Bret Hart Thinks Modern Pro Wrestling Is Too Hokey: "I Don't Get That Fix Anymore"

Bret Hart has, once again, expressed his point of view that modern-day professional wrestling doesn't feel real enough and he doesn't "get that fix anymore" from watching matches today.

After noting he was proud of his own career, Hart told the Johnny I Pro Show:

"Yeah, I know I did. I’ve always been really proud. I think you can detect that in almost all of my bragging that I talk about, ‘the best there is, greatest ever.’ To be really honest, I don’t know that you can ever say anybody was the greatest in wrestling but I know that I gave so much and tried so hard to make it appear real and I have a hard time today when I don’t think those values are carried forward. They’re moving on in a different direction now where wrestling is starting to become hokey. It doesn’t try to be real anymore. It tries to be unreal, like outrageously, the more explosions and pyro and stuff that you can do. It has nothing to do with wrestling. In the end, I’m a wrestling fan deep in my heart and I like to watch a really good wrestling match that builds and tells a story and all that. I don’t get that fix anymore. I’m not getting that at all from today’s wrestling."

Hart has regularly criticised current televised professional wrestling, noting in April 2025 that he thought AEW featured "mostly actors trying to pretend to be wrestlers." Later in the year, The Hitman criticised today's wrestling as "too fake", in particular criticising Sheamus' punches.

Elsewhere in his latest interview, Hart expressed that he believes WCW should have been sued over allowing Goldberg to wrestle him.

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