10 WWE Storylines That Turned Into Real Life Shoots

5. Shawn Michaels Vs Bret Hart

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If you're going on live television every week to talk about how much you hate someone, there's a small chance that you will eventually start hating them reflexively - and that's what appeared to happen with Shawn Michaels and Bret Hart.

In front of the cameras, the pair were embroiled in a bitter feud over the WWF Championship for much of the mid-90s, with HBK sealing his maiden World title win with victory over the Excellence of Execution in a WrestleMania classic in 1996.

Within a year, tensions had began to spill over into real life. Shawn Michaels insinuated - during a promo - that his opposite number was doing the dirty with Sunny, and Hart didn't take kindly to the perceived attempt to cause a rift between him and his actual wife (not Sunny).

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