10 Wrestlers Who Nearly Defected During The Monday Night Wars

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6. Owen Hart

This one is a painful wishful thinking exercise for many wrestling fans, and Hart family members alike€ In the aftermath of the Montreal Screwjob, Davey Boy Smith and Jim €œThe Anvil€ Neidhart jumped to WCW with Bret Hart, effectively ending the Hart Foundation. Bret€™s younger brother, Owen, would try to join the rest of the clan despite questions of whether WCW would even know how to use Owen or could pay him the same as WWF, where he was arguably a bigger star than he likely would have been in WCW. However, Owen Hart was unable to leave WWF due to his contractual obligations, and he would remain with the company until his tragic death in May 1999. Even if Owen had been able to leave, there probably wouldn€™t have been a full Hart Foundation reunion. Neidhart and Smith teamed together in WCW, but they never joined forces with brother-in-law Bret Hart (there€™s a Thunder match where Hitman attacked the two and helped Lex Luger defeat them). WCW apparently was unable to recreate the Hart Foundation or face a lawsuit from WWF.