During the latest edition of WWE’s “The Bump”, Bret Hart commented on trying to convince Vince McMahon to allow him to work a ladder match, Shawn Michaels stealing the idea from him, and more. You can check out some highlights from the interview below:
On pitching Vince McMahon on doing a ladder match and how Shawn Michaels ended up stealing the idea from him: “I was the one that had been trying to get Vince for years to let me have a ladder match, and somewhere back in the months earlier, he had me do a ladder match with Shawn Michaels. I could pick anyone, I picked Shawn. I went to Shawn, explained to him what a ladder match was, and they had us put on a match in, I think it was Portland, Maine. It was a TV taping but we had a dark match and we did this ladder match and it was all just to show Vince this match, what the concept was. Had I known at WrestleMania X that Shawn and Razor were gonna steal my ladder match idea, which they did, it was just a flat out theft, and I was always kind of disappointed by that because it was my match and I just wanted Shawn to demonstrate it.”
On how he wishes his Summerslam 1994 match with Owen Hart was a ladder match: “I would have loved to have the ladder match with Owen at Summerslam, and that would have been like, now we can do a ladder match. A ladder match would have been a much better concept than a cage match because a cage match is generally a gore fest, should be anyway. It’s usually a blood bath with a lot of blood and that’s what makes a cage match, but in going into a cage match with your own brother, I couldn’t fathom the concept of both of us bleeding or being in that kind of gorey kind of match. We were both wrestling wrestlers. So a cage match, as good as it was, I think it’s one of the better cage matches, at least most people tell me they think it was one of the great cage matches, but it should have been a ladder match.”
(h/t – 411 Wrestling)