Loss Posted February 18, 2011 Report Share Posted February 18, 2011 Talk about it here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loss Posted May 12, 2011 Author Report Share Posted May 12, 2011 Bret Hart is coming to Mid South Coliseum to settle a score with Jerry Lawler and "all you Southern people in Memphis". Surreal. Bret is awesome! Redneck accent: "What we have here is a failure to communicate." He laments what happened to Owen and vows revenge on this nobody, all while saying these Southern hicks will learn he's serious business, and they'll be crying around him just like they do Elvis! Hell of a promo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BackToBionic Posted March 18, 2012 Report Share Posted March 18, 2012 That southern accent was just awesome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Ridge Posted December 24, 2013 Report Share Posted December 24, 2013 Bret shows his acting range with the "failure to communicate" line towards Memphis fans and it's a beaut. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeteF3 Posted January 8, 2014 Report Share Posted January 8, 2014 WHINY BRET! 1997 comes early! Loved it, loved it, loved it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soup23 Posted June 23, 2015 Report Share Posted June 23, 2015 What a great preview of how much of a cocky bastard Bret could be early in the decade. He gives a great promo here and the Lawler feud has so many facets of complexity to it to make it awesome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DR Ackermann Posted November 10, 2015 Report Share Posted November 10, 2015 Mocking a southern accent was the about the most charisma Bret ever showed. Ironically, I kind of liked him for a second. Other than that, Bret's promo here as a heel isn't much different than his promos as a face, except being unlikeable and whiney suits the character. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garretta Posted October 1, 2016 Report Share Posted October 1, 2016 Like DR said, this isn't much doifferent from Bret's WWF face promos except for his insults toward the Memphis fans. Cut those lines out or give them to Lawler and you could run these promos to hype a main event match on Raw or at Madison Square Garden. It's the context and geography that makes this feud what it is, much like the later stuff between Bret and Austin, which this is actually a nice little dress rehearsal for, albeit three years early. I liked that Bret mentioned Owen as one of his prime motivations for wanting to kick Lawler's ass, which again makes me wonder why Owen never mentioned Bret during his promo after his 7/3 MSC match with Lawler. The fact that Bret is only now coming to Memphis reinforces my theory that the USWA wasn't sure when or if Bret would be able to come in, and thus didn't want to center their portion of the feud around someone who was potentially never going to show up. Bret uses both "Excellence of Execution" and "Best There is, Was, or Ever Will Be" here when he wasn't doing so regularly for the WWF audience yet. I wonder if Bret liked the way those phrases sounded so much here that he chose to use them more often than he already was back in New York. If that's true, he made a wise choice, as those are the taglines that he'll be best known by for the rest of his life. Interesting that Bret does what Lawler does when he's a heel: completely bury his opponent to the point that one is left to wonder why he's even bothering to wrestle the match. Somehow or other, it sounds more organic when Bret does it, which isn't surprising given that at this point he's still been a heel for the majority of his career. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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