[1997-12-29-WCW-Nitro] Interview: Bret Hart

[Loss]

Talk about it here.

[Loss]

Bret says the NWO remind him of the scum he just left behind. Bret looks forward to cementing his legacy and having great matches in WCW. He wants to wrestle The Giant, Lex Luger, Sting and Chris Benoit. Hart vows that everyone in the NWO will pay the price and the crowd pops huge when he mentions Hulk Hogan. Oh what might have been.

[Kevin Ridge]

Oh yeah. He should have been thrown immediately into the mix against NWO. Instead he's put up against Flair which is a feud you can do but the focus needed be on him against NWO. Bret makes the challenge against Hogan. Yes, that needed to happen within a few months of Hart's appearance.

[soup23]

This was a great babyface promo by Bret and planted the seeds for perhaps a Starrcade 1998 encounter vs. Hogan. I'm not sure if they could have held off that long but even Superbrawl would have awesome. Bret needed to run the gauntlet vs. the NWO.

[El-P]

Good babyface promo (although a little bit vanilla considering the great promo work he used to do in WWF, but he was always a better heel on the mic anyway) building up to Bret vs Hogan. Of course. Makes sense. Oh, wait...

[PeteF3]

I still hate Bret's music. Still, this is finally a good segment with him--he's put over big as WCW's savior, which finally adds some gravity to his jump. Crowd is still split, though. Big reactions for Bret rattling off the guys he wants to wrestle. Nice of him to throw Benoit in with the other main eventers. Bret then moves on to Hogan and brings up some undoubtedly real feelings when he accuses of Hulk of running away from him--HOW DID THESE TWO NEVER WRESTLE EACH OTHER??!!