Mr.Perfect joins J.R and Vince on commentary here. This has always been one of my favorite WWF matches, so i'm looking forward to this. This is of course a No-DQ match.
Both Bret and Diesel look great and ready for business. Nash starts out by removing the top turnbuckle pad and throwing it to the outside. Bret just goes 'Yeah, well i can do that too', and proceeds to follow suit, and they're both like "You ready to do this or what?"
They continue to try and psych each other by calmly staring and Bret starts circling the big man, before running Nash into the corner and tries to go for the leg, but Nash has none of it and starts landing big punches onto Bret and clubbing his back. He keeps him in the corner to deliver his big elbow and knee strikes. He won't let Bret out of that corner as he continues to hammer him with big blows.
Bret bails to the outside for a breather but Nash calmly follows him like he's Michael Myers and gives him a big clubbing forearm to the back, before picking him up and planting Bret's head off the guardrail. No count out in this match either. Nash still in complete control of this one. He throws Bret back into the ring, taking his time and methodically hovering over him. Bret tries to bail again to the outside, but Nash is right there again and starts choking him with his big boot.
Bret tries a comeback and starts kicking at Nash's leg, but gets cut off by some punches the the head and a big punch that knocks Bret back onto the outside. Nash keeping that slow pace and he's got the Hitman exactly where he wants him. He slams Bret into the steel steps. Bret taking a hammering atm, as Nash picks him up and slams into the post.
Nash walks over to the bell area, throws a bloke off his chair, right into the camera lol
He then takes that same chair and hit's Bret's back with it. No DQ remember in this one. Nash warms his hands and throws Bret back into the ring and slams him, back first into the turnbuckle, before giving him a powerful clothesline. Nash shouts "Do you know what time it is?", and seems to signal for the Jacknife Powerbomb. He tries, but Bret blocks it and grabs Nash's leg. Nash keeps trying, but Bret won't let go of that damn leg, and starts to BITE Nash's arm lol, before landing some big punches of his own.
This might just be the big Bret comeback.
He then BITES Nash's ear seemingly, before raking his eye, jumping on his back and putting a sleeper/chokehold on. Bret starts kicking at Nash's leg, as he tries right at the start of the match, knowing this is his next strategy. Big knees to the leg and a snapmere to Nash, who holds his leg in pain. Bret isn't letting him off and does a big power squat off the ropes onto his damaged leg. It looks like Bret is going for the Sharpshooter, but ends up putting on a Figure-Four.
Nash is puffing and blowing and is selling the agony here, trying to drag himself to the ropes. The ref tells Bret to release the hold because Nash has the ropes (this is bought up by Perfect on commentary, who points out "What's he (ref) going to do, DQ him?"), but Bret ends up releasing the hold, before going back to the leg with big knee strikes. Nash can't get off the mat as his leg is being destroyed here and Bret is in complete control of him.
He tries to put the Sharpshooter on, but Nash pokes him in the eye, TWICE. Nash then shoves Bret, with his legs, head first onto one of those exposed turnbuckles (the one Nash took off, which was a nice touch if that was intended). He then starts clubbing Bret, this is the big Diesel comeback??!!
Nope, Bret grabs that leg again and slams it into the post, twice. Bret grabs some sort of power cord or lead that is wrapped around the post and ties Nash's leg to it!! But that was frivolous as Nash delivers a big leg drop onto Bret's head. Nash tries to get up, but his leg remains tied to the rope, so Bret gets on the turnbuckle drops an elbow onto him. Nash is flat on his back as Bret then goes to the outside and grabs a chair. He tries to swat Nash with it, who counters and on one leg, delivers a couple of big boots to Bret, knocking him down.
What a battle this has been so far. Nash then tries grabbing the chair, but Bret stands on his hand, grabs the chair for himself, and whacks Nash on the back with it and then back to the leg with some big standing chair shots. Nash is still down and tied to the post lol, as Bret stays in control with some big elbow strikes. Not a single pinfall attempt as of yet either, what a refreshing change eh.
Bret picks him up for a back drop. He's still got that chair, and proceeds to climb to the top turnbuckle with it, but Nash gets up and hits Bret, knocking him onto his gentlemen's parts
'Don't rub 'em son, count 'em'
Nash then, still tied to that post, throws Bret off the turnbuckle into the middle of the ring. He then realizes he has to untie himself to do any sort of damage onto Bret. Nash is now free, but is limping, as he should be after the shit his leg has taken. He plants Bret with a side slam before going for the first pin of the match and getting a 2 count.
He rams Bret face first into that exposed turnbuckle (we all know how well Bret can do this). We also get our first instant replay of the match, another refreshing feature here. Nash limps over (good selling here btw) to Bret, before just about landing a big, two legged squat onto Bret at the ropes. He picks him up and carries him over to the corner, still limping here, and delivers Snake Eyes to Bret. He tries to do the same onto the exposed turnbuckle, but Bret blocks it and rams Nash's head straight into it.
Crowd start to come alive now as Bret mounts his comeback with some punches to Nash. He gets Nash down with a big clothesline and goes for another pin, but only gets a 2 again. Bret has the momentum here and delivers a top rope bulldog onto Nash and gets another 2 count. He gives Nash a side Russian leg sweep to keep him down on the mat and gets another 2 count. Both back on their feet and Bret starts laying in some more punches, before clotheslining Nash onto the outside. Bret tries to leap over the top rope onto Nash, but misses and takes a big bump onto the floor.
Nash gets back in the ring to get his bearings back as Bret lays on the outside. Bret tries to get back in the ring, but Nash shoves him off the apron an onto the table (remember when this was refreshing)
Great little moment too as some of the crowd, mostly kids, run over to take a closer look, and i hope lol, see if Bret is ok. Nash goes over, picks Bret up, and clubs him down, Bret still tries to get up and Nash does a 'What the fuck, you still trying to get up?'. He throws Bret back into the ring and signals for the Jacknife. He goes to put Bret int position, but Bret is dead on his feet, and just flops right back down onto the mat.
Nash is too complacent here as he's standing over Bret, and is then shocked to fuck as Bret ROLLS HIM UP FOR THE WIN!!!
Bret Hart is your new WWF World Champion. Nash is like "Motherfucker"
He gives Hebner one hell of a shove and picks Bret up and delivers a Jacknife. Pfft, poor loser. A load of other refs come in and try to stop him, but he just swats them away with big punches and gives Bret another fucking Jacknife Powerbomb. SOMEONE STOP THIS MADMAN.
Nash then spits onto the outside lol and exits the ring.
Well do i still love this? FUCK YES I DO. it is just the perfect big man, little man formula, etched into a no DQ setting. Nash is on point mostly with the selling of the leg, Bret is great as always on his offense, as is Nash TBH. There are multiple spots that they incorporate the stipulation into and it feels like a war, with Bret trying to survive, before getting a gameplan together.
I'll have to re-watch their matches at KOTR and RR to see how they compare, but this has always been the best one IMO and is still my favorite. Nash's best match? Probably still is, although his match with Shawn at IYH would run it close TBH. Just excellent storytelling and psychology, brilliantly executed by both men. Maybe it would have been enhanced if one, or both, of them got some blood to help the narrative and those turnbuckle shots, but that's only a small observation that's not really important TBH
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