12 Wrestling Rivalries That Were Too Real To Be Fake

One of the better-known real-life feuds on this list, the heat between Ric Flair and Bret Hart started way back during Flair's brief run in WWE in the '90s.

Hart captured the WWE Championship from "The Nature Boy" in Saskatoon, and the two had a series of house show matches for the title before Flair's departure from the company.

After years of watching "The Nature Boy" ,Hart was incredibly disappointed when they actually locked horns. He felt that Flair's style was repetitive and lacked substance, calling him a "three" on a scale of one to ten.

Hart wasn't shy about sharing his opinions on Flair, taking shots at "The Nature Boy" on a radio show in 1993.

When Bret Hart arrived in WCW in late 1997, his first in-ring feud was with Flair. Their one-on-one encounter was a dream match given that they'd never had a high-profile televised bout during their WWE runs, and the basis for their program was a disagreement over which man was the better wrestler.

Needless to say, neither Hart nor Flair had to do much acting for that one.