10 Reasons Bret Hart Was Better Than Shawn Michaels

2. Hart Had Better Matches...

I€™ve been watching professional wrestling all my life and I grew up as both a fan of Bret Hart and of Shawn Michaels. However, if I could only watch the matches of one of them for the rest of my life, I would choose Bret€™s. All around, as a professional wrestler, Hart had the better matches. He was more credible, more convincing and more solid technically. He understood the mechanics of a professional wrestling match on a deeper and more intricate level than Michaels did. Michaels had great, exciting matches, but could he have pulled off the impossibly awesome €˜double turn€™ that Hart worked with Steve Austin at WrestleMania XIII? Personally, I doubt it. In fact, I think that there were only a handful of guys in the world who could have successfully worked that concept at the time €“ and maybe none at all today. Pound for pound, from the perspective of pure, classic wrestling, the average Bret Hart match is better than the average Shawn Michaels match, that€™s just the truth of it. Both athletes were undeniably great, but Bret was the more intense, the more realistic and by far the more believable of the pair. Does believability still count in professional wrestling? That€™s up to you to decide, but before you do, consider the reasoning behind Brock Lesnar, a part-timer with little/no love for the wrestling business, who is patently only interested in money, being booked to go over John Cena so strongly at this past Summerslam. Whatever you may or may not think about Cena, that guy works as hard or harder than anybody else in the WWE and he loves the company and the wrestling business...Still, Brock is a believable tough guy and Cena isn€™t. Again, up to you.