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Two ungrateful Canadians

By Scott Keith on 6 June 2024

BRET HART
Gee whiz. WCW pays a STUPID amount of money that 30 years later would STILL be a good amount of money for your services. Gives you technical matches per your request against Benoit and Booker T. Gives you multiple world title reigns. Gives you MULTIPLE wins over Ric Flair, DDP, Randy Savage, STING, GOLDBERG, makes you the LEADER of the biggest faction in wrestling history before your retire. Yes it sucks that Goldberg kicked you too hard. Yes things like the screwjob and of course Owens Death sucked. But WCW paid you out the wazoo against a company that DIDN'T FUCKING WANT YOU ANYMORE And why should they as you never really showed too much in the way of ratings or ticket sales. You get title reigns and bigtime wins over most the top stars. Oh boo hoo you didn't get your win over Hogan. So???? (and actually I think you actually did get a house show win over him).

LANCE STORM
You were pretty over in ECW. But WCW and Russo (of all people) took you to the most over you'd EVER be by FAR. Gave you most of the company's titles. Gave you the head of a heel faction that got a lot of tv time. Actually allowed you to get OVER. Gave you multiple main events against the likes of Sting, Booker T and others. Versus WWF (at the time) who kinda sorta pushed you meh a little for like 2 months then had you do nothing for 10 months then had you come out and had teh BIGGEST STAR IN PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING HISTORY come out and encourage the crowd to chant the ONE thing no wrestling promoter should EVER wanted chanted…..BORING. And from that point on no matter what you did you got BORING chants. Yet you only have ill will to speak of Russo and WCW when they put you over a fucking THOUSAND fold over WWE and even better then ECW.

I doubt this will actually get posted because of the Canadian thing/Scott Keith has a bias against anything that steps on his constant WCW = BAD ALL DA TIME narrative. But it's worth a shot.

Yeah! I hate that stupid WCW! Everything they did sucked!

Boy you really called me on the carpet there and then schooled me with your insights, like “WCW tanking Bret Hart's drawing power and career was fine because they paid him so much”.