When Bret Hart was screwed out of his WWF Championship in front of a packed Montreal crowd at Survivor Series 1997, it shook the wrestling world to its very core. The move shocked the local crowd who loved their home country hero, heated up the feud between the company now known as WWE and the WCW, and ultimately led to an exposure of the business that both broke the fourth wall forever and changed the sport forever.

And yet, it almost didn't happen. No, had McMahon had his say, Hart would have left the promotion after his loss like so many performers before him, and the WWF universe would have pushed forward with Michaels as champion and the fans at home none the wiser of the inner workings of one of the most contentious days in wrestling history.

Dave Meltzer of The Wrestling Observer helped to hold power to account and ultimately play a major part in telling truth about what happened on that fateful day back in November; a journalistic act that resonated with the leader of the Hart Foundation all of these years ago.

You have to give it to Hart, his legacy has only continued to grow since leaving the ring for good in 2000.

While Hart's career continued on well after he left the WWF, including four reigns as the WCE United States Heavyweight Championship, a weird run as tag team champions with Bill Goldberg, and a tenure with the WCW Heavyweight Championship that was interrupted momentarily due to a self-imposed vacation, his career never quite reached the same heights as when he was wrestling with, or against, his brother in The Fed. Fortunately, the work of Meltzer and others only cemented that legacy even further.