10 Wrestling Matches Everybody Gets Wrong

3. D-Generation X Vs. The Brothers Of Destruction - WWE Crown Jewel I

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Childhood: ruined! A depressing watch, and a sad end to the career of one of the greats. Shawn shouldn't have gone out like this. His legacy deserved more.

Nobody put a bonesaw to Shawn Michaels' head and demanded he come out of retirement. He took the problematic money, vast sums of it, and tried to wave it away as wrestling's version of a Greatest Hits album. He desecrated his own legacy, and while some were disappointed in Shawn for his decision, others saw the funny side. Where Shawn could no longer pop the crowd, fate and karma popped the boys by removing Kane's mask and wig and booking the Undertaker's hair to go over him.

It wasn't sad.

It was a genuinely hilarious match - a rare reckoning of greed in a world that is totally f*cked because of it. Nothing was erased here, apart from the mask and wig from Kane's head. Leave the memories alone? Laugh at this memory, and re-live the great ones. Besides, Michaels was the best part of a match that featured at least two acts who will wrestle again.

Don't be saddened by Shawn Michaels; enjoy the fact that, in the great last chapter of their rivalry - Crown Jewel Vs. Holy Grail - Bret Hart won a small victory in the end.

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