10 Best foreign superstars in WWE History

William Regal

Regal has been serving as the general manager of NXT

William Regal, credit to him, has managed to eke out an incredible post-career of sorts in the WWE. That is not to say that his in-ring career with the company was unremarkable in any sense.

Despite a world title win being absent from Regal's resume, he has worn plenty of gold over the years in the WWE. Regal is a four-time Tag Team Champion, four-time European Champion, two-time Intercontinental Champion, five-time Hardcore Champion and he won the King of the Ring in 2008.

Regal has always been considered to be a stable, consistent and solid in-ring worker with credible microphone skills; an underrated and under-represented commodity in the WWE.

Currently, Regal serves as the General Manager in NXT, and as Triple H gives him credit for, is hugely involved in recruiting talent across promotions into the product. He serves as a prime example of how a wrestler, though he may not be main event material, may “make it” in the industry and establish himself through dedicated service behind the scenes and hence finds inclusion in this list.

Bret Hart

Bret Hart with his patented submission finisher, The Sharpshooter

The Excellence of Execution, Bret Hart, considered by many to be the wronged protagonist in the saga that was the Montreal Screwjob, makes this list purely based on his in-ring exploits bereft of any attention that his reluctant involvement in the controversy might have generated.

Bret Hart was technically one of the most gifted wrestlers to ever wrestler in WWE and served as the prime and fitting example of a Stampede Wrestling product, a wrestling promotion owned by Stu Hart, Bret’s father in Canada. Other notable names to originate from this promotion include the likes of stalwarts such as Owen Hart, Davey Boy Smith, Jake The Snake Roberts, Chris Benoit and Roddy Piper to name a few.

Bret Hart headlined the WWE landscape in the 90’s and has held the WWE Championship Title 5 times. His dominance throughout the 90’s is not sufficiently explained by statistics alone, for he was responsible in catalysing a paradigm shift in how fans viewed the product then. Taking over from the prototypical heavyweight as the face of the WWE, Hart infused in-ring dexterity into performances like never before and this made him immensely popular on a global level. Plaudits with respect to Hart’s in-ring ability have filtered through from some of the most respected names in the business and any list to do with successful foreign Superstars in the WWE would lack soul and integrity if Bret the Hitman Hart’s name were to be left out.