10 Best Shawn Michaels Matches of The 2000s

#7 Shawn Michaels vs. Ric Flair - WrestleMania XXIV

I'm sorry, I love you

We all knew Ric Flair was lacing up his boots for the final time (just in WWE as it turned out), so the finish would be obvious. However, no one, and I mean no one expected it to be as fantastic as it was.

Ric Flair had some very good wrestling matches during his 2001 - 2008 WWE run with the likes of Triple H, The Undertaker, Edge, Randy Orton and more, but by the time 2008 rolled around, it seemed all his great performances had come and gone. It was hard to know what to expect going in, and although Shawn Michaels is arguably the greatest performer of all time, he had a really tough job in having even a barely decent match with Flair at Bad Blood 2003, so could he get a better performance out of him 5 years later? As it turned out, yes.

The match told a good story, Michaels missed a moonsault and crashed through a table, with classic Flair spots mixed in, some good exchanges and the incredible “I’m sorry…I love you” moment before the Sweet Chin Music that left fans and the performers with a very emotional moment.