Former WWE writer and producer Court Bauer who is the owner of the MLW Major League Wrestling recently revealed the plans of WWE of organizing a Hart Foundation vs WWE match for WrestleMania 22. WWE brought back Bret Hart in 2006 and it was a big possibility.
Bret Hart had been one of the prime wrestlers of WWE throughout the 1990s. But after the infamous Montreal Screwjob incident at Survivor Series 1997, he departed from WWE to join WCW which was the biggest Rivals of WWE back in those days. In 2000, his in ring career ended after a scary accident in the ring during a match with Goldberg.
Court Bauer Reveals WWE Had Plans Of The Hart Foundation Vs. WWE Match
In 2006 WWE brought Bret Hart back to WWE and inducted him into their Hall of Fame. It never looked like WWE and Hart would ever bury the hatchet. But anything is possible in professional wrestling. Hart even returned to in ring action in 2010 and he also won the WWE United States Championship. Even though he was nowhere near his prime.
It had been revealed that WWE had plans to book a WWE vs Hart Foundation match in 2006 at WrestleMania 22. This might not have been the best match possible but it could be an excellent story. After the departure of Bret, Hart Foundation had to suffer in WWE as well. It could be a very good storyline if WWE actually decided to book it.
Court Bauer who is the owner of the MLW Major League Wrestling recently spoke on The Insiders podcast where he revealed the plans of WWE of organising A Hart Foundation vs WWE match for WrestleMania 22. He said;
“Well, the original version was supposed to kind of, sort of, got off the ground in WWE in 2006, or seven. Bret was back in the orbit of WWE after coming to terms with Vince and doing the DVD and at one point was going to be Bret versus Vince at WrestleMania 22 in Chicago, and then Bret was a little uneasy about doing that. They eventually did it much differently a few years later.”
“But the original idea was gonna be the Harts and the Hart Foundation versus the WWE, Vince, Triple H, Shawn Michaels, Shane, Shawn’s students at the time. The idea would be you know, you have Paul London. You had Brian Kendrick, and then they were gonna sign Bryan Danielson. So you had like all these interesting ways against the Hart Foundation, which would have been Bret, Neidhart, and a new generation, Davey Boy Smith Jr., Nattie, Teddy and so on.”
“So we started the process and I got Harry Smith, Davey Boy Smith Jr. signed, Nattie and TJ, Tyson Kid and Teddy. I remember Vince looking at me saying. ‘You know, self-masturbatory gimmick.’ It was like a warning, like this is on you when this goes south. I’m like okay.”
“Now truth be told Teddy outlasted me in WWE. I left the summer of 2007 and he stayed around for a little bit more. So I don’t know how that ended up going, but clearly he didn’t end up on air and the other guys did.
“Nattie is still there doing great things, Tyson is contributing behind the scenes, and Harry’s had his tours of duty there since, so it was interesting what could have been with that. I think Jericho at some point was figured into the Hart story too, I think. I don’t remember the details off the top of my head.”
Quotes via WrestlingNews.co