10 Wrestling Matches Built Around Botches

Often regarded as the greatest match in WrestleMania history, The Deadman and The Heartbreak Kid rocked the Reliant Stadium on an otherwise disappointing night of WWE action.

Going head to head for the first time in 11 years, the Texan titans pulled out all the stops, including Taker's jaw-dropping dive to the outside. A WrestleMania tradition at that point, The Deadman's dive was supposed to go a little differently in 2009. A dastardly Michaels was supposed to use a cameraman (in a fun callback to heel Michaels' penchant for assaulting cameramen during his and Undertaker's '97-'98 feud) to save himself from the incoming Phenom.

Unfortunately, the cameraman (played by Sim Snuka) was too far away and failed to adequately catch Mean Mark on the way down. The Undertaker's head and shoulders wound up absorbing most of the impact in what could've been a career-ending tragedy. The typically indestructible Undertaker added a new shade to his persona for the rest of the bout. Using the scary nature of the fall to his advantage, 'Taker played a surprisingly effective face in peril.

With his opponent on the ropes, Michaels began to show a few subtle signs of his old, heel self. By the time The Deadman finally caught Michaels with the match-ending Tombstone, The Streak appeared to be the most important thing in all of WWE. A fantastic bout from bell to bell, the two legends managed to turn their botch into a blistering heat builder for the closing stretch of their first WrestleMania classic together.