Bret Hart Faces Top WWE Stars On This Day In History

It’s March 5th, WrestleMania is on the horizon in WWE, Revolution is coming in AEW, so why not take a look back to see what Bret Hart was doing on this day in years gone by?

Roman Reigns wants CM Punk at WrestleMania because he hates him, Hangman Adam Page wants to reclaim his AEW Men’s World Title to prove he’s the best, well, if there’s one wrestler who knows about hate and being the best, then it’s Bret ‘The Hitman’ Hart.

Hart has been pretty quiet in recent months, meaning nobody has asked publicly about Goldberg. In lieu of The Hitman excellently executing a hot take, let’s take a trip back in our wrestling time machine to explore what Hart was doing on this day in previous years.

The first match listed on Hart’s Cagematch page has him teaming up with his brother Keith and an Irish fellow called Kung Fu to defeat Angel Peron, Chicky Peron, and Mike Shaw – best known later in WWE as Bastion Booger – in Stampede Wrestling in 1982.

Bret Hart – The Best There Is, The Best There Was, The Best There Ever Will Be

You have to skip five years to The Hitman’s next match on this date, and that takes him into his WWE days as he and Jim Neidhart successfully defended the WWE Tag Team Championship against The Rougeau Brothers. In 1988, Hart’s only televised match on this date as him, Neidhart, and Honky Tonk Man lost a steel cage match to Randy Savage and Strike Force.

The Honky Tonk Man got the better of Bret Hart once again in 1989 on a house show, and it wasn’t until 1993 that Hart was back in action on March 5th.

By that time, Bret Hart was already WWE Champion, and he successfully defended his title against Bam Bam Bigelow. In 1994, he teamed with Lex Luger to defeat Yokozuna and Owen Hart, albeit by disqualification. 1995 saw Bret defeat his younger brother Owen in a singles match.

1996 was the last time that Hart wrestled on March 5th, and perhaps fittingly, that match came against Shawn Michaels in a Lumberjack match for the WWE Championship. Bret Hart picked up the win.

This might not be the most newsworthy thing you ever read, but isn’t it better to sometimes celebrate the best there is, the best there was, and the best there ever will be, than wade through the maelstrom of Twitter posts and podcast quotes that make up the wrestling media landscape?

Well, now we have, and I, for one, feel a lot better for it.