10 Great Wrestlers Who Couldn't Have A Good Match Together
9. Bret Hart & Mitsuharu Misawa
Wrestling Summit was one of 1990's biggest events. A bumper crowd of up to 53,000 fans (the exact figure has been disputed) gathered to watch worlds collide inside the Tokyo Dome two weeks after WrestleMania, with stars from NJPW, AJPW, and WWE all set to compete against each other.
The event won Dave Meltzer's 'Best Major Wrestling Show' award that year, but it wasn't without its disappointments, particularly on the midcard.
Despite operating primarily as a tag team wrestler at the time, Bret Hart had already been marked as one of his company's most exciting talents. He wrestled a fellow future legend in Mitsuharu Misawa (working under the Tiger Mask II guise), which sounds awesome on paper, but didn't deliver.
The match stunk. Plagued with long periods of inactivity and endless headlock spots, it felt at least thrice its 20-minute runtime, with both wrestlers looking like they were more focused on letting the clock run down than actually trying to win. The bell eventually rang for a time limit draw, and while both wrestlers' best years were still to come, Misawa unmasked six weeks later, then had one of the greatest puroresu matches of all time with Jumbo Tsuruta. Surely him and Bret could've done better than this?