Bret Hart says he has a hard time watching modern wrestling because it’s “too fake” for him

While speaking at the Johnny I Pro Show, WWE Hall of Famer Bret Hart said the following about the modern wrestling product…

“I’ll be honest, I have a hard time watching today’s wrestling. I just can’t really watch it. It’s too fake for me. But I love watching the old 90s wrestling. I really do. Like when I watch my matches back, just in almost any match, even obscure Stampede Wrestling matches—there’s something about the realism, the punches and the kicks, and even the just the way the presentation is. It just seems to me to be more onus put on the workmanship of learning the craft of being wrestlers.

I think that today’s wrestlers are actors—most of them are actors pretending to be wrestlers—and you know, they don’t actually know how to wrestle and they don’t even know what a headlock is. Like, everything is a high spot. Everything is high spots, like, ‘I want to get my move in.’ It’s like, I don’t know, I always thought wrestling needed to actually pretend to be wrestling. I miss the wrestling aspect and the psychology of the 60s and 70s wrestling, like the presentation of trying to, you know, pretending that it’s a real sport.”