Jim Cornette on Bret Hart's Problems With George "The Animal" Steele
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- Опубліковано 22 сер 2024
- From Episode 212 of Jim Cornette's Drive Thru
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The most Bret Hart quote ever was - "My brother Bruce, who knows nothing"
Smokes let's go
😂😂😂😂😂😂
And after Bruce taught Brett the Sharpshooter, that's the thanks he gets??? 🤣
@@robertmanning1514 Bruce taught Bret the Sharpshooter? I always heard that Konnan taught him that during his short stay in Stampede.
@@JoseMiranda-gj4pq Huh, I thought Owen taught it to him when he asked Owen to teach him how to do the Scorpion Deathlock.
Bret puts guys over all the time. He can pay compliments to 5 guys, but the 1 he shits on gets all the clicks. It is what it is..
Hey
Fact! 👌
The problem people have with Bret Hart, is that he doesn’t sugarcoat his answers when he’s asked questions. If he doesn’t like you, he’ll say it.
That's why I love Bret Hart! He even diss his own Brother! That goes to show he doesn't give a f___ 😂😂😂
Yea but he pretty much almost dislikes everyone and also for little things thats why the most people call him a bitter old man
The problem I have with Bret is he thinks his shit don’t stink…
@@kushsmoke273 Conversely we live in a world where no one can take criticism of anybody so instead of thinking hey maybe George was a bit of a dick cutting the boys pay for being a little late to the arena the focus is on Bret not being fake and praising everybody to be a nice guy
@@WhatwouldRoddyPiperdo But Bret was famous for being not "a little late", but hours late, regularly. Any promoter other than vince would have fined him.
Bret Hart comes from a generation that tells it like it is and his account about George Steele has been backed up by guys like Sean Waltman and Tony Atlas.
And lanny paffo who also said Randy savage hated him as well.
Well Bret is a lying, whiny crybaby, Waltman is a junkie who never had anything to do with Steele and Atlas is a weirdo who tells lies and isn't trustworthy at all, not exactly the most believable group of people i'd say
@@shadowangel5054 George was an agent when Waltman came in as the Kid.
Basically was an agent after his 1988 run. I think George spent almost 10 years as an agent.
Oh yeah because guys like the ones in the Clique or Hogan always “told it like it is”. People have always been the same it’s just that Boomers look at the past through rose colored lenses.
George did a small show in Vernon NY in the mid 90's at the Vernon Downs horse racing track. During his entrance, my friend and I recognized him and cheered that a bigger name wrestler we knew of was there. He came over, slid the bicycle rack barriers open, and let us walk with him to the ring. I'll never forget that. Brett might have issues with him and I always loved Brett as a kid, but I will always think fondly of George and what he did that day for me as a little kid.
That sounds awesome. And guess what: that George and the other George can both exist.
I have a similar story about George. I was about 12 and it was mid 86 against Savage. He pulled me into the ring after Macho got disqualified. And he had told me to eat the turnbuckle. The crowd went wild. I will never forget that. George was that kind of guy.
@@davidkos74 na I don't believe that man sorry, got evidence and I'll believe it.
@@davidkos74 NO WAY! You have to be lying because I would know if that happened.
Cool story bro
I worked with an old timer who used to tend bar at a hotel decades ago, he said when the wwf came to town he would see a few of the boys, he said George never tipped and always stunk lol
I’ve actually heard that before. Cheap Bastard
He was a gym teacher, so he probably didn’t have any money.
@@MichaelOBrien71 he said he even got him an extra steak from the kitchen once thinking George would give him a good tip and he didn't, after that he never went out of his way for him when George was in town
@@dickbiggerjr3613 yea I wouldn’t have either. He should have dropped on the floor before serving. The old 20 sec rule 🤡
@@xsteveconwayx I really don't know a whole about him actually I just remembered the name from the story at work, that's why I clicked this video.
Was he not well paid as a wrestler ?
Bret has the right to say what he feels. I see people call him arrogant and bitter but Jim speaks his mind when he hates people and people don't give nothing but praise. Bret is one of a kind
Is English your native language??
What are you trying to say? Keep it simple stupid.
People constantly give Jim shit for speaking his mind
@@SplitGoose his English is fine divided gander
@@SplitGoose We can’t help it you have the brain of a phucking fruit fly.
@@SplitGoose do you even know how to read
Bret Hart will always say what he thinks. it makes him interesting to listen to.
Exactly plus he’s not a fake like most
Hey
I LOVED BRETS WORK however, lately hes been on sour grapes by knocking the in-ring work of STARS like:
FLAIR
MICHAELS
SCOTT HALL
HHH amoung others.....
It's not the 80's or 90's anymore....
The work rate has changed
I've heard multiple wrestlers talk shit about Steele as an agent.
Hey
I got to meet George the Animal Steele at a local indy show here in Pittsburgh called the K.S.W.A. back in 2010. He was very nice I got to talk to him for a couple minutes & got his autograph & a picture.
Aww...ya even got a French kiss and everything.
@@mikeawesome9212 probably got a hell of a lot more than a kiss😅
@@mikeawesome9212 good one kid!
“He was a motherfucker”
Bret was really just talking about him as an agent
Hey
"Son I haven't taken a bump in 20 years"I dont know why I laughed as much as I did
He had the most ginger and cautious way of going over the top rope I've ever seen.
I like Bret Hart! That Dude doesn't give a damn and I love it..
He's Bret FN Hart ... why should he 😁😁😁
@@user-li3fr8jl3b 👍🏿😂
If he doesn't give a damn, then maybe he should actually STOP bitching and moaning about the past.
He believes his own crap. Best there is was and everything will be. Lol. Not even close
Bret didn’t like George. Ric didn’t like Bret. Bret didn’t like Ric. Ric didn’t like Randy. Randy didn’t like Hulk. Shawn didn’t like Hulk. Bret didn’t like Shawn. Jim despised Russo. Jake didn’t like anyone.
No one liked Warrior.
I feel there’s a theme to wrestling shoot interviews?
picture this,
wrestling shoots, but they can only say nice things about somebody
Bret is on friendly terms with ric flair and Shawn micheals now, the others still have issues with each other but the marks say brets bitter lol.
Owen liked Warrior. But Owen liked almost everyone.
You missed everyone hating Mil Mascaras and Konnan being a no-showing prick.
Owen Hart liked Warrior but then again Owen was liked by almost everyone.. Undertaker Is liked by everyone.. Sting is liked by everyone..
Say what you want but Bret Hart has always been consistent...not traits of a liar🤷🏻
consistently bitter.
@@Forever_Thatter if the business you gave your hart and soul to treated you the way it did anyone would be bitter sometimes
Yeah, its because he believes all of his lies
@@sonytoor542 What?
@@popeyedoyle6360 what's so difficult to understand about my statement?
"Nobody hated Strongbow" Honky Tonk Man would strongly disagree 😂
As would Savage
As would Gary Hart (Strongbow was the reason he never went to the WWF), Bobby Heenan (who despised him), HBK, Paul Orndorff...Savage went so far and said that Strongbow killed more careers than drugs ever did.
He was disliked by a whole lot of people and probably was the second most hated road agent in wrestling history behind Terry Taylor (who is universally hated)
@@shadowangel5054 Ivory is getting up there.
@@shadowangel5054 Ivory is getting up there.
@@shadowangel5054 what do road agents do? basically
Steele did admit that for a time he was trying a little coke and partying with a couple of the boys during his last run.
That mid life something else.
Shit, Bret did Coke with Adrian Adonis. He’s a hypocrite.
I’m just imagining Bret Hart sitting there in his living room thinking, “I wish I would have known about Stephen P New in the 80s. Things would have been different.”
Bret's been on that "two minutes late" story for years now. If that's the only true gripe Bret has with him, he needs to lighten up.
The visual of Bill Watts selling vitamins like the Avon lady is too much for me.
George wasn't the best wrestler in the world but he had a good gimmick and sold the hell out of it for a lot of years
Bret is the absolute best...period.
Never get tired of hearing stories about
Hey
He isn't perfect.....Kurt Hennig however....
The best tech in wrestling
John Cena has entered the chat: agreed 👌🏻
Everyone from Bischoff to David Shultz has said Brett was always late he started as the promoters kid and could do whatever he wanted.
I'm not saying Bret didn't get his feelings hurt. That's life. He does seem to like his grudges a lot, though.
George worked part-time as a wrestler only in summers until he retired from school teaching. He and his wife both retired with teachers pensions. Then he became full-time with Vince. The school he taught at named their football field after him the Jim Myers field or stadium something like that. He had a good life.
Saw what you want about George but his finisher looked so legit, that flying hammerlock looked amazing
I agree and have said this for years. Would love to see someone pull this off today.
100% looked legit painful, great finisher
@@AFCole-uu3rv and he worked your arm leading to his finisher. I know...makes too much sense
Winston By “work the arm” you mean twist it and jump up like a foot to make it look while your putting pressure while the guy getting his arm twisted just stood there for two minutes? Oh yeah that looked so real smh. You may not like today’s style and that’s fine but you have to be slow to ever think it was real.
Funny Jim talk about the bag,Bret said in the same shoot interview that he threw that bag in a river from a bridge with other George's stuff lollll
Owen and macho man did it, or maybe I'm confusing the story but no, Bret didn't do it. Steele fined Bret, Owen and from my memory, randy and they stole Steeles briefcase and threw it in the river passing by it.
@@sleazyfellow they did indeed
Bret has always called george a stooge
Irony is, Bret has been stooging on other wrestlers for the past 25 years.
@@sonytoor542 to be fair that dude did tackle him & the h.o.f....
I love when they introduce Steven P 😂😂😂😂
I loved watching George "The Animal" Steele on Saturday Night Wrestling in Pittsburgh.
My Grandma and I would watch, she loved cussin' out the heels. Bruno played a huge part in it because he loved Pittsburgh. Haystacks Calhoun worked there too and Koloff when he was a youngun'. Bruno made sure he got all the big names to a rinky dink ring at a rinky dink TV station. "Who can? AmeriCAN!!"
George was a high school teacher when he wasn’t wrestling
Madison High School in Madison Heights, MI. He was my mom’s history teacher.
Bret Hart questions are always the most viewed
Bret also called George Steele a snitch.
Funny, Bret calling others snitch, yet has been snitching on other wrestlers for 25 years.
@@sonytoor542 Interesting. Could you give one example of him snitching?
Before George became the 'cant talk animal' in the 80s, he was a monster heel. I've seen some of his earlier work and he was entertaining as hell.
Hey
AYYYYYYYYE!!
LOL at having an audio clip, that has no video, being 60fps!
I love George Steel. Especially his work in the 60s & 70s when he was a monster heel.
Bret has done a great job of becoming the angriest there is, the angriest there was, and the angriest there ever will be
George the Animal Steele was the finest scientific wrestler of his generation. He never cheated. He never broke a rule. There have been accusations by less talented grapplers that he used foreign objects. No. Those were pieces of safety equipment mandated by state athletic commissions. It was his opponents who stole those pieces of safety equipment and used them as weapons. See for example Backlund V. Steele 30 July 1983.
Get well soon Travis your artwork is greatly missed.
Is he ill?
@@Hidden-Secrets yeah he's dying
@@Hidden-Secrets he has ligma
I definitely miss the old thumbnails this new crap looks like comic book stuff. It's still better than I can do but 99% of the time I don't know who the drawing is. Especially Jim
Nobody has Cornette knowledge of the business
I miss the original artist...no disrespect to the current one, I'm just used to the original one
I have heard from other listeners Travis is sick.
@@huskerfanman he’s on convalescent leave. Hopefully he gets better soon.
I'm partial to Steele. He taught at my high school. Before my time, but still cool
You're partial to him cause he had a job.....before your time......and you never interacted with him. The standards for you to be partial to someone is pretty low
Teacher? He taught phy ed. That isn't a teacher. 🤣🤣🤣
George Animal Steele also had a featured role in the Tim Burton's 1993 film Ed Wood, the title role played by Johnny Depp. Steele portrays wrestler/actor The Swedish Angel Tor Johnson --whom starred in Wood's 1957 b-movie classic Plan 9 From Outer Space
"Do my toes."
Funniest line in the movie.
How cool it must have been for those kids to have George The Animal as their teacher. I’ve had a few teachers that looked like him actually 😂
Steele also insulted Bret Hart, Ric Flair, Hogan, and John Cena, but no one will cover that or say he was bitter. Rest In Peace though.
Bret Hart is an ass, he forgave WWE for killing Owen but he won't forgive Goldberg for that kick, Ric Flair and John Cena have lost all of my respect after the canyon dark side of the ring episode, and Hogan's always been a liar so George Steele's comments were justified
@@bensistManors19 Owen's death was an accident, like it or not. Bret practically begged Bill Goldberg not to hurt him...and the out of control asshole did anyway.
@@Goldenbane I was gonna say that!
He didn’t go on hate your for 20 years
@@bensistManors19 lol you wanted cena to catch heat over Kanyon??? Come on bruh. Kanyon was cool but no more than a lower middle card guy.
"Jim, don't talk about chewing human bones in my ad spots, I don't want those kind of clients."
Anyone whom thinks school teachers are intelligent (as a rule), probably didn't do too well at school.
I began teacher ed / training at university and the majority - I kid you not, didn't know their 10x tables.
My daughter's teacher can't even spell the girl's name correctly most of the time. It's five letters.
Having started school in 1987, and graduated in 2000, I’d say most of my teachers were pretty intelligent. They knew their shit. There were a few that shouldn’t have been teachers and I questioned how they even graduated from, let alone got admitted to, college.
@@dr.floridamanphd I think the pay, training and quality of candidates has dropped since then ... along with status and wages... but I personally had good intelligent teachers (mostly) too - 1980 onwards.
IDK about the last century but in the last 20 years being intelligent is actually a detriment to being in the teaching profession, or the education industry in general. You're not supposed to think, you're supposed to do as you're told and lap up the college indoctrination (it's not education anymore) so you can brainwash kids like the deep state wants.
If I'm not mistaken, that interview with Bret was the one where he said as payback the stole Geoges briefcase that contained his drugs among other belongings and tossed it off a bridge, overpass, or something to that effect.
He said Owen and Savage did.
George was a fairly-smart dude (Masters in Education from my alma mater, Central Michigan University), and he and Bill Murray became friends while working on Ed Wood.
Lmao, a Masters Degree? I don't think so. He was a phy ed techer.
George was a high school history teacher, coached wrestling and football
Madison High School in Madison Heights, MI. He was my mom’s history teacher.
My foster dad was a student of George. He said he was a good person and teacher
Love the new illustrations.
Bret is right, though. Steele was a total snitch. So him, Owen and Berserker were a few minutes late. So the fuck what? That was very Triple H of him.
It’s to stop more people from being late or coming later . It’s setting an example for all
George fined Bret to set an example. Bret could afford the 500 bucks at that point... but the young partiers George was likely worried about probably got to work on time there after. "If George will slap Bret for 5 min... who the fuck am I ? I better get to work on time."
Sounds like good management to me... which is what he was being paid for.
I love Bret and all but man he can be a little bitch sometimes. He has a very hard time every thinking beyond himself. Couldn't for a second even consider the clown show no doubt George was trying to wrangle.
@@chaddesrosiers1107 exactly
@@chaddesrosiers1107 Considering how drugged up and laissez faire the vast majority of the roster was at that time I doubt it worked at all. Besides, you just know The Clique never got fined or punished even if they showed up 2 hours late.
Bret is, to this day, the only wrestler that ever made me (an American) boo the United States.
And Bret Hart, to this day, is the only wrestler that ever made me (a Canadian) boo Canada!
90s watched Mike Adams Sportsworld and George Steele was mentioning how he was high school teacher before being wrestler
George Steele's career started because of his body hair. I can't remember if it was the Sheik or not but somebody asked him to take a shirt off and said "oh wow this is money."
I always heard Vince came up with the animal gimmick.
Those Stephen P. New ads are so over the top that it wasn’t until I Googled him that I realized he was legit. When I first started listening to Jim, I thought that part was a bit.😄
He was my mom gym teacher. Jim Meyers I believe
Bret hart has never given me a reason to not believe what he says.
When I was a kid. There was a rumor going around that George was Elizabeth's father in real life .
You can see the family resemblance too, right?
The people saying he's bitter are fucking comedians. The man is MJ or Maradona of Pro Wrestling. Nobody's work holds up like his.
George got the summertime runs...
Wings on top of the heart...wings on top of the heart...
I read Bret's autobiography, and chuckled at his claiming he was late by only 2 minutes.
Late is late, no matter how you slice it.
I guarantee you he was late by good 20 minutes.
LMFAO This Artwork is Absolutely Hilarious.
Tony Atlas confirms this about George Steele and I believe I've heard one other wrestler but cannot remember.
Tony Atlas isn't really somebody you should be quoting. 🤣
London Kentucky loves you guys. Must have missed it
6:55. "And then when he got the runs in the wwwf.." Oh no poor George, hope that cleared up fast.
World WIPE Wrestling Federation (I'm ashamed of this)
Considering George got sick with Crohn's late in his career, that was probably not the best choice of words.
It didn't....🤣
Nobody paid to see George. They paid to see Bret.
I found the A&E biographies at Walmart there are 2 DVDs volume 1 & 2 , $13 a pop I had to get it , I would go out of my way to watch all the episodes while I was traveling , now I got it all on DVD.
Tony Atlas backs up Bret saying Steele was a stooge
The question was based on a very old interview in case you were wondering.
This is a shocker. Every other wrestler says George was a nice man.
can we please get the old cartoons back!?
I feel like it's easy to get on Bret's bad side. Takes a lot to earn that respect, let alone sustain it.
Sounds like a real man respect is earned
Fining me $500 for being 2 minutes late would put a motherfucker on anyone’s bad side. I’d make sure I got some revenge too.
@@pleaseshutup7053 Real men don't need to put in the effort the earn another man's respect.
So bizarre. I'd never heard Bret say this before until about an hour ago, then this pops up 😂
I only ever knew that Bret didn’t like him. I didn’t know why until this video.
As someone who unfortunately has to use colostomy bags, regardless of how much of a prick he was, throwing them away was unbelievably cruel. In my case, I have them for life. Can't get it reversed.
I’m dealing with them now, probably getting it reversed towards the end of the year. Been watching a lot of videos and while I play games in my downtime. Jim cringes so hard when he mentions them which happens a lot. It kinda bothers me tbh.
And yes if anyone threw my supplies in the river they would find out how much life is left in you when you’re going through colon problems lol.
@@scottwarren3948 Did you have UC or Crohn's? Mine was UC. Got the operation in 1999 when I was 22. Didn't go well. No option for reversal, which believe or not, after all this time I'm OK with. Best wishes for a successful procedure and speedy recovery.
@@ferox965 preforated diverticulitis with a sepsis infection that almost killed me. The reversal has been put on hold while the massive abdominal wound healed. I came home with wound care and a 18 inch hole in my gut. Everything has went well so far I’m back to landscaping and even raising a little hell. I feel you though brother. We’re still here and we can still eat drink and screw like the rest of em. 🤘🏾
And yea I could totally function like this for the duration, which is a surprise to me because six months ago I thought I was a done deal.
What the hell are the lyrics (especially the last part) to the Stephen P. New commercial jingle? 🤣🤣🤣
The context was Bret was asked about agents, he praised Rene Goulet and Tony Garea, he was asked who was one of the worst; and he said George Steele
It's stupid to fine wrestlers $500 for arriving 2 minutes late -- especially when they don't have the first match on the card.
Why ? If you let them get away with it more will be late the next time and even later. It’s done to set an example for all . If you don’t like it don’t be late . Also everyone says they were only 2 minute late all the time when they are 15 or more minutes late
@@jewsco Things happen in life, compassion and empathy are actual human traits, if it was ongoing problem sure, but its sound like your same type idiot Steel was that made people hate them for minor things.
I really do hate this new artwork
Bret Hart Buries The Universe...
Bret and Valentine praise Scarpa
Garea, Goultet were on the same level as Lanza
Bret isn't the only that share the same opinion about George Steele. Tony Atlas for example.
Yeah, I've heard a couple other wrestlers say stuff about him when he was a road agent....it's not hard to believe...some people's personalities change when they get a bit of authority.
I remember Tony Garea as a enhancement talent. He has the same hairstyle as back then.
Bret either loves or hates you. There is no middle ground.
I can’t believe that you didn’t discuss the retribution Brett said he handed back to George Steele. According to Brett, they took George’s Halliburton brief case and his colostomy bag out of the locker room and after the show in Hershey, Pennsylvania on their way to New Jersey tossed them over a bridge into a river. George Steele never found out that they were the guilty parties.
George loved those fuckin turnbuckles.
He has a very pleasant voice. Vince should have come up with something for him to be a lead announcer. Put him with Jesse "The Body" Ventura.
George was great as Thor Johnson in Ed Wood.
Brett “The Common Denominator” Hart
I think Bret Hart could have an argument with himself 🤣. He took himself way to seriously
Brett also said Owen and Macho Man stole his colostomy bag and threw it into the river.
The green stuff on George's toungue were clorets. Breath freshing chlorophyll gum.
Good Lord. What won't Bret bitch about. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Miss the old Drawings
Good grief, the skull on Bret's shirt gives me insane Skullgirls vibes (though it's probably the other way around).
When half the video is a sneaky commecial, you get a thumbs down.
Oooo I love the call Stephen P New song
Brett calling George a snitch is hilarious
Absolutely awesome levels of double standards 😂
Brett? Hartt?
@@metallicbigtoe3949 brets not a snitch
@@willjohnboy he snitched the whole business on live TV 😂
I saw this comment, left searched then came back.....couldn't find a single fucking story of bret hart snitching on wrestlers
They told both the Bill Watts and the Derek Domino stories in the same order on the podcast before when they heard George Steele had passed away.