Shawn Michaels WrestleMania Matches - Ranked From Worst To Best
2. Vs. The Undertaker - WrestleMania XXV
Shawn Michaels and The Undertaker battled each other across different eras as different characters in different matches, but it is their two battles at WrestleMania that arguably stand longest and loudest in the memory.
As far as modern Undertaker Streak matches go, this immediately had a different feel to the ones that preceded it as Michaels wasn't afraid of 'Taker in the slightest. This was a battle between two men who knew what the other was going to bring to the table and it made for a hell of a human chess match.
Michaels would use his quickness throughout, as the psychology built leading to the expected yet still effective false finishes towards the end. The biggest botch of the whole match brings one of its most memorable moments, as Taker caught himself diving over the top rope and lands headfirst on the outside, taking a (planted) cameraman out in the process.
I loved the finish of this match watching it at the time, and I still love it now: Michaels went for a moonsault, only to be caught and planted with a gnarly Tombstone Piledriver for the win, putting an exclamation mark on what had been one of the best WrestleMania matches ever witnessed.
Little did we know they would better it just one year later...