10 Reasons Bret Hart Was Better Than Shawn Michaels

8. Bret Hart Was Also The Bigger Star...

In the early 1990€™s, WWF€™s business model, despite being enormously successful at the time, was actually ludicrously short sighted. The entire promotion had been built around mega star Hulk Hogan, who had steadfastly refused to help create new stars and then subsequently buggered off to Hollywood. To make matters worse, despite his immense popularity, The Hulkster€™s replacement, The Ultimate Warrior, failed to draw as WWF Champion and was patently ill suited for a long run at the top of the card. This created an impossibly large power vacuum; one that Bret Hart would end up plugging. By the time Bret had clawed his way to the top of the WWF, the company was still in its €˜one big star €“ lots of smaller stars€™ mode. Bret would ultimately go on to become that big star. €˜The Hitman€™ became a global celebrity in a way that HBK never did and was respected by the WWF fans, locker room and office in a way that Shawn Michaels, for all his headache-inducing antics, never was. Did Shawn Michaels ever do a guest voice on The Simpsons? I think not.
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