During a recent appearance on Rob Van Dam’s “1 Of A Kind” podcast, Bret Hart shared his thoughts on Leo Burke’s in-ring skills.
You can check out some highlights from the podcast below:
On learning from Leo Burke and Dynamite Kid: “I learned so much from both Dynamite and Leo that when I think of like my style and my career and how I maybe blossomed as a wrestler in WWF, that it was all because of both those guys. I learned so much working against Dynamite and taking some of his better ideas and making them work in a sort of psychology that he had. English wrestlers have a lot of theatrical sort of thinking in their matches, which was always really different.”
On Leo Burke being a better in-ring wrestler than Ric Flair: “You know, there’s other guys that worked with like Ric Flair. I love Ric Flair, but I wouldn’t put him in Leo Burke’s class. I’d put Ric Flair in a great worker class, he was a great worker of his generation… Let me put it this way, someone like Harley Race. I remember talking to Harley Race, Dory Funk, or Terry Funk, about Leo Burke. And they were talking about him like he was a god. He was one of the greatest, ‘What a worker,’ and they were always sold on. The only guy who ever [I] heard put him down and really kind of didn’t rate him was Ric. And I think that was just probably because of the way he was being used. He was probably just a guy making a check, and he didn’t really care, where Leo was never the kind of guy to cry about how he was being used… So I always think something like Ric Flair missed how great Leo Burke was and never understood how great he was.”
