Why An Ex-AEW Star Thinks He’s Better Than Bret Hart

Bret Hart might be The Best There Is, The Best There Was, and The Best There Ever Will Be but one former AEW star thinks they’re better.

Bret Hart is widely regarded as one of the best in-ring wrestlers of all time. Known for his technical skill and ability to put on a stellar match with almost anyone. WWE famously thought they had unearthed the next big star in Tom Magee in the eighties but only because Hart carried him to such a good match. Other opponents didn’t have the same time in the ring with Magee and his career was over before it began.

Hart used his skills to make everyone from Kevin Nash to The Patriot shine in the ring but ex-AEW star Joey Janela thinks that all pales into insignificance compared to what he can do.

Is Joey Janela Better Than Bret Hart?

Speaking to Fightful, Joey Janela explained why he thinks he’s the best “carry job wrestler” of all time, and even better than Bret Hart:

I wrestled Marty Jannetty with deformed ankles, he could barely walk. I did that twice. I wrestled Barry Horowitz, who needs two knee replacement surgeries and he can’t bend his knees, so he moves like a real life action figure.

People always say Bret Hart is the greatest carry job wrestler of all time. I can say, right now, with all the confidence in my heart, if you think I’m joking or making up some bullshit, I am the greatest carry job wrestler of all-time. Even better than Bret Hart. I love Bret Hart, one of the greatest wrestlers of all time. He’s a better wrestler than I’ll ever be, but as far as carrying other wrestlers through matches, I am the best carry job wrestler of all time.

Tom Magee was a great carry job, he made that guy look like the next Sting, but I wrestled Barry Horowitz for 30 minutes. I never did magic mushrooms before, but I was drunk the night before. We were at the bar, my friends girlfriend is a bartender, so whenever the bar would close, we’d stay there for 4 or 5 AM and keep drinking for free.

The other bartender had magic mushrooms and I said, ‘give me that’ I took a handful of them and ate them. I went back to my friends house and I was feeling good. ‘This isn’t too bad.’ I watched ‘The Wrestler’ and stayed up all night. Went right to the building, still high on magic mushrooms, and wrestled Barry Horowitz, dealing with the side effects of that. I carried him to a 30 minute match. Bret Hart could never.

Tragically, the world will never know if Bret Hart could indeed carry Barry Horowitz to a 30-minute match while high on magic mushrooms.

A 40-year-old Bret Hart match was recently unearthed online, featuring the star before he even went by his own name professionally.