Bret Hart recently made headlines by questioning the safety of Seth Rollins and some of his moves after injuring John Cena, Sting and Finn Balor. It looks like his eldest brother Smith Hart has taken it to the next level. After news broke Wednesday that a student training at Seth Rollins’ wrestling school tragically passed away, Smith Hart took to Facebook to rip Seth Rollins as a worker and calls him a danger to the wrestling business.
It should be noted that it is not confirmed yet what happened to the student and it seems like a freak health issue. You can read the story here from WKBW about what happened. (Nothing has pointed to being Rollins or the schools fault, or Rollins even being there for the training session).
Here is what Smith said on his Facebook page.
“To the hardcore, die-hard, internet wrestling community I must ask when is enough, enough. I know my brother Bret has taken the lead in this topic, but I truly do not feel this is getting enough attention. Seth Rollins is an absolute danger to the business. Reports are coming out that a wrestling student has died while training at Seth Rollins school in Illinois. I have trained students for over 40 years and my family has trained some of the most well-known superstars of all time for more than 70 years and never has a student even been seriously injured let alone died. This is after numerous reports of his unsafe work in the ring. In the last year Rollins has critically injured in the ring John Cena, Sting, Finn Balor and even himself. Yet the hardcore audience stand by him as some sort of folk hero. Why? This “performer” has limited charisma, limited personality and absolutely no psychology. Does he do fantastic highspots? Yes. And is he a magnificent crossfit athlete? Absolutely. But he is an absolutely horrible professional wrestler. The goal in professional wrestling is to make it look real without hurting anyone. But Rollins manages to do the opposite as he makes it look fake while critically injuring talented wrestlers. Take this buckle bomb which is the cause of many of these injuries. A logical, rationale human being would know that it would be physically impossible to “shoot” that move on anyone, let alone anyone 3 times the size of him, which most professional wrestlers would be. Perhaps he should follow his buddy CM Punk into the UFC to try shooting that move onto a Mickey Gall and see what happens. Their is zero logic into his moveset, just high spots for the sake of high spots and it is injuring people, ending careers and now killing people. I understand that little is known about this death as it is in the early stages. Likely it was more cardiovascularly related. But there in lies another issue. Rollins is a fantastic crossfit athlete that trained for years to have the conditioning that he does. He can’t logically expect everyone off the street to have that same conditioning right away and logically would need to implement a more graduated conditioning system. But beyond that why would anyone want to train under someone who has proven to be so reckless? With as many proven qualified wrestling schools and trainers in the world like Lance Storm, Team 3D, Dory Funk, Tom Prichard or Booker T, why would you waste your money and your health training under someone who has a higher risk of injuring you than advancing your career. Fans, friends, colleagues, I emplore you to band together to boycott anything involving Seth Rollins as fans deserve better than this and the talent/students of this business cetrainly deserve better. To those working in WWE, I emplore you to either cease booking this careless fool and/or send him somewhere to be trained how to wrestle properly. And finally to Seth Rollins, if you read this. Take consideration of the people you are working with and learn to work safe or give up and find another profession” (Source: Facebook).
Let us know what you think of his comments. As a big Seth fan I really don’t think his comments are fair.
Is funny because the dude didn’t died of any related wrestling injuries or that Rollins had something to do with.
I do see his point, but he’s a scrub. So his opinion does not really matter
If his opinion mattered. he wouldn’t be working for PWMania
So much fail in the screed. Saying Rollins has no charisma is just plain wrong, and not even on point if it were true. Smith Hart says, ” I understand that little is known about this death,” yet he goes ahead and assigns blame anyway. As far as injuring Cena, it was merely a broken nose. While nothing trivial, it was a minor injury that boxers routinely endure and cost Cena very little ring time.
Both Sting and Balor seem to hold Rollins blameless. I’ll trust those who have been injured while wrestling Rollins than some sideline sitting, trying to become relevant, wanna-be-because-he-never-was tool who has nothing more going for him than a famous last name.
*Applauds* Fuck Yeah Fuck Yeah Smith Hart! I utterly agree with everything he is saying here. The entire point to wrestling is to make sure the company keeps making money off of the talent in the ring. You can’t make money if the talent keeps getting injured at the hands of some crossfit jock who only cares about his ego. Hell Seth can’t even act let alone has what it takes in the business to ensure its continued success. Bret Hart wrestled for 32 years and never ONCE even wrestling hard core legends did he ever injure someone. Seth should go to UFC like Punk and get his ass handed to him a few times and learn some gorram respect for the business and the lives he’s destroying. Oh also, that kid was 20 years old, normal healthy and medically cleared 20 year olds don’t pop their clock and die for no reason Seth.
You can’t assume hes normal and healthy if he clearly had a medical emergency and died.. He was training inside a cross fit gym connected to the wrestling school that did not even start till later this week while Rollins was out of the country at the time. Assuming that he had anything to do with it is arrogant to say the least. Now don’t get me wrong i agree on some aspects of it like needing to check himself with how dangerous he is in the ring sometimes, But assuming he had something to do with how the poor man died is just dumb.
bret hart “never ONCE” injured someone? do a little research, because everything you are saying is just flat out wrong. seth has wrestled thousands of times in WWE. the cena thing was half cena’s fault, the balor thing was half balor’s fault (and im a massive balor fan), and the sting thing was just a freak accident. dude wrestles 4 times a week (probably) and less than 1% of the people he wrestles are injured. you, like the harts, are idiots. the kid that died, WASN’T EVEN AT THE WRESTLING SCHOOL. but go ahead and keep applauding bitter old men who can’t handle anyone else getting in attention. go ahead and keep spouting dumb and wrong “facts”.
Well this is ridiculous no one even knows what happened if it was actually to do with a move. Don’t even know If seth wad there too as he us not often apparently and someone else does mist training. I imagine seth is really upset about it too. I gave so much respect for what harts have done but they comment with out knowing facts etc
The student was not doing any move. He died while exercising apparently at the crossfit gym connected to Rollins school in the same building. Classes to Rollins’ school didn’t start until this week and Rollins was out of the country on tour when all of this happened.
“I have trained students for over 40 years and my family has trained some of the most well-known superstars of all time for more than 70 years and never has a student even been seriously injured let alone died.” Chris Benoit, Owen Hart, Davey Boy Smith, Brian Pillman …
Not agreeing with Smith here, but none of those deaths happened at the dungeon. Your statement is irrelevant
Oh, I know they didn’t die in the dungeon, I was simply pointing out the statement can be misconstrued.
Owen Hart, Steve Austin *leaves*