WWE Hall of Famer Bret Hart has never been too big of a fan of Triple H.
The "Hitman" has never been shy about digging into "The Game" and there was a lot of animosity between the two after the infamous Montreal Screwjob in 1997.
Though Hart has made amends with the WWE, he never holds his tongue when it comes to criticizing or praising anyone, and he's been highly critical of Triple H in the past.
Leading up to Hart's appearance at Payback last Sunday, he admitted he didn't truly want to be there due to undergoing wrist surgery and blasted Triple H for not being able to run the WWE in the future.
Despite the "Excellence of Execution's" negative words toward Triple H, he said "The Game" was very cordial when they spoke to each other at Payback and that he was received warmly by the McMahon family.
"I sensed a lot of sincerity there on everyone's part," Hart said on his 'The Sharpshooter Show' podcast (via 24Wrestling.com). "From Vince down to Triple H to Shane. Shane was very gracious and had some really nice things to say about me that I forgot about."
Hart, who accompanied his niece Natalya to the ring in her loss to WWE Women's Champion Charlotte (with Hall of Famer Ric Flair in her corner) -- which played on the Montreal Screwjob -- went into further detail about his interactions with Shane.
"I was a very protective guy of Shane years ago when he was just a young guy in the business," he said. "I looked out for him a lot and I think it was nice for him to tell me that. That he never forgot how much I looked out for him and protected him from a lot of the vices and evils that were lurking about in pro wrestling."
The seven-time WWE World Heavyweight Champion's comments about Triple H certainly contrasted from what he said about him as an executive last month.
"I'm always happy to be proven wrong, but I've never seen any real genius come from Triple H yet," Hart told Notts TV News (via WrestlingInc). "I sound like I'm always knocking him, but it seems like he's quick to push the great wrestling to the side and push the bodies, guys who have [good] physiques, all the time. They wonder why CM Punk quit and they wonder why Daniel Bryan got hurt. It's because they squeeze so much out of those guys. I'm just calling it the way it is. Triple H is a former bodybuilder. He's all about bodies."
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