Bret Hart is considered by many to be one of the best wrestlers to ever step foot in the ring, and he’s never shy when it comes to voicing his opinions.
Recently the Hall of Famer appeared on the Johnny I Pro Show, and he explained that he has a hard time watching modern wrestling because he believes it comes off as too fake.
“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.”
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H/T Fightful