Various: Bret “The Hitman” Hart on His Belief Modern Wrestling Is Starting To Become Hokey and Not Real & WCW Should Have Been Sued Over Goldberg’s Lack Of Training, New AAA Live Event Announced For January 2027 In Fort Lauderdale, FL, Indies/Misc.

Nov 11, 2026

Bret “The Hitman” Hart Comments on His Belief Modern Wrestling Is Starting To Become Hokey and Not Real & WCW Should Have Been Sued Over Goldberg’s Lack Of Training

A recent episode of The Johnny I Pro Show podcast featured WWE Hall of Famer Bret “The Hitman” Hart as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Hart’s thoughts about his issues with modern day wrestling over his belief that it is starting to become hokey and unreal.

“But, I know that I gave so much and tried so hard to make it appear real. I have a hard time today when it’s not, I don’t think those values are carried forward and they’re moving on in a different direction now where wrestling is starting to become hokey. It doesn’t try to be real anymore. It tries to be unreal, like too outrageously. The more explosions and pyro and stuff that you can do, it has nothing to do with wrestling. Like in the end, I’m a wrestling fan deep in my heart. I like to watch a really good wrestling match that builds and tells a story and all that. I don’t get that fix anymore, I’m not getting that at all from today’s wrestling.”

Hart also gave his thoughts about how a match between Buddy Rogers and Killer Kowalski in the 1960s is the type of pro wrestling that he prefers to watch.

Hart also gave his thoughts about his reputation as a safe performer in the ring during his wrestling career and once again criticized Goldberg for being someone he claims is unsafe in the ring.

“You’ve got to know what you’re doing when you go out there a little bit. It’s not like Goldberg — I won’t go on a big thing about Goldberg, but Goldberg just hurt me because he didn’t know how to do anything different. No one taught him, no one showed him, no one explained to him like Bill, it’s not really real. You can’t actually kick somebody in the head as hard as you can, you just can’t. No one took the time to tell him that in WCW, where it’s like, they should be sued for unprofessional wrestling, for putting me in the ring with a guy that didn’t know anything about wrestling.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com 1 & 2

New AAA Live Event Announced For January 2027 In Fort Lauderdale, FL

The Fort Lauderdale War Memorial Auditorium recently announced that Lucha Libre AAA will be holding a live event on January 30, 2027 at their venue in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

It was announced that tickets for this upcoming show will officially go on sale starting on November 13 for the pre-sale and November 14 for the general public.

Current schedule for AAA United States Live Event tour:

November 27 – 713 Music Hall in Houston, Texas
November 29 – Ector County Coliseum in Odessa, Texas
December 26 – Sacramento Memorial Auditorium in Sacramento, California
December 27 – Selland Arena in Fresno, California
January 30, 2027 – Fort Lauderdale War Memorial Auditorium in Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Misc. Wrestling News & Notes

Romeo Malverde, former Santos Escobar in WWE, recently announced on Instagram that he was the winner of this year’s Jericho Cruise Oceanic Championship tournament during this past week’s Chris Jericho’s Rock ‘N’ Wrestling Rager At Sea: Seventh Cruise of a Seventh Cruise event.

This week’s issue of the Weekly Pro-Wrestling magazine in Japan features Kenny Omega on the cover.

Major League Wrestling recently announced that next year’s co-promoted Azteca Lucha event with CMLL will be taking place on May 15, 2027 at Cicero Stadium in Cicero, Illinois.

Westside Xtreme Wrestling recently announced that indies talent Rhio will be making an appearance for the company at their 26th Anniversary event on December 19th in Oberhausen, Germany.

Beyond Wrestling recently announced the full schedule for this year’s Wrestival indies events, which takes place on December 31 to January 2, 2027 at the White Eagle in Worcester, Massachusetts.

MMA Junkie reported that Dana White’s Power Slap company recently sent a cease-and-desist letter to Power Spank demanding that they stop using the name over similarities with their company name. Power Spank is a parody of Power Slap where female competitors spank each other on the rear end unlike Power Slap where competitors slap each other in the face. This parody is held by Lingerie Fighting Championships, which is run by former MLW executive Mister Saint Laurent. In an official statement, LFC CEO Shaun Donnelly stated “We respect Power Slap and its founders, but we will not be bullied into abandoning protected speech. We will defend our right, and the right of every American, to free speech, and if that takes us to the Supreme Court, we are prepared to go.”

In a recent interview with Fightful, former WWE and AEW manager CJ Perry revealed that she recently signed a deal with Los Angeles-based talent agency Luber Roklin. Perry stated “I can focus on producing movies. Right now, I’m with — I just signed with Luber Roklin management company and we’re working on a lot of different projects, trying to find the right projects for me to produce, and get attached to and so that’s the next venture, and that also takes time.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)

Game Changer Wrestling recently announced two new matches for the card of their Massacre In Missoula event on November 14 in Missoula, Montana: