Owen is the youngest child of legendary Stu and Helen Hart brought up in a family of wrestlers it was only time before young Owen found is way in the business. Owen was trained by his father in the Dungeon and in 1986 Owen was ready to join Stampede Wrestling, owned by his father, but at that time it was already going downhill. Owen used the time that was left to hone his skills and become one of the most promising rookies the sport has ever seen. Owen had many great matches in Stampede and had a great feud with Mike Shaw (Bastian Booger). Owen showed on several occasions, that he was championship material, and together with Ben Bassarab, he became International Tag Team champion. Owen also showed his skills in singles competition by winning the British Commonwealth Mid Heavyweight title once in 1987. Owen then went after the North American Heavyweight title, which he came close to winning in a tournament final, where he lost to Makhan Singh, Owen though came back an won the title twice, the last time holding it for 13 month.

In 1988 Owen took a chance an started wrestling in Japan it done him good and was so talented and respected that he became the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion by defeating Hiroshi Hase, May 27, in Sendai. Owen was the first westerner to hold the title. Owen title regain lasted until, June 24 1988, when he lost the title to Shiro Koshinaka, in Osaka a brave move that realy jump started his Career. Owen returned to the States, where the WWF showed interest in him. Owen became the Blue Blazer - a lightweight with a mask and a cape. High flyer versus the heavyweights of the WWF Owen's skills was mostly used to put the other guys over. At WrestleMania V, he fought Mr. Perfect See Achievements . Never once during his first stint in WWF was it mentioned, that Owen was Bret Hart's brother. Owen spent the next two years on the road, showing his skills in Mexico, Canada, Japan, Europe, and he had a very short stint in the WCW. In Mexico Owen lost the mask of the Blue Blazer to El Canek in a mask match late in 1989.

THE WWF

After his first stint in the WWF from late 1988 to mid 1989 it was only a matter of time that Owen come back. In early 1992 he did just that as himself this time not the Blue Blazer. Owen The Rocket Hart! what he was known as. Even through he did have a singles match at Wrestlemainia 8 he was quickly placed in a tag team. His brother in low Jim Neidhart was his partner in the New Foundation. The team didn't last long because they never got a clean break, everybody was comparing them to the original Hart Foundation, which they couldn't live up to. Neidhart left the WWF, but Owen wasn't finished with tag team wrestling yet. Owen and Koko B. Ware formed High Energy. They didn't have much success though. Owen got a knee injury at the end of 1992, and when he returned, Koko was gone.

But Owen was not dead yet whille his brother was enjoying the hights of the WWF Owens taste of gold and glory was still on the bottom of the ladder, while Bret was on top, Bret had just won the 1993 edition of the King of the Ring, but somthing was on the cards somthing that would make owens name in the WWF and around the World. At the Survivor Series 1993, where a united Hart family fought Shawn Michaels and his knights, Owen was whipped into Bret, who stood on the apron, causing Bret to hit the railing and Owen to get eliminated. The Hart family won the match, but Owen wasn't satisfied with the result, he blamed Bret for his elimination, Owen then developed an obsession, he wanted to be regarded as his brother Bret's equal, Owen would not be in the shadow of the Hitman. Owen was furious at Bret, so he wanted a match against him, so he could step out of Bret's shadow, but Bret wouldn't give it to him saying he didn't want to fight his brother. Owen and Bret talked the things through at the end of 1993, and they agreed to form a tag team. Owen and Bret got a shot at the tag team champions, the Quebecers, at the Royal Rumble 1994. The brothers lost the match, when the referee ended the match, because of Bret's injured knee. Owen totally lost it, he kicked Bret on his knee after the match, and blamed Bret for the loss and saying that all he had to do was tag and calling Bret a selfish. Owen also said, that it was Bret, who told him to wrestle under hood and cap, so Owen wouldn't take the spotlight from Bret.

The Family War

At WrestleMania X, Owen and Bret had a classic match, which went back and forth. Owen after leaving his brother with an injured leg was victorious, but at the same event, Bret became WWF Heavyweight Champion for the second time, which made Owen even more jealous. Owen wanted another shot at Bret, but to get that, he had to win the King of the Ring tournament. Owen qualified to the King of the Ring by beating Adam Bomb. In the Opening round of the PPV Tournament, Owen and Tatanka went at it, with Owen coming out on top. In the semifinal round waited the 1-2-3 Kid. Owen defeated him easily with the sharpshooter. It was time for the final round. Jim Neidhart had secured that Bret was still the champ, by attacking Diesel, who got the DQ victory. Owen and Razor Ramon was the two finalists, it was an even match until Anvil at atacked Razor, which made Owen the 1994 King of the Ring. After the victory Owen proclaimed himself the King of Harts.

With the victory at the King of the Ring, Owen showed that he was a force to be reckoned with, Owen also got what he really wanted, a match against his brother for the WWF title at Summer Slam 94. The match was a cage match, with Neidhart and the British Bulldog in the stands. The match went back and forth, both wrestlers slugged it out up the cage, over the top and on the way down, when suddenly Bret slammed Owen's head against the cage. Owen got his ankles caught between the bars, Bret jumped, landing feet-first at ringside. The British Bulldog cheered, when suddenly Neidhart attacked him. Owen and Neidhart dragged Bret back into the cage and started beating on him. Bulldog got to Bret's rescue. This event was reason for some great tag team matches between Bret/Bulldog and Owen/Neidhart. Owen and Bret also had a Lumberjack match, where Neidhart was one of the lumberjacks, during the match he sneaked up on Bret and knocked him down, Owen then quickly pinned Bret, and thought that he had won the World Title, but a second referee made his way down and the decision was overturned.The family War died out when Neidhart left the Federation start of 1995.

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