May 12, 201114 yr Author comment_5471041 Bret Hart is coming to Mid South Coliseum to settle a score with Jerry Lawler and "all you Southern people in Memphis". Surreal. Bret is awesome! Redneck accent: "What we have here is a failure to communicate." He laments what happened to Owen and vows revenge on this nobody, all while saying these Southern hicks will learn he's serious business, and they'll be crying around him just like they do Elvis! Hell of a promo.
December 24, 201311 yr comment_5577287 Bret shows his acting range with the "failure to communicate" line towards Memphis fans and it's a beaut.
June 23, 201510 yr comment_5680179 What a great preview of how much of a cocky bastard Bret could be early in the decade. He gives a great promo here and the Lawler feud has so many facets of complexity to it to make it awesome.
November 10, 20159 yr comment_5709322 Mocking a southern accent was the about the most charisma Bret ever showed. Ironically, I kind of liked him for a second. Other than that, Bret's promo here as a heel isn't much different than his promos as a face, except being unlikeable and whiney suits the character.
October 1, 20168 yr comment_5770267 Like DR said, this isn't much doifferent from Bret's WWF face promos except for his insults toward the Memphis fans. Cut those lines out or give them to Lawler and you could run these promos to hype a main event match on Raw or at Madison Square Garden. It's the context and geography that makes this feud what it is, much like the later stuff between Bret and Austin, which this is actually a nice little dress rehearsal for, albeit three years early. I liked that Bret mentioned Owen as one of his prime motivations for wanting to kick Lawler's ass, which again makes me wonder why Owen never mentioned Bret during his promo after his 7/3 MSC match with Lawler. The fact that Bret is only now coming to Memphis reinforces my theory that the USWA wasn't sure when or if Bret would be able to come in, and thus didn't want to center their portion of the feud around someone who was potentially never going to show up. Bret uses both "Excellence of Execution" and "Best There is, Was, or Ever Will Be" here when he wasn't doing so regularly for the WWF audience yet. I wonder if Bret liked the way those phrases sounded so much here that he chose to use them more often than he already was back in New York. If that's true, he made a wise choice, as those are the taglines that he'll be best known by for the rest of his life. Interesting that Bret does what Lawler does when he's a heel: completely bury his opponent to the point that one is left to wonder why he's even bothering to wrestle the match. Somehow or other, it sounds more organic when Bret does it, which isn't surprising given that at this point he's still been a heel for the majority of his career.
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