The legendary in-ring career of Bret ‘Hitman’ Hart may never have reached the peaks it did had the company opted for another potential main eventer.
Hart captured the WWF Championship for the first time in 1992 when he ended the second reign of Ric Flair in Hart’s native Canada.
During a recent live Q&A session, Tito Santana recalled a conversation he had about a potential World Championship run. He said,
“[Ted] DiBiase told me, ‘Yeah Tito, Pat Patterson came up to me and he told me it was between you and Bret for who was gonna get the belt.’”
However, Tito was skeptical that the promotion wanted him as World Champion, and agreed that Bret was the right call. He said,
“We weren’t the only ones that they bullsh**ted, they knew it was Bret, and it was gonna be Bret all along. They decided to go into Canada, which, you know, ended up being a good move, for Bret and for Canadian wrestling.”
While he never became WWF Champion, Santana is a two-time Intercontinental Champion, two-time Tag Team Champion, and was the 1989 King of the Ring.
Tito Santana was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2004 while Hart was inducted in 2006 and as part of the Hart Foundation in 2019.
