Seth Rollins Says Bret Hart Calling Him Unsafe Hurt His Feelings, Reveals Bret Apologized Later

A few years ago, Seth Rollins would have an unfortunate streak where he would cause several huge injuries. Not only would he cause Sting’s intitial retirement from the ring, but he also broke John Cena’s nose and destroyed Finn Balor’s rotator cuff, the source of Finn Balor’s angle in their current feud.

Rollins is now the World Heavyweight Champion, defeating AJ Styles at Night Of Champions 2023 to capture the new championship. Now, he is expected to face off with Finn at Money In The Bank on July 1st.

While speaking with Alex McCarthy for the Daily Mail, Seth Rollins was asked about Bret Hart’s criticism in the past, something that Bret was vocal on, suggesting that Rollins was an unsafe worker.

“I love Bret Hart, I’ll preface this. Bret didn’t really critique me, he called me ‘unsafe’. Bret’s going to spit the truth, he’ll tell you from what he saw he thought I was an unsafe worker, and I would say anybody I’ve ever been in the ring with would tell you the exact opposite, including the guys who have got injured during matches with me – that’s a fact I think.

To finish it up nicely, I did approach Bret at a Hall of Fame induction ceremony. Bret was backstage and we ended up in the catering line together and I said ‘Hey man’ and he said ‘Hey’ and I just said ‘I wanted to tell you as somebody who looked up to you lot and still does – it really kind of hurt my feelings.’

I felt bad and I don’t say that often. Bret was a hero of mine when I was growing up and so to have someone like that criticise you and your work and your work ethic and your empathy towards other people, that really is painful.

So, I expressed that to him and I don’t think he knew that I had that feeling towards him, I don’t think he knew I cared about him that way and it hit him in a spot and he apologised and we have been friends since then and we’ve had good conversations. I’m happy we did do that as Bret is still someone I look up to to this day.”

Seth Rollins

Rollins is certainly happy that Bret would take the comments back and it has been a long time since Seth was involved in an injury in WWE.

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