The End Of The Heartbreak Era

On March 28, 2010,  the world got to see the “last match” in the leg­endary career of Shawn Michaels. As a wrestling fan, I truly feel old watch­ing it all unfold. I’ve been watch­ing wrestling since I was a kid and I remem­ber The Rock­ers vs. The Hart Foun­da­tion, Michaels turn­ing on Jan­netty, his first WWF title win, Mon­treal and many other mem­o­ries. To watch it all end, while unfor­tu­nate, is the right thing since it now allows a “new face’” to move up the rung.

Shawn Michael’s last match was against The Under­taker, whom he faced for the sec­ond time after los­ing to him at Wrestle­ma­nia 25. Their pre­vi­ous match was awe­some from start to fin­ish and quite frankly, is the mea­sur­ing stick of in-ring sto­ry­telling. Their sec­ond match was more of the same, but this match had “the career” of HBK and “the streak” of the ‘Taker on the line. Both guys deliv­ered what will be remem­bered as one of the best matches in recent memory.

Here is a video pack­age cap­tur­ing some of HBK’s best moments, as well as high­lights from this past weekend’s Wrestle­ma­nia 26.

Who do you think has the right com­bi­na­tion of tal­ent and ath­leti­cism to carry on the HBK legacy?

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