5 Bret Hart dream matches from other eras

#2 Bret Hart vs Brock Lesnar

Brock Lesnar

Over the years, Brock Lesnar has proved to be one of WWE's biggest box-office draws and big time players since his WWE return in 2012. Even in his 2002 to 2004 tenure, The Next Big Thing was a prominent Superstar in WWE and was groomed to carry the company for the next decade.

In relation to Bret Hart, by the time Brock Lesnar was primed for the top spot in WWE, The Hitman had suffered a near-fatal stroke in 2002, the same year The Beast won the Undisputed Championship from The Rock at SummerSlam.

The story that both these former WrestleMania main eventers could have told, with the psychology and storytelling that they possess in the ring, would have been as big a classic as between Bret Hart and Stone Cold Steve Austin at WrestleMania 13.

As for the match, the story in the contest could have been one of Bret Hart out-wrestling The Beast and taking Brock Lesnar out of his element for the first time in his career. For example, Hart could have worked on both of Lesnar's legs and shoulders to leave Lesnar immobile for the F5 and vulnerable for the Sharpshooter, thus telling the story that Bret Hart was indeed "The Best There Is, The Best There Was, and The Best There Ever Will Be".