5 Ups & 5 Downs From WWE WrestleMania 25
1. The Greatest?
Something of a late bloomer as an in-ring performer after over a decade of duds, The Undertaker tightened his grip on superstardom with a superlative Shawn Michaels series, but WrestleMania 25's show-stealing masterpiece wasn't the start.
This Undertaker thrilled audiences at the end of the 2007 Royal Rumble. And at start of the 2008 one. And in two era-defining WrestleMania classics.
Once a frightened rabbit in the fearsome face of 'The Deadman' during their sensational 1997 rivalry, The 'Heartbreak Kid' was all man against him in their advancing years. Chasing a count-out win just for the win, Michaels exhibited spectacular desperation when Undertaker whiffed on a dive. Later, Undertaker lost all hope when Shawn somehow lifted a shoulder from the Tombstone.
'HBK's guts garnered no glory in the end as a Undertaker caught him off a moonsault with a second for the climactic conclusion, but this was a new beginning, rather than an end. The pair closed the book on moribund main events by cribbing pages from the New Japan Pro Wrestling playbook, but this script remained incomplete...