10 FIERCEST Online Wrestling Rivalries
6. Bret Hart Vs. Eric Bischoff
If you're Bret Hart, you're obviously going to loathe Eric Bischoff.
For Eric Bischoff debuted Bret Hart, the hottest and most controversial figure in pro wrestling, as a referee at Starrcade '97. Bret Hart was also the best wrestler on the planet. This was a catastrophe.
Hart didn't have much luck in 1997 and beyond. He made his WCW debut on the night the company first lunged head-first into oblivion. Hart intersected the rise of the WWF and the fall of WCW, and he never forgave Eric Bischoff of his negligence. Bret has referred to Eric Bischoff as "the stupidest guy" he "ever met"; Bischoff, in response, has rumbled himself with the classic "Never fancied her anyway..." line of defence. He claims he didn't even ask Bret out in 1996, which contradicts Bret's book, the Observer, and, of course, Bischoff's own words.
Bischoff has also claimed, on 83 Weeks, that Hart brought "nothing creatively" to his WCW run. Bret Hart's later years are defined by the sadly none-too-real notion that he cared far too much, which highlights the true winner of this feud. Lies only work when they are remotely plausible. To say Bret Hart didn't care is like saying a well-meaning Vince McMahon conceived of the Muhammad Hassan character because he couldn't understand the prejudice faced by Arab-Americans...
...which Bruce Prichard reckons he said in a creative meeting, Jesus wept.
Who Would Win: Bret. Without question. He'd stretch him half to death, but it would be futile, for Bisch would just claim years later that it didn't hurt that much, and the cosmic dance would go on, and on.