One WWE Match You MUST Watch From Every Year 1984-2024
28. 1996 - Stone Cold Steve Austin Vs Bret Hart, Survivor Series
There are some that consider Bret Hart and Stone Cold Steve Austin's Survivor Series match superior to their WrestleMania 13 showdown several months later, and while that's up for hearty debate, what's not is the frankly incredible quality of their first pay-per-view showdown.
Hart's only been gone half a year but he intentionally works this like an old warhorse to put across the full threat of the man he labelled the very best wrestler in the company ahead of return.
King Of The Ring got Austin 3:16 over, but it didn't do much for Stone Cold himself until 'The Excellence Of Execution' came back to work, and this match was a celebration of their soon-to-be-iconic chemistry and the legitimately unstoppable nature of 'The Rattlesnake's rise.