10 Outrageous WWE False Finishes That Fooled Everybody

2. Shawn Michaels Defies The Tombstone

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Match: Shawn Michaels vs. The Undertaker (WrestleMania XXV)

The Undertaker secured his status as a meme by looking like his soul had escaped his body at 'Mania XXV. Either that or he sharted himself when Shawn Michaels pushed out of a potentially match-winning Tombstone Piledriver and caused thousands of Texans to lose their sh*t (ahem).

Nobody who has seen it needs a blow-by-blow account of what made the first 'Taker vs. HBK showing such a classic; if you haven't seen it, then what are you still doing here? Go! Seriously though, The Undertaker's distraught sell job after that thrilling near fall helped to make it even bigger.

Fans didn't have a clue what was coming next after this one, and that sense of drama was staggering live. For one brief moment, it seemed like Shawn might actually do what no-one else had been able to. He didn't have the best close call with 'The Deadman' at WrestleMania however.

His mate did.

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