10 WWE Promos For Matches That Never Happened

4. Bret Hart vs. Shawn Michaels (King Of The Ring 1997)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JjtOaAtuY0 Aside from Austin/Pillman, Bret Hart and Shawn Michaels working through their pre-Degeneration X/Hart Foundation feud issues was also scheduled for this event. However, prior to the event Hart was injured, and instead a pre Wrestlemania 14 match with Michaels and Austin was booked without a real issue between the two, and it went to a double-disqualification. Just prior to the match though, Bret Hart announced that his Hart Foundation was issuing an open challenge to a team of American wrestlers for the now famed "Calgary Stampede" In Your House, the winner of the match set as the team captain. Hbk V Bret For a match with very little lead, the two veterans have a more than entertaining encounter.
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Besides having been an independent professional wrestling manager for a decade, Marcus Dowling is a Washington, DC-based writer who has contributed to a plethora of online and print magazines and newspapers writing about music and popular culture over the past 15 years.