WWE 2K16: 5 Real Life Events The Games Eerily Foreshadowed

4. Shawn Michaels Must Retire If He Loses At WrestleMania

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6vZZfRmrZU

By 2009, the Smackdown vs Raw games had abandoned the standard Season Mode (to the chagrin of many) in favor of the Road to WrestleMania which saw unique stories for certain WWE Superstars. One story in SVR 2010 saw Shawn Michaels in a feud with JBL which would culminate in a Retirement match at WrestleMania XXV in Houston. This was presumably based on their forgettable feud from a year earlier, and the fact that JBL wrestled his last match at WM 25.

However, seeing HBK put his career on the line at WrestleMania will be very familiar to fans nowadays as Mr WrestleMania of course wrestled his final match the following year at WM 26, thankfully against the Undertaker, not JBL.

The game came out four months before Mania, making fans ponder whether THQ knew about plans for Shawn's retirement beforehand. Either that, or Vince McMahon based the main event of his biggest show of the year on a video game. Both theories are nonsense, but the timing is certainly curious.

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