10 Terrible Wrestlers With One Incredible Match
7. Tom Magee (Vs Bret Hart, October 7th 1986)
For 33 long and stature-enhancing years, Bret Hart Vs Tom Magee was the ultimate WWE best kept secret. All until 2019, when Bret Hart's exceptional efforts were given a magical and cathartic fairytale ending.
Over the course of a relatively short and hugely one-sided offering, Tom Magee combined just enough of a look and athletic offering that a heart-eyed Vince McMahon considered the successor to Hulk Hogan. This, despite the fact that it was 1986 and Hulkamania hadn't even reached its explosive peak. Magee very obviously wasn't great, but he could do enough as per this.
Both Magee and McMahon were in fact in debt to 'The Excellence Of Execution'.
It was Stu Hart that recommended Magee to McMahon after some time spent in Stampede, and Hart's son Bret that gave the muscular youngster the match of a lifetime in front of his new boss. Follow-up contests exposed the jacked and jumpy youngster as an abysmally green wrestler that failed to emote between the ropes or on the microphone. The spotlight had barely heated up before it was switched off. Hart, meanwhile toiled for five more years in the tag division awaiting one of his own.