain guys. The way The Big Show walked in, the biggest guy in wrestling and basically got thrown out in thirty seconds like a bag of sh*t. I don’t understand it. Same with Mark Henry. There’s a lot of things that I question. How is it that amazingly Triple H gets the number thirty? I love Roman Reigns, I really do, I think he’s a really talented guy but the whole storyline where he got injured, then disappeared and then showed up at the very end was like, “Boring.” It’s so over done. So predictable. Who didn’t see that coming? To me, they wonder why they have trouble getting over and it’s like they aren’t building this guy right and they never have. The best thing Roman Reigns could do is turn heel and start to build his audience back by being the heel he used to be. It seems like it might work. If that’s the case, look at Dean Ambrose, he shows that vulnerability. He sells, he gets hurt and people start to feel for him and they start to go with him. He works hard. You wonder why CM Punk got over and Daniel Bryan got over. It’s because they work hard every night. The bell rings and they leave it all in the ring. They give everything they’ve got and people go, “I like this guy because he’s killing himself out there for me.”