10 Most Vicious Personal Insults In Wrestling History

6. Bret Hart Doesn't Think Much Of Shawn Michaels, Either

Bret Hart HHH
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Bret Hart's autobiography is one of the best wrestling books ever written.

It's a lengthy, candid affair as bereft on carny delusion as it is rich in the detail behind his vision of the craft. It is also, at times, a piss-funny vehicle with which to rip Shawn Michaels a new one. The crumbling of their relationship is covered in incredible depth, but his casual, incidental dismissals of Shawn's act are even funnier when he's going over the mundanities of 1995 or something.

Bret was always obsessed with Shawn Michaels and his insistence on being sexy. Hart couldn't sanction it. Him just saying Shawn's nickname was an insult in itself. The withering, offhand cadence of "boy toy" was always phenomenal value. Funnier still was this particular line:

"Shawn was out there gyrating like the stripper he must have been in a previous life."

Tremendous.

This was tremendous because it suggested that Shawn's bit was almost involuntary. A previous occupation simply overwhelmed him in an abstract karmic way. Bret was basically saying that Shawn was a more natural stripper than a wrestler, but it wasn't his fault.

He just couldn't help himself.

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