Bret Hart isn’t done settling old scores—and this time, his sights are locked on Kevin Nash.
While speaking to Inside the Ropes, the WWE Hall of Famer claimed Nash went out of his way to sabotage him on live television, all while Eric Bischoff conveniently vanished overseas. After pitching the now-famous steel plate spear angle to Bill Goldberg—and getting his full support—Hart says he ran into immediate resistance from WCW brass. He brought the idea to Eric Bischoff, only to be met with baffling doubt.
“First thing he tells me is, ‘Bill Goldberg will never go for it,’” Hart recalled, frustrated that Bischoff didn’t seem to understand his own authority.
Even after Bret reassured him that Goldberg was fully on board, Bischoff allegedly approved the angle… and then vanished. That’s when Bret claims things took a nosedive.
“Eric Bischoff goes on a hiatus… goes all the way over to France on a vacation with his wife or something,” Hart said. “And he leaves Kevin Nash in charge.”
“Kevin Nash did his best to kill me off on TV for three weeks until we got to Toronto,” Bret said, making it clear that he believed Nash was actively trying to derail his WCW momentum.
Nash allegedly booked Hart to lose clean on TV to Dean Malenko—a decision Bret couldn’t understand given his resume. Hart says he rarely refused to do jobs, but this time was different. He pushed back.
“I beat Austin. I beat Vince McMahon. And at this time, you’re going to have Dean Malenko—who’s like two feet tall—beat me in the middle?”
“I said, ‘I can’t. I don’t want to do it.’ And I never refused to ever do a job for anybody—including Dean Malenko. And they end up sticking me in there with some other wrestler that I beat that night.”
Despite being a decorated veteran and former world champion, Bret once again paints himself as the victim of WCW’s chaotic leadership and backstabbing locker room politics. While the steel plate moment against Goldberg eventually aired and became iconic, Hart claims it only happened because he fought through layers of incompetence and ego.
In typical Bret fashion, he makes it clear: everyone else was the problem. Whether it’s Bischoff’s vacation or Nash’s booking choices, Hart once again implies he was undercut at every turn.
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