Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A wannan lokacin, kishiyar Hart a kan iska tare da Vince McMahon kuma ya ƙaru. Wani rikici mai zafi tsakanin su biyun ya sa magoya baya da yawa ba su son McMahon, wanda a lokacin aka fallasa shi a matsayin mai mallakar WWF sau da yawa a kan iska. Kodayake Hart ya sanya hannu kan kwangilar shekaru 20 a cikin 1996, WWF ya kasance cikin mawuyacin halin kuɗi a ƙarshen 1997 kuma ba zai iya biyan kuɗin kwangilar ba. Kodayake ana iya jayayya cewa Hart shine mafi girma a cikin duniya a tsakiyar shekarun 1990, McMahon kuma ya ji cewa darajar halayyarsa ta fara raguwa, kuma ya ƙarfafa Hart ya kusanci gasar zakarun duniya (WCW) game da kwangila, da fatan wani abu mai kama da tayin su na asali. Wannan ya faru ne duk da rashin son Hart ya bar WWF da kuma shirye-shiryen sake tattaunawa. Hart daga baya ya sanya hannu kan kwangilar shekaru uku tare da WCW. Wasansa na karshe tare da WWF zai zama wasan neman lakabi da abokin hamayyarsa na rayuwa Shawn Michaels a Survivor Series
a birnin Montreal. Hart ba ya son ya ƙare aikinsa na WWF tare da asara ga Michaels a cikin ƙasarsa musamman tare da mahallin ƙiyayya da ke haifar da ƙabilanci; kuma ya ba da damar rasa, yin asara ko kuma ba da bel ɗin ga Michaels ta kowace hanya da McMahon yake so. McMahon ya yarda da ra'ayin Hart na rasa gasar zakarun Turai a dare na gaba a "Raw Is War" ko rasa shi 'yan makonni bayan haka.