10 Insane Details Wrestlers Put Into Gimmicks (And WWE Didn’t Care)
9. Bret Hart
Bret Hart was the ultimate details wrestler for the ultimate details audience.
If you'd managed to stick with WWE through its financial nadir, it was mostly due to the lessons 'The Hitman' was tacitly teaching you about the art of professional wrestling. Or, if you had already learned those lessons in generations prior, he was reminding you why it was worth sticking around despite the bin men, cow-headed minotaurs and babyface wrestling clowns that were polluting the scene.
'The Hitman' was an all-business Superstar that made all of it feel real by the virtue of seriously he took this insane universe. As a fan, you knew his real name, you knew why he came to work, and you even knew his family. Yet, for all the Harts were fixtures of mid-90s programming, it was rarely - if ever - noted how he took his kids to the ring with him every night.
Amongst the pink and black that always adorned his gear, Hart would always pay tribute to his children as part of the aesthetic. The hearts and stars were all there to represent his children, starting with one being added each time his brood increase. Hart and wife Julie settled on four children by 1990, which is why there's the same number on his tights from that point on.
He fought for all of us. But he fought for them first.