10 Things WWE Regrets About WrestleMania

8. Putting Bret Hart Back In The Ring

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Bret doesn't get off lightly either.

His overbooked mess of a match with Vince at WrestleMania XXVI came at least a decade too late to be effective. What's more, it shouldn't have been booked to go the 11 minutes it did, or on the same card as epics like The Undertaker vs. Shawn Michaels II.

Hart, who was unable to bump at all, beat the living crap out of the man who had screwed him in 1997 and accidentally heaped some sympathy on McMahon as a result. This was not the closure Montreal needed, nor was it a fitting finale for Bret's WWE career. The fact Vince came out looking like a poor old man who'd been ganged up on by the Harts was shocking booking.

Bret vs. Vince would've been amazing had it happened at any point before Hart's stroke. No, it wouldn't have been a crisp technical classic, but a blood-soaked brawl would've played before fan excitement. In the PG era, and with Bret's limitations, that was never going to be the case.

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