10 Times WWE Purposefully Lied To Sell A PPV

8. WrestleMania XXVI - Not For The Faint Of Hart

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It's difficulty to argue that Bret Hart, perhaps the greatest in-ring technician of all time, isn't a wrestler. But by 2010, decades of injuries plus as nasty stroke meant he was a wrestler in the way Don King is royalty, or Michael McIntyre a comedian - in name alone.

So advertising him as a legitimate athlete in a once-yearned for contest opposite a now 65-year old Vince McMahon was a little disingenuous, to say the least. Hart - who had retired a decade earlier - literally couldn't take a bump during the contest, and instead we got an affair akin to two propped-up pillows slowly and pathetically toppling over.

To be honest, anyone buying the show expecting Hart to recreate his WrestleMania XII Ironman with the boss was lying to themselves as much as the company were.

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