19 Things WWE Wants You To Forget About Shawn Michaels

7. That The Rockers Tag Title Win Was Not Acknowledged

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNckBELEBmo At an October 30, 1990 Saturday Night's Main Event TV taping, the plan was for the Hart Foundation to drop the tag team titles to the Rockers. Bret Hart was told that he was going to get a singles push, so they were going to move the tag titles onto Michaels and his tag partner Marty Jannetty. That was plan and they even had a match, but due to a rope breaking during the match it never actually happened in the WWE history books. In his autobiography, Bret Hart explained the tag title match with the broken rope: "What started out as a terrific match snowballed into a colossal clusterf**k after Jim accidentally broke the top rope. The match was taped and could easily be edited, but the ref, Freddie Sparta, couldn't figure out that he needed to temporarily stop the bout and fix the rope, even though I explained it to him. Both teams needed the rope to do our best spots, and without it the whole match turned into an embarrassing night of miscues until finally the Rockers beat us. I was furious at Freddie. I hoped that before the match aired in a couple of weeks we could somehow do it over. I wanted it to be a great moment for both the Rockers, Shawn in particular, whom I respected and who had admitted to being a bit of a Hitman fan." Hart went on to explain that obviously that match wasn't going to air. Five days after it was taped, Neidhart informed him that McMahon changed his mind and the Hart Foundation would keep the tag team titles. The Rockers never officially went on to become tag team champions even though they were one of the most popular teams in WWE history.