An excerpt from a book on Bret Hart‘s life shed some light on why Hart has infamously never liked WWE legend Ultimate Warrior.
In 2010, Hart’s autobiography “Hitman: My Real Life in the Cartoon World of Wrestling” contained a passage about Warrior. In it, Hart recalls a time where the WWE Hall of Famer let down a child visiting them from the Make-A-Wish Foundation, who was there to see the star. According to Hart, while every other star said hello to the child, Warrior ended up not saying anything.
The passage recounts how Warrior was gruff when asked about meeting the child. Later in the night, Hart noticed the family was no longer outside of Warrior’s dressing room. He thought they had ultimately met.
However, he later learned the family had been moved backstage to avoid interrupting Warrior’s entrance. Other stars had always taken the time to meet with children, but Hart shared disgust that Warrior ended up not doing it.
In that moment, Hart said his “disgust for Warrior magnified a thousand times.” Now, he viewed him as a “weakling” and a “phony hero” afterward.
The full excerpt can be read below:
I got to see exactly what kind of champion Warrior was during a show in Omaha. Propped up on a stretcher a few feet outside of the dressing room was a Make-A-Wish kid who looked to be down to his last few hours,” reads the passage. “There was not a hair left on his head, and not even his Warrior face paint could mask his sad eyes. Sickly pale and barely breathing through a ventilator tube, the boy wore a purple Warrior T-shirt and green and orange tassels tied around his biceps to honor his hero.
His mother and father and an older brother and sister were with him, patiently waiting for the promised encounter with The Ultimate Warrior. I bent over to say hello, as did all the other wrestlers on the way into the dressing room. It was odd, but there was Warrior actually sitting with us: He usually kept to himself in his private dressing room. By the time the third match started, a WWF public relations rep poked his head in and politely asked Warrior if he was ready to meet the dying boy. Warrior grunted, ‘In a f***in’ minute. I’m busy.’
I thought to myself, ‘Busy doing what, talking to a bunch of guys you can’t stand anyway?’ As the night wore on, the family waited just outside the dressing room door, the boy hanging on to his dying wish to meet his hero.
As I was returning to the dressing room after my match, I was relieved to see that they weren’t there anymore; I assumed that the kid’s wish had come true. Warrior’s entrance music played while Jim and I quickly showered in hopes of beating the crowd out of the building. We’d have to hurry since Warrior never went over ten minutes. We dressed, grabbed our bags, and took off. As we rounded a corner down a backstage ramp, we came upon the boy and his weary family, who had been moved there so as not to get in the way of Warrior’s entrance.
I thought, ‘That lousy piece of s***.’ He’d made them wait all night, unable to summon the compassion to see this real little warrior. Hogan, Randy, and countless others, including André, never hesitated to take the time to meet a sick, dying kid. My disgust for Warrior magnified a thousand times. To me, he was a coward, a weakling, and a phony hero.
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