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The title of this book pretty much tells you what is wrong with it in that it is allegedly Bret Hart’s “Real Life in the Cartoon World of Wrestling.” As a fan of professional wrestling for about 25 years I can tell you that nothing in professional wrestling is real and it is all fake no matter what washed up wrestlers like Hart and Hogan or their fans on the internet want you to believe. Bret Hart in the early 1990′s was given the gimmick of being “the best, there is, the best there was, the best there ever will be” in the fictional world of professional wrestling and some how in his warped mind he bought into it to the point that it consumed his entire existence. This book is the ultimate Hart ego trip as he continues his never ending quest to sell the world that everything in professional wrestling is fake except for him and his glorious career as the greatest ever (despite him being a complete financial flop whenever he was on top of professional wrestling).
If you are a big fan of Bret’s then you can buy the book and enjoy Bret’s love letter to himself. Of course it is nothing you can not read all over the internet for free and it is not any different than what Bret’s toadies in the wrestling media like Meltzer and Scherer have written forever. The only difference in this Bret Hart ego stroking to previous Hart ego strokings is that Hart has now cast Triple H as the main villian who opposes the real greatness of Bret Hart in the WWF despite the fact that Triple H had no political pull or power in the WWF until 1999. Former Hart top villian Shawn Michaels is now down to number 2 top villian because Triple H’s name sells more books at this point and Vince McMahon is down to Hart’s number 3 villian against Hart’s self professed greatness because McMahon and Hart are back to doing business together on DVD releases and merchandising (they kissed and made up).
This book pretty much omits anything that really makes Hart look bad and rewrites history to Hart’s specifications. Hart blatantly lies and says that Shawn Michaels did not have the knee injury in 1997 that put Michaels out of wrestling for the better part of 6 months including the biggest show of the year Wrestlemania 13. This of course would be news to Michaels, McMahon, and Doctor James Andrews who did the surgery on the knee of Shawn Michaels. In Hart’s fantasy world Shawn Michaels faked his knee injury and addiction to pain killers because Michaels was supposed to drop the World title to Hart at Wrestlemania 13 (Hart wants you to believe everyone in wrestling cares about predetermined match outcomes and fixed championships as he delusionally does) despite the fact that no real evidence exists to support this and Hart ended up not even being in the championship picture until Michaels came back from injury (Undertaker was world champion after Wrestlemania 13 after beating Sid for the title at Wrestlemania 13).
There is no tell all here as all Bret confesses to is his so called sex addiction, which is the same addiction you can read in any male celebrity’s book now at days (see Batista’s book). It is cool and studly to be a sex addict (with girls of course) without the negative publicity and stigma attached to drug or alcohol addiction, so every athlete or pseudo athlete since Wilt Chamberlain has claimed a sex addiction in their books in some form (while hiding their drugs and drinking as much as possible). Nothing new in here about the Montreal Screw Job in 1997 because all that is ever going to be publicly released on that topic already has been released (aspects such as that Hart was supposed to show up on WCW television with the WWF title get left out as always because those aspects make McMahon, Bischoff, and Hart look sleazy and stupid). Bret of course does not take any personal responsibility for the decline of his career and Montreal (even though it was Bret who declined at Survivor Series and for weeks before Survivor Series to do business the right way and drop the title before leaving the WWF) as everything is a massive screw job conspiracy against the “real” greatness of Bret Hart involving the usual suspeacts (even in WCW, it was all Triple H / Michaels / McMahon).
If you are going to read this book, then just take everything with a grain of salt and do not blindly believe any of it. Also read the biographies of other wrestlers like Flair and Michaels to get their side of the stories Hart tells (take them with a grain of salt too because all wrestlers are self promoting flim flam artists who are out to promote themselves and their view of history). I would recommend getting the Bret Hart DVD box set that McMahon put out a couple of years ago instead of this book because that at least has some good matches on it to balance out Hart’s dry egotism. In general, wrestling biographies after Foley’s second biography have been completely worthless (including Foley’s last book, the god awful Hardcore Diaries) because they are all repetitive, biased, dry, and uninformative for true wrestling fans who are not interested in historical slanting by wrestlers and their puppets in the wrestling media.
Rating: 1 / 5
Buy this book!Its gonna be great.Bret Hart is the best there is,the best there was,and the best there ever will be as you will find out in this book.This is gonna be a must read for every “Hitman” fan out there.I cant wait for its release.
Rating: 5 / 5
Bret Hart is a gentleman and I will never forget you. You deserve all the best od what life has to offer. You is a great guy. You loved the sport and just wanted respect, just as you have always given everyone. I miss you Bret.
D. Getz
NJ
Rating: 5 / 5
I came into this book with an open mind. However, Bret Hart’s book was supposedly based on “fact” because he carried around a tape recorder for twenty years so he’d remember, right? Not quite, too many times things seemed to change to make Bret look like the good guy when events have been noted to have happened different ways in other books.
It was nice to see a lot of things from Bret’s perspective, but let’s get real, the man has been whining non stop for nearly 12 years now…did you think the book was going to be any different?
Hogan? Sure, everyone had an issue with Hogan, but Bret, who do you think packed those arenas for you before you and Anvil had ever put pink on the first time?
Flair? Bret, when you try to say that Flair isn’t one of the best workers AND ring generals of all time, you put yourself in a class with Scotty Steiner…when it comes to common sense, not a good class to be in.
Michaels? Why Bret? Because he did what the boss said? Because he had clearly surpassed you both in and out of the ring? Because he is still one of the top 5 wrestlers in North America today? I will give Bret credit for one thing when it comes to Shawn though, he never EVER tried to say Shawn wasn’t a great worker…there is no way he could have said that and had anyone believe another word of his book.
However, if you got around the “everyone screwed me, I’m the best there is…” crap, you got some great insight into the locker room and the Hart Family. Take it with a grain of salt, of course, but it was still very, very interesting.
Very well written, very eloquent, very good story…if you could have just stopped all the whining you would have almost has something as good as Jericho and Foley’s debut books…almost.
Rating: 3 / 5
Not sure what to say about this book. I have mixed feelings about it. I will admit, it is one hell of a story. But I feel there is way too much of Bret patting himself on the back (girls in Germany literally passed out from just seeing him when he stepped off a bus. They didnt touch him and he didnt touch them, they just passed out. lol), while talking down about just about everyone he mentions in the book. Some things seem inconsistent, or inaccurate (such as “For some reason, Abdullah the Butcher called everybody Gabe”. Yet after that statement, the rest of the time “Gabe” is said, it’s coming from one of the Bulldogs. Or when he says that the Raw show, the day after he beat Diesel at Survivor Series, was Shawn Michaels’ first day back after getting his face beat up by Marines in Syracuse NY and Shawn and Diesel took center stage in the ring. Then only 4 pages later he states that the Royal Rumble 2 months after that same Survivor Series was “Shawn’s first appearance since his face was mashed”. Well which was his first appearance then, appearing on Raw after Survivor, or appearing at the Royal Rumble?). It was little inaccuracies, or confusions, like this that get very annoying throughout this book. I myself am a professional wrestler for the past 8 years. I’m not famous, and 95% of people wouldn’t recognize my name unless you frequent independent shows in my general area of residence, but as a wrestler it seems that a lot of this book may come off as unprofessional. Alot of it describes a man who always expected, and wanted, the world, without regard for the rest of the boys in the locker room who also had families to feed and bills to pay. I will again say that it is a great book overall, with it’s little annoyances along the way. However, to tell you honestly, there is a lot of it that seems very “crybaby-ish”.
Rating: 3 / 5