Bret Hart: I Told Gunther To His Face That Chops And Hurting People For Real Is Bullshit

Bret Hart has never shied away from giving his opinion on the state of professional wrestling.

Bret has often noted that he doesn’t like chops and has critiqued Gunther in the past.

Speaking on The Masked Man Show, Bret provided further insight to his disdain for chops.

“The best wrestling has to pretend to be real. That’s what I did, I tried to make it as real as I could. Contrary to that Gunther guy, who seems like a nice enough guy when I met him, but I hate wrestlers that hurt each other on purpose. I hate it when you’re out there and getting beat up and hurt by a guy for real. Like chops. Who ever won a fight with a chop? What a waste of time. Ric Flair is famous for bringing the chops the way they are now. My dad used to tell wrestlers at Stampede, ‘Nobody ever beat anybody with a chop.’ It’s true. They hurt, they look like shit. They make a big slap sound, but they hurt. When you get chopped by somebody like Ric flair for a 30 minute match and he chops you 15 times, your whole chest the next day is bruises. It hurts to put a shirt on. I used to wrestle Ric Flair and wake up going, ‘Why am I hurting so much? Doesn’t Ric Flair know it’s a show?’ It’s not supposed to be real. I’m not supposed to wake up with a really sore chest.

“I have no respect for guys that hurt each other all the time. It’s just to me, lazy, shit wrestling when guys like Gunther…I’ve told him this to his face, it’s bullshit. When you’re hurting somebody for real, you’re unprofessional. I wrestled guys and never hurt anybody.”

Bret and Gunther shared the ring on the September 9, 2024 episode of WWE Raw with Gunther saying Goldberg was his favorite wrestler.

Elsewhere during the interview, Bret commented on Hulk Hogan’s passing. You can find his comments here.