10 Wrestlers Who Improved At Something They Were Terrible At

10. Bret Hart - Promos

One of the most bewitching technical storytellers of all time - his work was so captivating that he conditioned an entire generation to sit diligently through 25-minute epics - Bret Hart was a... perfunctory promo in the babyface role. He was presented as the embodiment of a cool customer, with his shades and leather jacket, but when programmed with somebody actually cool, Razor Ramon, the contrast was as clear as Nia Jax's unsuitability to professional wrestling.

Ahead of their King Of The Ring '93 first-round clash, Razor, yes, oozed machismo in the TV build, economically telling "Gene Mean" to "shut up" about a dozen times. Bret, so smooth between the ropes, tripped over his words. "For the, for the longest time I've, I've known that I'm the number one seed," he said, with Shawn Michaels presumably pretending to yawn just out of shot.

This all changed in 1997.

Genuinely frustrated - "Frustrated isn't the godd*mned word for it!" - Hart unleashed a promo game that was at once authentic, cutting, and teeming with unrestrained fury. Hart was a total revelation on the stick, shouting his brilliance from the rooftops, all but grabbing us by the throat to force respect out of his turncoat American public.

Executing a difficult dual babyface and heel role excellently, his babyface game, quite fittingly, ascended when he travelled to the Great White North.