10 No-Win WWE Situations

Kind an obvious one, this, but really, was there any conceivable way that Survivor Series 1997 could have gone off the air without at least one of the parties involved massively unhappy with what had happened in the ring?

Let's say that Vince McMahon yielded to Bret Hart's demands and let him walk out of Montreal with the WWF Title. Who's to say that he would have dropped it the following night on Raw, as he was supposed to have promised? He could have taken it over to Nitro à la Madusa (theoretically, anyway; lengthy legal wranglings over Ric Flair doing the same thing back in 1991 meant Eric Bischoff wasn't going to repeat that bit of history).

The option he plumped for instead was hardly any better. It sent a lot of publicity the way of the company (at the time, trailing its competitors in the ratings war), but it also completely severed relations with The Hitman, and perhaps deeply soured them with many of his allies in the locker room too.

Given all of that, you kind of wonder why the two of them couldn't have just sat down at the chairman's desk over a cup of coffee and hashed out their differences like grown-ups. But where's the fun in that?