10 Greatest WWE Summertime Feuds
4. Stone Cold Steve Austin Vs. The Hart Foundation (1997)
Austin had kicked off his war of words with Bret Hart in September 1996, taking the pair on a winding road through WrestleMania 13 that swapped their alignments, with long-time hero Hart taking a bitter, virulent turn.
Austin was suddenly the foul-mouthed, home-invading answer to 1980s Hulkamania, and was pitted squarely against Hart and his closest relatives, both blood and by marriage.
The angle was the first to present Austin as a babyface, matching him up with the likes of Bret, Owen Hart, Davey Boy Smith, and Brian Pillman on a near-weekly basis. Other American wrestlers sided with Austin in an early form of wrestling border wars, but the steam went out when Owen badly injured Austin's neck with a piledriver gone wrong.
Until then, Raw is War was becoming must-see television due to the patriotic turf war at hand.