During a live Inside The Ropes show in Manchester, United Kingdom, Bret Hart spoke his mind about Paul “Triple H” Levesque…
“I’m not sure where I stand with Triple H. Just being honest. I never rated him. Everything he’s done, everything he’s created, it’s all stuff that he wrote out for himself. I wish I could have sat back in 1992 and said, well, this is what I’m going to do for the next 10 years. I’m going to win every title and I’m going to be champion 55 times or 500 times. I think Triple H is a phony, like, in the sense that he never earned it. He never deserved it. He just married the boss’ daughter.
Let me just say this. I wish he’d been in the dressing room when I knocked Vince [McMahon] out, and I wish that it had happened. I wish he was in the dressing room because he might not be married to Stephanie anymore or, you know, might not have ever happened. There was so much anger. And Triple H was such a slime ball back in 1997. He was just a guy that I had very little respect for. Never really rated him. I don’t know. You guys tell me. There’s not one match that I ever watched of Triple H with anybody that ever thought was like, ‘oh, that’s a great match.’ I never, ever wanted to wrestle him. I always look at every wrestler and go, ‘I could do this with that guy, and I could do this with that guy.’ But with Triple H, it was always, like, just a match. Nothing special ever came to my mind.”