The Complete A-Z Of WrestleMania

25. B - Bret Hart

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Amassing a hidden WrestleMania legacy in the Hulk Hogan years, 'The Hitman' assembled an impressive CV on 'The Grandest Stage', admirably carrying his load in several enjoyable Hart Foundation matches, including a WrestleMania 4 babyface turn for the team following an attack by Bad News Brown.

However, his solo efforts following the duo's 1991 split are legendary.

With the exception of his WrestleMania 11 'I Quit' mess with Bob Backlund that Bret himself has called 'the worst of his career', individual matches with Rowdy Roddy Piper, brother Owen and Stone Cold Steve Austin are timeless classics, and his matches with Yokozuna and Shawn Michaels are certainly not without merit.

Though his WrestleMania 13 double turn with Steve Austin transcended the entire industry, the back-to-back heartbreak and triumph Bret experienced at WrestleMania 9 and 10 remains one of wrestling's great happy endings.

Robbed of the WWE Title in storyline by Yoko and real life by Hulk Hogan's cynical politics at the 1993 event, he'd return a year later to Madison Square Garden, put over his younger brother in the best opener in company history, then end the show on the shoulders of his contemporaries, celebrating his rightful place atop the company with Vince McMahon symbolically apologising for the crimes one year prior.

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