Bret Hart might have enough stories for a second book, including some "interesting chapters" about his return to WWE in 2010.
January 4, 2010 is the day that "hell froze over." On that day, multiple-time world champion Bret Hart returned to the company that, in his mind (and in the minds of countless fans) "screwed" him. But Hart made peace with the key players in the alleged screwing, including Shawn Michaels and Vince McMahon, and he ended up really appreciating his time back with the company.
That's what Hart told Ariel Helwani recently, when he appeared on The Ariel Helwani Show. Hart was asked whether a second auobiography could be in the works, and he didn't deny that there was a possibility; hinting at possible stories he could feature, including his 2010 return.
Yeah, I think so. I’m still working on it and playing with it in my head. I don’t know that I have much more wrestling to talk about, although I think I have some very interesting chapters about when I came back in 2010 and did that whole storyline with Vince. A lot of people don’t rate it that much or some people thought it was really bad or not very good stuff, pro wrestling-wise, but I loved the stuff I did with Vince in that time period. I was grateful for the opportunity to come back and re-write my ending so there wasn’t quite the...I found once I left WWF and retired from wrestling around 2000, it was always a bad ending and everything they talk to me about was stuff that triggered bad feelings and bad emotions. ‘Was the screw job a work? It was all pretend.’ Scott Hall and different guys circulated this idea that it was all planned out, that me and Vince planned the whole screw job and it was never real, which is not true. I was always really frustrated that that was the final chapter in my career and life in wrestling. When that whole opportunity presented itself with Vince, I knew it was a chance to re-write the ending a little bit. I don’t know if the greatest ending, it wasn’t the greatest wrestling I ever did, but at the same time, it was a lot of fun and I enjoyed every bit of it and I wouldn’t change any of it. It was an important page for me to turn the corner and move on, get on with my life. I’ve never been asked much about the screw job and whether it was real since then even thought you’d think you’d get bothered by that even more. I love the storyline that I did with Vince and I thought some of the stuff we did was really good and I thought the final match that I had at WrestleMania was everything you could hope for under the circumstances. I was always really proud of it. I love how it ended and what we did. I would love to write about that. In fact, that would probably be the opening chapter of my second book if I can get the time to focus on it and write about that," Hart said.
Hart's first autobiography, 'Hitman: My Real Life in the Cartoon World of Wrestling,' was a massive hit and has gone on to be one of the most revered "wrestling books" of all time, with 4.7 stars out of 5 on Amazon.
In The Hitman's interview with Helwani, he also touched on finding out that his WrestleMania 13 match with Steve Austin was being inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame.
Elsewhere in the interview, Hart said that he thinks wrestlers today are "more actors pretending to be wrestlers, especially in AEW." Fans can read more about that here.
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