[Professor S]

I find it HILARIOUS that many of you vilify Austin, who is the ONLY worker with BALLS big enough standing up for himself and the other workers in his company, and praise Hulk Hogan and the NWO who have single handedly held back more wrestlers than Flair, Dusty and Sullivan have COMBINED. If you don't believe me, just read any interview with Shane Douglas.

As for Bret, I feel NO pity for his pathetic whining ass.

He didn't want to lose in Canada. BOO HOO. Someone should tell him WRESTLING'S A WORK!!

But even if that was it, I wouldn't feel this way. The truth is that Bret NEVER wanted to lose the WWF title cleanly to Michaels. he wanted to just "give up" the title the next night on Raw. Do you really think Vince is THAT STUPID? If Bret were to give up the title, and then show up on Nitro the next night, essentially the WWF champ would be an employee of WCW. Any wrestler that the WWF gave the title to would have been a paper champ. Also keep in mind that the WWF was getting creamed by WCW at the time in the ratings. Vince was protecting his livelihood. Bret threatened the livelihood ofd every worker in the WWF by wanting to skip out without dropping the title clean.

BTW, if you doubt any of my facts in this instance, just rent "Wrestling With Shadows" at Blockbuster. Bret says as much HIMSELF.

People say that Vince didn't respect what Bret did for the WWF. I say Bret didn't appreciate what the WWF did for him. He was a Tag Team wrestler that the WWF pushed to super stardome. By wanting to leave the WWF essentially with title shows that he never gave a damn about anyone but himself and never had any respect for the organization that made him.

Not wanting to lose in Canada was an excuse. I still maintain that Bret was planning on skipping Raw the next night since his contract ended the night before, taking the title to Nitro the next night and dumping it in the trash like Medusa did with the women's title. I think thats the main reason why the WCW wanted him so badly.

And no, I don't think Vince is a saint by any means, but neither is Bret Hart.

But Rick, I do agree with your Horseman idea. I love the idea of an elite unite of wrestlers. Benoit would be the perfect leader of the group, with Regal, Kurt Angle and perhaps Brock Lesnar playing the Enforcer role. Or perhaps substitute Curt Hennig/Mr. Perfect for Regal since he is an excellent mat wrestler too. And have Flair play the J.J. Dillon role as manager.