Bret Hart self critiques himself as a pro wrestler

Bret ‘Hitman’ Hart has provided some fascinating insight into a scale he personally uses to rate pro wrestlers on his Confessions of the Hitman web series. Hart uses three categories that are worth up to 10 points, evaluating promo skills, wrestling skills and overall look.

 


 

Here is how he rates himself using this scale:

“In my case, I’d say my look, I wasn’t Hulk Hogan. I never pretended to be. I didn’t have the kind of build. I would say I was a seven-out-of-10. I didn’t have a bad look. I looked like an athlete, and I was pretty fit, and I was pretty strong. Yeah, I evolved into a good look. My look wasn’t holding me back. I had a decent gimmick.”

“I sometimes had great mic moments in my career, but it was my weakest area and I knew that. I would give myself a four-out-of-10 or a five-out-of-10 on promo skills. Maybe in my prime, when I was in my best years near the end, I would give myself an eight or a nine, so there is some evolution there, but it was my weak spot.”

“The third category is, how good can he, Bret Hart, actually wrestle? I think on that scale, I’d give myself a nine, maybe a 10. I could wrestle anybody, any shape. You could put me in there with big, huge guys. I could wrestle Andre. I could wrestle Roddy Piper. I could wrestle any size guy. I could wrestle and have a great match with just about anybody.”

What do you think of Bret Hart’s evaluation technique, and how would you rate some of today’s superstars using this criteria?

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