25 Great Wrestlers That EVERYBODY Turned Against
24. Shawn Michaels
It'd be inaccurate to say that Shawn Michaels didn't have a friend in the world at the height of his 1990s excess, but only because of the existence of Triple H.
Shawn Michaels was a self-confessed "angry young man" at the time, and regardless of why that might have been, he had absolutely no problem taking that anger out on just about everybody. As the top star and office favourite, he had more room than most to behave abhorrently, and anybody that spent time with him then has since spoken of a man unravelling (and an ego spiralling) uncontrollably.
In a few short years, Michaels indiscretions included but weren't limited to courting getting a kicking from the Disciples Of Apocalypse, ending up in a real life fight with Bret Hart after years of needle between the two, bullying Vader all the way out of a top spot, politicking a needless European Title win in England at the expense of Davey Boy Smith after the Bulldog had dedicated a win to his sister with cancer, and perhaps most apocryphally, threatening to not lose to Stone Cold Steve Austin at WrestleMania XIV under threat of - lol - getting a shoot beating from The Undertaker, sat ominously waiting at Gorilla for business to get done.
When he departed after that show at just 32, potentially forever, plenty of his enemies felt as though karma was real and justice had been served.