Paul Wight Recalls Bret Hart Ribbing Him For Over An Hour With ‘Pitch’ For A Program Between Them

Paul Wight reflects on wanting to work with Bret Hart and Bret ribbing him about a potential program together.

Aside from The Giant helping Bret Hart in a 1998 feud with Diamond Dallas Page, Paul Wight and “The Hitman” never truly worked together or against one another in their respective legendary careers.

Wight recently told DAZN that Hart was a dream opponent for him, believing he and Bret would’ve had a lot of fun on opposite sides of the squared circle.

“I liked a lot of the matches the way Bret Hart worked with bigger guys. I am saddened, as fortunate as I am to have worked with incredible talents that I’ve worked with over my career, anybody that’s ever been anybody. I am saddened by the fact that I never got to have a run with Bret Hart. I think at the right stage of my career; I think it would have been an epic battle. It’d been a hell of a lot of fun, at least for me,” said Wight.

The former Big Show went on to tell a story about how Bret Hart pitched a program idea to him long after Bret had retired, revealing that it was all a rib with Bret just adding on to this extravagant idea only to pitch rolling up Big Show with a small package after the gigantic Superstar would trip over a Canadian flag.

“Bret and I actually talked about having a match one time,” Wight says. “This is after he was retired. He was riding with me on my tour bus, and I had given him the remote to the TV because I was going to go to bed, and he says, ‘Hey, before you go to bed, I want to run an idea by you. I’m like, ‘Okay,’ I mean, it’s Bret Hart, he wants to give me an idea. You listen, you know? He says, ‘I got an idea how you and I can work.’ I was worried about his health at the time. I was like, ‘Well, how are we going to work, Bret? I mean, you’re not cleared.’ He goes, ‘Oh, I’m pretty sure I’d get cleared for what we’re doing, and you’re so safe, and you’re so good at what you do.’ He says we can have a heck of a match.

“He went on for an hour explaining how we get in the match and how we’d start the program, and he gets to the finish of me tripping over the Canadian flag and then he beats me with a small package,” Wight reveals. “So he just ribbed me for an hour to keep me awake. I went, ‘Bret, you’re lucky. I should throw you off my bus.'”

Wight’s career is not over and he still hopes to have a little fun portraying the Captain Insano character in AEW. 

In other Paul Wight vs. Canadian greats-related news, Paul Wight recently spoke about wanting to work with Kenny Omega. Read more here. 

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