WWE Greatest Rivalries DVD preview video: Bret Hart's frustrations with Shawn Michaels
WWE has released another video preview for its upcoming "Greatest Rivalries: Bret Hart vs. Shawn Michaels" DVD that will be released on Oct. 25, 2011.
The first video preview can be seen (and read) by clicking here. As stated previously, the entire feud between Hart and Michaels is an extremely compelling, highly fascinating story that is being told in one of the most raw and visceral manners possible.
For those that cannot watch the video, a transcript has again been provided:
Bret Hart: When we started to gear up for WrestleMania -- I was champion by this time, I'd won the belt from Kevin Nash at Survivor Series -- I can't help but feel, even now when I look back on it, that I felt, and it might have added to the tensions between us, being the champion meant nothing. I won the title from Kevin at Survivor Series, it was one of the best matches I ever had. Went on a few weeks later to work with Davey at the "In Your House" and had a great match with him and I started to try to have great matches one after another with different guys but as I felt as it was already sort of set. I already knew that I was meeting Shawn at WrestleMania and I had no problem with that. But I felt that all the hard work I was doing didn't matter for anything. They had already had their champion and their star, it was just a matter of me... I was just carrying the belt for the sake of carrying it.
Jim Ross: You felt like a placeholder until it was time.
Bret Hart: I felt that I wasn't getting... I thought I should get a little more respect. And that if this thing was being built the way it should be, we should have a lot more... it should mean something at WrestleMania. It felt like I was just going to WrestleMania and going, 'Here, have it, this is yours. See you later.' And that's not how it felt, I thought that the matches I was having indicated that this can be bigger than that. I was a little bit... I think that's where probably the underlying sort of tensions were starting to start.
Jim Ross: Was that angst based on something Shawn was doing or how upper management was interacting with you?
Bret Hart: There was two sort of things going on at the same time. I felt that upper management wasn't treating me right. That I was sort of yesterday's news for them, which I didn't think was fair. I thought I had a lot of impact still, as far as being over and stuff like that, I felt that when I walked out every night that I was over as I ever was and I didn't see any justification to sort of push me off to the side like I wasn't important. But I also think Shawn had clustered around his little group of Hunter and Kevin Nash and Razor and you know I had talked to Shawn, the first time I think we heard that we were going to wrestle together at WrestleMania, I was in state college Pennsylvania and I think Shawn came up to me and was excited to hear that we were working together. I don't think the news had broke yet that Kevin and Razor were actually skipping off to WCW, which was going to throw a monkey wrench into a lot of things. But I remember Shawn had come up to me and he was saying when he got the title, he was going to work with Hunter, he was going to work with Razor and he thought he could maybe get some more matches out of Diesel. I think the last place he was probably going to work a program with the Kid. That was, for me, a bit of a flag went off, I said, 'He's going to work with all his friends.' That didn't sit well with me that he was basically going to make money and position all his friends to kind of get in on the money while the rest of us would watch him and his friends score the money. That was the first time I said I don't know that this guy's the right guy, doesn't have the right mindset to be the champion. And maybe that's where we started the sort of underlying tension.
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This is the first time in a while that I wanted to buy a WWE DVD in a while.
This looks like it’s gonna be amazing.
Gah, three days after my bday; late birthday present for the loss. And come to think about it…Bret never defeated Shawn Michaels in singles match, right?
"Don't be limited by fixed ideas nor by some trifling common sense...break the standards!"
by The One Who Wears The Crown on Oct 22, 2011 11:48 AM EDT reply actions
Survivor Series '92
WWF Champion Bret Hart cleanly defeated Intercontinental Champion Shawn Michaels in the main event. It’s their “forgotten” Survivor Series match and it was pretty darn good.
Oh wow O_O. Thanks for the info, going to check it out.
"Don't be limited by fixed ideas nor by some trifling common sense...break the standards!"
by The One Who Wears The Crown on Oct 22, 2011 1:28 PM EDT up reply actions
Is that not the match where Shawn was a last minute substitution for Jerry Lawler who had a sexual assault charge against him?
Who wants to save the world? That's what misers do...
by theloupgaroukid on Oct 22, 2011 4:14 PM EDT up reply actions
No, that was a year later
Survivor Series ’92: Bret vs. Shawn singles title match
Survivor Series ’93: Hart Family vs. Shawn (substituting for Lawler) and his “Knights”
He also defeated Shawn in a ladder match. It's on the original Ladder Match DVD.
It was the first ladder match in WWE history. On July 22, Superstars.
"Pain or damage don't end the world; or despair, or F*ckin beatings. The world ends when you're dead. Until then, you got more punishment coming. Stand it like a man, and give some back." -Al Swearengen
I think the true story behind the screwjob is being ignored by all
Not giving anything away for those that haven’t seen it, there is an interesting remark about HHH’s role in the direction this went, made by Shawn, that was completely ignored by Bret and J.R. I can hear Julie Hart screaming I told you so as soon as she sees this (think Wrestling with Shadows). Knowing what we know now about the man, I think there is a bigger story involved in Hunter appearing to position himself to move into Vince’s good graces back then and I’m shocked that more reviews have not jumped on it. It is more a therapy session for both men but clearly the best documentary style DVD the WWE has put out.
At the time
Days before the screwjob, Bret appeared on “Off the Record” on TSN here in Canada and, when asked to give word associative responses to names, for Hunter he gave “kiss ass”… so really, Trips has been positioning himself well since the beginning. His only stumble was breaking kayfabe with the Madison Square Garden send-off of Hall and Nash, of which he received the bulk of the punishment and the Rock “took his spot”.
Who wants to save the world? That's what misers do...
by theloupgaroukid on Oct 22, 2011 4:18 PM EDT up reply actions

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