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Shawn Michaels: There was Anxiety for WrestleMania 26 Match

By Rob Wolkenbrod

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Shawn Michaels recently spoke about how he felt going into his WrestleMania 26 match with The Undertaker. This was also HBK’s final match of his career.

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At WrestleMania 26, Shawn Michaels faced off with The Undertaker. This was a rematch of their WrestleMania 25 match, which was arguably the greatest contest at the show of shows of all-time. The rematch was also a Career-Threatening Match for Michaels. Just two years earlier, he was the one who ended Ric Flair’s illustrious wrestling career.

Recently, to promote his new book “Wrestling For My Life,” Michaels spoke with The Phoenix Suns on NBA.com and answered many questions. One of them was how he felt going into his last match of his career at WrestleMania 26.

"Going in, it was a good feeling because my family was there. But there was a little anxiety, because it’s still WrestleMania and it was the last one. You know people expected it to be really good. Because it was the Undertaker again, there were going to be a lot of comparisons to the last one (2009). So for all the upside you get out of just enjoying the moment that is WrestleMania, there was a little anxiety and a little stress wanting to just deliver a really good match.But afterwards, it was just complete joy and then also, I think a lot of mental and physical and even spiritual exhaustion. “It’s over.” And again, that’s when it settled in. That’s when it got real. And it was almost as if everything under God’s green earth had been lifted off my shoulders and it was a nice feeling. It was a bit surreal, but I would have to say it was really the next day when everything settled in. Honestly, getting to make that speech on RAW, I felt like the luckiest guy in the world honestly. I couldn’t think of a better way for it to go, for it to end, and to have the opportunity and the time to express all of that on RAW was wonderful. That’s when it’s all allowed to be real and you’re allowed to talk about the wrestling business and your life in the WWE, in a very real sense. And it was a joy to be able to do that well."

Michaels had to of been anxious going into his last match of his career. He wanted to go out in the best way possible on wrestling biggest stage. I would think it is safe to say that he accomplished that feat. Despite the match not being what his contest with The Undertaker at WrestleMania 25 was, this was still a fanastic showing.

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