15 Greatest WrestleMania matches of all time: Part 2

#4: Shawn Michaels vs Chris Jericho, WrestleMania 19

HBK attempting his signature Elbow drop!

Shawn Michaels vs Chris Jericho is one of the greatest feuds in WWE history, and these two performers put on a great match in Seattle at WrestleMania 19.

Despite competing against four main event calibre bouts further up the card, this was undoubtedly the match that stole the show and proved a fitting blow-off to the tension they had developed.

It was a technical masterclass in how to tell a story in a match. Shawn Michaels began the match, letting both the fans and Chris Jericho know that he had not lost a step. He took the approach of schooling his younger opponent and demonstrating that he had forgotten more about wrestling than Jericho had learned.

Jericho played the classic heel, as he showed HBK no respect, by slapping him multiple times, in attempts of demeaning the showstopper. There were a lot of cool little spots that they did, one in specific was in about the halfway point in the match, HBK goes for a hurricanrana, but Jericho later counters it into a Walls of Jericho. This has been done with Jericho a lot, but I loved that spot, and thought they worked so well together in creating a good story.

The closing minutes were back and forth, with HBK refusing to surrender to the submissions of his opponent, and Jericho kicking out of the original Sweet Chin Music. Yet, it was Michaels that proved to have one more trick up his sleeve, catching Y2J in an inventive roll-up to end this incredible encounter.

Jericho was in tears at the disappointing conclusion and seemed set to reconcile with his one-time idol when Michaels extended his hand after the match. He was greeted first with a hug from Jericho but then felled with a kick to the groin, as the young lion refused to take his loss graciously.