![]() ![]() A 5x WWE World Heavyweight Champion, a 2x WWE Intercontinental Heavyweight Champion, a 2x WWE World Tag Team Champion (w/Neidhart), a 1x WWE United States Heavyweight Champion, a 2x WCW World Heavyweight Champion, a 4x WCW United States Heavyweight Champion and a 1x WCW World Tag Team Champion (w/Goldberg). The Hitman is a Double Triple Crown Champion. A stroke two years later after a bicycle accident ensured he would never wrestle again. His career eventually ended in 2000 due to a severe concussion suffered in a match with Goldberg. His stint would be marred by the death of his younger brother Owen. ![]() Bret recruited his brother Owen, his brothers-in-law ( Jim "The Anvil" Neidhart and The British Bulldog), with a family friend "The Loose Cannon" Brian Pillman turning his former Tag Team into a Power Stable, denouncing America and speaking of Canada being better.įollowing the controversial " Montreal Screwjob" in November 1997 he left for World Championship Wrestling where Bret was poorly used, never again attaining his levels of success in WWF. Bret rose victor at Survivor Series 96, but the feud continued, culminating in a submission match at WrestleMania XIII, which saw Austin become a huge face, and Bret was now the top heel. Bret took then time off to contemplate his future, returning in November to kick off the feud that would make "Stone Cold" Steve Austin's career and transformed his forever. According to a variety of accounts (including his own), the backstage grudge between him and Shawn Michaels started around that time. He was pushed into the background by 1995 even after he ended Diesel's financially disastrous year-long title reign at Survivor Series 95, it was already set that he would be dropping the title at WrestleMania XII. ![]() By 1994, at WrestleMania X, he won the title back from Yoko and cemented himself as the promotion's top Face, spending the rest of the year in a bitter rivalry with his brother, Owen "The Rocket" Hart. By Survivor Series 92, he had defeated Ric Flair for his first World Heavyweight Championship, this ended at the hands of Yokozuna at WrestleMania IX, but in the ensuing craziness that was 1993's WWF, it quickly became apparent that Bret was the most popular wrestler in the promotion. Perfect for his first singles title in the WWF. Hailing from Calgary, Alberta, Bret was a member of a true wrestling dynasty, trained by his famous father Stu in their "Hart Dungeon" rising easily as the most successful member of his prestigious family.Īfter The Nasty Boys stripped him from his Tag Team title at WrestleMania VII, Bret launched a successful singles career. One of the biggest Professional Wrestling super stars in The '90s, being simultaneously one of the most technically gifted performers to ever step into a wrestling ring and one of the most troubled and tortured personalities in the business' history by the last years of his career. "The Hitman" (born July 2, 1957) is a Canadian retired professional wrestler. "I am the best there is, the best there was, and the best there ever will be!"īret Sergeant Hart, A.K.A. ![]()
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