Bret's Article
Fighting For My Rights
Calgary Sun
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If you're wondering how I got tied up with The Commandant of The South
African Truth Commission, I'm wondering the same thing! I resent the way
this mercenary thinks I'm part of his anti-American crusade just because we
teamed up to fight Gilling.
All I did was voice my opinion about one particular part of the American
wrestling audience and The Commandant is trying to convince everyone that
I'm anti-American! He looks like a soldier but he certainly doesn't act like
one. What kind of a coward
waits until I'm in South Africa to go on RAW and say things behind my back?
I thought that category was reserved for Shawn Michaels -- but I'll get back
to that because right now I have more important things to talk about than Shawn.
Before I left for South Africa Stone Cold was calling me out to the ring and
I told him, on RAW, that I'm finished with him. I beat him twice on
pay-per-view and I'm going on to other opponents -- like Sycho Sid!
I guess Gorilla Monsoon didn't hear me say that because last Monday he
announced that he's changed my April 20 pay-per-view match with Sycho Sid to
another bout between me and Stone Cold.
It looks like the WWF is so used to The Hitman taking on all challengers
that they announced this match without even asking me! I haven't signed for
another match with Austin and I don't see why I should. I made my point at
Wrestlemania 13 when I beat
Stone Cold to a bloody pulp.
By the way, did you hear Austin crowing that he never said, "I quit" at
Wrestlemania 13? He conveniently forgets to mention that he couldn't say it
because I made him pass out. I thought it was hilarious when Stone Cold said
the only reason he was bleeding is because he banged his head on the steel
guard rail. Yeah, that's because I banged it for him.
Stay tuned for updates on who my opponent will be at In Your House on April
20. My contract still says Sycho Sid. Gorilla's announcement said Stone
Cold. And I say I shouldn't have to find out my oppponent has been switched
by hearing it on TV.
Shawn Michaels waited until I was in South Africa to get on RAW and flap his
jaw about me and my family. He keeps going on about this, `America, love it
or leave it' stuff. I have a lot of great fans in America and I don't
appreciate Shawn trying to give the
impression that I've turned my back on any of my American fans or any of my
fans anywhere.
McMahon and Michaels keep going on about freedom of speech and freedom of
expression. I never, ever said that wrestling fans don't have the right to
boo or cheer for anyone they please! Fans have just as much right to cheer
for a self-professed degenerate
as I have to voice my opinion of the fans who choose to do so.
Now, in utter desperation, Shawn has resorted to making up pathetic stories
about me in an attempt to win some of my fans over to his camp. Shawn says I
came back to the WWF for my own financial gain.
Any reader of this column knows that I passed up a tremendous money offer
from a rival wrestling organization to stay with the WWF and my fans who
have been with me from the beginning.
HOLY COW! . . . Me and my good buddy, Bart Simpson, are on the cool cover of
the new WWF magazine. A cartoon version of The Hitman will appear on The
Simpsons on April 20 (check local listings) while In Your House comes to you
live on Viewer's Choice. Time to learn how to program that VCR!
