15 Stars Who Brought Legitimacy To WWE

8. Bret Hart

When Bret Hart calls himself "the best there is, the best there was, and the best there ever will be," his in-ring work appeared so legitimate that he left you no other real choice but to believe him/ One watch of "Wrestling With Shadows," and you can immediately sense the type of seriousness with which Bret approached his wrestling career that allowed him to be the type of competitor that provided the backdrop necessary for a performer like "Stone Cold" Steve Austin to thrive. When Austin beat Hart, he had all of Hart's "legitimate" "tough guy and great wrestler" bona fides passed onto him.
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Besides having been an independent professional wrestling manager for a decade, Marcus Dowling is a Washington, DC-based writer who has contributed to a plethora of online and print magazines and newspapers writing about music and popular culture over the past 15 years.