Great American Bash: Chris Jericho Vs. Shawn Michaels

Shawn Michaels vs. Chris Jericho
The two started off with a staredown. Michaels was selling his ribs early on.

At one point Michaels was standing on the ring apron and Jericho jumped to the top rope and hit a dropkick on Michaels, knocking him out of the ring. Once back in the ring, Jericho started working on Michaels' ribs. Match surprisingly doesn't have a lot of heat early on, seems like the ECW match sucked the life out of the crowd.

At another point, HBK was going for sweet chin music but Lance Cade ran down to ringside, but HBK immediately knocked him down. Later he threw Jericho out of the ring on top of Cade, and then followed it up with a moonsault from the top rope onto Jericho and Cade outside the ring. The heat is still pretty weak in this match.

When getting back in the ring, you saw that Michaels eye was busted open (presumably from an elbow from Jericho outside the ring) and Jericho started working it with punches.
The referee asked if Michaels was OK, HBK said yes and Jericho then continued to work over Michaels eye with punches.
Jericho was head butting his eye as Michaels pleaded with the referee to not stop it. Michaels was able to pull out a crossface out of nowhere, but Jericho was able to get out and kept going for Michaels eye while Michaels pleaded with the ref to not stop the match. Michaels's whole face was bloody at this point.

Jericho kept kicking and punching Michaels in the face. HB's face was a crimson match at this point. Jericho wrapped Michaels's arms and just continued to punch away at Michaels's eye and the referee stopped the match.

The match itself wasn't great, but it told a great story. HBK jobbed at two PPV's in a row, I can't remember the last time that happened.

Winner via ref stoppage: Chris Jericho