“s beaten cancer. In an interview with the WWE website , external , the 58-year-old Canadian says the disease appears not to have spread.”
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Bret Hart
Bret Sergeant Hart is a Canadian-American retired professional wrestler. A member of the Hart wrestling family and a second-generation wrestler, he has an amateur wrestling background at Ernest Manning High School and Mount Royal College. A major international draw within professional wrestling, he is credited with changing the perception of mainstream North American professional wrestling in the…
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Born 2 July 1957 · Q81324
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2026· 10 entries
“I have to get checked every three months for the next couple of years, and eventually it will be once a year, and eventually, in 10 years, they”
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“t be doing anything strenuous for the time being.”
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“I had different opportunities and different doors. I don”
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“I was as close as you can imagine. It just slipped through the fingers. It wasn”
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“s been a motivating force throughout his wrestling career, and probably always will be.”
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“Go ahead and irritate me and piss me off. Because when I”
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“s success, the Sharpshooter is usually used by Canadian wrestlers. Before ending his matches, Hart usually employed a sequence of five moves: inverted atomic drop, Russian leg sweep, backbreaker, elbow drop from the second rope, and Sharpshooter, being known as the”
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“for the sole reason that my dad expected me to... no-one asked me to”
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Fightful: John Skyler Says Mustafa Ali’s Wrestling Psychology Reminds Him Of Bret Hart
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2025· 6 entries
Athlon Sports: Shawn Michaels Was Always Better Than Bret Hart — Here’s Why
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CBSSports.com: Bret Hart puts CM Punk atop list of best wrestlers today while he thinks Gunther is 'unprofessional'
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Indiatimes: What is Bret Hart’s net worth in 2025? WWE legend’s fortune, endorsements and life outside the ring
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Yahoo! Sports: Bret Hart Pinpoints The First Time He Realized That Vince McMahon Is A Liar
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Sports Illustrated: Bret Hart Speaks On Hulk Hogan's Lack Of Influence In Wrestling Today
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Would appear in the documentary film WrestleMania IX: The Spectacle
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2024· 3 entries
Yahoo: Bret Hart Couldn’t Celebrate His First WWE Championship Win, He Went To The Hospital
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Sports Illustrated: Bret Hart Reveals Original Plans For 'The Simpsons" Cameo
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Yahoo: Triple H & Bret Hart’s WWE RAW Interaction: What Went Down Backstage?
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2021· 2 entries
Awarded Canada's Walk of Fame (2021).
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Hart would be inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame by Chris Jericho and the Rock
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2020· 1 entry
Hart was among those who appeared at Impact Wrestling's 2020 Bound for Glory via video message to congratulate Ken Shamrock for his induction into the Impact Hall of Fame
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2019· 3 entries
Hart made a surprise special appearance at All Elite Wrestling's (AEW) inaugural pay-per-view, Double or Nothing, to unveil the AEW World Championship
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Hart became a two-time WWE Hall of Famer when he was inducted as a member of the Hart Foundation alongside Jim Neidhart
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Hart and Calgary Hitmen Team donated $16,300 to Calgary Prostate Cancer Centre
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2018· 3 entries
Hart was honoured with a traditional Niitsitapi naming ceremony and named 'Courageous Chief' by Siksika Elder Miiksika'am (Clarence Wolfleg)
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On August 23, 2018, Hart was honoured with a traditional Niitsitapi naming ceremony and named 'Courageous Chief' by Siksika Elder Miiksika'am (Clarence Wolfleg).
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At the age of 60, he received an honorary degree from the institution (now a university)—a Bachelor of Health and Physical Education/Physical Literacy
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2016· 1 entry
Hart starred in the documentary film Nine Legends
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2013· 1 entry
Hart was honoured by the city of Calgary and the WWE with a "Bret Hart Appreciation Night", a celebration of the work he had done in his career
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2012· 1 entry
During which CM Punk interrupted and got into a confrontation with Hart
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2010· 2 entries
WWE released Hart & Soul: The Hart Family Anthology, which is a 3 DVD set featuring a documentary on the Hart wrestling family as well as 12 matches
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The Fight Network produced a documentary titled Bret Hart – Survival of the Hitman produced by John Pollock, Jorge Barbosa and Wai Ting chronicling the rise of Hart, his split with WWE in 1997 and his road back to the co
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2009· 2 entries
After weeks of speculation surrounding Hart and his presence in World Wrestling Entertainment, Vince McMahon announced that Hart would be special guest host on the January 4, 2010 episode of Raw
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Hart appeared in New York City's Manhattan Center to sign autographs during a Ring of Honor event
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2008· 1 entry
Awarded Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame and Museum (2008).
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2007· 3 entries
Hart's autobiography titled Hitman: My Real Life in the Cartoon World of Wrestling, was released in Canada by Random House Canada, and released in fall 2008 in the United States by Grand Central Publishing, with a U
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Hart made his first appearance on Raw since October 27, 1997, when he appeared in a pretaped interview voicing his opinions on Vince McMahon as part of "Mr
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Hart signed autographs at "The Legends of Wrestling" show at the Tropicana Field in St
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2006· 6 entries
Hart was inducted into the George Tragos/Lou Thesz Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame, at the International Wrestling Institute and Museum in Newton, Iowa
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Awarded National Wrestling Hall of Fame and Museum (2006).
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Awarded George Tragos/Lou Thesz Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame (2006).
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Hart was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame class of 2006 by Stone Cold Steve Austin
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Hart was inducted by "Stone Cold" Steve Austin
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Individually, in 2019 as a member of the Hart Foundation, and in 2025 when his Submission match with Stone Cold Steve Austin at WrestleMania 13 was inducted as the inaugural entry into the Immortal Moments category
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2004· 2 entries
Bret Hart appeared in a WWE game for the first time since 1998's WWF War Zone in the GameCube game WWE Day of Reckoning followed by WWE SmackDown
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WWE fans voted the match as the greatest in the history of WrestleMania
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2003· 1 entry
After Hulk Hogan, Ric Flair, and André the Giant
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2002· 1 entry
Among numerous other tragedies that occurred during the writing
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2001· 1 entry
Hart became the on-screen commissioner of World Wrestling All-Stars (WWA), a role that ended prematurely due to a 2002 stroke, which temporarily required him to use a wheelchair
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2000· 1 entry
Due to his ongoing incapacity, and he announced his retirement from professional wrestling 6 days later on October 26, 2000
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1999· 4 entries
The night before Hart was scheduled to make an appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno to hype his imminent WCW return, his brother Owen Hart died in an accident during a WWF pay-per-view
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Is featured in the opening credits of Malcolm in the Middle
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His youngest brother, Owen Hart, had become a decorated wrestler in his own right before his death in 1999, caused by an accident at the WWF pay-per-view Over the Edge.
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And 2000 in an angle with actor Will Sasso in which the two feuded on the set of MADtv and in World Championship Wrestling; this culminated in a grudge match on WCW Monday Nitro, which he decisively won
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1998· 1 entry
Bret and Julie separated in May 1998, and after several brief reunions over the next four years, eventually divorced on June 24, 2002, just hours before Hart had his stroke.
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1997· 2 entries
Where he acted as enforcer at a fan's house, appearing with his WWF Championship belt
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(as himself, in "The Old Man and the Lisa") and episodes of the Honey I Shrunk The Kids TV series (along with his brother Owen), The Adventures of Sinbad, Big Sound, and The Immortal
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1996· 1 entry
The WWF was in a rough financial position by late 1997 and could no longer afford to honour the contract
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1994· 1 entry
Hart played a prison inmate in a deleted scene from Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers, restored for the director's cut
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1993· 2 entries
To determine the "Undisputed King of the World Wrestling Federation"
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Made him want to become a professional wrestler
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1992· 3 entries
Hart defeated Shawn Michaels, with the Intercontinental Championship belt suspended above the ring, in the WWF's first ever ladder match
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Hart dropped the Intercontinental Championship to The Mountie
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It changed the entire industry, re-setting the WWF back to the days of technical wizardry and reshaping all our notions of what a great wrestling match should actually look and feel like"
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1991· 1 entry
And subsequently won the 1991 King of the Ring tournament on September 7, 1991, at the Providence Civic Center in Providence, Rhode Island
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1990· 2 entries
- Hart wrestled Tiger Mask to a time limit draw
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The Hart Foundation began their second, and final, WWF Tag Team Championship reign by defeating Demolition members Crush and Smash in a two out of three falls match with some help from the Legion of Doom
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1989· 1 entry
Broadcast live on Tele+2, André the Giant requested to work a singles match with Hart, who lost the match, which was later released on his 2013 DVD set, The Dungeon Collection, but considered André's praise and encourage
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1986· 1 entry
Hart began his first singles program with Ricky Steamboat, and in a singles match originally planned for WrestleMania 2, he lost to Steamboat at the Boston Garden on March 8, 1986, which would be included on Hart's 2005
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1985· 1 entry
After acquiring the nickname of "Hit Man", Hart requested to join Jimmy Hart's heel stable, the Hart Foundation, which included brother-in-law Jim Neidhart
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1984· 1 entry
In a tag team match where he teamed with the Dynamite Kid
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1980· 1 entry
As part of its "Summer Fight Series", teaming with his brother Keith Hart to defeat George Takano and Kantaro Hoshino
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1976· 2 entries
As a referee and made his in-ring debut in 1978
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Hart began working for his father's Stampede Wrestling promotion in Calgary
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1957· 1 entry
Born 1957-07-02.
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