BRET HART

Hart  in  2010.
Birth  name Bret  Hart
Born July  2,  1957  (age  57)
Calgary,  Alberta,  Canada
Spouse(s) Julie  Smadu  (m.  1982;  div.  2002)
Cinzia  Rota  (m.  2004;  div.  2007)
Stephanie  Washington  (m.  2010)
Children 4

Professional  wrestling  career
Ring  name(s) Bret  Hart
Buddy  Hart
Billed  height 6  ft  0  in  (1.83  m)
Billed  weight 234  lb  (106  kg)
Billed  from Calgary,  Alberta,  Canada
Trained  by Stu  Hart
Mr.  Hito
Kazuo  Sakurada
Debut 1978
Retired 2000

Bret  Hart : (born  July  2,  1957)  is  a  Canadian  writer,  actor  and  retired  professional  wrestler.  A  member  of  the  Hart  wrestling  family  and  a  second-generation  wrestler,  he  has  an  amateur  wrestling  background,  wrestling  at  Ernest  Manning  High  School  and  Mount  Royal  College.  Along  with  his  nickname  the  "Hit  Man",  Hart  was  known  by  the  monikers  "The  Excellence  of  Execution",  "The  Best  There  Is,  The  Best  There  Was  and  The  Best  There  Ever  Will  Be"  and  "The  Pink  and  Black  Attack".  He  is  credited  with  revolutionizing  the  industry  in  the  early  1990s  by  bringing  high  quality  in-ring  performance  to  the  fore.  Olympic  wrestling  gold  medalist  and  six-time  WWE  world  champion  Kurt  Angle  said  of  Hart:  "I  used  to  watch  matches  of  him  so  that  I  could  learn  the  psychology  of  [pro]  wrestling...  in  that  ring,  as  a  technician,  there  wasn't  anybody  better".

Hart  joined  his  father  Stu  Hart's  promotion  Stampede  Wrestling  in  1976,  and  made  his  in-ring  debut  in  1978.  He  gained  popularity  and  championship  success  throughout  the  1980s  and  1990s  in  the  World  Wrestling  Federation  (WWF,  now  WWE),  where  he  helmed  The  Hart  Foundation  faction.  He  left  for  World  Championship  Wrestling  (WCW)  following  the  controversial  "Montreal  Screwjob"  in  November  1997,  where  he  remained  until  October  2000.  Having  been  inactive  from  in-ring  competition  since  January  2000,  owing  to  a  December  1999  concussion,  he  officially  retired  in  October  2000,  shortly  after  his  departure  from  the  company.  He  returned  to  sporadic  in-ring  competition  in  2004  and  2006,  and  in  2010  with  WWE,  where  he  won  his  final  championship,  headlined  that  year's  SummerSlam  event,  and  served  as  the  general  manager  of  Raw.  He  headlined  WrestleManias  IX,  X,  and  XII,  and  participated  in  the  main  event  of  the  1997  and  1999  editions  of  WCW  Starrcade  –  as  a  special  enforcer  in  the  former.

Hart  has  held  championships  in  five  decades  from  the  1970s  to  the  2010s,  with  a  total  of  32  held  throughout  his  career,  and  17  held  between  the  WWF/WWE  and  WCW.  He  is  a  seven-time  world  champion,  having  held  the  WWF  Championship  five  times  and  the  WCW  World  Heavyweight  Championship  twice.  He  spent  more  time  as  WWF  Champion  than  any  other  wrestler  during  the  1990s,  with  a  total  of  654  days  as  champion,  and  was  the  first  WCW  World  Heavyweight  Champion  born  outside  the  United  States.  He  is  also  a  record-tying  five-time  WCW/WWE  United  States  Champion,  the  second  WWF  Triple  Crown  Champion  and  fifth  (with  Goldberg)  WCW  Triple  Crown  Champion.

Hart  was  the  first  man  to  win  both  the  WWF  and  WCW  Triple  Crown  Championships.  He  is  also  the  1994  Royal  Rumble  winner  (with  Lex  Luger),  and  the  only  two-time  King  of  the  Ring,  winning  the  1991  tournament  and  the  first  King  of  the  Ring  pay-per-view  in  1993.  Steve  Austin,  with  whom  Hart  headlined  multiple  pay-per-view  events[6]  as  part  of  a  critically  acclaimed  rivalry  from  1996–1997,  inducted  him  into  the  WWE  Hall  of  Fame  in  2006.