Hulk Hogan Addresses Heat With Bret Hart

Bret Hart famously doesn’t get on with several big names in wrestling history, and his beef with Hulk Hogan is as well-known as it is long-standing.

Issues between the pair kicked off around WWE WrestleMania IX in 1993, when Hogan quickly defeated Yokozuna for the WWE Championship, mere moments after Yokozuna won the belt from Hart. A passing of the torch title-switch from Hogan to Hart never materialised, and during an appearance on the Full Send podcast, ‘The Hulkster’ gave his side on the feud between the two:

"I don’t know. It’s just different. Some guys see things differently. Like the Bret Hart thing, I really didn’t understand because when he got p***** at me, I won the belt from Yokozuna at a WrestleMania, where Bret lost and Bret told me to go in the ring and wrestle, and then I won the belt right after Bret wrestled. The deal was for me to drop it back to Yokozuna. Then Bret got in my face, like ‘Hey, you were supposed to drop the belt to me.’ I said, ‘No, I’m not.’ He goes, ‘Yeah you are.’ I said, ‘Let’s talk to Vince, then.’ So we both went in and sat down and talked to Vince, and Vince looked at Bret and said, ‘Bret, that’s what you thought you heard.’ Ever since then, he hated my guts and wanted to kill me.

“Then when Eric Bischoff asked me if I could work with him at WCW, I said, ‘Hell yeah, bring him in. I can work with anybody.’ All of a sudden, we had about eight or nine great matches. We got along great, we traveled together, we had eight or nine good matches, and then when WCW’s over, he hated me. I said, ‘Okay. Whatever.’ But it’s just stuff like that," Hogan said.

Hart was aligned with Hogan as part of NWO Hollywood in WCW in 1998. The two would only ever have one singles match on TV in WCW - Hart won… by DQ.

H/T: Fightful