"Hitman" Bret Hart (1996): The Definitive Collection of Classic Matches

Shammus Hussain: very emotional read

United Kingdom on Nov 08, 2023

Amazon Customer: Very long book

Canada on Oct 12, 2023

First bought it in late 2007, bought it for a second time in 2021! It's the best and most detailed autobiography.. 5 stars at least :) Bret 4 Life!: Me and Nono bought this book in late 2007. Now my brother has it in his own house. So I bought this book for a 2nd time in 2021 ^^ This is the best and most detailed autobiography ever. Bret talks about his life and the wrestling industry, which is especially interesting since it was during such a great period, from his Stampede days to the Hulkamania era to the New Generation era to the Monday night wars/ Attitude era!
Read it right now or you will be execellently executed once and for all :)

France on Oct 04, 2023

Jon: This book took me down memory lane and I couldnt get enough of it.

Bret was a childhood hero of mine and itnwasnt a let down 👍

United Kingdom on Sep 07, 2023

Giulio C.: What an emotional ride this book was. Bret can make you cry, then laugh, then cry again in the space of a single page. He does not hold back, and he presents with care and in detail his truth concerning his life and some historic moments of professional wrestling. Must buy.

Italy on Jul 17, 2022

George B Slade: I’m not even sure where to start on this one. Despite the book being over 500 pages, I was able to finish it just a few days reading between work days, on airplanes and sitting at home in bed, while my beautiful wife Jess read her own book.

I’ll start by saying that Bret Hart was my overwhelming favorite wrestler, when I was a child/teen deeply engaged in following professional wrestling/sports entertainment. Although money was not always plentiful for us growing up in the country, I talked my mom into purchasing Wrestle Mania X on pay per view, just so I could see Bret’s epic day of losing to his brother Owen, in a classic match, and then winning his second reign as WWF Champion to close the show against the mammoth Yokozuna. It was the single greatest wrestling show I had ever seen up to that point, surpassing Wrestle Mania VIII, where Bret’s win over Rowdy Roddy Piper made me a fan for life.

The Hitman was cool. He was strong. He was a hero on the screen and at that age, I believed he was a hero off of the screen. I’m not sure who said it, but I know there’s a saying that you should never meet your heroes. Although reading his autobiography is not...

United States on May 03, 2017

Michael: Bret Hart was my favorite professional wrestler as a kid. As someone born in 1984, I was born into two golden ages of professional wrestling, being young enough to fall in love with the super hero, larger than life characters of the 1980s, coming to appreciate the technical ability of the "new era" early 1990s, and then being the target audience for WWF's turn towards the raunchy in the Attitude era. I marked hard for basically every angle up until I was 16, and Bret Hart's autobiography is written for those fans who followed his career.

The book is surprisingly well written, and seems to authentically be coming from Hart. It lacks most of the cliches that are inflicted on readers in other wrestling autobiographies, but Hart does stray into some tiring analogies especially at the end of each chapter. The mood of the book is largely melodramatic, which can be tiring, but melodrama seemingly followed Hart for most of his career and so its apt.

The book is written for someone who understands the world of professional wrestling and is beyond the premise of works and shoots. Even if you're not a smark, if you just know what a smark is, then the book is written for you....

United States on Sep 16, 2016