The Undertaker feels he had better chemistry with Shawn Michaels than Bret Hart

During the What Do You Wanna Talk About? podcast, Cody Rhodes asked The Undertaker which opponent he preferred facing: Shawn Michaels or Bret Hart. Undertaker gave the following response…

“They were both great. They were both so good in the ring. I probably had the very best chemistry with Shawn. But I tell you what, I’ve said this a few times about Bret, because talking about living this and believing everything, Bret did. And I respect that. When Bret was the champion, he was the champion. And he conducted himself as a champion, from top to bottom. When I started working with Bret, like I was real, real heavy, even in my ring work with the character, right? I was still trying to establish all of that. And there was only so far Bret was going to go with, as he called it, the Frankenstein gimmick, right? There was only so far he was going to go to put me over with that. Obviously, he was a more tenured guy. He was higher up than me, so not a lot I could do about it. And I wanted to have great matches, and I wanted to work with guys like Bret.

So being able to work against Bret forced me to learn how to work within the gimmick and have not just a gimmick match, but to have really, really good matches. Bret forced me to get out of the comfort zone of the Jason Voorhees, the Michael Myers stuff, and actually put on a wrestling match. So for that, I’ll always be grateful to Bret because he pushed me and made me become better.

Shawn may be the only guy I’ve ever known that could have a five-star match with a broomstick. I mean, he’s just that talented.” (quote courtesy of F4WOnline.com)