On August 29, 1984 Bret Hart made his televised WWF debut in a tag team match where he teamed with the Dynamite Kid as they took on “Iron” Mike Sharpe and Troy Alexander on an episode of Maple Leaf Wrestling. Hart (spelled Brett Hart) was asked to start out in the WWF as a singles wrestler with a cowboy gimmick but refused, stating that where he comes from "if you called yourself a cowboy, you'd better be one." On September 11, in Poughkeepsie, New York, Hart defeated Aldo Marino in his televise

On August 29, 1994 WWF’s 7th annual SummerSlam took place in front of 23,000 fans at the newly opened United Center in Chicago, Illinois, which had opened just 11 days earlier. The pay-per-view had two main events. The first pitted Owen Hart against his brother and WWF Heavyweight Champion Bret Hart in a steel cage match. Bret won the match, but the storyline feud escalated after Owen and his brother-in-law Jim Neidhart attacked Bret after the match. The other main event was a match between the