Overview
Written without collaborators and based on decades of tape recordings he made throughout his career, HITMAN is Bret Hart's brutally honest, perceptive and startling account of his life in and out of the ring that proves once and for all that great things come in pink tights.
Full Product Details
Author: Bret Hart
Publisher: Time Warner Trade Publishing
Imprint: Warner Books Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 16.60cm
, Height: 4.80cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.880kg
ISBN: 9780446539722
ISBN 10: 0446539724
Pages: 569
Publication Date: 08 October 2008
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Out of Stock Indefinitely
Availability: Out of stock
Reviews
Bret Hart is the best there is, the best there was, the best there ever will be. <br>--Ric Flair <br> Bret Hart still makes me believe that wrestling is good. <br>--Hulk Hogan <br> A legend! <br>--The Rock <p> From the Hardcover edition.
"""Bret Hart is the best there is, the best there was, the best there ever will be."" --Ric Flair ""Bret Hart still makes me believe that wrestling is good."" --Hulk Hogan ""A legend!"" --The Rock ""From the Hardcover edition."""
One of pro wrestling's biggest stars tells it like it was, with an obscene amount of detail.Few are better qualified than Hart to relate the story of how a family-friendly, locally oriented sport run by curmudgeonly promoters was steamrollered by the Hulk Hogan - fueled WWF marketing machine. Likely the most popular wrestler to ever come from Canada, the author grew up in Calgary, one of many sons of wrestling promoter Stu Hart, whose televised bouts were staples for decades. The Hart family basement passed into legend as the dungeon, a place where Stu put top wrestlers through his grueling moves. The author's loving depiction of his cranky, painfully honest, perpetually broke father is a high point of this bloated memoir. Hart also vividly depicts the threadbare but thrilling family business he grew up in, with its road trips in crowded vans, meager pay, clownish ring antics and solid sense of brotherhood. But in 1983, hungry New York promoter Vince McMahon Jr. started televising his matches in other promoters' territories, necessitating a 1983 gathering in Las Vegas that Hart compares to a meeting of Mafia dons protecting their turf. With the coming of the louder, meaner WWF, he laments, something uniquely vaudevillian was lost forever. Nonetheless, it was only after Hart joined McMahon that he became an international star. McMahon's steroid-pumped musclemen were often not even wrestlers, the author admits, but since it was the only game in town he soldiered on, reaping millions in the process. Unfortunately, nearly two-thirds of the text focuses on Hart's fights with the untrustworthy McMahon and squabbles with siblings, rendering much of the book a tiresome bore.Excessive score settling smothers a pungent account of wrestling's changing of the guard. (Kirkus Reviews)
Bret Hart is the best there is, the best there was, the best there ever will be. --Ric Flair Bret Hart still makes me believe that wrestling is good. --Hulk Hogan A legend! --The Rock From the Hardcover edition.
Author Information
Though Bret Hart is now retired from wrestling, he is recognized around the world as one of the all-time greats. In 2006 he was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame. He lives in Calgary.
