Bret Hart Credits Curt Hennig & Roddy Piper With Making Him, Says Hulk Hogan Didn’t Make Anyone

Bret Hart gives a lot of credit to Curt Hennig and Roddy Piper for making him while saying Hulk Hogan didn’t do the same for anyone. The WWE Hall of Famer weighed in on his early rise as a singles star and how Hennig and Piper both worked with him to make him a star, then talked about how Hogan didn’t do the same. He noted that the depleted roster after Hogan was fed so many talent over the years, combined with the exit of larger guys after the steroid trials, meant that he didn’t have a lot of guys to work with. You can see the highlights below:

On the start of his real singles push: “Eventually when I was tagged up with Jim, we became tag champions the second time and had a nice run as champions. [Vince] came back to me and said, ‘We’re going to put you in singles again. We’re going to give you the big push again, the real one.’ And I’m kind of like — I’m skeptical that they would do all that for me again. Because there’s always a lot of politics and backstabbing. And anyway, so I got turned to a good guy again with Mr. Perfect. And that was the start of it.”

On working with Hennig and Roddy Piper: “Everything for me started with the wrestlers that loved working with me, like Mr. Perfect and Roddy Piper. And certain guys wanted to help me and prove to the office and the promotion that I could be a big star. And so I owe a lot to Mr. Perfect. He was the first guy to really go in there and just show everybody how good I was. And Curt was — he one of my favorite guys to ever wrestled. He was the first guy to step up and make me. And then Roddy Piper was probably the second.”

On Hogan not doing the same for talent: “When I look back on my career and I look back on wrestling, the industry. And I look back on what Roddy and Mr. Perfect did for me. And I can tell you that Hulk Hogan never did that for anybody. He never helped anybody else after his time of being the top guy. He would rather see the company sink than actually come back and help make the next star. Which in wrestling, that’s kind of how it always works. The next guy builds the next guy after. It’s like everybody helps each other kind of thing. Jake Roberts is another guy that never made anybody.”

On the roster being depleted after Hogan: “All he did was — you know, they feed Hulk Hogan one wrestler after another for for 10 years. And when I became champion, I had nobody to wrestle against. I had Papa Shango and Bam Bam Bigalow, it was great. And there was no real fresh new stars. The company had the drug testing, and all the steroid guys like Hogan and Warrior, and Psycho Sid. Anybody that was kind of muscles coming out of their ears. Any of those guys, they’re all gone. I remember it was just guys like me and Shawn Michaels and Marty Jannetty, and the small guys.”

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