Bret Hart was the least successful World Champion in history !!

The WWF was more successful when Bret Hart was champion than when Shawn Michaels had the belt in the 90's to put it in perspective. The mid 90's were not great for the WWF, well because of WCW. However, Bret Hart also pioneered smaller wrestlers to take on the belt and become big time main eventers. Before him it was mostly just the big guys who were seen as able to headline long term.

Eric Bischoff had one good angle with the NWO and after a couple of years decided to run the company into the ground because everything became WCW/NWO. He was also the genius to fire Steve Austin over the phone and we see how that turned out.

I think Bret Hart has too big of an ego and seems to think highly of himself. It wouldn't surprise me if his house has shrines of himself plastered all over. He always has something negative to say and comes across as bitter. He comes across as a diva.

Pah. Bischoff is just salty that Bret has correctly criticised his incompetent leadership.

Bret was "the guy" during the era of the sex and steroid scandals. The company also tried to push Lex Luger, Diesel, Shawn Michaels, Sycho Sid and the Undertaker during that period, but the spotlight – and WWF Championship – always found its way back onto Bret. Nobody was drawing huge money during those dark days, but Bret was the most popular star of the time.

Stone Cold Steve Austin is seen as the juggernaut who brought the WWF back to financial prosperity in the late 90s, but Austin always points to Bret as the guy who made him a star. And he's right: people forget that Austin was a directionless mid-carder in the WWF until he started calling out Bret during the summer of '96. By early '97, the feud directly granted Austin a Royal Rumble win and his first pay-per-view main events.

He was a better champ than Diesel and Michaels from that era