Professional wrestling legend and WWE Hall of Famer Shawn Michaels who is a former four times WWE World champion recently looked back at his iconic match against Ric Flair that took place at WrestleMania XXIV and explained how social media might have changed after this match.
Shawn Michaels vs Ric Flair from WrestleMania XXIV is considered as one of the most iconic WrestleMania matches of all time. It is also considered as the most emotional match in wrestleMania history. The match had a really huge impact in the world of professional wrestling.
Shawn Michaels Remembers His Iconic Match With Ric Flair And Explains How Social Media Changed After It
At WrestleMania XXIV, WWE organised a match between Shawn Michaels and Ric Flair, who were two of the biggest legends of professional wrestling history. The condition of the match was, if Flair loses, he would have been forced to retired from ending action. It was all just wrestling storyline, after this match he was scheduled to retire anyway.
Before hitting the Sweet Chin Music, Michaels said, “I’m sorry, I love you,” which was caught on camera and it became one of the most emotional moments in wrestling history. After pinning Flair, Michaels quickly hugged him on the head which made the situation even more emotional. On the very next night on Monday Night RAW, Flair received a farewell from WWE which is considered as one of the best farewell in WWE history.
Shawn Michaels who is a former four times WWE World champion recently spoke to Sam Roberts on the Notsam Wrestling Show where he looked back at his iconic match against Ric Flair that took place at WrestleMania XXIV and explained how social media might have changed after this match. He said;
“I’ve mentioned it before, that particular match was something that came to me in the middle of the night,” Michaels said. “I woke up out of a sleep, I think at like at two o’clock in the morning, got up out of bed and then just, you know, went to the table and started writing and then I’m coming down to the end of it and that’s the thoughts that were in my head.
“And of your course, a little tear drop comes down and I was like, oh my goodness, I mean, is this too, oh my goodness, Namby/Pamby? I mean, the wrestling audience can be tough and I just thought, oh, I don’t know. Because it was so emotional for me against, because I knew where Ric was at that time, and I knew how important it was to him and it was genuinely important to me because it was important to him.”
“I wanted this to be really unbelievably special for him. This is my chance for him to, I don’t know say like, you know, of all the great matches he’s had, the best one was with Shawn Michaels at whatever age he was at that time, 56 or something. So there were a number of reasons I wanted it to go well, but then you’re looking at this ending, it sounds like a love story that may not really go over well, you know with a tough crowd.
“But I kept it. And, look, I presented that to Michael Hayes and Ric, you know, when we got there to WrestleMania and Ric patted me on the leg and goes, thank you. And I was still waiting like, does that thank you, like, it’s good or no? It’s still a bit worrisome again.”
“I’ll say this, I don’t know because I was talking about it earlier, had social media and everything been out there the way that it is now, and you see all of those things, I’m not sure I’d have the guts to do that finish with Ric for fear that they would, you know, kick it back at us. I don’t mean to ever imply that, you know, our fans are mean, I would have been worried about it because like on social media, they probably won’t show you the 15-year-old wrestling fan in them, they’re a bit guarded.
“When you’re there in the moment and you’re there at WrestleMania, and you allow us to take you there, they were fine. I mean, grown men are fine, whimpering like, oh my goodness, that was beautiful, man. But I just don’t know that I’d have the guts to do it, had I’ve seen maybe what possibly could have been the other side, but that was my concern.”
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