Seth Rollins recently commented on Bret Hart hurting his feelings on a recent episode of Talk Is Jericho hosted by Chris Jericho. Seth was upset with some of the comments that Bret made when he was recovering from injury about him being a bit reckless in the ring. He references when he broke Cena’s nose as a specific example of where Seth was a bit careless. Bret Hart recently responded on an episode of Bret Hart Radio, saying that he didn’t mean it as a personal attack on Seth but as a professional critique.
Here was the full comment:
“I am a really big fan of Seth’s. I think he’s one of the best young wrestlers in the world today. That’s why I think I made such a strong criticism. It’s meant to make him think. It’s not a personal attack. It’s a professional criticism of his work a few months ago. I think there’s a little bit of an onus here not to own up to what he did. You can watch it back. I watched it back just a minute ago. He clearly knees John Cena as hard as he can in the face. It’s not John Cena’s fault. If you watch it it’s not John Cena leaning in it’s Seth Rollins’ pulling his head down and kneeing him as hard as he can in the face. It’s bullshit. Everything I said is true. If he’s got hurt feelings, well, it’s better to have hurt feelings than a broken, shattered face” (Source: Bret Hart Radio).
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Bret elaborated a bit more:
“My whole gripe with that kind of stuff is that you can’t get injured. The wrestler can’t afford getting hurt. There’s a huge onus on the two wrestlers to protect each other at all costs. If you can’t protect the guy you are working with, if you can’t be more careful than that, then you need to go back to the drawing board. It’s a good criticism. All of those agents in WWE, I don’t know who they are that are schooling these guys and telling them what they are doing right and what they are doing wrong. They should all be chastised for not speaking up too. Including Vince. Including Triple H. What he did was totally wrong. Totally unprofessional. It’s true and it’s not a personal attack. It just means, “Be more careful.” You can’t be hurting guys like that all the time” (Source: Bret Hart Radio).
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Sting took a career ending injury with Rollins too. Though, it looked like it was Sting botching something he shouldn’t have been doing. That said, they shouldn’t be putting guys into these high risk spots so often either. Older guys at least.