7 Wrestlers Shawn Michaels Refused To Lose Against
1. The British Bulldog
If we're talking from a purely kayfabe point of view, no man was frustrated by Shawn Michaels more than The British Bulldog himself, Davey Boy Smith. I was a huge, huge, huge Bulldog fan as a kid, so seeing Michaels skin the cat and eliminate Davey as his music was playing to win the 1995 Royal Rumble broke my heart.
The real heartbreaker (sure, make whatever pun you like) came in Birmingham at WWE's 'One Night Only' pay-per-view. The show was to be headlined by Bulldog vs. Michaels for the recently-created WWF European Championship. The build to the match was intense to say the least, and earlier in the show Bulldog had dedicated the match to his sister Tracey, who was battling cancer at the time.
And then Michaels won. With Bulldog's family in attendance and the match dedicated to his cancer-stricken sister, Shawn Michaels used his backstage stroke to have the result of a match changed in order to have his hand raised at the end. Well, in order to avoid his opponent having that honour to be more accurate.
Bulldog had been told he was winning the match, only to have the decision overturned in the hours before the two would lock up at the beginning of the title match. Montreal happened two months later, and Michaels' systematic dismantling of the Hart family in the World Wrestling Federation was almost complete.