Bret Hart is perhaps the greatest technical wrestler of all time, and is one of the biggest legends in professional wrestling history. A many time WWE champion, tag team specialist with Jim Neidhart, and someone who could have a good to great match with just about anyone who stepped into the ring with him. He takes the sport of professional wrestling very seriously, something that was drilled into him in the Hart Dungeon with his father Stu.
Nowadays, he’s enjoying retirement and has produced a documentary series known as ‘Confessions of The Hitman’. He’s up to Episode 14, and one of the topics he spoke about was helping Hulk Hogan with his wrestling skills.
Hulk Hogan Didn’t Know How To Run The Ropes
“I knew Hulk from Japan, I wrestled him in Atlanta, Georgia when I first started. I actually helped him a lot when he first started with wrestling, I worked with him every night. We’d wrestle for about 30 seconds and then I’d lost in a bear hug. He didn’t know how to do anything! I think at that time he could barely walk into the ring and he didn’t know how to hit the ropes or anything.”
Bret Hart previously gave Hulk Hogan a 2/10 in terms of his wrestling skills, guessing that Hogan before coming to WWE could do a bear hug, clothesline and body slam. However, he didn’t need more than that. Hart claims it’s easy to do strongman moves, as they’re very elementary.
Bret Hart Offered For Hogan To Come Train In The Hart Dungeon
Wanting the best out of everyone around him, Hart would try to get Hogan up to Calgary to train in the infamous Hart Dungeon, something Hogan would regret turning down.
“I remember trying to get him to come up to Calgary and he’d always tell me through his career when I was in WWE, he’d always tell me, ‘I wished I had gone up to Calgary now. That’s what I’m missing. I don’t have the wrestling skills like you guys got.”
Despite all this, Hogan would prove during matches in Japan with men like The Great Muta & Antonio Inoki that he could go further when needed. But in America, he played the role of a powerhouse, and that’s all he needed.
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