Unpopular Wrestling Opinions

[MetalheadPenguinsFan]

Bret Hart was/is annoying and also overrated.

 

[OKR]

Bret Hart was/is annoying and also overrated.

Facts. Almost funny how he is painted as a saint of some kind when he caused issues everywhere he went with his huge ego. Shawn Michaels always gets his name thrown around as a backstage menace, and for a good reason too but i have zero doubt he always was more well liked than Bret.

Bret Hart was Bret Hart’s biggest fan.

 

[DaaaaB's]

Facts. Almost funny how he is painted as a saint of some kind when he caused issues everywhere he went with his huge ego. Shawn Michaels always gets his name thrown around as a backstage menace, and for a good reason too but i have zero doubt he always was more well liked than Bret.

Bret Hart was Bret Hart’s biggest fan.

Shawn Michael's more well liked than Bret haha. That's an utterly ridiculous comment. Bret was liked and respected by almost all his peers, Michaels by almost none and that's a fact.

 

[OKR]

Shawn Michael's more well liked than Bret haha. That's utterly ridiculous comment. Bret was liked and respected by almost all his peers, Michaels by almost none and that's a fact.

Either you don’t know much bout Bret and his backstage issues or you’re one of those people who are blind to them due to fanboying him, but Hart had issues literally everywhere. Weird how a guy liked by almost all his peers literally had beef everywhere he went and still does to this day.

 

[CDJ]

Here is mine...I still don't enjoy women's wrestling and am perfectly fine with it not getting equal booking. Like only the truly top tier female talent don't make me turn the channel immediately and half the time I am still bored. I will take a better TV show over equal booking just to have equal booking.

Same thing over here and it extends into mma for me too. The high end stuff is great, once we start getting into the midcard talent i start to lose interest

 

[DaaaaB's]

Either you don’t know much bout Bret and his backstage issues or you’re one of those people who are blind to them due to fanboying him, but Hart had issues literally everywhere. Weird how a guy liked by almost all his peers literally had beef everywhere he went and still does to this day.

Issues with management is completely different than not being respected and liked by his peers. You're also blowing that way out of proportion. Backstage issues with Hogan and Michael's? Yeah who didn't. Backstage issues in WCW? Yep him and every other wrestler on the roster. Where else did he have issues?

 

[Troublesome 85]

I think almost all titles look like garbage these days except

AEW World and IWGP World. WWE ones all look like shit.

 

[Transplanted Caper]

Facts. Almost funny how he is painted as a saint of some kind when he caused issues everywhere he went with his huge ego. Shawn Michaels always gets his name thrown around as a backstage menace, and for a good reason too but i have zero doubt he always was more well liked than Bret.

Bret Hart was Bret Hart’s biggest fan.

Bret was much more liked than Shawn, by a mile, back in the 90s in WWF. Other than his buddies, everyone hated Shawn. Hell, by 2001 even HHH and Nash had their fill until Michaels finally sobered up. As for WCW, everyone had issues with each other. In Jericho's words "everybody was an asshole in WCW". I do find Bret's anger and bitterness, at times, a bit tiresome, but I'm not the one who went through it. Do I think Goldberg intentionally injured Bret? Of course not. But I don't have permanent brain damage, didn't lose out on millions in earnings, nor did I suffer stroke

 

[Megahab]

Facts. Almost funny how he is painted as a saint of some kind when he caused issues everywhere he went with his huge ego. Shawn Michaels always gets his name thrown around as a backstage menace, and for a good reason too but i have zero doubt he always was more well liked than Bret.

Bret Hart was Bret Hart’s biggest fan.

Where are you getting this from? The notion that HBK was more well liked than Bret?

Unpopular opinion: Kane sucked.

 

[TheBeastCoast]

I think almost all titles look like garbage these days except

AEW World and IWGP World. WWE ones all look like shit.

I agree except I think the new IWGP belt is f***ing horrid. The old one was the perfect belt.

 

[Big Poppa Puck]

The new IWGP belt reminds me of Cody's tattoo.

 

[MVP of West Hollywd]

The 6 man tag spotfest main events on AEW don't interest me. Meltzer gave Death Triangle vs United Empire a higher rating than Jericho/Moxley and Garcia/Bryan 2 out of 3 falls... the latter two is simply much more of what I'm looking for out of wrestling. The former type of matches are fine if they go earlier and are shorter.

 

[Emperoreddy]

The 6 man tag spotfest main events on AEW don't interest me. Meltzer gave Death Triangle vs United Empire a higher rating than Jericho/Moxley and Garcia/Bryan 2 out of 3 falls... the latter two is simply much more of what I'm looking for out of wrestling. The former type of matches are fine if they go earlier and are shorter.

There was impressive stuff in that match, but the choreographed dancing stuff stinks, and Pac taking almost a minute to get balanced on the top rope for a moonsault while everyone just stands there outside was ridiculous

 

[MVP of West Hollywd]

There was impressive stuff in that match, but the choreographed dancing stuff stinks, and Pac taking almost a minute to get balanced on the top rope for a moonsault while everyone just stands there outside was ridiculous

I kind of like when Pac seems nervous before he does his finisher, but maybe not in this case for the 30 second wait for moonsault.

 

[67 others]

Facts. Almost funny how he is painted as a saint of some kind when he caused issues everywhere he went with his huge ego. Shawn Michaels always gets his name thrown around as a backstage menace, and for a good reason too but i have zero doubt he always was more well liked than Bret.

Bret Hart was Bret Hart’s biggest fan.

Eh, we have interviews of dozens of Wrestlers and managers and other than the Kliq, people who worked with Bret pretty unanimously liked him more. He definitely had a huge ego. Other than Hunter, Kid, Hall and Nash, Shawn Michaels was pretty universally despised during his drug addiction days. Undertaker hated HBK's guts but had a lot of respect for Bret. Same with the Rock, although the Rock was less outspoken about it compared to the deadman. Foley walked out after the screwjob but was talked into coming back.

Did Bret have issues with some of the decision makers? Sure. But its been established through Podcasts and interviews that he was pretty universally liked in the dressing room outside of Shawn and his Kliq, who went around shitting on everyone outside their Kliq.

 

[Emperoreddy]

I kind of like when Pac seems nervous before he does his finisher, but maybe not in this case for the 30 second wait for moonsault.

It's fine if someone is laid out and it's like 10 seconds. But 3 guys just standing outside waiting for almost a minute?

Just a dumb spot

 

[67 others]

Bret was much more liked than Shawn, by a mile, back in the 90s in WWF. Other than his buddies, everyone hated Shawn. Hell, by 2001 even HHH and Nash had their fill until Michaels finally sobered up. As for WCW, everyone had issues with each other. In Jericho's words "everybody was an asshole in WCW". I do find Bret's anger and bitterness, at times, a bit tiresome, but I'm not the one who went through it. Do I think Goldberg intentionally injured Bret? Of course not. But I don't have permanent brain damage, didn't lose out on millions in earnings, nor did I suffer stroke

im not sure if you meant to correlate Goldberg's kick with Bret's stroke, but that is how it came off lol. Bret had a stroke because he went biking without a helmet and smashed his head when he hit a pothole and got ejected from his bike. Immediately after hitting his head in that accident, he was half paralyzed . The amount of stress and overthinking and baggage he carried around likely also contributed as it is a known contributor of stroke odds.

His beef with Goldberg is a bit odd. In his book Goldberg apologized immediately with tears in his eyes after finding out Bret had a concussion and Bret accepted it, hugged him and basically blamed the WCW management for pushing a big green guy too fast, saying it was really their fault, not Goldberg's.

His book was very clear he hit a pothole and smashed his head. Now when Bret tells the story in interviews 20 years later, he talks like his stroke caused the fall from his bike and that's bullshit. Its like he forgot he already told this story and changed it just so he can be a crusty old man.

Its not like his career would have lasted much longer anyways. WCW folded and was sold to WWE a year later. Bret didn't go back to WWE for years.

 

[Voight]

Eh, we have interviews of dozens of Wrestlers and managers and other than the Kliq, people who worked with Bret pretty unanimously liked him more. He definitely had a huge ego. Other than Hunter, Kid, Hall and Nash, Shawn Michaels was pretty universally despised during his drug addiction days. Undertaker hated HBK's guts but had a lot of respect for Bret. Same with the Rock, although the Rock was less outspoken about it compared to the deadman. Foley walked out after the screwjob but was talked into coming back.

Did Bret have issues with some of the decision makers? Sure. But its been established through Podcasts and interviews that he was pretty universally liked in the dressing room outside of Shawn and his Kliq, who went around shitting on everyone outside their Kliq.

HBK used his influence to keep the Rock down on the card. He did not want him getting main event status; thankfully he retired and there was nobody stopping DJ from getting his push.

The Rock has said Hart was the ultimate pro, he took him under his wing and taught him the ins & outs the short time they were colleagues.

Anyone thinking HBK was well-liked, especially more than Hart is out to lunch.

 

[MetalheadPenguinsFan]

The Undertaker should have retired in late ‘99

 

[CDJ]

Haas and Benjamin were truly the WGGT in the 2000-2010 decade

 

[keonsbitterness]

The Undertaker should have retired in late ‘99

'89

 

[Emperoreddy]

The Undertaker should have retired in late ‘99

Considering his best matches happened well after 99 and ended up being some of the best matches ever, I can't help but say this is utter nonsense.

 

[MetalheadPenguinsFan]

Considering his best matches happened well after 99 and ended up being some of the best matches ever, I can't help but say this is utter nonsense.

Once that he switched to the American Badass biker nonsense I lost interest.

 

[Emperoreddy]

Once that he switched to the American Badass biker nonsense I lost interest.

I get it because I hated the American badass too, but he went back to being awesome when he switched back to being the Deadman and his two year feud with Shawn was the best thing he ever did.

 

[MetalheadPenguinsFan]

I get it because I hated the American badass too, but he went back to being awesome when he switched back to being the Deadman and his two year feud with Shawn was the best thing he ever did.

I’ll have to maybe check that out. I’ve heard of that feud over the years but I never cared much for HBK back when I watched wrestling so.

Ministry-era ‘Taker was my favourite.