Original subtitles

I've been expecting you.

- The one and the only.

It's The Undertaker.

There's only one "Heartbreak Kid" Shawn Michaels.

Oh, no.

- As a human being back then,

I just didn't care for him personally.

- I'm not looking to win any popularity contests.

- Back then, Shawn Michaels was a --.

- You may be 16 and 0 at at WrestleMania,

but I am Mr. WrestleMania.

- Both the Undertaker and Shawn Michaels came through big

when the spotlight burned its brightest.

- One is defiant, one is destructive.

Wait a minute. Wait a minute.

- Look at this.

- Look out.

- Oh, my.

- Good God. Oh, my God.

- We have this phenomenal match that binds us together here.

A little bit of pressure builds up at that point.

- You know there's a return match here.

- These two legends are face to face.

- We're going to burn this -- down.

This is not the end.

This is only the beginning.

- This rivalry has just escalated into a war.

- When two legends collide, their rivalry stays pinned

in our minds forever.

This is where we break down the legendary stories behind

the greatest rivalries of all time.

I'm Freddie Prinze Jr., and this is WWE Rivals.

- You have never beaten me, and you never will.

- Today we're going to talk about "The Heartbreak Kid"

Shawn Michaels, and "The Dead Man" The Undertaker,

and the rivalry that these two men had.

- Undertaker, the man who stayed, the consistent,

the last true locker room leader

He's in there with a guy who really,

there was no one who could keep up.

It was more about playing with him

versus trying to play against him.

- A lot of these rivalries were so great because those people,

they needed the other one

where these two entities absolutely stand alone.

- Weighing in at 320 pounds, from Death Valley,

I give you the Undertaker.

[laughs]

[The Undertaker's music plays]

- The Undertaker is now revealed.

- I never heard of him.

- Take a look.

- Holy cow.

Look at the side of that ham hock.

- In the early '90s I'm still trying to figure out

what exactly the Undertaker is.

- Nasty, nasty look.

Tombstone city.

- I've been given this character,

but I still have to develop the character.

- Look at his eyes.

Look at his eyes.

The man is possessed.

- I'm throwing a lot of stuff up against the wall

and trying to figure out what's going to stick.

- Rest in peace.

- It should have been cartoonish because you have this idea

like he's a dead man who's out there wrestling,

but he did it so well

and it was so convincing that, oh my gosh,

this is cool creepy.

- It's thundering, its lightning.

Yes, it's the Undertaker.

- When he first came in, it's a like cool character,

but how long is that going to last?

It doesn't seem like it's got a long shelf life.

How long can you not sell and you're dead?

- Look out.

What agility by the big guy.

- I ended up dropping the undertaker guard a little bit,

but still try to hang on the elements of the character,

making me a more well-rounded sports entertainer.

- The one and the only, the phenom, it's the Undertaker.

- Man, the Undertaker had an aura,

and Mark had an aura.

That Undertaker persona was legit.

- It just seemed watching a natural transition to go from,

"Oh, I'm scared of this guy" to, "Oh, yes, Undertaker

This is going to be great."

Naturally, you just started to love him.

- The most phenomenal athlete to ever step

into the squared circle is finally champion.

- There's certain things WWE is built on.

I think the Undertaker was a cornerstone for all those years.

He was the guy, good and bad, that had to carry the ball.

- What I always got the sense watching was that Undertaker

was trying to outperform the greatest performer

of the new generation. Shawn Michaels.

- I will give you a show like you have never,

ever see before.

Why?

Because I can.

- You're looking at the wrestler of the '90s, Shawn Michaels.

- Shawn who's not the biggest guy in the world,

but man, what a performer when the bell rings.

- What I do is go out there, thrill people beyond belief.

- There's only one "Heartbreak Kid" Shawn Michaels

- Pretty boy, ahead of his time with the things

that he could do in the ring, and he was so talented, man.

Shawn could have worked with a broomstick

and made it entertaining for 30 minutes.

- He's resilient.

He's flamboyant.

Look at all of these people are standing up.

Haven't seen a reaction to anybody like this since

The Beatles - I'm always ready to rock the house.

That is what I do for a living, Vin Man.

- Shawn was starting to really grow as the beacon

of the company, the top guy.

- The fact that I'm the showstopper,

the headliner, the main event.

- Make no mistake about it, back then, Shawn Michaels was a --.

- I don't give a damn what anybody thinks of me.

- As a human being back then-

- Shut up.

- -we were just way too different kind of people.

I just didn't care for him personally.

- If you can't trust Shawn Michaels, who can you trust?

- Mark and I didn't know each other very well,

but we just figured what we knew we didn't like.

[laughs]

We just sort of agreed we didn't like each other

and that was it.

We didn't like each other's personalities, and clearly,

mine was easy to dislike.

- I'm not the most popular guy in the World Wrestling --,

but then again, I'm not looking to win

any popularity contests

- I think that Shawn's talent

and being able to perform and outperform

everyone else on the card,

I do think that it was Shawn's talent outweighed his attitude.

- I currently, right now, am not scheduled to be at SummerSlam.

That's not my decision.

Please allow me to just be a part of SummerSlam.

- Welcome, everyone, to SummerSlam

- I'm wrestling Bret.

Shawn is the special guest referee.

- Shawn Michaels asserting himself from the get-go.

Look at this.

- Oftentimes, those special referees will play

a definite role in the end of the match.

- Shawn Michaels with that chair

that Bret tried to throw out of the ring.

- Good God.

Good God.

[bell rings]

- I get blazed with the chair, end up losing,

and that sets it all off.

- This is horrible.

- The Undertaker is going after Shawn Michaels.

If it hadn't have been for you, the Undertaker might still be

the World Wrestling -- Champion.

- Shawn Michaels doesn't apologize

to anybody or anything.

- Back then I wouldn't have pissed on Shawn

if he was on fire, but there's no one

that I'd rather be in the ring with working against.

- The Undertaker against Shawn Michaels.

First-ever matchup here in Louisville

- I'd say this might be a bad time to be Shawn Michaels.

- I could lock up with him and just as we would go

through things, you could feel the comfort.

- Michaels, no, no, no.

- Oh, my Gosh.

- There's no way to describe it to somebody,

just that you feel it and you know right away like,

"Okay, this is going to be a cake walk."

- The referee.

- Another referee.

- Tim White coming down and calling this, I believe.

[bell rings]

- Trying to get control of this match.

Nothing is going to stop the Undertaker.

- They got the Undertaker in the ring.

They got Shawn Michaels out.

Oh, my God.

He took out about 10 superstars including Shawn Michaels.

- They got The Undertaker in the ring.

- They got Shawn Michaels out.

Oh, my God.

[crowd cheers]

- Did you see that?

- You don't expect somebody my height and size

to go flying like that.

It just really caught people like,

"Did I just see him do that?"

- Both these guys were so top shelf that for them

to get together is literally just a bonus.

It's just a treat for everyone else.

- Shawn had used every tool

at his disposal to evade the inevitability of his demise

at the hands of the Undertaker.

He'd get away.

That's how Hell in a Cell comes into effect here.

Two men enter, one man leaves.

- The largest cage in the history of the

World Wrestling --.

There's one way in and one way out.

[The Undertaker's music plays]

- For me, that's like my version of Christmas.

It's like, "Oh, this is going to be so much fun."

- Shawn understood that he was undersized, overmatched,

and what needed to happen.

- This is not a good time to be Shawn Michaels.

- Man, I beat him like he owed me money.

- Michaels now-- Oh, my.

This is not going to be pretty.

Mowed down to the canvas, and Michaels just literally

bounces off the canvas.

- This is truly Hell in a Cell for Shawn Michaels.

- If nothing else, what I do really well

is get my backside handed to me.

- Michaels coming right back.

Oh, no.

Oh, God.

He just wiped out the cameraman.

- The EMT crew out to help this unfortunate cameraman.

- When his opportunities arose, he took full advantage of them.

- Wait a minute.

Michaels is out.

Michaels is out of the cage.

Michaels and Undertaker are out of the cage.

- You have to appreciate the fact he may go down,

but he's going to go down swinging.

- No.

- Oh.

- What's he doing?

Trying to get away from the Undertaker.

Michaels is going up.

Michaels is going up on top of the cage.

- He's on top of the cell.

- God.

The Undertaker's going right after him.

- What?

- Oh, my God.

What is this?

- The two were so great at what they did that any animosity

that may have existed for whatever reasons

disappeared when they were performing

out in front of an audience.

- Shawn's bleeding so badly that it's just coming down and

hitting the lens of the camera which was such a cool shot.

You felt this is it.

This is it for Shawn Michaels.

- Incoming.

Incoming.

- Oh, no.

- My God. He may be broken in half.

- We have built this thing up to Hell in a Cell

and the match is going on and it's exactly what

everyone's expecting.

- He's trying to completely destroy Shawn Michaels.

- Chokeslam.

Chokeslam.

A chokeslam off the top

- He's getting his ass handed to him.

- Heading back from hell.

- It's all over. It's all over.

- Low and behold, little brother.

[Kane's music plays]

- That's got to be Kane.

- Undertaker and Shawn Michaels are having a classic match.

In fact, at one point my thought was, "Man, I just hope I don't

mess this match up because it's so good."

- The Undertaker is driven down to the canvas.

- This is shocking.

No, no.

[bell rings]

[Shawn Michaels' music plays]

- Here is your winner,

"The Heartbreak Kid" Shawn Michaels.

- For my money, that's still the best cell match

there's ever been.

- Shawn Michaels has defeated the Undertaker.

- No, no, no.

Wait a minute.

Kane has defeated the Undertaker.

- After that initial cell match,

Shawn Michaels and the Undertaker

would square off again at the Royal Rumble in 1998.

- The following contest is a casket match.

- One man must place his opponent in the casket

and shut the lid.

- It had some really cool spots around the caskets.

- For me as a bad guy, I can't just beat the guy

bigger than me in these matches without help.

It does nothing for me and my character

if I'm outright really beating a guy.

- There he is.

There he is.

- The Undertaker refused to fight his brother, Kane,

but because of that, Kane started interfering

in all of the Undertaker's matches.

- A Chokeslam into the casket.

Taker in the casket.

Michaels shut the lid.

- Shawn Michaels was the beneficiary

of that interference.

- During the course of the match, unfortunately,

I did something where I threw him over the top

and I think he was trying to clear

it was the big casket and he was trying

to clear it too and he hit his back.

I didn't know how bad it was and probably was somewhat skeptical

because of Shawn and how he acted outside of the ring

Maybe he's hurt maybe he's not.

- Basically, crushed several discs in my back

and I had to get my lower back fused.

- The edge of that casket right on the lower back

of Shawn Michaels.

- At the time, the majority of people that got that

done were older people that began to live a very limited

quality of life after that.

- Shawn Michaels is hurt and hurt badly.

- When he took that backdrop into the casket and blew

his back out, he was done.

He had a lot in the tank and he knew he had a lot in the tank.

It was very, very difficult for him.

- How's the back feeling?

- Hurts.

- Are we going to see you in the ring anytime soon?

- Not anytime soon.

- While Shawn Michaels was injured for several years,

the Undertaker continued to build up his aura through

his WrestleMania undefeated streak.

- He has never lost at WrestleMania has the Undertaker.

[music]

- Whenever we needed somebody

when guys were hurt and business was good,

business was bad, we'd called on Taker,

and Taker always came in with consistent greatness.

- The Undertaker came out with the Last Ride.

The Undertaker has done it.

[bell rings]

- I personally didn't even realize there was a streak

until my 10th WrestleMania, so I was 10-0.

It was in Toronto against Flair.

- Now the tombstone.

No.

Oh.

- That's the first time that I acknowledged it in any way.

- He's 10-0.

10-0.

- While the Undertaker's undefeated streak was becoming

the stuff of legend,

an old nemesis arrived back on the scene.

- He is a show stopper, what an amazing, amazing athlete

He has had several life-changing experiences

since his last match.

- I knew that he had got his life together.

He'd found Christ and he had made all these changes.

I remember welcoming him back and then he was like,

"Hey, I'm sorry I was a --."

It was cool because what I think of him in the ring,

now I feel for him on a personal level,

which this one is far more important.

- Mark and I were two foundational pillars

of a really important time in the WWE

carrying this company through a tougher time and a leaner time

I don't know.

I think he and I took some type of pride in.

All these years later to possibly having the opportunity

to revisit some of that was I think realized

when we were in that ring together at the Rumble.

[ringer buzzes]

- Now it is time for The Royal Rumble match.

- Once you go over the top rope and both feet hit the floor

you are eliminated.

[The Undertaker's music plays]

- Uh-oh.

- Here we go.

- The legendary phenom.

He's going from the chokeslam.

- Oh, spear.

- Edge spearing Undertaker.

- They eliminated everyone until it was only two men left.

- Wait a minute.

Shawn Michaels back in the ring.

- Wait, wait.

- Randy Orton eliminated.

Edge eliminated.

Sweet chin music-

- Look out.

- -eliminated Edge.

We are down to two men.

- Then you've got an entire match just about.

- The lights are on bright.

- Whoa.

- You've got two legends that know how to finish people.

- Undertaker sit up.

Shawn Michaels kip up.

These two legends are face to face.

One of these men is going to headline WrestleMania?

- How long's it been since we've seen this?

- We all wanted more of Shawn Michaels

and here was this magical moment where that could happen.

In that situation, you had the greatest opponent

he could ever ask for.

- Oh.

- With one arm and now the rights and lefts from perhaps

the best pure striker in the history of--

- What a right hand.

Look out.

- What a shot.

- Shawn Michaels close to being eliminated.

- There were so many levels to it that made it fun and made it

that much more special.

- Everybody in this arena standing up and feeling it.

Here we go.

- Shawn Michaels eliminated Edge like that.

Went for sweet chin music, got caught.

- Whoa, whoa, whoa.

- Undertaker has eliminated Shawn Michaels.

Undertaker is going to WrestleMania.

[The Undertaker's music plays]

- Then it becomes so obvious that I have to see,

I have to see that match.

- If there's anybody that ought to face the Undertaker

at the 25th Anniversary of WrestleMania,

you're looking at him.

- You never got anything conclusive with anything

that had ever happened

to Undertaker and Shawn Michaels together.

The first match at Ground Zero there wasn't a definitive winner

At Hell in a Cell, it was Kane that came out

to caused Shawn to win, but the Undertaker

really whooped his ass.

[bell rings]

- The Undertaker was never able to pin Shawn Michaels,

so the thought of a one-on-one match

between these two was very intriguing.

- I know I was feeling it.

Gosh.

Shawn Michaels could break the Undertaker's streak.

- What do you think, Mr WrestleMania

versus the streak?

Yes, hell yes.

- Shawn Michaels, I accept your challenge for WrestleMania.

- You may be 16-0 at WrestleMania,

but I am Mr WrestleMania.

- Oh.

Oh.

- I have never been outperformed

on the grandest stage of them all and I never will.

- You want to know how good Shawn Michaels is?

He's 6-11 at WrestleMania.

He lost to Razor, he lost to Diesel,

he lost to Stone Cold, he lost to Angle,

he lost to Cena before he faced Undertaker

and he's Mr WrestleMania.

When you're that good you can get beat

and nobody remembers it.

- You have never beaten me and you never will.

- Shawn in the white and Corpus Christi

and he did the Undertaker.

Man, that was like every time he's poking the bear.

Shawn's poking that bear.

- In front of 70,000 people, Undertaker, yours truly

will take you to the fiery depths of hell.

- We're sit down and we're kind of going

over some things and Michael Hayes was our producer.

- Undertaker was giddy.

He just knew that he was going

to be able to have one of the greatest matches of his career.

- I just ask him, I was like, "Where are we at on the card?"

- I was trying to keep that on the down low

[laughs]

for a while and I said you guys are on fifth.

Silence, and how many matches are on the card?

10.

- I look at Shawn and Shawn looks at me and we knew exactly

what each other was thinking like, "Mm, no, no."

- We understood if you didn't want to make it the main event,

but it certainly needs to be near there and it wasn't.

We were like, "Okay, well, now they're --."

Because we are fixing to go out there and tear some -- down.

Ain't nobody got control over the two of us and we're going to

[laughs]

We're going to burn this -- down you should just end the show.

[laughs]

Nothing's going to be able to follow it?

[fireworks]

- It is game day for Mr. WrestleMania

and Mr. WrestleMania has his game face on.

- Can Michaels hang the first loss

ever on the Undertaker has been the question on everyone's mind.

- I knew how great Shawn was and I knew how great Undertaker was.

I didn't know if they were going to go out

and do something like they could've done in '95 and '96.

- Look at the eyes of the Undertaker.

Look at the eyes of Shawn Michaels.

One is defiant.

One set of eyes destructive.

[bell rings]

- Whoa.

- Look at the strength of the Undertaker.

- Michaels was physically hurled over the top turnbuckle.

- There's that brash arrogance.

- The defiance of Shawn Michaels.

- Michaels feigning a knee injury.

Trying to catch the Undertaker off guard.

- Michaels unsteady there.

- Whoa.

- Oh.

- Oh, God.

- Oh, my God.

- That one slip, that one loss of balance

may have cost Michaels.

- Meanwhile, the Undertaker sits up in the ring.

- Meanwhile the night gets darker.

Oh, wait a minute.

Wait a minute. Wait a minute.

- Look at this.

- Look out. Oh, my.

- Good God. Oh, my God.

Oh, wait a minute.

Wait a minute. Wait a minute.

- Look at this.

- Look out.

- Oh, my.

- Good God. Oh, my God.

Undertaker just crashed into the cameraman.

- I was at a monitor.

A bunch of us women were at all watching.

There was that really scary moment,

that really awkward fall.

I know we talk a lot about injuries,

but everybody just kind of gasped.

- Shawn was going to push the cameraman into me

and I was going to take the cameraman out, right?

But the cameraman wasn't there and I'm flying through the air

like a lawn dart and the only thing I see

is the steel grate that I land in.

Yes, I got my bell rung a little bit.

For a second there I didn't know where I was at.

- As I see him turning, I can see that look

of disgust/anger, but in that I know he's okay

because he's okay enough to be pissed.

- I can hear the referee.

I can hear his count and I'm like, "Oh, crap.

I've got to get in the ring."

[laughs]

- Eight.

- Is Shawn Michaels going to win this match on a count-out?

- A count of nine.

- Undertaker made it back.

- He's back in the ring.

- The streak's alive.

- The streak's alive by less than a second.

- Once I rolled into the ring, man, we were right back into it.

We never missed a beat.

- Undertaker.

- No.

- Chokeslam with authority.

- Whoa.

- Good God Almighty.

What a chokeslam.

- Taker is such a big man, but it also speaks

to his resilience.

Who can take a fall like that and not only get up

but continue in arguably the greatest

wrestling match of all time?

- He got it.

- No.

- Michaels got him.

- That's it.

- A sudden sweet chin music.

- That's it.

- The streak may be over.

- All he's got to do is crawl and get one arm across--

there it is.

- Is the streak over here?

Is it over here?

Undertaker kicked out.

- Oh, no.

- Shawn Michaels, his timing is better than perfect

he is confident in the things that he can do well,

and he studies who he's working with, and showcases

the things that they do well.

You can perform with him forever.

- The Last Ride.

- Michaels' head bounced off the canvas.

His body's wrecked.

- Oh, and a kick out again.

- Impossible.

- From a fan's point of view, there's no drop-off

at all in what Shawn Michaels is capable of doing, none.

Every beating he takes looks as good as it did.

Every offensive comeback he takes is as fast as it was.

- Shawn's throat caught on that rope.

Look.

- Went to skin the cat, and Undertaker has skinned Michaels.

- Oh, my God.

- Look at this.

- Michaels's caught.

- What?

- Shawn is caught.

Tombstone.

- Whoa.

- Tombstone.

My God.

Michaels got caught.

Tombstone.

The count.

- A kick out.

[crowd cheers]

- I am not believing this.

The Undertaker's eyes tell a better story than we could ever

- I was working with Randy at that WrestleMania

and I remember watching.

I probably watched a good half or more of that match

as I was getting ready and thinking, "We are --."

It was the greatest thing I'd ever seen.

- Look out, Undertaker ran into some--

- My God, Michaels is going to try another chance.

- Undertaker.

- Here it comes, Incoming.

- Catching Michaels in mid-air.

- Michaels caught. Michaels caught.

Michaels caught. Tombstone.

- Tombstone.

Piledriver.

- He did it.

- 17 and 0.

17 and zero.

- Ladies and gentlemen, Shawn Michaels proved tonight

that he was indeed Mr. WrestleMania,

but the Undertaker proved that

he is WrestleMania's phenom.

- I just remember sitting there watching the monitor

and watching it and just as soon as it's done,

I go, "I'm glad I retired because I've just watched

the greatest wrestling match in the history of the world."

- What an absolutely unbelievable match.

- As a wrestling fan,

how could you ask for anything more?

- I came out of 25 feeling such peace.

I remembered looking at my wife and saying,

"I wonder if I should have ended on that one."

It was just such a great feeling afterwards.

The match, the way it felt, the guy that it was with.

We had already discussed my retirement

and that match sort of helped me confirm it,

and then it was just a matter of getting there.

- But at this point, we're really close.

Now we have this special place in history too.

At this late stage in both of our careers,

we have this phenomenal match.

- Shawn had made up his mind to retire,

but there was definitely a clamoring for another

Undertaker-Shawn Michaels match,

and I think Shawn clearly felt that as well.

- You know something?

Undertaker,

I can beat you.

- After the first WrestleMania match, I looked at both of them

and I said, "You know there's a return match here."

- You and me, WrestleMania, one more time.

To me it was just a matter of making that decision,

getting to the next one, and having once again

that feeling of peace and contentment and walking away.

- You're on.

I accept

on one condition,

If you defeat me, you end the streak.

If I beat you, your career is over.

- Arguably the greatest WrestleMania career

of all time against the greatest streak of all time.

- If I can't beat you at WrestleMania, I have no career.

- Streak versus career.

That upped the ante considerably.

- You're on.

- A little bit of pressure builds up at that point

when you were going to have someone of that caliber,

that big a superstar and you're responsible for his last match.

- This has been my life for over 25 years.

Do you think that I'd risk everything

if I didn't know I could beat you?

- Shawn told me that one night at 3:00 in the morning

everything came to him, and he just had this idea,

and he woke up in bed, ran into the kitchen

and he just thought how the match should go

and he wrote it all down.

- I needed to do something with substance to it.

For your last one, that's what you want to--

I want to--

I don't know.

I want it to be a beautiful painting that I go,

"Here it is, and see you later."

In this line of work, you need another gifted

painter with you.

- I will open up the gates of hell and I will unleash a fury

that no mortal man has ever seen

to make sure at WrestleMania your career is over.

- This is the glory, the granduer of entertainment's

greatest live event.

Welcome to the 26th annual WrestleMania.

- I wanted him to go out the way he deserved

to go out with a match that he deserved to go out with.

It was extremely nerve-wracking for me.

- Making his way to the ring, from San Antonio, Texas,

he is "The Heartbreak Kid" Shawn Michaels.

- Everybody's going to compare it to the last one.

Clearly, from a stipulation standpoint, it's raised,

but how do we connect on an emotional level?

- As the sun sets in the Arizona desert,

is it setting on the career of Shawn Michaels?

- "The Heartbreak Kid" Shawn Michaels.

- It does not appear that Shawn Michaels

is intimidated at all.

- Same thing that made him, that built him,

that sustained him has got to be the same thing

at the end that causes his demise.

- Shawn Michaels, the one playing mind games

as we start this matchup off.

- If he's going to go out, he has to go out on his terms.

I was going to go down my way

and I was going to go down in defiance.

- No one's ever come as close as Shawn Michaels did last year

to defeating the Undertaker at WrestleMania.

- I feel like the way they differentiated it

for the audience was the motive for Shawn Michaels

between both matches and the second time

it was a lot more of Shawn coming back I think

and fighting from underneath, whereas in the first one

he was shining and running all over the place.

- The career of Shawn Michaels is-- Oh, no.

He kicked out.

Shawn Michaels will not surrender.

Shawn Michaels has no quit.

- I don't even think of them as two separate matches.

They're like one long story that was all right in front of you.

- Perhaps respect shown for the career of Shawn Michaels

- Stay down.

- Throughout the whole run from WrestleMania to WrestleMania,

Shawn Michaels is doing Shakespeare.

- Certainly to go out on your last one,

I wanted it to be poetic and I felt like

that's what did justice to the Heartbreak Kid character,

which is going down, again, calling his shot.

Then he demanded, "Damn it, beat me like a man."

- The end of 26 where Shawn's pulling himself up,

when I watch a Shawn Michaels match,

I truly see the art of what we do.

- Oh.

Well, if Shawn Michaels is going out,

he's going out as defiant as ever.

- That look of disbelief on the face of the Undertaker

has turned into a look of rage.

- A third Tombstone.

Here's the cover.

[referee counts One, two, three]

The Undertaker is 18 and 0.

Shawn Michaels' career is over.

- It was really dramatic and it was really emotional.

- Defiant to the end.

- I know this is the last time that I'm going to be in the ring

with this kind of a talent and this friend,

and everything that we've been through.

- This might be the ultimate WrestleMania moment

- This business set is built on so much --.

[laughs]

It's built on so much reality too and real emotion for us.

Then at the end, especially even at the hands

of somebody who at one time was in a way your arch-rival,

but now there being such a common bond

of respect and honor and real friendship there.

- Shawn, it's over.

Goodbye and we'll miss you.

[music]

- That's real life going on right there.

[applause]

- That's what keeps us all crazy in love with this stuff.

Also, I think it's probably what makes it so hard

to walk away from.

- This was the end of the Shawn Michaels era.

Man, all these things flash back through your mind

and all these achievements and unbelievable accomplishments.

Now it's facing you.

The clock is really ticking and it's over.

Thank you for letting me do it.

God, it was great.

- When real life mirrors what we do in our line of work,

it's hard to beat.

[applause]

- I think the world of Shawn.

Do anything in the world for him.

Thank you.

[laughs]

I'm just really happy that we ended up

in such a great spot on the other side.

- We never seen anything like it.

We never will again, and we never even needed

those matches to appreciate them as much as we do today,

but the fact that they gave us those matches

is what makes them extra special.

- What would history have missed if they weren't together?

What if you never saw Ali-Frazier?

What if you never saw Celtics-Lakers?

What if you never saw Borg-MceEnroe?

Those sports would have gone on, but they'd have missed something

- Incoming.

Incoming.

- Both the Undertaker and Shawn Michaels came through big

when the spotlight burned its brightest.

- These two legends are face to face.

- Did you see that?

- Sweet chin music.

- As WWE Superstars, none of us rise to the top on our own.

It's really because of our opponents.

- Congratulations.

- Thank you.

- Enjoy all this, all right?

This is when this silly job gets to be real.

This is all real.

This is all real.

- Yes.

- HBK.

The Showstopper.

"Mr. WrestleMania" Shawn Michaels.

I thank you for your friendship and for giving me

one of the very best matches of my career.

It's where real life and wrestling and make believe

and everything they all intertwine

and they all become the one.

The people feel it.

They feel it 100%, just like we do.