No. Most people remember more than just two of his promos, that's pretty damn obvious. Just stop being so fucking stupid, you won't get Hart through on his mic skills. In that respect, he's not in Punk's league and everyone knows it.
I don't see why mic skills are so important in determining the winner of this match. Even though I don't see it as a relevant factor I'd like to argue against Hart not being in Punk's league. I know Hart didn't use the insider terms that everyone pops a stiffy for. He wasn't trying to make a bunch of jokes. He talked like...gasp...an athlete. Bret didn't try to be a comedian and didn't have to be. He let his actions speak for him and when he did talk he was perfectly fine.
This is a little unfair in the sense that I don't think Punk has peaked yet, but as I've already said this match is pretty much a push all the way down making it come down to the object, which Punk would acquire first.
I agree that Punk hasn't peaked yet. So how can we put him past Bret Hart? Maybe in a few years but not now. It would be an insult to an all time great to allow someone who has not peaked to beat him in this tournament. Also, I don't know why you just assume Punk would be the one to get the weapon.
I think most of us making the argument were around for Bret's day which is why we can remember his short comings. Just because it happened in the attitude era doesn't automatically make it better. Nobody is taking away from Bret, but this match favors Punk.
I think just the opposite. Most people arguing for Punk were probably not around for Bret's day and don't appreciate how great he was. Forget the attitude era. Bret was a star long before then. The fact that so many people think Punk is above Hart just goes to show how people have lowered their standards since Hart left.
Now come on, this is flat out stupid. Regardless of what you think of JoMo he was a great in ring talent and his matches with Punk were also great.
JoMo was so great that he didn't even come close to making it in this tournament and failed to live up to even half his potential.
One's with Mysterio were also great and Samoa Joe's matches were damn near amazing.
I think Bret's list of great matches is longer than Punk's. Perfect, Piper, Bulldog, Michaels, Owen, Diesel, Backlund, Austin, Taker, Benoit, etc. And he had more than one classic with most of them.
Not to mention all the others he's had that I can't even remember. Once again your giving no real reason why those matches were bad, your just going off the fact you like Bret's better.
So the matches he had were so great you can't remember them? Weird.
Like I said once again it doesn't matter. If he was heel it give him the advantage even more because Punk doesn't need to play to crowd he can use whatever cheap victory to win.
I don't ever remember Bret taking his focus off a match to play to the crowd.
Hart is far superior to Punk in the ring. However I do have a different stance on this to most people. For all the years I witnessed Bret Hart in wrestling, I remember him using a weapon one specific and very memorable occasion, to knock Undertaker on his arse with a chair shot after getting hocked on by HBK. Bret Hart was in the WWE a long long time.
What about against Diesel and Austin? You're right about Bret being far superior to Punk. He has such a great reputation as a technical wrestler that people overlook that he was a great brawler too.
From the 5 or so years Punk has been in the WWE, and for the fewer of those that I've actually been watching him, I can remember quite a few occasions where he took out his frustrations with an object of some kind.
It doesn't take much skill to hit someone with an object. I think Bret can handle that.
For all the time Bret Hart was on top and in his prime, he was as clean a face as Hogan was, which was probably the '94-'96 years. That means, just like Hogan, he rarely ever used weapons, he tried to abstain unless it was necessary the same way a superhero abstains from completely obliterating the villains even when they have the upper hand. That's right guys and gals, I see this stipulation favouring Punk.
And it's necessary here. Just like it was at Survivor Series 95.
I think in a one on one match, Bret has Punk up and down the aisle, all day every day and twice on Sundays.
Good thing this is a one on one match.
But with the chance of using a metal weapon, and the looming inevitability in Punk's mind that he probably wont win if he doesn't manage to grab that object, it really evens things for him in my perspective. Punk doesn't have the same issue as Hart, he's a tweener like face and would have no issue using a weapon to do away with an adversary if fully sanctioned, we've only to go back 8 days to see just what Punk can and is prepared to do if the opportunity for using more than just his body to cleave opponents is offered.
Again, I will mention Survior Series 95. WrestleMania 13 too. If Bret would beat Punk easily in a one on one match like you suggest I don't see how this stipulation will make that much of a difference. The object on the pole is not kryptonite.
So that's my stance. There's no guarantee that Punk will be able to grab the weapon, and if it did happen it'd probably be deep into the match when Punk was beginning to get desperate after early on signing a silent pact with the Hitman that neither would use the object. If he did happen to get the chance though, I see him as the more aggressive, the more conniving and all round dastardly competitor and I can see him bashing the best there ever is, was and will be to smithereens to make sure he gets the victory.
Desperate men make mistakes. Bret is one of the smartest wrestlers ever. He will capitalize on the mistake.
I'm not decided yet though. I just thought it would be interesting to offer up my honest thoughts on the gimmicks reflection upon the match. I may decide that Hart is simply too much a physical challenge, that even if Punk reached the point of desperation where he attempts to attain the outcome-deciding object, he simply wouldn't be able to, but as yet I am undecided
Do the right thing and vote for Hart. You know he's better. The better man should advance.
