#2 John Cena vs. Shawn Michaels (RAW April 23, 2007)
After Triple H got injured in 2007, WWE had to change their plans for a WrestleMania rematch between The Game and John Cena. Shawn Michaels, known, of course, as Mr WrestleMania, got the call as his friend’s replacement. Cena and Michaels went on to main event WrestleMania 23 with an absolutely classic match.
Three weeks later, WWE was in England for a RAW taping. Those events don’t often feature a tonne of storyline development as the time difference causes the episodes to be taped. This never used to be an issue for WWE and doesn’t tend to be a problem these days, but in the middle 2000s, shows in England usually just took up time by having longer-than-usual matches.
That is how this match was born. Cena and Michaels went for almost an hour, in one of the only one-on-one matches in modern WWE, that holds that distinction without the stipulation of being an Ironman match. This match started at the top of the second hour of the show and went all the way to the close, and actually topped their WrestleMania classic.
This is the second best WWE TV match of all time.
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