10. Shawn Michaels In A Storytelling Classic At Taboo Tuesday 2004 When He Could Barely Walk
Taboo Tuesday in 2004 was WWE's first foray into allowing fans to pick matches. Viewers got to vote online who they wanted to see wrestle in certain contests, with Chris Benoit, Edge or Shawn Michaels being the choices to wrestle Triple H for the World Title. Unfortunately, in the build up to Taboo Tuesday, Shawn Michaels suffered a terrible knee injury. He tore his meniscus in a Raw main event, just six days before the pay per view. The problem was, fans had already started voting, it would undermine the whole process if Michaels was now removed. As such, the wounded star made the brave call that if he won the vote, he'd work the match regardless of being hurt. It was a brave move for WWE too, HBK could barely walk, he'd potentially stink the entire match up. Not at all though. He went out there and put one of the most admirable storytelling matches we've seen in WWE. His barely mobile leg became the story of the match, with Triple H working over the injury and even applying the figure four leg lock. Michaels took various shortcuts to get around his difficulty standing up, mainly balancing himself by the ring ropes and using those for support. He actually looked like he might have won the bout, up until a shock run-in from Edge, who turned heel and speared the wounded babyface. Triple H then covered for the pin.
