10 Spine-Chilling WWE Calls You'll Never Forget

2. "The Boyhood Dream Has Come True For Shawn Michaels"

The decision to move Vince McMahon away from the commentary desk and into his now legendary role as an underhanded on-screen authority figure has proved to be one of the best WWE has ever made.

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But that is not to imply that the chairman of the board was useless as an announcer. In fact, he delivered one of the most immortal lines in wrestling history at WrestleMania XII, where he watched a young Shawn Michaels capture his inaugural WWF Title in Anaheim.

With the Heartbreak Kid fighting back tears as the magnitude of his accomplishment began to dawn on him, Vince put the icing on an already-iconic moment with the legendary call, "the boyhood dream has come true for Shawn Michaels."

These same words can almost be applied to any wrestler claiming the first big win of their career, but they meant so much more here given the barriers that typically faced a performer of HBK's ilk in the mid-1990s. Alongside opponent Bret Hart, he was one of the first "little guys" to challenge the long-held wrestling orthodoxy that bigger was better.

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