10 Times WWE Fans Were Elated At WrestleMania

2. A Beautiful Reconciliation

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Almost ugly viewed through a modern lens, the beauty and weight of the moment transcends finicky, retrospective complaints in the context of fiction that not even the deeply ironic reality can ruin.

For years, Randy Savage had controlled the innocent, wholesome, and beautiful Miss Elizabeth. The Mega Powers saga separated the act; Savage's beyond compelling and totally believable paranoia warped into hatred and jealousy, and he left her under the impression that she had reciprocated the lust in Hulk Hogan's eyes. As the Macho King, he associated with Sensational Sherri, in inspired Black Lodge symmetry, to reinvent himself as a superb upper midcard heel, all of which was mapped to the end destination of WrestleMania VII two years after the explosion.

It's unthinkable that Vince McMahon conceived of such a touching love story, poolside in his mansion, given the state of things now. But that's what he did; in a tremendous grasp of narrative timing, Savage was at his lowest and most sympathetic. His defeat to the Ultimate Warrior at 'Mania VII symbolised his retirement, the raw feeling of which brought his legacy into sobering, bittersweet focus. Sherri attacked him after the bell, and in an immortal moment that did not require the dreaded capital M, Elizabeth defended him.

Savage melted into her arms, and in a tear-jerking moment of atonement, held the ropes for her, as we all, to a man, ugly-cried through our goosebumps.

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