10 WWE Returns Everyone Asked For (Which Ended Up Sucking)

10. Bret Hart

Make no bones about it, Bret Hart can very much legitimately confess to being "The best there is. The best there was. And the best there ever will be." So, it's just a shame that the middle section of that crowd-popping catchphrase rang most true when it came to his long-awaited return to WWE shores.

Having not set foot in a WWE ring since being infamously screwed a staggering 12 years earlier, The Hitman finally made his presence known on the January 4 edition of Monday Night Raw. Heartfelt burying of the hatchets quickly took place on-screen with both Shawn Michaels and Vince McMahon, only for the latter reconciliation to quickly spiral into a WrestleMania XXVI feud.

Sadly though, the countless theatrics and shenanigans that went into setting up the grudge match we'd been waiting a decade for couldn't mask the fact that this whole scenario was simply 10 years too late. Hart was in no real condition to wrestle anywhere near the match he once did and what could have been a rousing, dare I say, show-stopping comeback, soon devolved into a stale weapons-fest and a lacklustre final in-ring run in general.