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* A legendary match that was considered lost until it's 2019 discovery was Bret's match against Tom Magee. The reason it's so legendary is not because it's necessarily a classic, but because Tom Magee was such an infamously terrible, unrealistic, and otherwise useless bodybuilder-turned-wrestler that nobody could possibly make him look good in the ring...except for Bret Hart, who carried him to a great match anyway.

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* A legendary match that was considered lost until it's its 2019 discovery was Bret's match against Tom Magee. The reason it's so legendary is not because it's necessarily a classic, but because Tom Magee was such an infamously terrible, unrealistic, and otherwise useless bodybuilder-turned-wrestler that nobody could possibly make him look good in the ring...except for Bret Hart, who carried him to a great match anyway.
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** ''Wrestling/{{SummerSlam}} 1997'' saw him pull a XanatosGambit in his match against Wrestling/TheUndertaker for the WWF Championship with ArchEnemy Wrestling/ShawnMichaels as guest referee with the stipulation if Michaels screwed Bret over he would be barred from wrestling in the US. Throughout the match Bret has been deliberately provoking Michaels into hitting him. Near the end the match, Michaels is finally provoked into swinging a chair at Bret, only for the Hitman to dodge, ending up hitting Taker instead, leading him to winning the championship. Had it failed, he would've at least succeeded in ridding the WWF of Shawn Michaels as Michaels clearly violated the stipulation. As an added bonus, [[SmallRoleBigImpact this would mark the start]] of the feud between Taker and Michaels, which would eventually lead to the first-ever Hell in a Cell match.
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* And of course, his ''[=WrestleMania=] 13'' match with Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin, the match that ended with the iconic image of blood pouring down Austin's face as he refuses to tap to the Sharpshooter. It served as a FaceHeelDoubleTurn for Bret to heel and Austin as the white-hot face, and arguably kickstarted Wrestling/{{WWE}}'s Wrestling/AttitudeEra.

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* And of course, his ''[=WrestleMania=] 13'' match with Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin, the match that ended with the iconic image of blood pouring down Austin's face as he refuses to tap to the Sharpshooter. It served as a FaceHeelDoubleTurn for Bret to heel and Austin as the white-hot face, and arguably kickstarted Wrestling/{{WWE}}'s Wrestling/AttitudeEra. Both ''Wrestling/TheWrestlingObserverNewsletter'' and ''Pro Wrestling Illustrated'' declared it the Match of the Year for 1997.

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