Great or very good Bret Hart performances

I've watched a pretty reasonable amount of 97 Bret Hart over the past week and have been pretty thoroughly unimpressed. Even the Austin submission match; while it's a great match, I don't think Bret's individual performance is anything exceptionally good. I watched his RAW match with Waltman this morning, and aside from him dropping a few good elbows there wasn't really anything of his performance I was impressed by.

I mean, he has a reasonable well of offense and generally executes it well. I was thinking to myself a possible argument in his favor is he's supposed to be a collected, straight laced champ and you could say him just executing his moves well mechanically is him playing his role well. But idk, too many times I've felt him bordering on insipid even in matches which were good in and of themselves.

SO what are the Bret matches where Bret himself is putting in a performance worth writing home about?

You seem to be discounting a lot of his input from a structure/layout/pacing/psych perspective and focusing on his physical execution. The 1-2-3 Kid match is a strong Bret performance because of that stuff, not because he did cool spots, took big bumps or worked stiff.

I agree with the idea that Bret is overated, to an extent, though. He certainly wasn't a great week-in-week-out worker, but in 90s WWF who was?

Recently rewatched the Survivor Series match with Austin and thought it was a really good Bret performance. My only gripe is that I'd have like to have seen more emotion from him during it (which is something I feel a lot about him), but it worked in the context of the match in contrast to his hot-headed opponent.

I haven't seen it in a few years and don't really remember shit about it, but what about the Davey Boy match from Summerslam '92? For people that have watched it semi-recently/remember anything about it, was Davey really as useless as my shitty memory tells me?

I think the cage match VS Owen and the PPV match VS Diesel where he goes after his leg are as good as any 90s WWF main event.

I'm the complete opposite and find myself enthralled in so many of his matches as I get the impression he is so focused and intent on winning and gives off a vibe that he always has a strategic gameplan in his head, which was why I always invested in him, because I felt like he was always thinking and so I'd stick around to see how it would unfold.

Just because I've watched a hell of a lot of it recently, I think the majority of his 1995 has a load of great Bret performances. Godwinn, Hakushi, Laffite, Diesel, Davey, Yankem,

I actually think he is somewhat underrated or at least still doesn't get enough credit for how original and creative a lot of moments/spots/finishes were in his matches and I'm not talking the PPV's, I'm referring to things scattered back to early Hart/Bulldogs matches.

KOTR '93 may be the best performance in Brets career.

SNME vs. Savage is a really strong Bret performance. KB8 yeah Bret pretty much did the workload of the match and made it work so well. The IYH rematch is better too. I think Bret had so many great/very good performances it is hard to list them. I think Superstars & Survivor Series vs. Backlund are another two great performances.