10 Best Ever WWE WrestleMania Entrances
2. Shawn Michaels (WrestleMania XII)
"Hanging from the rafters" was common wrestling hyperbole for a jam-packed crowd, but it was a truism for one night at least. Every bit as grandiose as Vince McMahon's orgasmic screams from the commentary table suggested, Shawn Michaels' zip-line arrival at WrestleMania 12 wasn't the first time Bret Hart was humiliatingly overshadowed before the bell even rang (more on that later), but it was by far the most ostentatious.
1996's Iron Man main event had long been predicted as the moment 'HBK' would take the throne in WWE, but the company themselves couldn't have made it clearer when the challenger flew through the skies of the Anaheim Pond to rapturous applause just seconds before the supposed Champion had to make his workmanlike walk to the ring.
Remarkably calm in the face of a potentially preposterous stunt, Michaels didn't lose an ounce of cool in the contraption, unlike his head cheerleader McMahon in the booth. "Oh no! Look at that!" yells the Chairman, unable to form structured sentences in the sheer heady excitement of it all.