10 Wrestlers Who Nearly Defected During The Monday Night Wars
6. Owen Hart
This one is a painful wishful thinking exercise for many wrestling fans, and Hart family members alike In the aftermath of the Montreal Screwjob, Davey Boy Smith and Jim The Anvil Neidhart jumped to WCW with Bret Hart, effectively ending the Hart Foundation. Brets younger brother, Owen, would try to join the rest of the clan despite questions of whether WCW would even know how to use Owen or could pay him the same as WWF, where he was arguably a bigger star than he likely would have been in WCW. However, Owen Hart was unable to leave WWF due to his contractual obligations, and he would remain with the company until his tragic death in May 1999. Even if Owen had been able to leave, there probably wouldnt have been a full Hart Foundation reunion. Neidhart and Smith teamed together in WCW, but they never joined forces with brother-in-law Bret Hart (theres a Thunder match where Hitman attacked the two and helped Lex Luger defeat them). WCW apparently was unable to recreate the Hart Foundation or face a lawsuit from WWF.
Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.
