10 Best Ever Shawn Michaels Matches
3. Vs. Bret Hart (WrestleMania XII)
If HBK's clash with Kurt Angle was the benchmark for WrestleMania matches, then the Iron Man match he shared with Bret Hart a decade earlier (or more precisely, the end of it) is surely the benchmark for WrestleMania moments.
Because, really, wrestling doesn't get any better than watching an emotional Shawn Michaels clutching his maiden world title, having fought a grueling 60-minute bout against his arch-nemesis.
A moment that was made even more impressive by the fact that HBK was among the first of the (supposedly) small guys to buck the trend of body-builder world champions.
You really couldn't make it up - except they did, and they probably had the line "the boyhood dream has come true... for Shawn Michaels" pre-prepared too.