10 Times Wrestlers Called Out Their Own BS
4. Shawn Michaels
Shawn Michaels was a toxic ar*ehole in 1997.
He wouldn't do business with Bret Hart and expressed as much immediately after Hart had said, to diffuse their spiralling rivalry, that he would do the honours if the occasion demanded it. He had already done the honours at WrestleMania XII, and he worked hard to get him over. It was boring as sh*t, but you can't fault the effort.
Beyond the despicable but comparatively petty pro wrestling politics - these were very rich men swarming the entire company with their personal grudge, and it wasn't life or death, it was "lots of money in a promotion you like versus even more money in a promotion you probably won't - was Shawn's awful bullsh*t at One Night Only 1997.
There, he engineered a scenario in which he undermined the promise of a home country hero who had vowed to deliver the result in honour of his dying sister. Reprehensible stuff despite the promise of a return match he was definitely going to do the job in, Michaels was more than unpleasant. That was beyond the pale, even if the electricity of the heat remains so striking in its volume and earnestness all these years later. Michaels atoned later in life, found God, and has whenever asked owned up to and regretted his BS.
He's even risked upsetting colleagues to call out theirs.