9 Best Quotes From WWE Payback 2016

6. Survivor Series 1997 Revisited

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“Wait a second! Wait a second! Natalya never tapped out. Natalya never tapped.” — Michael Cole after referee Charles Robinson had called for the bell as Charlotte held the sharpshooter on Natalya.

For the ending of the match between Women’s Champion Charlotte and challenger Natalya, WWE wheeled out a scripted version of the real double-cross from the Bret Hart vs. Shawn Michaels match at Survivor Series on November 9, 1997, as Natalya’s uncle Bret looked on from ringside.

We had seen this finish reenacted umpteen times in WWE and TNA and other companies. However, this was the first time it had happened in WWE, with Bret as a ringside observer.

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