The 6 best final moments in WrestleMania history

WrestleMania 34 is just a little over a week away when it takes place from the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana. A hallmark of WrestleMania is the final moments just before the pay per view goes off the air.

This year, it's a mystery which match will close the show. It could be the WWE Championship match between AJ Styles and Shinsuke Nakamura, the WWE Universal Championship match between Roman Reigns and Brock Lesnar, the debut of Ronda Rousey with Kurt Angle against Triple H and Stephanie or the return of Daniel Bryan with Shane McMahon against Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn.

This article will take a look at the six greatest ending moments throughout the 33 total WrestleMania events that have occurred. The list will go back as far as the early 1990's with an ultimate moment all the way to a first-time moment just a few years ago.

Continue on to see the sixth greatest final moment; which was also the bittersweet end of a career.

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#6 - It was The Streak vs. career at WrestleMania XXVI (2010)

The sequel was almost as good as the original when these two met at WrestleMania XXVI

Many people, including myself, put the WrestleMania XXV match between Shawn Michaels and The Undertaker as one of the greatest professional wrestling matches of all-time. After that match, HBK was convinced that he could break The Streak and put his career on the line to try again.

The match at WrestleMania XXVI was another amazing contest, and it took a third Tombstone by The Undertaker to put Shawn Michaels into retirement for good. WrestleMania XXVI ended with the WWE Universe in Arizona giving HBK a massive lengthy standing ovation.

It would be another four years before The Streak would end.

#5 - The Ultimate Challenge ended with history at WrestleMania VI (1990)

Hulk Hogan and Ultimate Warrior embrace after their epic main event

A little over a month away from WrestleMania VI, then WWF President Jack Tunney made it official. The Ultimate Challenge was going to happen and for the first time, the WWF Champion and WWF Intercontinental Champion would go face-to-face, title-for-title.

At the end of this match, something unfathomable happened, Hogan missed the leg drop. This led to Warrior hitting the big splash for the victory. The final moment of WrestleMania VI showed Hogan embracing Warrior and handing him the WWE Championship, followed by the iconic pose of the Warrior holding up both titles.

To this day, no one has held both the WWE Championship and WWE Intercontinental Championship at the same time since.

#4 - The first Money In The Bank cash-in on The Grandest Stage of Them All at WrestleMania 31 (2015)

The first WrestleMania cash-in of Money In The Bank

The Money In The Bank concept debuted at WrestleMania 21 in 2005, but never before would a cash-in attempt happen at WrestleMania, until 2015. Seth Rollins was the 15th person to ever win the Money In The Bank Ladder Match when he did so at the pay per view of the same name in 2014.

Brock Lesnar and Roman Reigns were in the main event for the WWE championship. Lesnar just hit his third F5 on Reigns after Reigns hit a couple of spears on Lesnar. With both men down, Rollins' music hit and he sprinted down the ramp to a thunderous ovation.

Rollins tossed Reigns out of the ring and hit a Curb Stomp on Lesnar. Rollins would go for another one, but Lesnar caught him; however, Rollins broke free and Reigns hit Lesnar with a spear. Rollins would hit a Curb Stomp on Reigns for the victory in one of the most thrilling endings to a final WrestleMania match.

#3 - "The boyhood dream has come true" when HBK finally was WWE Champion at WrestleMania 12 (1996)

Shawn Michaels looking at the WWE Championship for the first time in his career in 1996

It was one of the most epic ending WrestleMania matches in history when Bret "The Hitman" Hart and "The Heartbreak Kid" Shawn Michaels took a 60-minute Ironman Match into overtime.

Before this epic match began, HBK made one of the most thrilling entrances in WrestleMania history when he came down from the rafters on a zip line. Check out that entrance below:

After 60 thrilling minutes, there were still no pinfalls. Then WWF President Gorilla Monsoon met with Vince McMahon and they agreed that "there must be a winner." After hitting the Sweet Chin Music twice in overtime, HBK's then 12-year career finally reached the pinnacle with Vince McMahon famously saying, "the boyhood dream has come true" as he clutched the WWE Championship.

#2 - "The Austin Era has begun" with Mike Tyson at WrestleMania 14 (1998)

Mike Tyson raises Steve Austin's hand after he won the WWE Championship for the first time

One of the most iconic moments in Monday Night Raw history occurred in 1998 when Stone Cold Steve Austin interrupted the introduction of Mike Tyson for WrestleMania XIV. This was just one of several moments where Austin and Vince McMahon clashed in their classic feud.

Vince McMahon's ultimate goal was to keep the WWE Championship away from Austin at all costs. Unfortunately for McMahon, Austin won the 1998 Royal Rumble for the second straight year and there was nothing he could do to keep him out of the title match.

Tyson was the special enforcer, and with the referee knocked down, he would enter the ring and count the 1-2-3 after Austin ducked the Sweet Chin Music and hit the Stone Cold Stunner.

Many expected Tyson to be in McMahon's pocket, but in the end, Tyson would remove the DX shirt to reveal an Austin shirt. It was the first WWE Championship for Austin and coupled with Tyson, it was one of the most memorable closing moments in WrestleMania history.

#1 - Daniel Bryan overcomes the odds at WrestleMania XXX (2014)

Daniel Bryan overcame The Authority and won the WWE Championship at WrestleMania XXX

One of the greatest stories ever told on the Road To WrestleMania was the Yes Movement of Daniel Bryan that allowed the current SmackDown Live General Manager to defy The Authority and put on two amazing performances at WrestleMania XXX.

Triple H screwed Daniel Bryan at SummerSlam eight months prior by delivering a Pedigree after he defeated John Cena in the main event. Randy Orton would then come out and cash-in his Money In The Bank contract.

After being repeatedly screwed by The Authority, Bryan and dozens of fans held an Occupy Raw demonstration that led to Bryan facing Triple H at WrestleMania XXX, and if he won, he was added to the title match against Orton and Batista.

Bryan and Triple H opened up the main card with an amazing 26-minute match that Bryan would win. That didn't stop The Authority as they continued to try to screw Bryan after that match and during the main event.

Bryan overcame the odds and locked Batista into the Yes Lock where The Animal would tap out. The ovation from the crowd in New Orleans was thunderous and one of the loudest pops in history. There were 70,000 fans chanting YES! YES! YES! along with Bryan in what I consider the most memorable closing moment in WrestleMania history.