Bret Hart Speaks On Triple H, Enzo Amore’s Injury, WWE Payback

WWE Hall of Famer Bret Hart talked about the atmosphere backstage at WWE Payback after Enzo Amore’s injury and his interaction with Triple H during the last episode of The Sharpshooter Show. Here are the highlights.

On his experience at the show: “I had a great time. I enjoyed it immensely. I got to spend some quality time with Nattie. It was clearly a busy, hectic week for her but we found the time. I’d say it was a very positive, successful weekend. I thought it was great. I can’t say enough about the ovation I got in Chicago. It was awesome. Great. A lot of memories walking around at the what I know as The Rosemont. A lot of memories. We were walking the way you walk out to the ring and the whole walk from the dressing room is the same walk it always was. Just doing that brought back so many memories. I could remember sitting on the ringside with Steve Austin prior to us wrestling. I remember when I was with Nattie talking about the match we were sitting in the same spot doing the same thing I used to do with Steve Austin. For me personally it was a lot of good memories. The Rosemont was always, and I can say this with pride, I always worked my hardest there. I always tried to give them 100% every time I ever wrestled in that building. Whether it was WrestleMania 2 in the big battle royal or even with Steve Austin at WrestleMania XIII. I’m curious if any of the fans remember an awesome cage match I had with Shawn Michaels. Whether it was the blood in the match or maybe because it was one of the best cage matches in WWE history that no one remembers or is talked about because it wasn’t on television. It was a house show. For me, going back to The Rosemont brought back so many memories. Seeing all the wrestlers, I got treated so well by so many of them. From Stephanie to Shane to… everybody. Just seeing everybody. I got to see Sasha Banks and I think she’s a big listener of the show, funny enough. You’d be surprised how many of the wrestlers had positive things to say about The Sharpshooter Show. I was surprised to know how many of them are listening and riveted to every word that we’re saying. Even some of the referees and stuff.”

On his interaction with Triple H: “We met and we talked but it was nothing special. If anything it was just more about our health. We had some more laughs than anything about Ric Flair and stuff like that. Triple H was very cordial to me and treated me like a million bucks. He treated me great and I have no complaints about anything. He treated me really good and so did Stephanie for that matter. With Stephanie I felt that she was honestly or genuinely worried about me when I had the cancer. I think she was just really glad to see me. Maybe it was the same with Triple H. That can never be a bad thing. I sensed a lot of sincerity there on everyone’s part. From Vince down to Triple H to Shane. Shane was very gracious and had some really nice things to say about me that I had forgot about. I was a very protective guy of Shane years ago when he was just a young guy in the business. I looked out for him a lot and I think it was nice for him to tell me that. That he never forgot how much I looked out for him and protected him from a lot of the vices and evils that were lurking about in pro wrestling.”

On Enzo Amore’s injury:

It was pretty serious. There was almost like a gut churning, black cloud over everybody’s demeanor. Flair looked like somebody shot him in the chest. He was horrified. He said to me, “He broke his neck.” They took him to the hospital. He seemed very upset and a lot of the other wrestlers were upset. Luckily within a few minutes everyone was like, “Nah, it’s ok. He’s hurt. He’s got concussion symptoms but he didn’t break his neck.” There was a lot of relief. I saw a replay of it. Even when I saw the replay. I didn’t see the full replay, just the tail end of it, with him falling in to the ropes and then falling out of the ring. I am not sure whose fault it was or what happened but I will say that those ropes are so tight. The wrestling ropes. They are almost like iron bars that go across the ring. I don’t even know if they are real ropes anymore. They are so stiff. You could literally walk from one corner to the other on top of them if you could do a tightrope walk. They are so taut. Just hitting those with your head or face can be pretty… I think Jericho hit the same ropes with his nose, if you noticed. His nose was bleeding. I’m not sure if it was the guy who threw him in the ropes or he was trying to fall through the ropes.

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