10 Wrestling Moments Live Fans Hated (But The Internet Loved)

Trying to maintain an audience's attention for a staggering 60-minutes straight is no mean feat, at the best of times. And in Shawn Michaels and Bret Hart battling it out over the WWE Championship in front of a near-20,000 crowd at WrestleMania XII, the times were never going to get much better in 1996.

But that still couldn't stop the vast majority of the Anaheim, California capacity crowd from struggling to keep their eyes open during WWE's first-ever televised Iron Man match.

Likely not helped by the fact that not a single fall was scored over the course of the first hour of still enthralling action, Dave Meltzer's much more positive reappraisal of the contest - one he witnessed live initially - upon viewing it on TV and analysing the actual in-ring action told a story of a bout that clicked more as an exercise in supreme physical execution rather than all-round live spectacle.

While time hasn't been too kind to the long-time rival's Show of Shows drawn-out showcase, the early Internet clearly felt those watching on in the arena were to blame for the match not being instantly immortalised as a straight-up classic, there and then.