Jim Cornette on Bret Hart's Opinion Of Goldberg

For context: Bret Hart had that career-ending injury at 42. AJ Styles is 44 right now.

Only Corny can take a Goldberg segment and bring in Sir Mix-a-Lot.

This guy answered his own question by opening with Goldberg literally beat people up.

Came for Jim Cornette on Bret Hart’s opinion of Goldberg. Got what felt like 10 solid minutes on Zeus. Not even disappointed.

Dam Batista catching strays lol

I love Bret Hart's brutal honesty.

Bret hart is mostly correct about wrestling

To me, Goldberg is the definition of "an act" in wrestling. He was given a gimmick, could work that gimmick and have the standard, but limited, Goldberg match which when combined with a super push and the fact that he came along at exactly the right time got him super over for a short period of time.

I’m still heartbroken that he ended Bret’s career. Bret was always my favorite wrestler, even WCW Bret.

" Whoever came up with the idea to beat Goldberg, that was bad, but whoever okayed it, that was worse" - Bobby Heenan

It's easy. As I understood, Bret rates wrestlers in three categories. In-ring ability, look and promo. If you hurt your opponents you basically fail at your job as a wrestler or at the very least at the in-ring part.

The thought of Corny talking to Sir Mix-a-Lot is hilarious

I was very invested in the Hogan vs Zeus storyline. I thought Zeus was the scariest wrestler in the world. Those are my oldest memories about wrestling. I was very young.

When I saw the title I went “oh this should be good”😂

Bret Hart’s criteria for a great wrestler is the same as mine. You have to be good in the ring, a good storyteller, good on the mic (but you don’t have to be The Rock) and you have to do it all while not injuring the guy you’re working with. On that basis, Bret is a 10 and Goldberg is a 0. Picking a guy up and slamming them or spearing them isn’t wrestling. It’s brawling. Steve Austin did that, but he didn’t injure people for real either. Goldberg was just a more successful Ahmed Johnson. Both about equal in the ring and on the mic. Say what you want about that, but WWE is still in business and they fired the popular guy who was hurting people. WCW kept pushing Goldberg until he ended the career of the best technical wrestler and storyteller ever.

He's definitely right about Warrior in 1989. That's all my 9 year old self cared about. Demolition was over as f*ck, too.

“Goldberg literally beat up people”. That’s not how it’s supposed to actually go. Hence, why Bret would give him a 0. He didn’t know how to do anything else. Even Hogan knew how to sell to set up the comeback, cut a promo, build a story-line, understood timing. Goldberg couldn’t do any of that.

The more time goes on the more people realize how right Bret was and has been for the last 25 years

Jim is like the Aristotle of Professional wrestling. He has so much knowledge about the business!

In WCW, I never saw anyone get over faster than Goldberg and I never saw anyone get a bigger push. I guess WWE had the Warrior. WCW was famous for killing the golden goose.