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Rare times when wrestlers refused NOT to do the job... including the story of the REVERSE Montreal!
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00:00The tried and tested story in wrestling is the superstar who refuses to lose.
00:04Be it because they don't think their opponent is worthy enough or the story doesn't make sense,
00:08they decline the request to stare at the lights and that is that.
00:11Others, however, see it very differently.
00:14I'm sorry, from what culture, please do hit that subscribe button.
00:17And this is 10 wrestlers who refuse to win.
00:20Number 10, Bret Hart refuses to defeat The Rock.
00:23All the way back on the 31st of March 1997 Raw,
00:26Bret the Hitman Hart made yet another positive call for the wrestling business as a whole
00:30when he said he didn't think it made any sense to beat The Rock.
00:33Tied into the fact that according to Hart,
00:35the likes of Triple H and Shawn Michaels had seen something in the People's Champion
00:38and therefore tried to cut his legs off to stop him getting any momentum,
00:42Bret went the other way.
00:43If he was destined to be a main eventer, the Hitman would help him.
00:47This is why when Hart was booked to win the Intercontinental Championship from The Rock,
00:51he told management that was a bad idea.
00:53How is that going to help this rookie if he loses both a match and then his title?
00:58As such, the finish was changed to a DQ and this was a common theme in the family.
01:02Brother Owen also went out of his way to try and help the great one.
01:06Number 9, Brock Lesnar tells WWE Goldberg should win.
01:09The Survivor Series 2019 main event was awesome.
01:13Still a match I return to a lot as it's such a wonderful surprise,
01:16it also just shows that Brock Lesnar gets it.
01:19After Bill Goldberg had a wave of new support for a proper return after he featured in the WWE video game,
01:25Paul Heyman went to the powers that be and said,
01:27why don't we bring him back?
01:29Put him against Brock with Lesnar finally getting his win back from WrestleMania 20.
01:33Doesn't that sound like a smart plan?
01:35The night before the pay-per-view though, it all changed.
01:37After seeing there was far more money to be made with the shock victory and a payoff a few months later,
01:42Lesnar went to management and said,
01:43I should lose.
01:45This was massive, especially as Brock being defeated basically never happened.
01:49I mean, you have to be on the show first.
01:52That's a joke.
01:53He also got schooled at the Royal Rumble with the ending coming at Mania 33 where Brock beat Bill for the Universal title.
01:59And all of this was great.
02:00Number 8, Edge says no to breaking The Undertaker's streak.
02:04The Undertaker vs. Edge at WrestleMania 24 was a worthy main event.
02:08Many questioned this when it was decided this should go on last, but we needn't have worried.
02:11The dead man choked the rated R superstar out thanks to the Hell's Gate submission
02:15after 25 minutes to become the new world heavyweight champion.
02:19It was really well done, but this wasn't the original plan.
02:23There's always rumors that certain people were chosen to beat The Undertaker's streak,
02:26such as Mark Henry and Randy Orton,
02:28but both Michelle McCool and Edge himself have mentioned in interviews
02:31that the idea at one point was for the ultimate opportunist to give The Phenom his first loss at the show of shows.
02:38The reason it didn't happen is because Edge thought this was nuts.
02:42Seeing it as a scenario that would just piss off fans that love Taker rather than do anything for him,
02:47Edge went to Vince McMahon and co. to remind them how important this run had been.
02:51They must have agreed.
02:52This of course brings into debate whether Lesnar should have been the guy,
02:54but hey, it happened.
02:56There's no point crying over the past.
02:58There's enough to cry about right now.
03:00Number 7, Curt Hawkins refused to beat anybody.
03:02For almost three years.
03:04My word.
03:05Coming back into the WWE in 2016,
03:08when officials decided they needed some good hands to beef up their roster,
03:12Curt Hawkins' initial gimmick was that he never actually had a match because of outside shenanigans.
03:17When he finally did wrestle, he beat Apollo Crews,
03:19and that was his last win until 2019.
03:22Instead, he went on a massive losing streak,
03:24which clearly wasn't any kind of plan,
03:26because on a random B-show, all of a sudden,
03:28Hawkins learned he was booked to beat Heath Slater.
03:30Realizing fans were starting to realize that he never won,
03:33and Curt requested that he was not victorious in order to keep this going.
03:37He wasn't wrong, as this did get more and more chatter,
03:39before Hawkins, alongside tag team partner Zack Ryder,
03:42did indeed win the World Tag Titles when they beat the Revival at WrestleMania 35.
03:47And how did Curt win?
03:49With the most devastating move in all of sports entertainment,
03:52the surprise roll-up.
03:54I mean, what else?
03:55Number 6, David San Martino does a reverse Montreal during a house show.
03:59So this was a weird one.
04:00During the mid-80s, David San Martino would often find himself near the top of the card,
04:05when involved with his father Bruno,
04:07and then falling quite considerably as soon as that story was over.
04:10As you can imagine, David didn't enjoy that,
04:12so he quit, and he came back, then he quit.
04:14This was just the way.
04:15Jumped to 1985, however,
04:17and the young San Martino was facing Big Ron Shaw on a house show,
04:20where he was booked to get a quick win, but this didn't happen.
04:23Frustrated once again that afterwards he would have no plans,
04:26as soon as Ron locked on a bear hug, David submitted as some sort of rubbish protest to
04:31how he was being treated.
04:33It confused the commentators something fierce and they tried to cover,
04:36and later on Dave admitted this was stupid and immature.
04:39Ever since it's been dubbed the Phantom Submission Match,
04:41brought to life simply because WWE used somebody's son to try and get the father more involved.
04:47That has got to be the most wrestling thing ever.
04:49Number 5, Ric Flair calls an audible to avoid a riot.
04:52Jack Veneno was a local hero in the Dominican Republic during the 80s.
04:56His personality had turned him into a star on the island,
04:59while on a grander stage, Ric Flair was drawing massive audiences
05:02wherever he went as the NWA world champion.
05:05A clash between the two in 1982 just made all this sense.
05:08The finish was always going to be Flair winning,
05:10as the National Wrestling Alliance Committee had no interest in Jack holding the title,
05:14but then things went bad.
05:15The fans that night were getting restless when it seemed like their chosen one wouldn't win,
05:19and when Roddy Piper went to get involved, as was the plan,
05:22armed guards stuck guns in his face and told him to think twice.
05:26Sadly, Celine Dion was nowhere around.
05:28Realizing him winning would result in a riot,
05:30the Nature Boy called an audible and told Veneno to roll him up for the quick 1-2-3,
05:34so he did.
05:35That also meant that Jack was the new champ,
05:37but the NWA was so upset about this,
05:39they just refused to acknowledge it because wrestling.
05:43Number 4, Cody Rhodes decides Darby Allin should become a star.
05:46Happening all the way back at Fyter Fest 2019,
05:49this was a pet project for Cody Rhodes in many ways.
05:51He had seen Darby Allin and decided he'd be a great fit for AEW,
05:55made sure he got brought in,
05:57and then went about trying to bring him up the ladder.
05:59So when the two went at it during the pay-per-view,
06:01Tony Khan thought it made sense for Cody to win
06:03and cement him as one of All Elite Wrestling's main stars.
06:06Rhodes disagreed,
06:07because as mentioned,
06:07he had visions of making Darby,
06:09so he said he should lose,
06:10the compromise being a 20-minute draw.
06:13It would be a year later when this narrative was seen all the way through
06:15when Allen did beat Cody for the TNT title,
06:18and the extra build certainly did not hurt.
06:20In fact, it definitely helped.
06:22Number 3, Tommy Dreamer refused to lose a Raven.
06:24Tommy Dreamer's awesome feud with Raven in ECW
06:26hit the highs it did thanks to the backstory.
06:29Childhood friends had drifted apart,
06:30with Beulah McGillicuddy being introduced as the heartbroken girl wanting revenge.
06:34It soon evolved into the fact that no matter what he did,
06:37Dreamer couldn't beat Raven.
06:39Ever.
06:39During their two-year program, Tommy never won,
06:42and this was because the hardcore legend didn't want to.
06:45He thought it made much more sense for his underdog character
06:47to go throughout his career without ever winning or holding the WCW world title,
06:51because that's what made the most sense,
06:53so he didn't.
06:54Sadly for Tom,
06:55events eventually meant Paul Heyman begged him to not only win this belt,
06:58but to defeat Raven for it,
06:59and that's the way it went.
07:01Still though,
07:02who else would have done this?
07:04Not Hulk Hogan.
07:05Number 2, Chris Jericho tells Vince McMahon John Cena should win.
07:08Vengeance 2002 was almost 20 years ago.
07:12How the hell is that possible?
07:14It was also when Chris Jericho was coming off his run as undisputed champion
07:17and looking for his next steps,
07:19it all came in the form of new boy John Cena.
07:22Cena had debuted weeks earlier,
07:24and had a ruthless aggression match against Kurt Angle before moving on to Y2J,
07:28when Jericho beat him in a SmackDown singles match after putting his feet on the ropes.
07:32This then led into a tag match between Cena and Taker taking on Angle and Jericho,
07:36where John actually got one over Chris after using the most devastating move in all of sports
07:41entertainment, the surprise roll-up.
07:42Of course.
07:43The next step was the vengeance match,
07:45which Jericho was going to win,
07:46until he rang Vince McMahon and told him this was the wrong idea.
07:49The champion had seen something in Cena and thought they should harness this,
07:53and amazingly,
07:54he got his way.
07:55It sounds like he just nagged McMahon into submission,
07:57but either way,
07:58the boss told him to do whatever he wanted before putting down the phone.
08:02As such,
08:03at the pay-per-view,
08:03Cena won again,
08:04thanks to the most devastating move in all of sports entertainment,
08:07and that was that.
08:08I mean,
08:08it probably would have been better if he'd been victorious after his big move,
08:12but whatever.
08:12Number one,
08:13Scott Hall puts Chris Jericho over.
08:15We go all the way back to 1997 again,
08:18which,
08:18when of course,
08:19WCW was still around.
08:21Oh,
08:21the memories.
08:22In November of that year,
08:24though,
08:24Scott Hall and Chris Jericho were also going at it,
08:26with Hall giving the young Jericho a lot,
08:28in order to establish him as a star.
08:30On this night,
08:31though,
08:32he went one step further.
08:33Outside of all of these rumors that the clique refused to put anyone over,
08:36here was Razor Ramon,
08:38not only losing to the 1-2-3 kid,
08:40but also doing the same for Jericho,
08:41despite the fact the script said for Hall to kick the crap out of him.
08:44This seemed stupid to Scott,
08:46as he talked about in many interviews.
08:48Instead of giving Chris Jericho the Razor's edge over and over again,
08:51Hall pulled him aside and told him to figure out a way to surprise pin him from the move.
08:55So as ever,
08:56once again,
08:56we used the most devastating move in all of sports entertainment.
08:59It did do wonders for the new boy,
09:01though,
09:01as nobody saw it coming,
09:02and Hall had also said that he was ready to take all the heat backstage.
09:06So he did.
09:07Not only was he chewed out by Arne Anderson when he walked through the curtain,
09:10he was also asked what the hell happened when he bumped into Eric Bischoff.
09:13Scott Hall being Scott Hall,
09:14just asked whether the boss liked his segment or not,
09:16and refused to answer the very simple question of,
09:19didn't I tell you to win?
09:21To Hall this was all irrelevant,
09:22Eric threw his hands up in the air,
09:25and that was that.
09:26Do you know of any other wrestlers that refused to win?
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