WWE Hall of famer Bret Hart, recently conducted an interview with fightful. He discussed his time in WCW and mentioned when the time where he almost had a cat accompany him to the ring.
“The Hitman” has been outspoken about his WCW run not living up to expectations. He discussed in the interview, a time when he was asked to cut a promo, when his character had no direction or storyline. He ended up talking about something random that entertained him, and surprisingly WCW actually liked it.
Bret’s comments have been included below:
“I had nothing to talk about. I’m going out and I’m ranting about WCW fans, they have no respect,” I’m sitting there going, ‘What else do I got to say? I don’t have anything to say. I don’t know who I’m fighting or where I’m going, what I’m doing.’ I remember I got really frustrated, I went out and talked about my cat. I talked about my cat was my only fan, Smokey the cat. My cat was named Smokey. But, I remember it was the stupidest interview ‘cause I had nothing to talk about. It was almost sarcastic to make it clear to Bischoff in the back, ‘I don’t have anything to talk about.’ The best I can come up with is my cat. I just remember when I came back to the dressing room, Eric Bischoff goes, ‘I loved the part about the cat.’ He goes, ‘I loved it.’ I remember scratching my head and thinking, ‘For the money these guys are paying me, they’ve sure got some stupid people here.’”
Bret would go in to discuss, when he actually pitched an idea to have Smokey the cat accompany him to the ring:
“I actually remember giving him an idea about the cat, putting the cat carrier and having the cat in my corner all the time. He said he loved it. It never went anywhere, like everything in WCW. Yeah. I actually had an idea where the cat, I’d have a real cat all the time in my corner, and then for one of the matches I would put a stuffed toy cat in my cat carrier and I would have a zipper on it. I would stick the insides of the cat with a brick and then when I was in peril in the match I would reach in, say, a boston crab or something like that, or some kind of a hold where I’m in jeopardy. I would open my cage door, reach through, grab the cat by the tail, swing it and hit the wrestler over the head with the brick and win the match with a stuffed cat with a brick. But, I remember it was almost like a rib to see if they would just do it. Actually, to be honest, it would have been better than anything they did have me do at that time. Anyway, that never came to fruition. Sometimes you gotta just make up stuff on the go all the time”
Thankfully for ‘The Hitman’ the storyline never happened.
Bret Hart has been busy, he is set to appear on a new episode of Corner Gas Animated on CTV Comedy on Monday, October 26. He also has a new 35-part web series titled “Confessions of the Hitman” that you can subscribe to on his site.
You can see the full interview, that fightful conducted with with Bret “The Hitman” Hart below:
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