When Bret Hart signed a deal with WCW in late 1997, he inadvertently changed the face of professional wrestling forever. His employer at the WWF, Vince McMahon, went on to screw Bret out of his last match with the company, and subsequently gave rise to the Mr. McMahon character. One of the most unfortunate things to come out of the whole ordeal (aside from desecrating on one guy's career and putting a black mark on it forever) was the fact that Bret Hart was no longer able to feud with the burgeoning talent pool that the WWE was beginning to amount. Sure, Hart went to WCW, which was filled with guys of similar build and style like Chris Jericho, Eddie Guerrero, Curt Hennig, and Dean Malenko, but he was thrown straight into the nWo and never really worked with any of those guys a great deal. Plenty of those technically gifted wrestlers went on to join WWE while Hart went into a forced retirement after an injury sustained in a match with Goldberg in 2000. Most of the WWE's top guys of the last 15 years never got a chance to enjoy a lengthy rivalry with arguably one of the WWE's top guys of the '90s, and that's extremely sad. We'll just have to take it from Hart himself that he's 'The Best There Is, The Best There Was, and The Best There Ever Will Be'! Here are 10 men who Hart could've sold out arenas worldwide with.
