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Owen Hart

Owen Hart appears in seven storylines documented on WrestlingFeuds, as a principal in four, spanning 1992–1999 in WWF.

Feuds and rivalries

New Generation·WWF·1993–1994

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

New Generation·WWF·1996–1997

The Heartbreak Kid Shawn Michaels vs. Sycho Sid (Jul 1996 – Jan 1997)

Shawn Michaels spent his 1996 WWF Championship reign defending it against the same handful of opponents, until his one-time bodyguard turned attacker turned ally, Sycho Sid, chased off a rival at ringside and earned a title shot of his own. Sid beat Michaels for the belt in front of a Madison Square Garden crowd that booed the champion out of the building, and Michaels won it back two months later in San Antonio while running a fever, only to forfeit the title three weeks after that over a knee injury Bret Hart never believed was real.

Shawn Michaels · Sycho Sid · Vader · Ahmed Johnson · Jim Cornette · Owen Hart · British Bulldog · Bret Hart · Steve Austin

New Generation·WWF·1997

The Hart Foundation vs. The United States (Mar 1997 – Nov 1997)

Bret Hart turned heel by attacking Steve Austin's fans instead of Austin, reformed the Hart Foundation with his real family, and spent 1997 getting cheered across Canada and Britain while getting booed everywhere in the United States, an angle that peaked in front of a delirious Calgary crowd and ended in the same building where Brian Pillman was found dead and, five weeks later, in Montreal.

Bret Hart · Owen Hart · British Bulldog · Jim Neidhart · Brian Pillman · Steve Austin · Ken Shamrock

Attitude Era·WWF·1998

D-Generation X vs. The Nation of Domination (Mar 1998 – Sep 1998)

Within a day of WrestleMania XIV, both factions changed hands: Triple H inherited D-Generation X from a retiring Shawn Michaels, and The Rock took The Nation of Domination from Faarooq. The rivalry between the two new leaders ran through a widely condemned blackface parody, a two-out-of-three-falls time-limit draw, a weapons-filled street fight, and a SummerSlam ladder match that made both men into main-eventers.

Triple H · The Rock · Chyna · X-Pac · Road Dogg · Billy Gunn · Mark Henry · D'Lo Brown · The Godfather · Owen Hart · Shawn Michaels

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New Generation·WWF·1992–1997

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

New Generation·WWF·1996–1997

Stone Cold Steve Austin vs. Bret The Hitman Hart (Sep 1996 – Jul 1997)

A rising loudmouth with a busted knee and the returning technical champion he mocked built a program that ran through a stolen pinfall, a phantom Royal Rumble elimination, and a WrestleMania submission match where Bret Hart talked Steve Austin into bleeding, then turned heel on him in the same match that made Austin a star.

Bret Hart · Steve Austin · Ken Shamrock · Sycho Sid

Attitude Era·WWF·1997–1999

Stone Cold Steve Austin vs. Mr. McMahon (Sep 1997 – Jul 1999)

A boss-versus-employee rivalry born out of Steve Austin's real neck injury and Vince McMahon's new on-screen villainy, escalating from a single Stone Cold Stunner into a year and a half of Corporation ambushes, rigged tournaments, and stipulation matches that defined the Attitude Era and turned around the WWF's fortunes against WCW.

Steve Austin · Vince McMahon

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