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When he was in his prime wrestling condition in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s, Bret Hart would grab his opponents legs and twist the body over and crouch over them while pulling the legs back. The opponent would to have submit or literally act like a spider and crawl out of there. In the end, Hart got his enemies to tap out. These days, he is fighting hard to make cancer tap out but he can’t exactly wrestle it.
The aging wrestler is battling prostate cancer, as he notified people of in a lengthy Facebook post.
It is with great remorse that I feel compelled to speak truthfully to my friends, family and my millions of fans around…
Posted by Bret Hart on Monday, February 1, 2016
Hart will undergo surgery this month to remove the cancer and hopefully rise again, like he once did in the ring. A charismatic performer inside the ring and someone who made it a point to see his fans outside the ring, Hart is easy to root for. Wrestling has plenty of bad guys but Hart isn’t one of them.
He bled for his sport, as he acknowledged in the FB post. He suffered numerous concussions and underwent several surgeries near the end of his career. Wrestling may be viewed as fake and a theatrical act, and it is, but that doesn’t mean the body doesn’t take a particular glutton of punishment. Hart has given his fair share over the years and is still standing.
Hart deserves a win. He’s faced tragedy on all fronts. His brother and fellow wrestler Owen died tragically in the ring 17 years ago due to a rigging accident. He was only 34 years old and just had a birthday 16 days before. Owen had planned to get out wrestling and had money set aside.
There is never a guarantee when someone faces surgery and cancer. It’s an uphill battle. When it comes to Hart, he’s faced plenty of adversaries and mountains of pain in his life as an entertainer. Here’s to hoping he can climb into the ring one last time and take this villain out.
Here’s to hoping he can get cancer to tap out.
“I don’t know how much time I have left. I have some things I want to say. Hopefully by the end, I’ll have some things that will be important to other people too.”-Jim Valvano
When the name Jimmy V comes up in sports circles, one things comes to mind. The speech. The acceptance pledge that the late Jimmy Valvano made on stage at the ESPY’s to a crowd of athletes, sports minds, analysts, coaches, and colleagues over 22 years ago. Those words echoed around the world and still resonate today as the video shows. Emotions stir through you, and tears build up and fire brews in your stomach. Jimmy V’s words did that.
Valvano had tumors all over his body at the time and was fighting off cancer like the disease was Joe Frazier in his prime stalking him around the ring. Before he left us, Valvano took the stage where he received the Arthur Ashe Courage award. Those 10 minutes will go down as the best in sports history. I can remember the words like I heard them when I was 11 and watching the TV.
“You got to do three things in life. Laugh. Think. Cry.” (more…)
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