10 Things You Didn't Know About WWE Payback

3. The Hitman's Last Ever Sharpshooter

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Payback 2016 has the honour of playing host to Bret Hart's final-ever Sharpshooter.

Of course, Hart called time on his career back in 2000 due to concussion issues stemming from his Starrcade '99 match with Bill Goldberg. Still, the Hitman would come out of retirement in 2010 to face Vince McMahon in that 'spectacle' at WrestleMania XXVI, before several further in-ring outings across the rest of the year and into 2011.

Even after Bret's final match - teaming with John Cena to defeat Alberto Del Rio and Ricardo Rodriguez on a September 2011 Raw - there was still occasional physicality from the Excellence of Execution in subsequent years, such as putting the Sharpshooter on Damien Sandow on a 2014 episode of WWE Main Event.

As it stands, though, the final ever Sharpshooter of Bret Hart's career belongs to Payback 2016, where the WWE Hall of Famer was in the corner of his niece Natalya as she challenged Charlotte Flair for the WWE Women's Title. With Flair having her father in her corner, Bret was there to neutralise the Nature Boy.

Natalya would get screwed on that night, but at least post-match she and Bret got to lock in simultaneous Sharpshooters, in turn standing as Bret Hart's final application of the move.

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