Seems like the only things anybody remembers from this show are Shawn Michaels' farewell, and Bret Hart's interminable beating of Vince McMahon. Cena and Batista paid off Batista's magnificently obnoxious heel run with an abbreviated WWE Championship match, clearly cut down after Hart and McMahon went on way longer than it had any right to. In under fourteen minutes, the two OVW alums pieced together a titanic struggle with big move after big move, and allowed Batista to flex his honed mannerisms as a villain. His astonished face when Cena kicks out of a Batista Bomb was something to behold. Sure, Cena wins once more, 'overcoming the odds', but in cases like this, you just appreciate the main event-level chemistry.
Justin has been a wrestling fan since 1989, and has been writing about it since 2009. Since 2014, Justin has been a features writer and interviewer for Fighting Spirit Magazine. Justin also writes for History of Wrestling, and is a contributing author to James Dixon's Titan series.
