Bret Hart Needs to Leave Seth Rollins Alone

Bret Hart, leave Seth Rollins alone! Leave him alone!

When legends retire, there are a lot of different paths they can follow from that point forward. One of those paths entails fading into the background and taking things easy for a while, if not for good. Seth Rollins, for one, plans to do exactly that, saying at a Wizard World Philly Q&A in June, “I kinda just wanna disappear. I kinda just wanna get a little house, couple acres, buy some chickens, you know, have a garden. I basically just wanna turn into Daniel Bryan.”

It sounds nice, right? After so many years of constantly being on the road and being recognized by fans, it would just be so relaxing and relieving to have time for yourself and be out of the lime light. Unfortunately, Bret Hart disagrees.

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Bret Hart prefers to peskily stay in the news cycle, appearing every few months to say or do something that we all could have done without. And usually, it’s to criticize the actions of the man whose retirement plans he should probably follow.

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Hart has had a laundry list of issues with WWE lately despite his supposed good standing with the company. The only reason I say he’s in “good standing” with WWE is he still appears on TV for them once in a while, but those are typically uninspired instances revolving solely around the nostalgia of having the Hitman around.

Aside from that, all he does is criticize the product and the superstars, specifically the aforementioned Seth Rollins. In a recent interview with Forbes, Hart scolded Rollins for being reckless and dangerous, citing the knee to John Cena that temporarily rearranged the face that runs the place.

To be fair, the situation was brutal and Cena’s face was not pretty afterward, but this wasn’t the first time Hart brought it up. He criticized Rollins for the same thing in an interview with Sports Illustrated in November of 2015. Was it an unfortunate accident? Absolutely. But should Hart get over it, especially since he claims to be a fan of Rollins? Yes. One-hundred percent yes.

The SI interview is the one that Rollins claims hurt his feelings, not just because of the criticism from one of his idols regarding one isolated incident, but because in the same interview Hart actually criticized Rollins for getting injured as well.

"“The other thing is, when you’re the champion, you have a responsibility to not get hurt. You have to be spot on. I love that Rollins kept going on and finished the match, and that shows a lot of courage. Nobody can hurt you and you can’t hurt yourself. It’s not allowed. I was champion, off and on, for quite a few years, and I never missed one title match from an injury.”"

Just… what?

It would be one thing if Rollins was coming out every night doing 450 splashes from the top of a cage, but he tore up his knee doing a sunset flip, a move he has done countless times before. Acting as if Rollins could have done anything different to prevent his injury is asinine, and honestly it seems like Hart is just looking for things to complain about. Otherwise, I can only assume he expects Rollins to literally never leave the ground ever again and adopt an in-ring style similar to that of the Big Show. Seems reasonable, right?

If Hart criticized Rollins just for the knee to Cena, and only did it once, that would be fine. That’s a veteran giving some advice to a young guy and having fair concerns about the well-being of others. But to say Rollins getting injured was irresponsible of him, and to bring up the knee to Cena for a second time nearly a year after the fact, is just excessive.

Seth Rollins is the best overall talent in WWE today and will be one of the top guys for a long time. Hart needs to leave him alone and stay out of the headlines for a while because right now he just seems like a miserable old man. Maybe Bret should invest in some chickens and find a nice farmhouse to retire to. Oh, and no more interviews. Ever.

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