More Bret Hart Notes: Worst Sharpshooters, USA vs. Canada
Added 2020-10-21 18:36:39 +0000 UTCI spoke to Bret promotion of a voiceover role he was doing, and he let me know that originally when he was doing work for the Simpsons, he was supposed to portray a character named "The Mad Viking" accordingly. He wanted to portray himself, but the producers only decided to do it after he was a hit in the Fox offices.
I asked Bret who had the best Sharpshooter besides him, and his answer surprisingly was Sting. He said that Steve Austin, The Rock and Shawn Michaels did pretty terrible ones. The smoothest and easiest people for him to work with were Mr. Perfect, Owen Hart and Randy Savage.
Bret also told me that many of his USA vs. Canada lines -- notably the Pittsburgh enema line -- were fed to him by Vince McMahon. He thinks WWF and Vince McMahon pulled the plug on USA vs. Canada too early, and mentioned that he had so much heat that he had to let the office know that people were following from venues and threatening him.
We'll have no less than a half-dozen articles from this interview in the coming week
