10 Wrestlers Too Good To Be Ruined By WWE's Bad Booking
8. Bret Hart
Bret Hart may have proven Pedro right, but my goodness did WWE make him work for it.
After signing with the then-WWF back in 1984, Bret Hart would have to wait seven years before he won his first singles championship. Before then, Hart spent the majority of them teaming with his brother-in-law and father of Natalya, Jim 'The Anvil' Neidhart in the Hart Foundation. The Hart Foundation were fantastic, but given Bret Hart's legendary reputation as a singles wrestler, it's astonishing to think he spent more than half his WWE tenure as a tag team wrestler.
Even after Bret Hart became WWF champion, he still found himself on the receiving end of questionable booking. Hart was booked to drop the WWF Championship to Yokozuna at WrestleMania IX, only for Hulk Hogan to swoop in and steal his thunder by dispatching of Yoko in under a minute. This went nowhere, with Hogan departing the company a few months later and allegedly refusing to drop the belt to Bret on the way out, claiming the Hitman wasn't a big enough star to beat him. (Karma would eventually be served as Bret beat Yokozuna for the belt a year later at WrestleMania X).
Bret Hart may have had a rather tumultuous WWE career (to put it mildly) but his five World Title reigns and enduring legacy reveal the truth behind Morales' words of encouragement - you can't stop talent.