Bret ‘Hitman’ Hart believes that WCW should have been made legally responsible for Goldberg’s lack of training.
A guest on the Johnny I Pro Show, Hart went over the injury he sustained in the ring with Goldberg.
During their match at WCW Starrcade on December 19, 1999, Goldberg legit kicked Hart in the head.
Hart suffered a severe concussion, a neck injury and subsequently developed post-concussion syndrome.
Hart has argued since that Goldberg didn’t have the experience or instruction he needed to be better prepared to wrestle.
“I won’t go on a big thing about Goldberg. Goldberg just hurt me because he didn’t know how to do anything different. No one taught him. No one showed him. No one explained to him: ‘Bill, it’s not really real. You can’t actually kick somebody in the head as hard as you can. You just can’t.’” said Hart. “But no one took the time to tell him that in WCW, where it’s like they should be sued for unprofessional wrestling for putting [me] in the ring with a guy that didn’t know anything about wrestling.”
Hart explained that is record for not injury his opponents is exemplary because he was trained right.
“The fact that so many wrestlers put their lives in my hands, even trusted me. Even Steve Austin trusted me at WrestleMania 13 to get the juice on him in the match. When I make the boast about being the best there is, the best there was, the best there ever will be, that’s my boast, is that I never hurt anybody,” said Hart.
In a Q/A session last year in Toronto, Hart commented on the incident saying: “I never hurt anybody. I could wrestle one of you guys (fans), and charge you in the corner, and you’d go, ‘I thought it was supposed to hurt! There’s a big difference between me and Goldberg.”
Speaking with Dan Sileo on The National Football Show last year, Goldberg maintained that he is still devastated that he injured Hart.
“I kicked Bret Hart in the head on accident a hundred years ago and I’ve been remorseful ever since and I’ve said I was sorry. I was young in the business, no question, and people make mistakes.”
