Bret Hart Clarifies Rating for Lesnar/HHH Match, ESPN Power Rankings

- Brock Lesnar took the top spot on this week’s ESPN WWE Power Rankings followed by The Shield, CM Punk, Dolph Ziggler and John Cena.

ESPN’s article also contained a few quotes from Cody Rhodes, who discussed his career before WrestleMania 29 earlier this month.

“Gosh, this has been a horrible run,” Rhodes admitted. “I feel like after Money in the Bank in Phoenix, I almost took a nose dive, career-wise. I couldn’t get the reigns on it, but I feel like I finally got the reigns on my career again, and that happens in entertainment.”

- Bret Hart clarified some earlier comments he made during a recent interview with Arda Ocal. Bret noted that when he talked about the Triple H vs. Brock Lesnar match at WrestleMania being a 4 out of 10, he was actually referring to a sign in the crowd on Raw.

“my comments to Arda about Trip H Lezner match being 4 out of 10, was in reference to a sign someone held up on Raw. I in truth thought they had the second best match of the night, and both worked very hard. Hope that clarifys things. Bret”

Bret Rates Rock Bottom to Cena, Shares Thoughts on Ambrose and More

- WWE Hall of Famer Bret Hart recently spoke with WrestleNewz.com and answered several fan questions. Here are some highlights:

His experience at WrestleMania this year:
“I really enjoyed it. The most fun for me was seeing a lot of the legends and the old names and faces that I’ve known for so many years — Jimmy Snuka, Roddy Piper and those kinds of guys. I was really quite impressed with seeing the great Bruno Sammartino and hearing his induction speech. To hear his struggle through his childhood with the Nazis — I never knew a lot of that stuff about Bruno. So I was quite touched by him. I got to run into him two or three times over that week, and he was really impressive to me.”

The WrestleMania 29 pay-per-view:
“I thought parts of it were really good. But parts of it I thought were, for me, very predictable. I kind of predicted things in my head and certain matches went exactly as I thought they would. But the one match I thought was outstanding was the Punk-Undertaker match. That was truly exceptional. They really had a great match — they couldn’t have done a better job with taking two different guys from two different eras and fusing them together to create the match that they got.”

His favorites on the WWE roster:
“Right now I’m very impressed with Punk. And I’m very impressed with the one guy in The Shield — what’s his name O’Connell, O’Donnell? — Ambrose, that’s it. He’s really good. He’s got it down. He’s such a first-rate thinker on his feet when it comes to his timing, his expressions, his quickness, his deviousness. I love his deviousness! I saw him this past weekend and told him I thought he was great.”

Thoughts on a meme showing him giving The Rock’s Rock Bottom to John Cena on the go-home RAW a 4/10:
“I haven’t seen it, but it might be closer to the truth than people think. I don’t know if my look was on purpose. Sometimes I make funny expressions on my own that make me laugh. When there are people snapping pictures from every angle, it’s hard to know how you’ll look. But personally, I thought when he did the big move on (Cena), he kind of flubbed it up. He didn’t do it very well. It was like a four out of 10! They seemed to trip with their toes. They didn’t really get positioned right at all. They kind of tripped over each other. It’s hard to say who tripped over who, but I thought somebody flubbed it. Maybe Rock flubbed it. Yeah, I would say four out of 10. Four may be generous!”

In part 1 of the interview, Bret also talks about how Dean Ambrose reacted to his comments, what Vince McMahon needs to do to fix the WWE Tag Team division and more. Part 2 will be released later this week.

Bret Hart Gives Another Match a 4/10 Rating

Arda Ocal conducted a live Q/A with Bret “Hitman” Hart. In the session which was primary questions from the audience, many questions were covered including:

* Opponents we wished he had a chance to work and would have liked to work one more match against

* His interactions with Batista

* The Rock vs John Cena in the main event of WrestleMania

* Opinions of John Cena and the opinions of him from critics

* Who he considers today to be the “Best There is, Best There Was and the Best There ever will be”

Ocal also asked Bret about comments he made when the pair last spoke in an interview a few weeks ago about Triple H not being in his Top 1000 wrestlers and giving Undertaker vs Triple H at Wrestlemania 28 a 4 out of 10.

Bret is aware that this has become a phenomenon among the internet wrestling community and also gave the match between Triple H and Brock Lesnar at Wrestlemania 29 a 4/10. He also reveals that he and Triple H dont speak today and when they see each other its typically nothing more than “Hi, bye”. Though he does keep in contact today with Shawn Michaels.