10 Wrestlers Who Do The Same Spot EVERY TIME They Wrestle Each Other

4. Shawn Michaels & Owen Hart - The Enziguri

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What a brilliant a*sehole Owen Hart was to try not just to spoil the boyhood dream of Shawn Michaels in 1996, but to do so by knocking him all the way out of the industry with a head injury.

That was the story that informed their February 1996 In Your House belter, months removed from a tremendously executed worked shoot on Monday Night Raw that saw 'HBK' collapse in a heap after Hart hit his enziguri.

Michaels had sold a real life nightclub beating in October 1995 as though it could have ended his entire career, but smartly sold false confidence returning one month later at the Survivor Series in a match that saw several heels (again including Owen) focus their efforts on his battered bonce.

They'd wrestle more times between 1996 and the 'Heartbreak Kid's first retirement in March 1998, with the spot invariably featuring every time - if only to serve as a reminder of the hitherto unseen damage it once registered.

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