9 Things WWE Experimented With On House Shows But Never Went With

Bret Hart is one of the very best in-ring performers in the history of professional wrestling. Love him or hate him, it’s hard to argue that Bret didn’t consistently live up to his Best There Is, Best There Was, Best There Ever Will Be shtick.

Whether in the tag team ranks as one half of The Hart Foundation, or branching out to become a legendary singles act, The Hitman was always cooler than the other side of the pillow. But things could have been oh so different for Bret.

Upon landing in Vince McMahon’s World Wrestling Federation in 1984, Hart was staggered to hear how McMahon envisioned the Calgary native as ‘Cowboy’ Bret Hart. If Vince was to get his way, the future Hall of Famer was to enter the ring on horseback, dress in full cowboy garb, and yuck the cheese factor up to 11.

Luckily for Hart, he would manage to convince VKM to drop the idea before it made it to TV. Instead, Bret offered up the idea of pairing him with the recently arrived Jim Neidhart and Jimmy Hart to form what would become The Hart Foundation. And the rest, as they say, is history.