10 Wrestlers Who Refused To Work Together

1. Bret Hart And Shawn Michaels

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The most famous personal rivalry in professional wrestling history? There are plenty of pretenders to that throne, but the generation-defining beef between Bret Hart and Shawn Michaels surely takes the biscuit. Their on-screen rivalry was the best of its era, a thrilling feud between two all-time greats during their respective in-ring primes. It made for incredible pro wrestling, fuelled by real hatred behind the scenes.

On more than one occasion, that hatred boiled over and one refused to work with the other. The most famous example cam in 1997, when Shawn Michaels decided that he didn’t want to lose to Bret at WrestleMania 13 and figured that losing his smile was a more credible way of dropping the WWF Championship. It wasn’t.

And it all led to the Montreal Screwjob, a tide-changer in professional wrestling history that has been flogged beyond all recognition but remains as important today as it was back in 1997. The feud between Shawn and Bret was beyond salvation, yet somehow the company decided to continue booking them against each other for the top title. The situation eventually saw Bret refuse to drop the title to Michaels in Canada, and the rest is history. Screwy, unprofessional history coated in betrayal, duplicity and the furious phlegm of Bret ‘The Hitman’ Hart.

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Born in the middle of Wales in the middle of the 1980's, John can't quite remember when he started watching wrestling but he has a terrible feeling that Dino Bravo was involved. Now living in Prague, John spends most of his time trying to work out how Tomohiro Ishii still stands upright. His favourite wrestler of all time is Dean Malenko, but really it is Repo Man. He is the author of 'An Illustrated History of Slavic Misery', the best book about the Slavic people that you haven't yet read. You can get that and others from www.poshlostbooks.com.