8 Best Excuses For Wrestlers Not Doing A Job

Shawn Michaels closed out WrestleMania an impressive five times over the course of his storied WWE career, but many wrestling historians have claimed that it could and should have been six.

You see, it's claimed that at WrestleMania 13, Vince McMahon had originally planned for his annual extravaganza to end with a rematch from the previous year's event, this time seeing Bret Hart capture the WWF Title from the Heartbreak Kid.

But HBK, despite being a relative wrestling pup of just 30, was said to have told his boss that he wasn't really feeling up to the task. In fact, owing to all of the nastiness directed at him from the rafters, he had now "lost his smile" completely.

In front of the cameras, Shawn vacating his title on the eve of the biggest show of the year was put down to a mystery knee injury, but many observers remain skeptical about it all to this day, suggesting instead that he just didn't fancy losing to The Hitman. The jury's out.