10 Secret Times Wrestling TV Mirrored Real Life
5. Bret Vs Shawn
A needless contrast when you really just can enjoy the best of both (though, IYKYK), fans of either or both Bret Hart and Shawn Michaels can at least agree on two things - none of their peers could match them between the ropes, and neither drew the money their work deserved in the 1990s.
Luckily, sort of, competitive jealousy and personal pride were worth far more to both men at the time and by the time 'The Hitman' returned from his 1996 sabbatical, the very real rift was becoming too obvious to obscure.
Equal parts canny and carny, Vince McMahon thought the best way for them to get it all out of their system was to do it on air and lay the groundwork for a mammoth main event the company would have to get to sooner or later. Countless episodes of Raw from late-1996 through to mid-1997 were filled with furious back-and-forth's between the two. Often, the staged pro wrestling violence wasn't half as ugly as the near-the-knuckle verbiage that triggered the aggro.