WWE Rivals - Season 1 - EP-01 - Bret Hart VS. Shawn Michaels Subtitles

00:00:02,178 --> 00:00:02,- There’s the Hitman.

00:00:02,979 --> 00:00:04,He’s a great family man.

00:00:04,347 --> 00:00:06,He’s a great athlete.
No doubt about it.

00:00:06,116 --> 00:00:08,- There’s only one
Mr. Flamboyant,

00:00:08,718 --> 00:00:10,Shawn Michaels!

00:00:10,720 --> 00:00:11,- They were perfect
for each other.

00:00:12,088 --> 00:00:13,They hate each other,

00:00:13,256 --> 00:00:14,but they were perfect
for each other.

00:00:14,691 --> 00:00:17,- When you look at
long-term rivalry,

00:00:17,627 --> 00:00:21,Shawn Michaels versus Bret Hart
will forever live in infamy.

00:00:21,898 --> 00:00:26,- Bret Hart and Shawn Michaels
loath one another

00:00:26,169 --> 00:00:29,whether it be out here
or back there.

00:00:30,040 --> 00:00:31,- Neither one of those guys
wanted to be number two.

00:00:32,042 --> 00:00:33,They both wanted
to be number one.

00:00:34,010 --> 00:00:36,- Bret was more
vulnerable than Shawn.

00:00:36,179 --> 00:00:37,- Get out.

00:00:37,247 --> 00:00:38,- And that was sort of

00:00:38,415 --> 00:00:39,the seeds of things to come.

00:00:40,083 --> 00:00:42,- You’re nothing
but a degenerate.

00:00:42,385 --> 00:00:44,- I don’t think there’s ever
been a rivalry

00:00:44,321 --> 00:00:46,that has been
talked about as much

00:00:46,156 --> 00:00:49,as this issue between
Bret Hart and Shawn Michaels.

00:00:49,893 --> 00:00:51,- It made things interesting
to go to work

00:00:51,962 --> 00:00:52,’cause you never knew.

00:00:52,963 --> 00:00:54,Like, it was a powder keg.

00:00:54,130 --> 00:00:55,- [bleep] you.

00:00:55,198 --> 00:00:56,- You know, we started out

00:00:56,199 --> 00:00:57,pretending to be real

00:00:57,567 --> 00:00:58,and then it g***t real.

00:00:59,035 --> 00:01:00,- Ring the bell!
Ring the bell!

00:01:00,270 --> 00:01:01,[bell dinging]

00:01:03,206 --> 00:01:04,- I was the bad guy.

00:01:05,075 --> 00:01:06,It wasn’t fun to do.

00:01:07,077 --> 00:01:08,- I could’ve killed him
with my bare hands.

00:01:08,945 --> 00:01:11,[dramatic music]

00:01:11,781 --> 00:01:14,♪ ♪

00:01:14,217 --> 00:01:17,- This rivalry has just
escalated into a war.

00:01:18,989 --> 00:01:21,- When two legends collide,

00:01:21,291 --> 00:01:24,their rivalry stays
pinned in our minds forever.

00:01:26,062 --> 00:01:28,This is where we break
down the legendary stories

00:01:28,665 --> 00:01:31,behind the greatest
rivalries of all time.

00:01:32,068 --> 00:01:34,I’m Freddie Prinze Jr.,

00:01:34,671 --> 00:01:37,and this is "WWE Rivals."

00:01:41,111 --> 00:01:43,One of the most heated
and celebrated rivalries

00:01:43,580 --> 00:01:45,in the history of the business,

00:01:45,215 --> 00:01:47,Shawn Michaels and Bret Hart.

00:01:47,317 --> 00:01:49,Both of these men
are on a collision course

00:01:49,786 --> 00:01:54,and we’re at a time
where the larger men of the WWE

00:01:54,190 --> 00:01:56,are now giving
a little bit of room

00:01:56,359 --> 00:01:57,for the smaller wrestlers
to get over.

00:01:57,927 --> 00:02:00,- This is a land
of giants, right?

00:02:00,330 --> 00:02:02,When I told people
that I wanted to be

00:02:02,265 --> 00:02:03,a WWE superstar,

00:02:03,466 --> 00:02:05,I g***t laughed
at because I wasn’t 6’8",

00:02:05,769 --> 00:02:07,I wasn’t 300 pounds.

00:02:07,804 --> 00:02:09,And for me,
it just drew me in more

00:02:10,006 --> 00:02:13,because it made me feel
like maybe I do have a shot

00:02:13,543 --> 00:02:16,because these guys aren’t
as big as the other guys,

00:02:16,246 --> 00:02:18,but I like watching
these matches

00:02:19,015 --> 00:02:20,more so than the big guys.

00:02:21,985 --> 00:02:24,- I want you to take
a good look

00:02:24,521 --> 00:02:27,at the wrestler of the 90s.

00:02:28,525 --> 00:02:32,- In the early 90s, the shift
was to a more athletic

00:02:32,295 --> 00:02:35,in ring-based characters

00:02:35,265 --> 00:02:38,where you were getting guys
that could really go

00:02:38,568 --> 00:02:41,in the ring and have
great wrestling matches.

00:02:41,171 --> 00:02:43,- Whoa!
- What a high-risk move.

00:02:43,339 --> 00:02:44,- It was
the opportunity for us

00:02:44,941 --> 00:02:47,because a lot of the stalwarts,
I guess,

00:02:47,744 --> 00:02:51,from the early WWE days
were starting to leave.

00:02:51,214 --> 00:02:54,- Hulk Hogan is here
in the WCW.

00:02:54,217 --> 00:02:56,- People can say what they
want about Hogan

00:02:56,352 --> 00:02:58,and all the talent they had
over in WCW

00:02:58,521 --> 00:03:00,and what they were doing,

00:03:00,156 --> 00:03:02,but to be honest, you know,
there’s no comparison

00:03:02,625 --> 00:03:04,to what Shawn was doing
and what I was doing.

00:03:05,695 --> 00:03:08,- There are certain ones
that you get in there with

00:03:08,398 --> 00:03:10,and it’s hard to describe,

00:03:10,233 --> 00:03:13,but you just recognize
a real comfort level there.

00:03:13,803 --> 00:03:15,It felt like you could
probably do it

00:03:15,338 --> 00:03:16,with your eyes closed.

00:03:17,040 --> 00:03:18,I had that with Bret.

00:03:18,975 --> 00:03:20,- Looking at Shawn
looking at Bret,

00:03:21,044 --> 00:03:23,they’re both flag bearers
of the new generation.

00:03:24,314 --> 00:03:25,- Now, what you’re seeing,

00:03:25,515 --> 00:03:27,the blast-off
of the next decade

00:03:27,884 --> 00:03:30,in the World Wrestling
Federation.

00:03:31,421 --> 00:03:33,- It was vital
for our success

00:03:33,723 --> 00:03:35,that those guys were
at the top of their game

00:03:35,925 --> 00:03:38,and, you know--and brought
what they did to the table.

00:03:38,695 --> 00:03:40,- Whoa, take a look at that.

00:03:41,030 --> 00:03:43,Yeah, Bret Hart vision.

00:03:43,366 --> 00:03:45,- I grew up very much
snowballed in

00:03:45,668 --> 00:03:46,with the Hart family

00:03:46,770 --> 00:03:48,since I was
a ten-year-old boy.

00:03:48,538 --> 00:03:51,Growing up in Calgary, like,
he definitely came across

00:03:51,141 --> 00:03:52,as a Canadian hero.

00:03:52,909 --> 00:03:54,- He’s the best there is,
the best there was,

00:03:54,477 --> 00:03:55,the best there ever will be.

00:03:55,979 --> 00:03:59,He’s my hero and I think he’s
everybody else’s here, too.

00:03:59,215 --> 00:04:01,- I always had a crush
on Shawn Michaels.

00:04:01,651 --> 00:04:02,People always laugh
and they’re like,

00:04:02,752 --> 00:04:04,"You had a crush
on Shawn Michaels?"

00:04:04,187 --> 00:04:05,He just had that, like,
charisma about him.

00:04:05,889 --> 00:04:07,You know, he was
the Heartbreak Kid.

00:04:08,291 --> 00:04:09,- Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes!

00:04:10,093 --> 00:04:12,- Bret and Shawn
were like the epitome

00:04:12,228 --> 00:04:13,of what WWE was trying to be.

00:04:13,730 --> 00:04:18,- I’m gonna be carrying the
flag for the new generation.

00:04:29,779 --> 00:04:31,Who was a better wrestler?

00:04:31,181 --> 00:04:32,I would say Bret, easy.

00:04:33,750 --> 00:04:36,- The excellence of execution.

00:04:36,386 --> 00:04:37,The most scientific

00:04:37,687 --> 00:04:39,World Wrestling
Federation champion

00:04:39,956 --> 00:04:41,perhaps of all time.

00:04:41,958 --> 00:04:44,- Bret was just very good
and fluent.

00:04:45,695 --> 00:04:48,Almost everything had
a purpose and a reason.

00:04:48,731 --> 00:04:51,- You could give
Bret Hart a pail,

00:04:51,668 --> 00:04:52,and Bret Hart could
go out and have

00:04:53,036 --> 00:04:56,an entertaining,
realistic match.

00:04:56,239 --> 00:04:58,- Just a skilled
technician in the ring.

00:04:59,843 --> 00:05:02,There are no holes in
his in-ring work at all.

00:05:02,779 --> 00:05:04,I mean, he had the mat game.

00:05:04,280 --> 00:05:06,He could brawl.
He could do it all.

00:05:07,150 --> 00:05:10,He was something special
inside the ropes for sure.

00:05:10,753 --> 00:05:13,- I think I was
in my prime at that time.

00:05:13,823 --> 00:05:15,’Cause when I think
of Shawn Michaels,

00:05:15,291 --> 00:05:20,sometimes he kinda--
he kinda reminds me of me.

00:05:21,030 --> 00:05:25,Shawn was just
a really talented athlete.

00:05:25,568 --> 00:05:28,I don’t know of anybody ever
having a bad match with Shawn.

00:05:28,438 --> 00:05:30,- I was a better performer.

00:05:30,640 --> 00:05:32,- Michael heads right back in.

00:05:32,542 --> 00:05:34,That’s the kind of effort--
- Hey!

00:05:35,678 --> 00:05:39,- Once the term
"sports entertainer" came out,

00:05:39,482 --> 00:05:41,I felt like I embodied
all of that.

00:05:42,018 --> 00:05:46,You will not ever see
a man more charismatic,

00:05:46,122 --> 00:05:48,more flamboyant,
or more talented

00:05:49,025 --> 00:05:51,than the Heartbreak Kid,
Shawn Michaels.

00:05:51,261 --> 00:05:53,- High-risk maneuver!

00:05:53,396 --> 00:05:54,- In...