Before RAW yesterday you the thread posed the question about what if Bret had stayed in the WWF and some of you came to the conclusion that he just wouldn't fit in.
Coincidentally right around the time I finally watched the RAWs and PPVs where he turns heel and I gotta say; he'd do just fine as a full blown Attitude era heel. He has, bar maybe Hogan, the best Heel turn ever. Definitely the best justification for a heel turn (Even better than JR's in 1996) where he literally stands in the ring for fifteen minutes and explains his actions rationally from his point of view without ever once straying from the truth. Usually when someone says "I detect no lies!" or something to that effect they do it for comedic value because the heel's POV is so warped that he thinks something happened in a way where it clearly didn't. But not this time.
The second part of it happens a week later when he convinces Bulldog and Owen to stop feuding and join him in his crusade against America. Another all time great segment with literally years of storyline coming together. References events from 1992, 1994-1996.
The Hart Foundation was perfectly poised to be a big deal even in 1998.
