8 Most Legendary Shawn Michaels Performances In Defeat

8. Shawn Michaels vs Razor Ramon €“ WrestleMania X

At WrestleMania 10, Shawn Michaels faced off against the man who claimed the Intercontinental Championship in his absence, Razor Ramon. While HBK was suspended for a positive drug test, Ramon defeated Rick Martel to claim the gold. Razor was quite possibly the coolest character in wrestling at the time, due to him famously €œoozing machismo.€ Subsequently, upon Shawn Michael€™s reinstatement, he also showed back up with his own version of the IC title, and declared himself the true champion, as he never had been pinned. To settle this, a ladder match was booked for WrestleMania X. The sight of two belts was just incredible. At Madison Square Garden, the stage was set for an all-time classic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASXM8TvYRew What this match ended up being was Shawn€™s first show stealing appearance. While he had solo matches at WrestleMania prior to this, they didn€™t register on nearly the same level. The ladder match ended up being the peak of Razor Ramon€™s run in WWE, while Shawn established himself as a future star that would soon be ready for the throne. This was one of the earliest examples of Shawn making his opponent look very good, but not quite as good as himself. Conversely, with Shawn€™s help Razor Ramon built the rest of his career off of this match. It gave him the IC title he ended up defining, throughout the rest of the mid 90€™s, and led him to becoming a major asset for WCW. Without the ladder match does Razor end up as big of a star by 1996?