The Hart Foundation
The Hart Foundation figures in four storylines documented on WrestlingFeuds, spanning 1992–1997 in WWF.
Storylines
Bret Hitman Hart vs. Shawn Michaels The Heartbreak Kid (Jul 1992 – Nov 1997)
A five-year rivalry between the WWF's two defining New Generation stars ended with Vince McMahon secretly ordering the bell rung on Bret Hart's own Sharpshooter, handing Shawn Michaels the WWF Championship without Hart's knowledge or submission in Hart's home country of Montreal, an incident that broke apart a real friendship, birthed the villainous Mr. McMahon character, and is still argued about by everyone involved.
Bret Hart · Shawn Michaels
Bret The Hitman Hart vs. Owen Hart (Nov 1993 – Nov 1994)
Owen Hart got eliminated at Survivor Series because his brother stumbled into him, spent two months asking for a match he could not get, and then kicked Bret's leg out from under him at the Royal Rumble, starting a year that produced the best-remembered opening match in WrestleMania history and a five-star cage match with their parents at ringside.
Bret Hart · Owen Hart · Stu Hart · Helen Hart · Jim Neidhart · British Bulldog · Bob Backlund
Stone Cold Steve Austin vs. Bret The Hitman Hart (Sep 1996 – Jul 1997)
A loudmouth who had just found Austin 3:16 called out a champion on sabbatical. Bret Hart came back, and over eight months the two built a program that ran through a Royal Rumble elimination nobody saw, a title lost to a chair shot, and a WrestleMania submission match where Austin bled, passed out, and left the bigger star.
Bret Hart · Steve Austin · Ken Shamrock · Sycho Sid
The Hart Foundation vs. The United States (Mar 1997 – Nov 1997)
Bret Hart turned heel at WrestleMania 13, reunited his brother Owen and brother-in-law the British Bulldog, and built a pro-Canadian Hart Foundation around his own family. For eight months the group was booed in the United States and cheered in Canada, peaking at Canadian Stampede in Calgary, until Brian Pillman's death and the Montreal Screwjob, five weeks apart, ended it.
Bret Hart · Owen Hart · British Bulldog · Jim Neidhart · Brian Pillman · Steve Austin · Ken Shamrock