#9 Shawn Michaels vs. Triple H - Royal Rumble 2004
When one wrestler in a match bleeds profusely, it escalates the drama in a big way. When both of them do it, you can be sure the audience will go nuts. Such was the case in 2004 when Triple H and Shawn Michaels both bladed in their main event match.
Shawn was the first to blade after falling through the announcer’s table, and HHH followed suit shortly thereafter after being hit in the face with a steel chair. By the time both of them had gotten up, their faces were completely covered in blood, and if it weren’t for their different wrestling attires, one could be forgiven for being incapable of telling the two men apart.
Even though both men are very close to the McMahon family, they’d both be dangerously close to getting fired if they tried something like this in today’s WWE. A major reason that blood is banned is so that blood-borne illnesses don’t get contracted.
When you have two men with open wounds and blood pouring down their faces mixed with sweat and possibly saliva and ring dust, the potential for severe illness becomes much higher.
