Bret Hart Recalls Fighting Six Men In Roadside Brawl With Davey Boy Smith
On episode 35 of Confessions Of The Hitman, two-time WWE Hall Of Famer Bret ‘Hitman’ Hart told a few funny stories from his life on the road as a professional wrestler. Specifically, Hart talked about fighting side-by-side with ‘The British Bulldog’ Davey ‘Boy’ Smith in a roadside brawl. Also, Hart weighed in on who he thinks is the toughest professional wrestler in real life.
As an up-and-coming professional wrestler for Stampede Wrestling, Hart had the rare opportunity to face off against the legendary Nick Bockwinkel in back-to-back matches in both Edmonton and Calgary, Alberta, Canada with all time great Lou Thesz as special guest referee. When the first match was in the books, Hart had to make the drive back to Calgary.
be a missionary. when you say a missionary, i ve known you for a while. religion is not something i associated with ted turner. no. my faith was shaken when my sister got sick. she was sick for five years before she passed away. and it just it seemed so unfair because she didn t do anything wrong. christianity didn t give me the answer to that. so my faith got shaken somewhat. i still pray a little bit. ted found solace on the water. where he developed a love for sailing. by age 11 he was competing in the junior regatta of the savannah yacht club. his parents divorced after his sister s death and his relationship with his father remained strained. when ted was accepted to brown university his dad berated him for not getting into harvard. he sent ted a letter that still haunts him today. my dear son, i m appalled. even horrified, that you have
in 1960, ted turner left college and his father couldn t have been more pleased. he thought i was wasting my time. so you leave brown, and you go into your dad s billboard business. right. ted was a natural from the beginning. and his dad quickly made him manager of the company s macon, georgia branch. he was running the billboard company there. building more billboards, selling more billboards. making lots of money for his father and for the company. already one of the biggest billboard companies in the south, ed turner took a risk to make it the biggest. he borrowed $4 million, bought out his largest competitor and then, lost his nerve. he had kind of a nervous breakdown. fear of defaulting on the loan consumed him.