"I know it wasn't my greatest wrestling match, and I didn't look that great, but I was a much older man, and I had at least one knee replacement, and I was on my way to having another one. "I've always been really proud of that," Hart shared. In the end, Hart was proud of what he did with McMahon at WrestleMania 26 in 2010 because it showed that the two sides could make peace. I can't even do a move to you that jeopardizes my- like, a blow to the head or my neck.' I said, 'I would come with my sort of limitations because I have limits as to what I can do, but if you want to come up with a storyline, I mean, I can do as much as Donald Trump did, or more, and we could figure out something.'" I can't get knocked down, I can't have someone hit me across the back with a chair. I can do stuff, but I can't take any falls. That was the way it was worded, and I said, 'I can hype it up.
The way my contract was worded, it said I could do wrestling skits and wrestling sketches, but no full contact wrestling. I remember saying, 'I can't because of my concussion issues and my lawsuit that I won with Lloyd's Of London.
"I could tag up with somebody, five on a side, at Survivor Series or SummerSlam.' And we talked about me coming back and wrestling Vince. How about I do something with them? Maybe I'm just their mouthpiece, or their manager, or whatever. We talked, and I'll be honest - I laid out every conceivable possible storyline or, 'here's an idea, maybe I can tag up with somebody and we win the tag belts, or how about we do this? Or I can manage Natalya, or manage Tyson Kidd and Harry Smith.' They were wrestling there. And we met, and he was very upfront, and we had a very positive meeting. Like, I was flying through San Francisco and he had Monday Night RAW in San Jose that week, sometime in August, as I remember. "Vince called me and he wanted to meet me in San Jose. "They called me in August," Hart remembered.
I didn't hear from him again until August, and by then, I thought, 'okay, that idea didn't fly very high,' and it was kind of like, 'at least I tried.' I was kind of setting myself free from all that stuff anyways." Anyway, I never heard from him for four or five months. "He said he was pretty excited and he said he would talk to Vince and get back to me in a day or so. "So anyway, I kind of threw all things out there for Kevin Dunn from WWE," Hart said. I don't know that I was the biggest instigator, but I can reason that we can be friends." Hart noted, "I mean, I'd like to make friends, if Shawn would be up for it."Īpparently, WWE wasn't interested in the return at first. And Shawn had his drug problems, and I had my- I certainly poked him in the eye enough times to know that I wasn't totally innocent of all. And I remember thinking, 'Shawn and me used to be such good friends', and I felt bad that whatever happened between us. I really loved the match I thought it was a fantastic, five-star match, and I was proud of Shawn. I don't know if it was on that WrestleMania with Trump or not, but it was a match that I had watched with Shawn and The Undertaker. "I said, 'it would be fine with me if I could bury the hatchet with Shawn.' I had watched Shawn wrestle a match. And I pretty much laid it out on the table to Kevin Dunn that I'd like to go back and do a storyline."īret also spoke about how he wanted to make peace with Shawn Michaels, and the two shared a hug during the Raw that Hart returned to host. It was like, the best way for me to get over this, get it out of my way so it's not in my way anymore is to go back and make peace with it, make real peace with it. It's like, it's all I ever hear about: Vince McMahon, and The Screwjob, and 'what are you going to do now?' Anyway, it just got to the point where it's like- I think it was the solution to all my problems at the time. Like, it was really starting to wear on me all the time. I mean, it really starts to weigh you down. Everywhere I go, all I hear about is The Screwjob, what happened with my brother, Owen.
I'd like to come back and do a storyline with Vince. "And I ended up talking to a guy named Kevin Dunn, who's like one of Vince's right hand guys. "I remember somewhere in that, I watched WrestleMania that week or that day, and I ended up calling WWE," Hart recalled.