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Best Pro Wrestling DVD (2006) Bret "Hit Man" Hart: The Best There Is, the Best There Was, the Best There Ever Will Be; Best Pro Wrestling DVD (2011) Greatest Rivalries: Shawn Michaels vs. Bret Hart; Feud of the Year (1993) vs. Jerry Lawler; Match of the Year (1997) vs. Stone Cold Steve Austin in a Submission match at WrestleMania 13
The WWE United States Championship is a professional wrestling championship contested in the American promotion WWE on the SmackDown brand. It was originally known as the NWA United States Heavyweight Championship and began as a regional championship created by and defended in Jim Crockett Jr. 's Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling , a ...
WWF Championship Match Bret Hart vs. The Undertaker (One Night Only, September 20, 1997) Hart's favourite match with the Undertaker. Owen Hart Tribute Match Bret Hart vs. Chris Benoit (WCW Monday Nitro, October 4, 1999) Hart's tribute to his late brother Owen in the same arena Owen fell to his death. He faces one of his and Owen's friends ...
The event was available on pay-per-view in Canada, and Europe, but not in the United States: the storyline reason for this was that WWF Champion Bret Hart – then employing an Anti-American gimmick – had used a clause in his contract to block the event from being shown live in the US. It was subsequently released on home video there.
The main event was a standard wrestling match between Diamond Dallas Page and Bret Hart for the WCW United States Heavyweight Championship, in which Page pinned Hart to retain the title. The World War 3 match, where the winner would receive a WCW World Heavyweight Championship match at Starrcade, was won by Kevin Nash.
In other prominent matches, Sting retained his WCW World Heavyweight Championship against Scott Hall, Bret Hart defeated Curt Henning, The Giant defeated Kevin Nash by disqualification, and Diamond Dallas Page defeated Raven and Chris Benoit in a triangle match to retain the WCW United States Heavyweight Championship.
Owen Hart won the tournament by defeating Tatanka, the 1–2–3 Kid and Razor Ramon over the course of the evening. He used his coronation ceremony to criticize his brother Bret, with whom he was feuding. The Hart brothers' feud led to a Steel Cage match for Bret's WWF Championship. Although Owen lost the title match, the feud carried on as ...
For the 1996 event, the winner received a match for the WWF Championship at WrestleMania XII. The main event saw The Undertaker face Bret Hart for the WWF Championship, where Undertaker won via disqualification due to interference from Diesel ; Hart retained as titles do not change hands on disqualification unless stipulated.