When one looks back at WrestleMania 24, two matches come to mind: the Retirement match between Ric Flair and Shawn Michaels and the battle between The Best and the Biggest as boxer Floyd Mayweather battled The Big Show. The latter of those matches was setup at No Way Out 2008 as Mayweather hit the ring to help best friend Rey Mysterio as the masked Superstar was beatdown and bullied by the returning World's Largest Athlete. The undefeated boxer unleashed a flurry of rights and lefts to a kneeling, arrogant Big Show, shattering his nose and sending blood flying all over his face. The images of the former WWE champion chasing after Mayweather and his posse, his nose diagonal across his already-unpleasant mug, sold the show and the match without another single vignette necessary.
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