10 Best Wrestling Reunions Ever

6. The Hart Foundation (1997)

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Time to cheat, maybe just a little bit.

Technically, The Hart Foundation that formed in 1997 was a different animal to the tag-team Bret Hart and Jim Neidhart worked between 1985-1991. Technically. To fans however, it was the same beast even if Owen Hart, Davey Boy Smith and Brian Pillman came along for the ride in '97.

Bret's impassioned speech about putting family before everything was a career-best promo at that point too. The way the Harts twisted the story to spit back at North American wrestling fans they claimed had caused friction was genius, and so was the idea that The Foundation would remain babyfaces in Canada and Europe but be booed out of the building in the States.

Coming hot on the heels of Bret's five-star match with Steve Austin at WrestleMania 13, the new Hart Foundation's formation was perfectly timed. People were already sick of Hart's whinging, and they hated that he was trying to turn his back on them after they'd decided to do the same to him.

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