Hitman: My Real Life in the Cartoon World of Wrestling
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- ISBN13: 9780446545280
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- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Forget everything you thought you knew about the insane world of professional wrestling. The sixth son of legendary Canadian wrestling promoter Stu Hart, Bret Hart was born into wrestling royalty. From his early twenties until he retired at forty-three, Hart kept an audio diary, recording tales of the wrestling life: the relentless travel, the practical jokes, the sex and steroids and cocaine, and the real rivalries (as opposed to the staged ones that unfolded before the fans).
While Hart achieved superstardom in pink tights and won multiple wrestling belts in multiple territories (Stampede Wrestling, WWE, WCW to name a few), he also paid a severe fee in betrayals and in tragic deaths, inlcuding the horrifying loss of his brother Owen, who died in a ring stunt gone incorrect. Before long thereafter, Bret suffered a massive stroke, likely resulting from a concussion he received in the ring, but with the spirit of a right champion, has battled his way back.
Widely considered by many of his peers as the greatest technician and worker of his generation, Hart is proud that in all his years in the sport, he never seriously hurt a single wrestler, yet did his best to deliver to his fans an experience as credible as it was exciting. No one has ever written about wrestling like Bret Hart because no one has ever lived a life like Bret Hart. These are the words of the Hitman.
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The title of this book pretty much tells you what is incorrect with it in that it is allegedly Bret Hart’s “Real Life in the Cartoon World of Wrestling.” As a fan of professional wrestling for about 25 years I can tell you that nothing in professional wrestling is real and it is all fake no matter what washed up wrestlers like Hart and Hogan or their fans on the internet want you to judge. Bret Hart in the early 1990’s was agreed the gimmick of being “the best, there is, the best there was, the best there ever will be” in the fictional world of professional wrestling and some how in his warped mind he bought into it to the point that it consumed his entire being. This book is the essential Hart ego trip as he continues his never ending quest to sell the world that everything in professional wrestling is fake except for him and his glorious career as the greatest ever (despite him being a perfect financial flop whenever he was on top of professional wrestling).
If you are a huge fan of Bret’s then you can buy the book and delight in Bret’s like letter to himself. Of course it is nothing you can not read all over the internet for free and it is not any different than what Bret’s toadies in the wrestling media like Meltzer and Scherer have written forever. The only difference in this Bret Hart ego stroking to previous Hart ego strokings is that Hart has now cast Triple H as the main villian who opposes the real greatness of Bret Hart in the WWF despite the fact that Triple H had no political pull or power in the WWF until 1999. Ex- Hart top villian Shawn Michaels is now down to number 2 top villian because Triple H’s name sells more books at this point and Vince McMahon is down to Hart’s number 3 villian against Hart’s self professed greatness because McMahon and Hart are back to doing business together on DVD releases and merchandising (they kissed and made up).
This book pretty much omits anything that really makes Hart look terrible and rewrites history to Hart’s specifications. Hart blatantly lies and says that Shawn Michaels did not have the knee injury in 1997 that place Michaels out of wrestling for the better part of 6 months including the largest show of the year Wrestlemania 13. This of course would be news to Michaels, McMahon, and Doctor James Andrews who did the surgery on the knee of Shawn Michaels. In Hart’s fantasy world Shawn Michaels faked his knee injury and addiction to pain killers because Michaels was supposed to drop the World title to Hart at Wrestlemania 13 (Hart wants you to judge everyone in wrestling cares about predetermined match outcomes and fixed championships as he delusionally does) despite the fact that no real evidence exists to support this and Hart finished up not even being in the championship picture until Michaels came back from injury (Undertaker was world champion after Wrestlemania 13 after beating Sid for the title at Wrestlemania 13).
There is no tell all here as all Bret confesses to is his so called sex addiction, which is the same addiction you can read in any male celebrity’s book now at days (see Batista’s book). It is cool and studly to be a sex addict (with girls of course) lacking the negative publicity and shame attached to drug or alcohol addiction, so every athlete or pseudo athlete since Wilt Chamberlain has claimed a sex addiction in their books in some form (while hiding their drugs and drinking as much as possible). Nothing new in here about the Montreal Screw Job in 1997 because all that is ever going to be publicly unrestricted on that topic already has been unrestricted (aspects such as that Hart was supposed to show up on WCW television with the WWF title get left out as permanently because persons aspects make McMahon, Bischoff, and Hart look grubby and stupid). Bret of course does not take any personal responsibility for the decline of his career and Montreal (even though it was Bret who declined at Survivor Series and for weeks before Survivor Series to do business the right way and drop the title before leaving the WWF) as everything is a massive screw job conspiracy against the “real” greatness of Bret Hart involving the usual suspeacts (even in WCW, it was all Triple H / Michaels / McMahon).
If you are going to read this book, then just take everything with a grain of salt and do not blindly judge any of it. Also read the biographies of additional wrestlers like Flair and Michaels to get their side of the tales Hart tells (take them with a grain of salt too because all wrestlers are self promoting flim flam artists who are out to promote themselves and their view of history). I would recommend getting the Bret Hart DVD box set that McMahon place out a couple of years ago as a replacement for of this book because that at least has some excellent matches on it to balance out Hart’s dry egotism. In all-purpose, wrestling biographies after Foley’s second biography have been completely worthless (including Foley’s last book, the god dreadful Hardcore Diaries) because they are all repetitive, biased, dry, and uninformative for right wrestling fans who are not interested in past slanting by wrestlers and their puppets in the wrestling media.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Buy this book!Its gonna be fantastic.Bret Hart is the best there is,the best there was,and the best there ever will be as you will find out in this book.This is gonna be a must read for every “Hitman” fan out there.I cant wait for its relief.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
Bret Hart is a gentleman and I will never forget you. You deserve all the best od what life has to offer. You is a fantastic guy. You loved the sport and just wanted respect, just as you have permanently agreed everyone. I miss you Bret.
D. Getz
NJ
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
I came into this book with an open mind. But, Bret Hart’s book was supposedly based on “fact” because he carried around a tape recorder for twenty years so he’d remember, right? Not reasonably, too many times things seemed to change to make Bret look like the excellent guy when events have been noted to have happened different ways in additional books.
It was nice to see a lot of things from Bret’s perspective, but let’s get real, the man has been whining non stop for nearly 12 years now…did you reflect the book was going to be any different?
Hogan? Sure, everyone had an issue with Hogan, but Bret, who do you reflect packed persons arenas for you before you and Anvil had ever place pink on the first time?
Flair? Bret, when you try to say that Flair isn’t one of the best workers AND ring generals of all time, you place yourself in a class with Scotty Steiner…when it comes to common sense, not a excellent class to be in.
Michaels? Why Bret? Because he did what the boss said? Because he had clearly surpassed you both in and out of the ring? Because he is still one of the top 5 wrestlers in North America today? I will give Bret credit for one thing when it comes to Shawn though, he never EVER tried to say Shawn wasn’t a fantastic worker…there is no way he could have said that and had anyone judge another word of his book.
But, if you got around the “everyone screwed me, I’m the best there is…” crap, you got some fantastic insight into the locker room and the Hart Family tree. Take it with a grain of salt, of course, but it was still very, very appealing.
Very well written, very eloquent, very excellent tale…if you could have just stopped all the whining you would have nearly has something as excellent as Jericho and Foley’s debut books…nearly.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
Excellent wishes,
I ordered the book straight from amazon (Canada) because Bret means a lot to me ! As a person, as my hero when I was growing up, as a consummate professional, tale teller (Face or Heel), technical wrestler. Could not wait for the relief in the US (2008).
Besides who knows, you never know what WWE will try to do to edit the book.
I loved the fact that Bret took us in details to all the events of his life, these events were all part of history and have been documented either on TV or PPV. I am truly glad that it is not a WWE book. Otherwise you would read half the book in its honest truth. I read that WWE wanted to edit nearly 400 pages out of the book.
Vince admitted that he lied to Bret, Vince did not appreciate what Bret did for WWE. And for the record Bret place sold more tickets than Shawn Michaels did. As a matter of fact, right after the infamous “Montreal Screw Job” Shawn only held the title for 4-5 months, simply because he was not carrying the company like Bret did.
Steve Austin on the additional hand was the main draw after Bret.
Anyway, Vince may look like the last one to laugh, but I am telling you eventually karma will catch up with him.
I can clearly see that the business now is a joke. I miss the excellent ol 80’s-1997 wrestling business. Where you can really watch it with your family tree. Now, my hand is holding the remote control fearing something obscene may show on TV.
Anyway, the book will show you how:
1. The business was, and what it is today.
2. The dirty politics and the right colors of the people you reflect you can trust. (Shawn swearing (lying) that he did not know about the screw job).
3. Learn more about yesterday’s legends and how they were supportive to one another.
4. More about our beloved late star Owen.
5. Drugs & substance abuse, and the business needs to give more awareness towards such matters. We have lost too many stars at a very young age.
6. Bret is a human beings like all of us, he had went through a series of tragedies and challenges that he over came eventually at a very expensive fee. Nevertheless, he was strong and never gave up. I feel he is truly a strong determined man.
7. Bret could have easily bashed the wrestlers who spoke negatively about him in their written books. But, as a replacement for brought out points that we have heard over and over again from additional wrestlers. So you can tell that he is trying to be honest when criticizes some of the talents. In fact, he did write the pros and cons of the talents that he criticized.
8. Every family tree has its share of problems and the Hart family tree is not an exception (Only hoped that we did not see the dirty laundry in public).
I have read many autobiographies for wrestlers, and my favorite books belong to Mick Foley, Bret Hart, Booby Henan (random order). Hogan’s book is too sugar covered and seems to hide a number of facts, Shawn Michaels book (IMHO) was loaded with lies.
I will not say that I am boycotting WWE, but I lost interest ever since:
1. Vince McMahon screwed Bret and many others (Cant respect WWE’s product or vision).
2. No more WCW, therefore WWE does not bother in putting a decent weekly show, since we do not have an alternative (WRONG ! I’ll watch any additional show).
3. Ever since HHH got to be part of choice building/writing/marrying Stephine.
4. Supporting a company that is not properly applying the drug hard policy.
5. A company so selfish that it is not supporting a union (or a similar concept to protect the workers who were loyal to WWE).
I promise you that eventually HHH would end up doing something very stupid and he will be screwed by Vince just like that.
I have truly loved reading the book, laughed and cried. I know that you know that pro wrestling in many ways maybe predetermined, but:
1. The injuries are real.
2. What goes behind the scenes is also very real.
3. Traveling from one place to another, the pain the exhaustion and homesick is very real, and will impact the morale and health on the talent.
4. Both skilled & Unskilled wrestlers may perform moves that can really place more than a dent on their opponents (whether intentional or not).
5. The screw job was lacking a doubt real, and could have been avoided, or at least worked out.
Bret’s career has been through vital points of the business and was an eye witness to milestones in the business such as:
1. Wrestling apt a mainstream phenomena in the early 80’s.
2. Wrestlemania 1-13.
3. Beginning of Raw.
4. The birth of Stone Cold Steve Austin & The Rock.
5. WWF/WWE new Attitude Era.
6. Monday Night Rating Wars.
7. Being part of the WCW roster.
8. The sudden untimely deaths of young talents who did not reach the age of 50.
All the above eight points have been talked about from the eyes of Bret Hart.
I will say that, I know that more than 10 years have passed since the screw job, and I am not bitter about it, but, we must learn the lesson, since this could take place to any wrestler, in fact it could take place to you at work. So work hard at what you do, but not all people can be trusted.
And yes we should not be bitter, but I feel that one reason behind the business is in the dark ages today is because of Vince’s fleeting sight backstabbing, and the cheap actions and treachery of Shawn and HHH the business may take some time till it really sees the light at the end of that tunnel.
In the end, if Vince failed to show the proper respect that Bret has earned time and time again, I have NOT. As a result, thank you Bret Hart for being a professional all the way. We truly loved watching you whether you were a face or a heel. You have been a fantastic hero to many of us. We appreciate the fact that you were a fantastic tale teller in the ring. And we truly hope you a pleased successful and most of all a healthy life.
The bottom line is pro wrestling is dead to me, ever since:
1. Bret retired.
2. The death of Owen Hart, WWE being unprofessional by putting its talents in unsafe stunts.
3. The death of too many talented superstars.
4. Lack of competition (WCW and ECW out of business).
5. Lame rosters.
6. Shallow tale-lines.
And many many more reasons.
Thanks & Delight in,
Nawaf
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5