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#9 Shawn Michaels vs Chris Jericho – Unforgiven 2008
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Shawn Michaels and Chris Jericho always had incredible chemistry in the ring when they faced each other. However, their match at the 2008 WWE Unforgiven pay-per-view was a love letter to some of the best character work ever by Shawn Michaels.
The feud between the two men had turned extremely bitter. They could not stand each other. Jericho had attacked Michaels and had caused an “injury” that almost caused Shawn Michaels to retire from the ring. However, when Jericho attacked Michaels during his retirement speech and accidentally punched his wife, it was the moment that Michaels needed to stay in.
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The two faced each other in an unsanctioned match that no one was ready for. Michaels overcame Jericho’s assistant at the time, Lance Cade, and battered the superstar. He put both men on the announcers’ table and hit them with a diving elbow drop.
Then Michaels did what only he could. Even though he had the advantage and was beating Jericho, he brought out all the emotion and fury he could summon. He started to cry while attacking Jericho. This was the man who had almost made him retire, who had hurt his wife. In what would have been an otherwise heel move, the audience joined Michaels in his heart-breaking fury as he demolished Jericho.
He didn’t use any special moves but simply attacked him, looking to injure him. The referee decided that Jericho could no longer wrestle and ended the match in Michaels’ favor instead. Michaels won, but he stood there with no sense of victory, a broken man who had simply been on a mission.
Even after the referee stopped him, upset and shaking with rage, he hit the referee with Sweet Chin Music, still overcome by righteous grief as fans chanted his name. A moment that only Shawn Michaels could have created.
