Bret Hart: Today’s Wrestlers Are Actors Pretending To Be Wrestlers, They Don’t Actually Know How To Wrestle

Bret Hart isn’t a fan of modern-day wrestlers.

Speaking on the Johnny I Pro Show, Bret Hart said he can’t consume today’s wrestling because it looks fake to him. He thinks most wrestlers are actors who’re pretending to be wrestlers, but they don’t know how to actually wrestle.

“I’ll be honest, I have a hard time watching today’s wrestling. I just can’t really watch it.
It’s too fake for me. But I love watching the old ’90s wrestling. I really do. When I watch my matches back … even obscure Stampede wrestling matches, there’s something about the realism, the punches and the kicks, and even just the way the presentation is. It just seems to me to be more onus put on the workmanship [sic], that of learning the craft of being wrestlers.

I think that today’s wrestlers are actors; most of them are actors, pretending to be wrestlers, and they don’t actually know how to wrestle. They don’t even know what a headlock is. Everything is high spots, like,
I want to get my move in.’ I always thought wrestling needed to actually pretend to be wrestling.”

Fans can check out the full interview below:

Elsewhere in the same interview, Hart called out Hulk Hogan and Jake Roberts for never passing the torch to anybody in wrestling. You can read more about it here.

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