Bret Hart Reveals He Regrets Leaving WWE For WCW After The Montreal Screwjob: “I Probably Wouldn’t Have Had To Wrestle Goldberg”

Bret Hart was the reigning WWE champion at the time and refused to drop the title to his real-life rival Shawn Michaels and therefore, Vince McMahon decided to screw Hart out of the title at Survivor Series 1997, the last night of his contract. Hart mentioned that although he was proud to stand up for himself, but regrets the bad blood between himself and Shawn Michaels for years and his decision to join WCW.

Bret Hart spoke about this on The Ringer, where he was quite candid in retrospect.

“I wish that none of the bad history that we had had ever happened. I wished I’d never left for WCW because I probably wouldn’t have had a stroke and I probably wouldn’t have had to wrestle Bill Goldberg.”

Bret Hart on The Ringer

Bret Hart’s run did not turn out to be the way he visioned it. While he was the marquee attraction in WWE, his lackluster run in WCW saw him being featured in meaningless storylines due to poor creative direction. 

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