Bret Hart in WCW | Wrestling With Wregret 

Bret & Sting should've been the combo that tipped the scale against the NWO.

Bret's arguably biggest problem in WCW is that he was going from a place where one of the biggest politicians in the business was in Shawn Michaels, to an a place with an ever BIGGER politician in Hulk Hogan, as well as where two of Shawn's best friends in Hall & Nash. There was no way he was going to get a decent shake in WCW.

I think the main problem of WCW was that everyone was turning on each other to the point that the shock factor was all but gone.

13 years-old Brian looks older than present-day Brian.

God, even present day TNA would have booked Bret better than WCW did back then.

Bret Hart should have been placed in a feud with Hogan right from the start over the WCW World title. WCW could have toured all over the world with this main event and grew the company

Nick Patrick selling Bret Hart's punch is my favorite thing ever.

Poor Bret, seriously he was respected and well liked by all accounts backstage and in the ring, but he just couldn't adjust with the new era being promoted, that just wasn't him, he liked being the hero. Then Owen died, plus the concussion, plus the stroke, plus the overall pain of being a wrestler. I respect him.

His work in 96/97 is unrivaled. He is underrated in terms of legacy. After his match with the bulldog at summerslam 92 He was genuinely adored in Europe.

I love the switch to 4:3 for younger Brian.

Adam from WhatCulture watching this: I have an idea for how wcw should have booked.

Those Benoit and Bret matches we're 5 stars all the way.

I can describe Bret Hart's WCW run in 2 words: *WASTED. POTENTIAL.*

I started watching wrestling in 1999. I remember hearing so much about Bret Hart, how he was the greatest in ring wrestler ever and all this other stuff. But I had never actually seen him wrestle. I even had an action figure of him. Watching these old shows now, I see how much I missed out. Bret was truly amazing, it’s a shame his career was cut short.

How WCW should've booked Bret Hart: First make him come in as a hero and keep his momentum he had from the screwjob. His target is to destroy WWE by drawing ratings dor WCW wich is realistic. People understand that. So his first target is to save WCW from the NWO. Hogan just lost the title (CLEAN) to Sting at Starrcade. Bret confronts the NWO and gets into a the feud with them. Just before Souled Out he gets support by Sting and Randy Savage. They defeat the NWO in a 6 men tag match at Souled Out with Bret pinning Hall. At the next PPV Hart faces sting in a fair face vs face match for the title but loses. On a Nitro episode Nash wins the title and drops him to Hogan in a Fatal 4 Way (Sting, Hart, Nash, Hogan) at the next PPV. At the following PPVs Hart defeats Nash and Hall before facing Hogan at The American Bash for the title. But again he isn't able to win the big gold in WCW beacause od NWO shennanigans. On the next Nitro he goes on a rampage on every NWO member backstage so Bischhoff has a reason to fire him. Bret takes time off to heel from injuries at this place beacause its fits better to the Story. Just before Starrcade 98 he comes back to face the Champion Goldberg for the title he won on Halloween Havoc (CLEAN) from Hogan. In the build up to the Starrcade match Bret shows a very aggressiv side beacause he isn't able to win gold in WCW. In the match with Goldberg it looks like Bret is just to weak to do it but then Hall and Nash interfere and help Hart defeating Goldberg (and the streak). On Nitro they kick Hogan out of the NWO. He is the new leader! In following year Hart can have great matches with babyface challengers like DDP, Booker T, Chris Benoit, Savage and Sting. until he vacates the title beacause of the Owen Hart tragody. The returning yellow-orange Hulkster wins a tournament for the title in a tournament. Just before Starrcade 99 Bret returns. He gets the role of a 'justified heel'. He got mistreated in the past by the WWF and by Hulk Hogan (do you remember?). They build a very personal feud up between Hulk and Bret ending with Bret tapping out Hogan in the Main Evenr of Starrcad in the Sharpshooter and winning the title.

I'll be fair and say that bringing Bret into the fold of what they were doing was really difficult, but mostly because Hogan didn't want to feud with him (even after Bret's run as the top guy in the whole business). It's not like Bret signed and showed up unexpectedly the very next day. They knew he was coming, and they still didn't have anything planned. WCW ran their show like that, though. They'd bring in tons of talent without a plan for how to use them. Bret should have showed up, done his anti-WWE ranting, then turned his full attention to Hogan. They never should have gotten along on-screen at all. Not even as a heel. The steel plate was the only great thing Bret did in WCW. It was masteful.

I wonder what would happen if he actually took time to heal after the kick from Goldberg instead of continuing to wrestle heavily concussed. Yeah, we can blame a botchy move for ending his career but he wrestled in 3-4 matches after that didn't he?

4:23 i think he actually just killed that ref lol. Ragdoll physics engaged!

Switching to a 4:3 ratio for 13 year old Zane is a nice touch.

Speaking of Chad Fortune, he's one of two people who switched from wrestling to driving monster trucks when WCW started running trucks with the USHRA Monster Jam tour, the other one was Madusa... Madusa obviously drove her own truck, but I'm not sure if Fortune drove the nWo truck or the Nitro Machine truck (the other trucks being the Sting truck and the Goldberg truck which is actually still racing as Maximum Destruction, and by still racing I mean it still uses the "futuristic suv" body and is driven by Tom Ments)

+10000 for the Clue movie reference.

Your channel is so underrated. 155k subscribers is a crime. This is such a good and detailed channel and got me back into wrestling in 2016!! Keep up the good work Brian!

Can someone make a gif of the little kid yelling "Bread!" and having Bret Hart's head replaced with a loaf of bread?

Ok, that shoutout to the movie "Clue" had me in stitches. Well played.

I'd like to see more WCW stuff, as a kid I was a WWF fan but here in Australia wrestling was sometimes hard to come by until around 1998, so I often watched WCW out of pure thirst for wrestling, but I always asserted that WWF was better, these days however I look at what they were doing and I can respect it and I'm having lots of fun rediscovering WCW and seeing it with mature eyes, especially around the time WWF was going through their ridiculous "New Generation" Phase which saw some of the worst gimmicks tried out (Repo Man anyone?) When WCW were hitting their stride with supposed washed up wrestlers like Hogan and Savage.

I love the aspect ratio switch when it goes to Young Brian

I've got to say Brain, you've not changed at all since 13, congrats on not aging

I always considered Bret "retired" after Montreal. There's not much after that.

I would have booked Bret Hart against El Dandy, because he's a ring technician and a real jam-up guy 🤔

lmfao the Clue movie reference made me laugh so hard

It's always great to see a new video on your channel. Always seems like you come up with something new to these videos and feels so fresh. Keep up the good work!

His heel run in 1998-1999 was awesome though. Yeah, maybe he should have been in the world title picture, but he did have some great moments with guys like DDP and Booker T. He was booked well as someone who should be feared and wanted to force people into retirement.

Legend has it that if you're early Brian will reply.

Zane, thank you for providing great content such as this. It cheers me up after enduring a long and tiring day. Thank you once again

this are the best kind of videos...bring more of these...

Fun Fact: Will Sasso would also parody and 'face off' with Stone Cold Steve Austin. I'm pretty sure the Bret Hart/Sasso 'feud' actually started with Bret still in the WWF and then floated over to WCW later on. I'm pretty sure Sasso did a skit about Bret when he was WWF champion or something.

Wcw only pushed the old guys like Hogan savage and Nash. They should have created new stars like the Wwf did

You should do more of this type of series. So many wrestlers during the monday night wars that went back and forth with two different companies that were misused. I think the next one you should do is with Goldust when he went back to WCW.

absolutely outstanding, please do more of these periodic reviews.

I love the 4:3 ratio for past Brian.

Who are you to doubt El Dandy?

Brian Zane is my favorite RU-vidr over all. Never stop plz

Good commentary Brian. That "shell of himself" statement from Bishoff is blullshit. Bret didn't look like a shell when he was tearing the house down w Benoit, Booker T, & even DDP. I was wondering where did that piece of footage of HBK having BRET in the Sharpshooter come from? Looks like it was shot from the aisle where the entrance would be. Is it from WWShawdows? TY

Always enjoyed your missed opportunities videos, and this one was the most interesting as I have very little viewing experience of WCW. I thought the metal plate angle was badass, but can't believe how much they botched the rest of his run. Shame he got hurt before he could really flourish.

Clue references never get old. Quality video as always Zane.Also, MAD TV cast mates turning heel on each other. Until you brought that up, my brain had purged that from it's memory.

*Wonder when we're getting a video on Hulk Hogan and Ric Flair in TNA*

Great video👍 It was a great time to watch Wrestling! the Monday night Wars was life 10/19/22

I love your Clue reference with the title cards to describe the multiple endings.

Dude I love how you just have random topics like this. Such a great topic that doesn't get touched on enough, and you do a great job educating those (like myself) who might not know everything about it. Huge fan, Brian! Please keep doing these!

Bret in the WWF=The best there is, was, and ever will be! Bret in WCW=The kick from Goldberg said it all! Wasted! I think Bret Hart became extremely depressed after he went to WCW. Vince, Shawn, and Triple H should have handled the situation better. Although Bret was in WCW during Owen's death, I think that also played a role in his depression when he was there. Bret Hart got the same treatment as Steve Austin, Vader, Marc Mero, and Syxx (X-Pac), just to name a few wrestlers that got fired from WCW via FedEx. If only Bret and Shawn had gotten along, the Montreal Screwjob wouldn't have taken place. #loyalwregretter #Z-A-N-E #fellowaspies P.S. 13 year old Zane definitely had a bone to pick with both the WWF and WCW! LOL! To think I was 16 when the Screwjob took place!

Great vid! Huge Bret Hart fan, and I have to agree with most of what Brian said. I believe he had one more appearance that wasn't mentioned, a WCW PPV in Kitchener Ontario. Too lazy to wiki it. And technically his last match was in WWE, the awful WM27 match vs Vince McMahon Also mention or a clip of Bret's "El Dandy Promo" would have made this a 10/10 And I kinda marked out when the Mayhem PPV was brought up. Was a great PPV for WCW, and Bret also had a great match with Sting that night. Can finally prouldy say "I was there"! Me and a few buds stole our folks truck and drove the 8hours to see the WWE Houseshow at SkyDome the night before and the WCW PPV the sunday. Also met of all people Chris Benoit at a Pizza Pizza that day, even made he and Nancy laugh. Thanks for the great content Brian, excellent as usual!

That Leafs jersey/suit of armour thing was amazing. I think the angle was in Toronto so it got an even bigger pop

Bret Hart's time in WCW is almost as big a waste as Earnest The Cat Miller's time in WCW

The only good thing about Bret's run in WCW was seeing him and Mr Perfect having one more match on PPV. ✌

Great video Brian. Really hope this doesnt get blocked by the wwe. Video footage ads so much to these.

Good stuff, Brian. Pretty spot-on analysis as usual.

facing terry funk in a hardcorre match is one of the most dangerous things you can do to your body

hey hey hey, don't blame the weed. I'm constantly baked and even I know Bret in the nWo was a horrible idea

You missed Bret Hart's El Dandy promo. That was possibly one of the greatest promos of all time!

just re-watched the brawl for all video. go back to the subscription page and BOOM! more Brian

Bret Hart as a wrestler = pure class. Seems like a nice guy as well who sticks to his principles. Never saw him have a bad match in WWF.

When it cut to 1997 Brian, I couldn't stop laughing at how perfect his specs were for this time period, as if he kept them in a safe just for this moment

Quality computer simulation there, Brian. You're working with some of the finest wrestling simulation software available!

Cool episode man! Learned many things i didn't know! Keep it up

OMG how many times did he turn face and heel?

Another classic! Thanks!

As an avid fan of WCW during the Monday Night War, I still remember that the 4/20/98 edition of Nitro was the night when Goldberg's streak went to 75-0 after he defeated Raven for the U.S. Title. Of course, this was also the night when Nash set the gears in motion for the formation of NWO Wolfpack.

enjoyed seeing Bret wrestle many wrestlers I would have never seen him fight against in the WWF like Booker T, DDP, Luger, sting, Macho Man, and as some of the other up-and-coming wrestlers

Personal tragedies aside, you have to remember too that Bret went to WCW just as their downward spiral began. It was a serious case of "wrong place, wrong time".

Really good topic! And really good review as always Brian

another great review of an era man!

I love the Computer Simulation with Revenge lol.

Bret Hart in WCW at least did better than DDP in WWF....

Best video of the season so far!

"You're half lizard and half troll..you don't got what it takes to beat me, you never did, and you never will" Bret promo on Randy Savage 1998.

You're a great host, keep it up Brian.

bret hart had my favourite wcw moment ever, when he had his leafs jersey on and under it the steel plate which goldberg speared.

love these videos sooooo much

Great video as always

That got really dark near the end with that High-school joke.

Great vid brian i loved the gta 5 wasted spot lol.

02:23, love the joy in Brian’s face.

His WCW run could have been EPIC....

For those of you who weren't around at the time or just didn't watch WCW, imagine seeing The Undertaker or John Cena in TNA. Weird, right? Well Bret Hart in WCW wasn't quite as bizarre as that but it was up there. I compare it to Eric Bischoff's Raw debut for the fans who watched in that era. It was just not something we thought we'd see. Bret seemed like a WWF guy through and through. If anything we expected Michaels to jump ship but not Bret. Never Bret.

9:19 why is bret hart fighting himself ?

Fave wrestler and fave RU-vidr. Damn, its gonna be good!

That grand theft auto scene was awesome great play on words loved it

i hope the Kayfabe Kitchen will comeback soon... i really like that format^^

This is just making me sad. I love you Bret ❤you are the true best 😍

i just noticed the post-it over Hogan's face on the lunchbox lol niice !!!

That Clue reference just blew my mind. Instant subscribe. 🤩😍🤩

To Will's credit, he was willing to take hard, believable bumps.

brian zane u should do wwe 2k17 my career and do a universe mode with how u would book things

Brian Zane kicks ass!! I hope they put him on the network someday!

Your videos are the best there is, best there are and the best there ever will be.

Brian, will you be doing a review of WWE 2K17 when it comes out?

That WWF hat is so insanely sweet.

I love your Clue reference Brian!

Bret's sharpshooter always kinda looked like he was squatting down to take a shit imo lol

0:57 pretty much sums up your typical 90s kid playing with WWF toys