Bret Hart On His WMXII Iron Man Match w/ Shawn Michaels: “I Think It Was The Greatest Match Of All Time”

Bret’s in-depth analysis of his WrestleMania XII Iron Man Match begins at the 29:05 minute mark in the embedded audio player. Some of his transcribed quotes cab be found below it: 

On what spot in the WrestleMania XII Iron Man Match he thought really helped the match the most:

Bret: I will tell you this much, I don’t think anyone realized it at the time, one of the things I thought really made the match was that spot where Shawn hit the post and then staggered on top of the time keeper. Tony Chimel is his name. He threw me in and I sat on the guy’s lap and Shawn came over and gave the big Superkick and wound up taking out the time keeper. You know, when you’re having an hour match it’s really hard to keep everyone’s attention. The hardest part of an hour match is around that 20-25 minute mark where they start going all out, “These two guys aren’t going to wrestle an hour. My God!” It’s starts to become a bit of, “Oh, we don’t want to see that.” That spot where we took out Tony Chimel and they took him out in a stretcher, it really just got us over that hump. Maybe that 5-10 minute period where the match could get a little bit boring. Where they kind of wait for something special to happen. It was just such a great little spot that probably no one really noticed but it got us over the hump of the boring part of the match. Where you swap holds and go back and forth and back and forth and back and forth. It allowed us to kind of get ready for the last thirty minutes which were just… we just blew it out with everything we had. Every move. Every physical thing we had left in our arsenal. I don’t think that there were any moves that Shawn had or moves that I had that we didn’t try in that match. That was a key part of the match. That spot with the time keeper.

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