The Worst Wrestler In WWE History

It's been half a decade since one of wrestling's "holy grails" was unearthed, and enough time has passed that the discovery of the discovery is a sweet story getting lost to time like the footage of the match itself.

Bret Hart's personal VHS archivist Mary Kate Anthony discovered it in amongst a box of old tapes he'd let her keep once she'd digitised them. Per multiple sources that had asked WWE's in-house team for a copy of a match when they were contracted to work there, the Bret Hart Vs Tom Magee match from October 1986 was one of the rarities that the fastidious video archivists had let slip through their fingers. The universe was against the match getting out for the longest time - Anthony was given the box by 'The Hitman' for conversion purposes, but the lost classic wasn't on a to-do list, or was accidentally missed out along the way.

After all the right phone calls and permissions were put in place, the footage was given back to WWE and added to the Network alongside an accompanying mini-documentary that put over the match as a unique achievement for 'The Best There Is, Best There Was & Best There Ever Will Be'.

In finding the tape, she was able to reveal to the world a match that had grown to mythical proportions for just how effective a sales pitch it was on wrestling's highest-placed decision makers. McMahon and his cronies felt they had the new Hulk Hogan in Magee, and his yes-men didn't just blindly agree because that was their primary function. Hart was thrown from pillar to post by a handsome and chiselled specimen that had a decent roll-up, a Ricky Steamboat arm drag and WHOA DID HE JUST DO A CARTWHEEL AND A BACKFLIP TOO?!

Magee was a made man. Or was he?

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