8 times WWE championships changed hands without the champion losing

Four is Hart’s magic number

Bret Hart battled back to win the Final Four match at In Your House 13 in 1997.

Injuries obviously happen in professional wrestling, and perhaps no one knows that better than Shawn Michaels. He lost a few years of his career to injury, and he also had to forfeit his WWF Championship in 1997 due to a knee injury.

But where one man loses a chance, another man gains one, and that man was Bret Hart. The vacated title was put on the line in a Final Four match at In Your House 13 between Hart, Stone Cold Steve Austin, Undertaker and Vader. The match was an over-the-top-rope elimination match, and Hart capitalized on a distraciton from Austin to eliminate Undertaker and bring home his fourth WWF title.