Bret "Hit Man" Hart: The Best There Is, the Best There Was, the Best There Ever Will Be

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This article is about the WWE Home Video release. For the similarly titled autobiography, see Bret "Hitman" Hart — The Best There Is, The Best There Was, The Best There Ever Will Be.
Bret "Hit Man" Hart: The Best There Is, the Best There Was, the Best There Ever Will Be
Cover of the DVD
Directed byKevin Dunn
StarringBret Hart
Roddy Piper
Chris Benoit
Mick Foley
Production
company
Distributed byWWE Home Video
Release date
  • November 15, 2005 (2005-11-15)
Running time
549[1]
LanguageEnglish

Bret "Hit Man" Hart: The Best There Is, The Best There Was, The Best There Ever Will Be also known as The Bret Hart Story: The Best There Is, The Best There Was, The Best There Ever Will Be is a 2005

World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE).[3] The documentary chronicles the career of popular WWE wrestler Bret Hart. Hart collaborated with WWE to make the documentary, contributing hours of interview content to the film. This collaboration marked the first time Hart had worked in an on camera capacity with WWE since the Montreal Screwjob, which was Hart's last in-ring appearance with the company until his return on January 4, 2010. The documentary chronicles Bret Hart's wrestling career, from how he broke into the business as a member of the Hart family to his run in World Championship Wrestling
(WCW).

This is the second documentary about Bret Hart, the first being Hitman Hart: Wrestling with Shadows (which was produced with cooperation by the WWF, but not released by WWF/E Home Video) which chronicles Hart's last days wrestling in the WWF and talks about his relationship with his brother Owen.

History

Hart has stated that the video was a project that he had wanted to do for a long time and that he originally pitched the idea of a compilation set to Vince McMahon before DVDs were commonplace.[4][5]

Initial idea

Originally, the DVD was to be named Screwed: The Bret Hart Story, and would be a film focusing on the negative aspects of Hart's career, much like WWE's

The Ultimate Warrior DVD, The Self-Destruction of the Ultimate Warrior.[6][7][8] It originally featured derisive interview comments from former opponents like Hulk Hogan, Shawn Michaels and Jerry Lawler, with whom Hart had real-life personal issues (Hart has since made amends with Michaels and Lawler). Hart said of the project: "It was kind of a smear. It was basically a platform for guys to express their dislike for me and their jealousy." Hart was not slated to contribute to the documentary, but later agreed to participate, claiming that WWE essentially told him: "Get on board or we'll run you over."[9]

Hart's involvement

Negative interviews were thereafter deleted when Hart got involved, and replaced with positive appraisals from alternate former opponents like

chairman Vince McMahon, Hart contributed over seven hours of new interview footage and was allowed full creative input in the project. McMahon noted Bret's participation with a message before the main program in which he thanked Bret for putting aside the various personal and professional differences the two men had in order to produce the DVD for the fans.[4] It has been suggested that the Screwed DVD was conceived by McMahon as a ploy to persuade Hart to the project.[10][13]

After the DVD's release, Hart was interviewed for WWE.com's show Byte This! and promoted the DVD with a series of appearances to meet, and greet fans. He also appeared at the next year's WWE Hall of Fame to be inducted by Steve Austin.[14][15]

Overview

Disc 1

The first disc is separated into several smaller segments focusing on different parts of Hart's life.[16][17][18]

  • Early Years - Hart's beginnings and discussing his father, Stu Hart.
  • Stampede Wrestling - Once he starts wrestling for his father, the DVD shows his progression as a technical wrestler in the early matches.
  • Coming To WWE - Overview of Hart's early days in the WWF, including a look at one of Hart's abandoned gimmicks, "Cowboy" Bret Hart.
  • Hart Foundation - Hart's tag team days with brother-in-law
    Jim Neidhart and manager "the Mouth Of the South" Jimmy Hart
    .
  • Intercontinental Champion - The beginning of Hart's singles career, starting with his defeat of Mr. Perfect and Roddy Piper to become the Intercontinental Champion.
  • WWE Champion - Hart defeated Ric Flair to become the WWF Champion, also includes talks of WrestleMania IX about Yokozuna and Hulk Hogan.
  • International Star - A segment discussing Hart's popularity overseas.
  • Hart Family Feud - Hart discusses his feud with his brother Owen.
  • Iron Man Match - Hart prefaces his comments about his Iron Man Match at WrestleMania XII.
  • U.S.A. vs. Canada - The Re-formation of
    the Hart Foundation
    and playing the villain in the US during an "anti-American" angle.
  • Survivor Series 1997 - The Montreal Screwjob.
  • WCW - Hart's departure from WWF and his tenure in World Championship Wrestling.
  • The Death Of Owen Hart - On the 1999 pay-per-view, "Over the Edge", Owen Hart fell 75 feet into the ring and died.
  • Problems In WCW - During a StarrCade PPV, fellow wrestler Bill Goldberg accidentally inflicted Hart with a career ending concussion.[19]
  • Living It Up - Hart recalls his recovery from a stroke in 2002.

Bret Hart partakes in several interviews where he discusses specific events, such as the origin of the name "the Dungeon" for his father's training hall, being away from family on Halloween, his friendship with the other Hart Foundation members, learning his signature move: the sharpshooter, his brother's pranks and about his trademark sunglasses. There are also two tribute videos included, one for his older brother Dean who died in 1990 from kidney failure and another for dead wrestlers Hart knew.[16][17][18][20]

Disc 2 and 3

The second and third discs contains a selections of matches from Hart's career. Hart himself chose all the matches presented on the DVD.[16]

Reception

The DVD has received positive reviews.

Wrestling Observer Newsletter award in the category "Best Pro Wrestling Documentary".[28]

From Hart

Hart has said that he is very happy with how the DVD ended up.

Saturday Night's Main Event XIII could have been included. Said matches could not be included due to legal issues involving Jesse Ventura.[24] Because of this Hart expressed that he wished to do another collection of matches at some time.[29]

Match content

See also

References

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  19. ^ "The SmarK Rant for the Bret Hart DVD – Part One". insidepulse.com.
  20. ^ Adam Martin (November 8, 2005). "WWE releasing new Bret "Hitman" Hart DVD a week from today; 11/15". wrestleview.com.
  21. ^ "Dark Pegasus Video Review: Bret Hart: The Best There Is, Best There Was, The Best There Ever Will Be (Disc Three)". 411mania.com.
  22. ^ "What's All The Hubbub: Bret Hart – The Best There Is, The Best There Was, The Best There Ever Will Be (Disc 3)". 411mania.com.
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  26. ^ "411MANIA". Views from the Hawke’s Next: Bret “Hitman” Hart – The Best There Is, The Best There Was, The Best There Ever Will Be Disc 1 & 2.
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  28. ^ Saalbach, Axel. "Genickbruch.com". genickbruch.com. Archived from the original on 7 August 2018. Retrieved 14 April 2019.
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