10 Toxic Real-Life Wrestling Relationships

10. Shawn Michaels & Sunny

A worst-kept-secret in the industry at the time, Shawn Michaels and Tammy 'Sunny' Sytch's relationship not only irreversibly damaged Chris Candido's WWE career but also led to a chain of events that would further fracture 'HBK's relations with Bret Hart.

Candido and Sytch were a package deal in Smoky Mountain Wrestling and WWE, but Tammy's model looks and shrewd understanding of wrestling's nuances made her a different commodity altogether as the company tiptoed closer to the Attitude Era.

By late-1996, Sunny had almost completely moved away from managerial duties, as well as Candido, whom she claims she was partially separated from when her affair with Michaels began. Skip was written off television by the end of the year, but Michaels and Sunny's relationship intensified.

Both were heavily under the influence of various substances at the time, with Shawn considered almost impossible to deal with by the locker room following his tumultuous first WWE Title run coinciding with WCW's incredible surge ahead in the Monday Night ratings war.

Their troubled on-off union was made public in ugly fashion during the infamous 'Sunny Days' promo Michaels cut on Raw, in which he implied she was also sleeping with Bret Hart. Both vehemently denied the claim, but the comments led to a real-life fight just weeks later, and helped foster the ugly mistrust that permeated between the pair.