10 Wrestlers Who Couldn’t Come Up With A Comeback

10. Triple H

To prove that wrestling is an ugly place, one of its most genius practitioners and stand-up ambassadors - he truly just wanted to be a hero to children, showing that hard graft and intelligent strategy was the way to go - Bret Hart was also a mad adulterer of a shagger with a penchant for grim homophobia in the 1990s.

Deep in the guts of his career-defining, barely-worked '97 programme with Shawn Michaels, he lowered himself to his "degenerate" standard with a spot of wordplay ill-advised in both content and delivery.

Interrupting a jape of a DX opening segment, Michaels no-sold Hart's disgust with a theatrical face-palm, laughing at the notion that Hart, if anything, was putting him over in a new world to which his nemesis, sadly, no longer belonged. Switching gears, Hart said "And I think that I know, as the rest of the Hart Foundation knows, what the 'HHH' stands for in 'HBK' (Heart Heart Heartbreak Kid?)."

"You're nothing but a h*mo, and that guy in the green shirt is nothing but a homo."

Proving how absolutely useless the man was in 1997, Triple H couldn't adequately respond to Hart's worst material. He didn't underscore the desperation of the jibe by, for example, lightly kissing Michaels on the cheek. He sold it, betraying the no-f*cks disposition of the future DX, by immediately grabbing the mic and saying "Oh, I'm no queer!" as if he were actually on bloody trial.

He learned eventually...