Bret "Hitman" Hart was once an undersized wrestler ushering in "The New Generation" for the WWE.
At 6-feet tall, Hart isn't exactly a slouch, but he certainly wasn't built as big as some of the wrestlers the WWE used to push before he became the guy. After Hulk Hogan bolted the organization, Vince McMahon turned to Hart to carry his promotion and fill the void.
A similar situation is developing now on the main WWE roster as from top to bottom a lot of Superstars with smaller statures are being pushed. Hart recently addressed this and interestingly enough pushed for bigger wrestlers to become more prominent, which is weird coming from the "Excellence of Execution."
"I'd say that to me professional wrestling today has mostly little people in it," Hart said on his Sharpshooter Show (via 411Mania). "I don't see any real big men anymore. Very few anyway. The one's that are in it aren't used properly. Like Mark Henry. It just seems to me, and I don't mean to disrespect anyone in the business. A lot of guys are working really hard. I miss seeing some of the big guys. When you talk about getting rid of a Wade Barrett. Guys like Mark Henry are seeing less and less time on TV."
Those are very interesting comments, especially from Hart, who was held down by a muscular Hogan and had to overcome a lot of adversity just to get the torch passed to him -- albeit indirectly -- from "The Hulkster."
Hart has also praised smaller guys like Daniel Bryan and CM Punk in the past, so his remarks certainly do come out of left field. "The Hitman" is entitled to his opinion and is a very savvy person when it comes to professional wrestling, but his statement definitely was a little jarring.
"It seems like the wrestlers they're all little jumping bean guys," Hart said. "They're all Bret Hart, Shawn Michaels kind of smaller guys. I was 230 pounds. I think I was bigger, a little bit bigger, in mass than some of these guys today. There's so many guys that have the same stats. Six feet tall, five-eleven, one hundred and eighty five or ninety pounds. Dolph Ziggler. They do a million high spots. They're in great, phenomenal shape. They all look the same. They all got rock hard abs. They all look like swimmers.
"I miss the guys that would go out there that looked like Nikolai Volkoff. Or somebody that looks like Don Leo Jonathan or Mad Dog Vachon. Where's the big guys? Where's the King Kong Bundys? Who's hiding all the King Kong Bundys in the world? Where did they go?"
Considering how hard it was for guys like Bryan and Punk to get out of the shadow of those with cartoonish bodies such as John Cena, perhaps Hart should reconsider missing the bigger guys.
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