Shawn Michaels vs. Bret Hart Complete History - Wrestling Timelines
WhatCulture Wrestling
WhatCulture Wrestling
4.4 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 17 August 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
In the latest episode of Wrestling Timelines, Simon Miller deep-dives one of the most transformative feuds in WWE history, Shawn Michaels vs. Bret 'The Hitman' Hart, and all the consequences and ramifications that come with it...
ENJOY!
Follow us on Twitter:
@SimonMiller316
@WhatCultureWWE
For more awesome content, check out: whatculture.com/wwe
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Is this the best WWE feud ever? It could very well be. It was absolute beast that spanned |
| 0:06.4 | multiple years and the true joy and the madness was that Brett Hart and Shaw Michaels left the |
| 0:11.7 | ring and well they started to kick off backstage. You can still find fans today who |
| 0:16.0 | cite this falling out as the reason they also got into the dirt sheets as they were called |
| 0:20.4 | and the intrigue was just too much. But now let's jump back to the 80s because it all ties in the brand of w wbwee was all bright lights cartoons with charisma up the whimwam and of course this was carried out with the likes of hulk hogan randy savage and even hacksaw jim dougan who waved around a big stick they managed to to break through and of course Hulk Hogan found the love of the mainstream crowd too. |
| 0:40.3 | If you can be bothered to travel back to this period, using the internet, you will find it. |
| 0:45.3 | Hulkomania was everywhere. |
| 0:46.3 | Of course no era lasts forever and the golden age as it was known hit the bricks hard, mostly because of many scandals that got into the public eye. Pop culture itself |
| 0:55.5 | had also started to change and the WWF was way too late to realise that. They carried on with their |
| 1:00.8 | over-the-top nature, dare I say it, they became a little bit passe. There was also the sterile |
| 1:05.9 | trial and you can say what you want about that, but that kind of press is not good press, and it |
| 1:09.6 | sound a lot of people on the company. The World Wrestlingeration was meant to be good wholesome family entertainment and now |
| 1:16.4 | it's anything but adults did not want their kids watching it it meant vincent man had to go into |
| 1:20.9 | damage control because optics are everything the first thing they had to go were the oversized comic book |
| 1:27.0 | physiques. |
| 1:27.6 | The entire operation needed a clean-up and for a while the answers came in height with |
| 1:32.4 | the likes of diesel and just finding a sheer combination of mass and agility with the awesome |
| 1:37.6 | Yokozuna. |
| 1:38.7 | There was still asterisces of course because Kevin Nash would eventually leave WWF for WCW. |
| 1:43.8 | So eventually where did you go? |
| 1:45.5 | It needed to be somebody that commanded respect, it needed to be someone that knew what they |
| 1:49.0 | were doing, and it needed to be someone that was not problematic. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from WhatCulture Wrestling, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of WhatCulture Wrestling and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.

