Does anyone think Bret Hart was better than Shawn Michaels, and why?

[Creepy Old Man]

If you want to give HBK the credit for Jericho (not a high flyer by the way), Guerrero and Mysterio than surely you'd have to give Bret the credit for Benoit and Angle? I'm not saying you should but by your logic if you're the first champion of that sort (which Bret was in the WWF) than you're the one who opened the doors for all the rest.

As far as high flying champions go you seem to have also forgotten that Macho Man Randy Savage existed.

Chris Benoit: "I always emulated him...I spent so many years looking up to, idolizing [Bret]."

Kurt Angle: "I used to watch matches of him so I could learn the psychology of wrestling...in that ring, as a technician, there wasn't anybody better."

So yeah, Bret does deserve a large portion of the credit for Benoit and Angle.