Why Do People Say Bret Was Bad on the Mic?

Bret is a shy guy, he's admitted this to me in person. He did struggle at times, you can see from some of his promos he seems to say the same sentence more than once (and indication he's lost his train of thought). Bret only truly became comfortable (and one of the best in my opinion) from 1996 onwards where everything started to become more reality based. Everything just clicked after that. His face to face promos with HBK in 96 and 97 are some of the most riveting stuff i've seen on TV in any medium. Even watching that stuff now gives me a great buzz. Basically what I'm saying is he struggled when the generic blue chipper promo, but when he had some juicy material to chew on, he was great!

Count me in as one of the group that thinks he was middling to fair on the Mic. However after his stint on Lonesome Dove in 1996? His confidence in relation to the camera improved drastically.

This was evident the moment he returned and started doing promos with Austin and beginning the his slow turn.

the reason he always wore sunglasses in the hart foundation when he was teaming with neidhart was because he was so nervous he couldn't cut a promo without them. i imagine he's battled the nervousness ever since to some degree, overcoming it eventually.

I thought Bret was decent, but his bland, monotone voice didn't do it for some people

-WMD

He wasn't.

For a long time, Bret never really said anything groundbreaking on the mic but was always very believable. In fact, I feel he was underrated a lot on the mic. I don't think having Bret be like The Rock on the mic would've worked for his character. It wasn't him. He was a wrestler. A technician. Much like a Dynamite Kid, Dean Malenko and Chris Benoit who excelled in the ring but weren't known as fantastic mic workers.

However, unlike them, Bret did excel on the mic once he returned in late 1996. He cut a badass promo before his match with Austin at Survivor Series and continued all the way into his heel turn and eventual departure to WCW.

I like Bret's mic work. I always have.

His stuff from his his '96 return until Montreal was fantastic. Apart from that, his was passable.

He was good on the mic.
Not great, but good.

i was always into what he said. i guess a lot of people feel he should have had catchphrases like Austin or the Rock but that wasn't what he was all about.
I agree sometimes he didn't seem that comfortable but he did what he needed and got his point across for the most part.
Bret was all about ring work first and mic work was second. 96 and 97 was right on the money though.

So what you guys are saying is, that when Bret was allowed to be more of himself he got better on the mic?

Never would have guessed.