10 Wrestlers That Seriously Took The Piss
9. Shawn Michaels
One of the greatest piss takers of a generation rolled back the years when faced with a man determined to only play the hits, and got everything he could have hoped from his sh*thousery.
Shawn Michaels' excellent one-feud heel turn in 2005 was engineered entirely to inform a weird clash-of-eras dream match with Hulk Hogan at that year's SummerSlam, and 'HBK' wasn't messing about in the build-up. He went in hard on 'The Hulkster' for his age, his known machiavellian moments and just about anything else he could land on the legend.
Real egos were at play here - Michaels was 11 years Hogan's junior but they'd both advanced to that category where legacies were timeless. Ages weren't of importance to audiences wanting to watch two icons of the industry square off, but when Hogan allegedly nixed a series of contests and wanted an easy one-and-done squash victory in the programme, Michaels used his relative youth to claim tacit victory in defeat.
This was Hulk stealing the spotlight from the Ultimate Warrior literally flipped and used against him 15 years later. Body defeated mind for one of the only time in Hogan's career.