By James Caldwell, PWTorch assistant editor

WWE Hall of Famer Bret Hart says he's "looking forward to" WWE's upcoming Owen Hart DVD release, but he's "not optimistic" that it's going to be a good product.

In a new interview with John Pollock of the Fight Network, Hart placed the blame on Owen's widow, Martha Hart, for restricting the content WWE could use for the DVD.

Hart went so far as to call Martha's actions reflecting "bitterness" and "selfishness." He added that he thinks Martha is making Owen "turn in his grave if he knew how much trouble Martha has gone to erase his career and make sure that nobody enjoys anything about his career today."

Hart tried to put himself in Martha's shoes as the widow of a wrestler who died performing a stunt at a WWE show, but he said he does not agree with Martha's approach to limiting how Owen is remembered in wrestling.

"I think Martha's taken the wrong approach and she should understand that, you know, we all miss Owen. I lost a brother, I lost a great friend and maybe one of the closest people I knew on this earth. I want to celebrate his career, I want to watch his matches back - not just with me, but with everybody he worked with. His time with WWE, they got so much footage and so many great memories with Owen, and here she is standing in the way of that saying, "Nobody can see these videos. No one should see anything that brings back any of his career,'" Hart said.

"They couldn't use any pictures from his childhood, they couldn't use anything from Stampede Wrestling. They had so many restraints. Even the interviews, the questions that they did with me were so bulls---. The whole thing was so bulls--- that sure, there's an Owen Hart DVD, but it's the s----. I think WWE maybe had good intentions, but I'm not very impressed with the quality that it's going to be.

"I haven't seen it, I'm not optimistic but I'm hoping that it'll be better than I think. But I could tell by the questions that they asked me and the interview that they did with me that it was a very short version of [Owen's story]. I'm not really gonna hold up hope that it's gonna be as great as it should be, and I feel bad because that's Martha's fault."

[ VIDEO: Hart's on-camera interview HERE ]

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