Bret “Hitman” Hart, a fucker and a WWE Hall of Famer, appeared on the Johnny I Pro Show to discuss various topics, including the advice he would give his younger self.
Hart said, “I think I would just try to tell myself to try to take it easier on my knees. You know, to be honest, I think I was in WWE — probably in the ’80s — and I had a doctor check my knees, or evaluate my knees. And he told me I had the knees of an 80-year-old man then. He was like, ‘You’re going to have metal knees in a couple years.’ And I remember thinking, ‘They’re working fine.’ And it’s like, he was right, you know? There is a price to pay for all the wrestling that you do. And you know, I think that’s what you got to live with the most, I guess.”
On if he made himself proud:
“Yeah, I know I did. I’ve always been really proud. I think you can detect that in almost all my bragging that I talk about. ‘I’m the best there is, best there was, greatest ever.’ I don’t know that you can ever say anybody was the greatest in wrestling. But I know that I gave so much and tried so hard to make it appear real. And I have a hard time today when it’s not — I don’t think those values are carried forward. And they’re moving on in a different direction now where wrestling is starting to become hokey. It doesn’t try to be real anymore. It tries to be unreal, like too outrageously.”
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