Michael Shawn Hickenbottom (born July 22, 1965), better known under the name Shawn Michaels , is an American actor, professional wrestling personality, television presenter, and retired professional wrestler. He has been cited by a number of peers and viewers as the best player in history.
Currently signed to WWE as an ambassador and coach since December 2010, Michaels wrestled consistently for WWE, formerly the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), from 1988 until his first retirement in 1998. He held a non-wrestling role from 1998 to 2000 and re-wrestle. in 2002 until his official retirement in 2010.
In WWF/WWE, Michaels held a major pay-per-view event between 1989 and 2010, closing the company's premier annual event, WrestleMania, five times. He is the co-founder and original leader of the successful stable, D-Generation X. Michaels also wrestled at the American Wrestling Association (AWA), where he founded The Midnight Rockers with Marty Jannetty in 1985. After winning the Tag AWA Team Championship two times, the team went on to WWF as The Rockers and had a high profile separation in January 1992. In that year, Michaels twice challenged to the WWF World Championship and won his first Antarestena Championship, heralding his arrival as one of the prime ministers of the industry of stars single.
Michaels is a four-time world champion, who has hosted three WWF Championships and WWE World Heavyweight Championships once. He is also the two-time winner of the Royal Rumble (and the first to win the game as the number one participant), the first WWF Grand Slam Champion and the fourth WWF Triple Crown winner, and the WWE Hall of Fame class from 2011 inaugurated. Michaels won the Match of the Year winning Match of the Year, and his match against John Cena on April 23, 2007 was upgraded by WWE as the best match ever aired in the company's flagship program. > Raw .
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Hickenbottom was born on July 22, 1965 in Chandler, Arizona. The last of four children - Randy, Scott, and Shari are his older siblings - he grew up in a military family and spent a short part of his early years in Reading, Berkshire, England, but grew up in San Antonio, Texas. As a child, Hickenbottom disliked Michael's name, so his family and friends had just called him Shawn. Since then, he has been called Shawn. In addition, Hickenbottom often moved around because his father was in the military.
He knows he wants to be a professional wrestler at the age of twelve and says he does wrestling exercises at his high school talent show, complete with fake blood. Hickenbottom is already an athlete; His career started at the age of six when he started playing football. He is a linebacker who stands tall at Randolph High School at Randolph Air Force Base and eventually captains the football team. After graduation, Hickenbottom followed Southwest Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas, but soon realized that college life was not for him. He then began to pursue a career in professional wrestling.
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Professional wrestling career
Hickenbottom began training under Mexican professional wrestler Jose Lothario. During his training, Hickenbottom adopted the ring name, "Shawn Michaels". After his training with Lothario, he debuted as Shawn Michaels with the Mid-South National Alliance (NWA) wrestling territory on October 16, 1984, against Art Crews, losing to Crews via a swinging neckbreaker. Michaels's appearance in his debut game has impressed many veterans, including Terry Taylor.
In January 1985, he debuted for World Class Championship Wrestling (WCCW), a NWA area in Dallas, Texas. In April 1985, Michaels went to work for another NWA area in Kansas City called Wrestling of the Middle State. There, he and partner tag team Marty Jannetty beat The Batten Twins for the NWA Central States Tag Team Championship, then lost back to Battens.
Texas All-Star Wrestling (1985-1986)
After leaving Kansas City, he returned to Texas to wrestle with Texas All-Star Wrestling (TASW). During his time with TASW, Michaels replaces Nick Kiniski on the American Breed tag team, teaming up with Paul Diamond. Michaels and Diamond were awarded the TAG Tag Team Championship by Chavo Guerrero Sr. The team was later renamed the American Force. While in TASW, Michaels and Diamond are at odds with Japanese troops. The American Wrestling Association (1986-1987)
Michaels made his national debut, as Sean Michaels, at the age of 20 at the American Wrestling Association (AWA), in victory over Buddhakhan at ESPN. He once again worked with Marty Jannetty, billed as The Midnight Rockers. The Midnight Rockers won the AWA Tag Team World Championship, beating Doug Somers and Buddy Rose.
World Wrestling Federation and return to AWA (1987-1988)
In 1987, The Rockers was signed by a competing promotion: the World Wrestling Federation (WWF). They were fired from the WWF two weeks later, due to a bar incident (misunderstanding, according to Michaels' autobiography). They then returned to AWA, where they won the AWA tag title a second time, but were signed back by WWF a year later.
Return to WWF
The Rockers (1988-1991)The Rockers returned to WWF's live show on July 7, 1988. Due to WWF chairman Vince McMahon's wish to have his players carry the names of exclusive WWF rings, Michaels and Jannetty were renamed, like The Rockers. The team is proving popular among children and women and is a major supporter of television and pay-per-view impressions over the next two years. During this time, Michaels gave his first pay-per-view title to WWF when The Rockers was involved in the main 4-on-4 Survivor Series Survivor 1989 series.
On October 30, 1990, The Rockers unofficially won the WWF Team Tag Championships from The Hart Foundation (Bret Hart and Jim Neidhart), while Neidhart, half of the championship team, was in the process of negotiating his release from the company. The match was recorded with The Rockers winning the title, but soon after Neidhart reached an agreement with management and rehired. The championship was returned to Hart Foundation, while title changes were never aired or even acknowledged on television (although The Rockers actually had a successful title defense on 3 November 1990 against Power and Glory (Hercules and Paul Roma) before the title was returned to Hart Foundation). As the news spreads, WWF explains that the original result is null and void because of the falling turnbuckle in the ring during the fight. A buckle really broke, but not to the real or dangerous level during the game. The Rockers continued their partnership, eventually splitting up on December 2, 1991 during an incident at Barber Shop's talk show show at Brutus Beefcake. Michaels watched Jannetty and tossed it through the glass window on the Beefcake talk set. Jannetty returned to WWF the following year and enjoyed a moderate success before leaving the company in 1994, while Michaels became a leading villain in the early to mid 1990s as "The Boy Toy".
Two Dudes with Attitude (1992-1995)
At the suggestion of Curt Hennig, Michaels adopted the nickname "The Heartbreak Kid". Along with his new name emerged a new gimmick as an arrogant and vain gangster. She is united with the mirror-carrying manager, Sensational Sherri, who according to the story line has been crazy about her. Sherri even sang the first version of her new musical theme, "Sexy Boy". During that period, after Michaels had wrestled with a match scheduled on the live event, his departure was announced with "Shawn Michaels has left the building", alluding to the phrase "Elvis has left the building".
At WrestleMania VIII, Michaels defeated Tito Santana in his first single-match pay-per-view game after the two men simultaneously wiped out each other from Royal Rumble that year. Michaels went on to become a contender for a single promotional title and failed to win the WWF World Wide Weight Championship from champion Randy Savage in his first chance to compete for the title at UK UK Rampage, held on April 19 at Sheffield Arena and aired on Sky Film Plus then aired in the US on the June 15th edition of Prime Time Wrestling ). Michaels was also unable to win the Intercontinental Championship of Bret Hart in the first WWF staircase at a Wrestling Challenge recorded on July 21, which was then available on several Coliseum/WWE Home Video launches. However, he won the title of The British Bulldog on the October 27 episode of the Main Evening Saturday Evening, which aired on November 14th. Shortly after, he faced Hart for the WWF Heavyweight World Championship at the main event of the Survivor Series, but lost the match. Initially the main secondary event, Michaels and Hart became the main event after The Ultimate Warrior could not compete and was replaced by Mr. Perfect (Cut Hennig) in a tag team match involving Randy Savage against team Ric Flair and Razor Ramon. During this time, Michaels and Sherri split up and she was involved in a feud with former tag team partner Marty Jannetty. Michaels lost the Intercontinental Championship to Jannetty on the May 17, 1993 episode of Raw , but got it back on June 6 with help from his "bodyguard" (and Diesel's off-air friend).
In September 1993, Michaels was suspended for testing positive for steroids - a charge she never received. In WWF programs, the suspension is explained by having ignored the title quite often. After rejecting World Championship Wrestling (WCW), Michaels returned to WWF and made several appearances at the United States Wrestling Association (USWA) during WWF/USWA cross campaign. He returned to WWF television in November in the Survivor Series to replace Jerry Lawler, who deals with legal matters, in a match against sheep and three "Knights" Lawler against Hart Brothers, Bret, Bruce, Keith and Owen.
In 1994, Michaels entered a staged competition with Razor Ramon, who had won the Intercontinental Championship, which had been vacated during Michaels' absence. Because Michaels was never defeated in the ring for the title, he claimed to be the rightful champion and even carry around his old champion belt. This hostility culminated in a ladder match between the two at WrestleMania X. Michaels lost the match, featuring his championship belt and Ramon hanging over the stairs in the ring. This match was voted by fans as "Match of the Year" by Pro Wrestling Illustrated . It also received a five-star rating] from Wrestling Observer Newsletter editor Dave Meltzer, one of five WWF/WWE games to do so. Over the next few months, Michaels battled various injuries and launched the TV talk show segment of the Heartbreak Hotel, especially featured on Superstars.
On August 28th, Michaels and Diesel capture the WWF Team Tag Championship from The Headshrinkers (Samu and Fatu). The next day at SummerSlam, Diesel lost the Intercontinental Championship to Ramon when Michaels deliberately overpowered Diesel. This sparked a split between Michaels and Diesel, the storyline being drawn until the November Survivor Series. Michaels went on to win the Royal Rumble in 1995, which arranged a championship grudge match at WrestleMania XI against Diesel (who had won the WWF Heavyweight World Championship from Bob Backlund). As part of the storyline, Michaels recruited Sid as his guard for the build-up, lost the game and was attacked by Sid the following night. After this, Michaels takes time off because Vince McMahon wants Michaels to become a fan favorite.
The establishment of Kliq (1995-1996)
Michaels returned to the ring as a fan favorite in May 1995 and he went on to beat Jeff Jarrett to win his third Intercontinental Championship in July in In Your House 2: The Lumberjacks. This led to a title defense against Razor Ramon at SummerSlam in a ladder match, which Michaels won. Around this time, Michaels became the leader of the backstage group known as The Kliq. Critics consider the group to have considerable influence with WWF owner Vince McMahon, becoming the dominant wrestling character at WWF for several years in the mid-1990s, causing friction with other wrestlers. Michaels denied the perception, saying that McMahon only encourages proper wrestlers. Fan base Michaels was later dubbed "The Kliq" as an inward reference to the actual "Kliq". In October 1995, Michaels became the victim of a legitimate attack outside a bar in Syracuse, New York. Unable to compete, Michaels was forced to lose the Intercontinental Championship to his original opponent Dean Douglas in In Your House: Great White North, which in turn Douglas lost the championship to Razor Ramon, another member of Kliq. This event has been cited as an example of Kliq holding others. During the match with Owen Hart on the November episode of Raw, Hart did an enzuigiri that hit the back of Michaels's head. They continued the match, but Michaels collapsed in the ring, purportedly because she suffered a concussion. The concussion was written, which was kept from most fans at the time. The pension angle was written so Michaels could take time off after she returned from injury too soon.
WWF Champion (1996-1998)
After tempting his retirement, Michaels returned to WWF at the 1996 Royal Rumble game, which he finally won for the second year in a row, to receive the WWF World Wide Weight Championship game at the main event at WrestleMania XII. Around this time, Jose Lothario became manager on screen Michaels. At WrestleMania XII, Michaels beat WWF champion Bret Hart in the Iron Man game for sixty minutes, which ended goalless. On May 19, Michaels and his fellow Kliq members were involved in an incident known as "Curtain Call". Diesel and Razor Ramon will leave WWF to a competitor's WCW. After Michaels won the game against Diesel, Ramon and Hunter Hearst Helmsley came into the ring and joined Michaels and Diesel in a group hug. Since Diesel and Helmsley were considered criminals at the time, unlike Michaels and Ramon, this was a "kayfabe" offense, acting out of character, rare and controversial at the time. Since WCW gained momentum due to the signing of Hall and Nash, Michaels held championships for most of the year. Michaels championship government ended in the Survivor Series show, where he lost to Sycho Sid, his former bodyguard. Michaels recaptured the championship from Sid in January 1997 at the Royal Rumble.
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In the spring of 1997, the conflict behind the real life stage between Michaels and Hart reached its peak. Both men were out on television and often made personal statements, sincere about each other. Michaels left WWF in June of that year after a backstage fight with Hart, just hours before the Raw Is War show, thought to be caused by Michaels making a commentary in the air, known as "Sunny" Days, implying that Hart (who was married at the time) had an affair with Tammy Sytch, a Diva who signed with WWF as Sunny. Michaels and Austin were still WWF Tag Team Winners at the time during the ongoing feud with Hart Foundation and the tournament was made to decide the new tag team champion. Michaels finally returned the summer in July. At SummerSlam, Michaels leads the WWF World Heavyweight Championship between WWF Champion The Undertaker and Bret Hart. The match ended in a controversial way, with Michaels hitting Undertaker with a chair (unintentionally, as he shot Hart after he spat on his face). Michaels was then forced to give the championship to his arch-rivals, Bret Hart. The next night at Raw Is War, the heel turn marks began to appear as Michaels told WWF fans what happened at SummerSlam was an accident and that he was dealing with Undertaker when the time came. At WWF One Night Only, held in Birmingham, England in September, Michaels defeated The British Bulldog to win the European Championship. The fans at the event were very surprised at the results of their match mocking Michaels out of the building as far as they were scattered in the ring with garbage, cementing the turn of the second heel. With this victory, Michaels became the first Grand Slam champion. In In Your House: Badd Blood, Michaels defeated Undertaker in the first Hell in the Cell match, where Michaels fell from the side of the 15-foot (5 m) tall structure through the table. The match received a 5 star rating from Dave Meltzer.
In the fall, Michaels joined the real-life friend Hunter Hearst Helmsley (later known as Triple H), real-life boyfriend Helmsley, Chyna, and Rick Rude to form D-Generation X (DX) stable. Michaels continued his rivalry with the reformed Bret Hart and Hart Foundation, which is now pro-Canada stable. Michaels taunted the group and Canada by performing acts such as blowing his nose and banging on the Flag of Canada. Michaels later claimed the flag desecration was Hart's idea. Michaels's hostility with Hart Foundation culminated in a championship match at the Survivor Series in November 1997 against Hart. Michaels came out of this match, dubbed by fans "Montreal Screwjob", as the WWF World Heavyweight Champion. Michaels now holds WWF World Heavyweight and European Championships at the same time. Michaels downed the European Championship to D-Generation X Hunter member Hearst Hemsley in a humorous match.
First Retirement and WWF Commissioner (1998-2000)
At Rumble Royal 1998, in a coffin match against The Undertaker, Michaels took her body back fall to the outside of the ring and hit her lower back in the coffin, causing her to herniate two discs and destroy one altogether. Michaels went on to win the game but the injury kept him out of competition the following month. No Way Out of Texas: In Your Home as Advertised, and forced him to retire on the night after losing the WWF World Heavyweight Championship to Stone Cold Steve Austin at WrestleMania XIV.
After leaving for nearly four months, Michaels made a surprise return to WWF as a guest commentator on the July 13th episode of Raw Is War. Michaels continued to make non-wrestling appearances on the WWF program and on November 23 he replaced Sgt. Slaughter as Commissioner of WWF, a game maker and enforcer of the rules depicted, eventually joined the wrestler Vince McMahon who called The Corporation as a villain. Throughout late 1998 and early 1999, Michaels made regular television appearances on Raw, where he scheduled matches, dumped his authority, and sometimes even decided the outcome of the game. On the January 4, 1999 episode of Raw Is War, Michaels rejoined DX as a fan favorite, but disappeared from WWF television for several weeks to undergo surgery again and by the time he returned, the DX was on the road dissolving in some months ahead.
Michaels made occasional appearances as WWF Commissioner during the spring and summer of 1999, but remained absent from television after August until May 15, 2000, when he returned to Raw Is War to declare himself a special guest referee for the Iron Man game The Rock and Triple H on Judgment Day. A month later, Michaels briefly appeared on Raw Is War to hand over the role of Commissioner to Mick Foley and after another appearance in October he did not make an in-ring appearance until mid-2002, although he appeared briefly on television to address at WWF New York during Armageddon in December 2000. Michaels also has no part at all in the Invasion storyline.
Post WWF/WWE (2000-2002)
Believing that his wrestling career has ended, Michaels is interested in training individuals who want to become professional wrestlers. He saw the potential in using his name and opened Shawn Michaels Wrestling Academy in 1999, after his lawyer Skip McCormick suggested the idea. Michaels left the academy in 2002, giving co-founder, Rudy Boy Gonzalez the only responsibility for the new contract Michaels with WWE. Michaels is also a sports announcer for local San Antonio news for a brief period during her retirement.
On 23 November 1999, Michaels made a special appearance for Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling at the 10th Anniversary Show at Yokohama Arena, serving as a referee guest for the fake H vs. Hayabusa (Mr. Gannosuke) main event. He gets himself involved in a game when Gannosuke gives him a low blow and he responds later with Sweet Chin Music.
Michaels is still contracted to WWF (known in May 2002 as World Wrestling Entertainment, WWE) during this period.
Second return to WWE
Feud with Triple H (2002-2004)
On June 3rd episode of Raw , Michaels returned to WWE television after 18 months of absence when Kevin Nash announced it as a new member of the recently reformed World Order (nWo). Michaels is the only nWo member who never worked at WCW. After nWo broke up, Triple H seemed to make amends with Michaels. It's compacted when Michaels begs Triple H to return to Raw . Later, they came to the musical arena and their DX outfit. When the couple will do their trademark boxing "Suck It", Triple H turns on Michaels by doing Pedigree on him. Continuing the corner, a week later, Triple H attacked Michaels from behind in the parking lot and put his head through the car window, in the storyline. In response, Michaels challenged Triple H to "fight" (a non-sanctioned game) at SummerSlam, received by Triple H, laying the groundwork for a competition that lasted for several years. In his first official wrestling match since WrestleMania XIV, Michaels won at SummerSlam, but was attacked by Triple H with a hammer after the game. In the Survivor Series, Michaels won the World Heavyweight Championship from Triple H in the first Elimination Chamber match. Michaels's reign as champion ended a month later when he lost the championship for Triple H in a Three-Stage Hell game, a series of three matches where the wrestlers tried to win the majority of the match, at Armageddon.
Michaels then started a rivalry with Chris Jericho, after Jericho claimed that he was the next Shawn Michaels. On January 13, 2003, after Jericho won a royal battle to select his entry number for the Royal Rumble, picked number two to start the match with Michaels, who had been named number one. At Royal Rumble, Jericho, with Christian help, got rid of Michaels. Michaels beat Jericho in WrestleMania XIX. Nevertheless, Michaels suffered a low blow after hugging Chris Jericho. In the final episode of Raw of 2003, Michaels defeated Triple H after Sweet Chin Music for the World Heavyweight title in her native San Antonio, Texas with Eric Bischoff as a special guest referee (Earl Hebner was originally the match referee, only to finish off by Triple H in the middle of the game). However, Bischoff reversed the decision as both men's shoulders were on the mat. Angered by this, Michaels attacked Ric Flair and Bischoff. He was forced to be fired by Bischoff but reinstated by Steve Austin.
As part of the ongoing feud with Triple H, they both competed alongside Chris Benoit in the main event match at WrestleMania XX for the World Heavyweight Championship. The former DX partners both appear short in the match, however, as Benoit wins the championship. The night before this, Shawn Michaels inaugurated Tito Santana at the WWE Hall of Fame. At Bad Blood in June, Michaels lost to Triple H in Hell in a Cell match. Four months later, he lost the World Class heavyweight championship against Triple H after Edge disrupted Taboo on Tuesday, when fans voted for him in front of Edge and Chris Benoit to face Triple H once more. After this, Michaels was out of action for several months with a legitimate torn meniscus.
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At Royal Rumble in 2005, Michaels competed in the Rumble game and eliminated Kurt Angle. In search of revenge, Angle re-enters the ring and removes Michaels, and thus puts it inside the locking lock of the ankle, outside the ring. Michaels issued a challenge for Angle for the match at WrestleMania 21, which Angle accepted when she appeared in Raw to attack Michaels. The following week at Raw, Marty Jannetty and Michaels held a one-time reunion as The Rockers and defeated La RÃ © sistance (RobÃÆ' Â © rt Conway and Sylvain Grenier). Three days later at SmackDown! , Angle defeats Jannetty, after Angle makes Jannetty subject to the ankle lock. To send a "message" to Michaels, Angle also embarrassed Michaels' former manager, Sensational Sherri, when he imposed an ankle lock on him. At WrestleMania 21 in April, Angle defeated Michaels with a bow, once again with an ankle lock. Two months later, in a rematch of WrestleMania 21, Michaels beat Angle on Vengeance's pay-per-view show.
After the events of WrestleMania 21, the following night at Raw , Muhammad Hassan and Daivari came out to confront and attack Michaels. On the April 11 episode of Raw, Michaels approached the authority figure Eric Bischoff, in which he demanded a disability match with Hassan and Daivari. Bischoff refused to schedule such a match and even asked Michaels to find a partner. Michaels then makes an appeal for Hulk Hogan to return and join him. On the April 18th episode of Raw, Hassan once again led the attack on Michaels until Hogan appeared to save Michaels and accept his offer. In Backlash, Hassan and Daivari lost to Hogan and Michaels when Daivari was pinned. On July 4th episode Raw , Michaels and Hulk Hogan have a tag team match, which they won. During a post-match pose, Michaels hit Hogan with his superkick, dropping Hogan to the ground and making Michaels the villain for the first time since returning in 2002. The following week at Raw, Michaels appeared on Piper Piper where he superkicked Roddy Piper and then challenged Hogan for the match at SummerSlam. Hogan beat Michaels at SummerSlam, and after the match Michaels reached out to him, saying "I need to know, and I know" and he and Hogan shake hands. Michaels left the ring to allow Hogan to celebrate with the crowd, and Michaels once again became a fan favorite.
Michaels followed him with a brief feud with Chris Masters, becoming the first person to cleanly beat him at Unforgiven with Sweet Chin Music. On October 3rd episode WWE Homecoming Raw , he fought against the old Kurt Angle for a 2-2 draw in the 30-Minute Iron Man game. After that, he challenged Angle to die suddenly, but Angle refused and walked out. He is part of Team Raw in Survivor Series in a losing venture.
On December 26, 2005, episode Raw , Vince McMahon praised Michaels for his part in "Montreal Screwjob". Michaels says he's just loyal to his company, he's moved, and McMahon has to move too. McMahon then began setting out unusual provisions for Michaels match and disrupt on behalf of opponents Michaels. During the Royal Rumble, McMahon runs into the ring, and when Michaels looks at McMahon, Shane McMahon makes a surprising appearance, getting rid of Michaels from the match. On the February 13th episode of Raw , McMahon tried unsuccessfully forcing Michaels to sign a retirement document. The following week, Michaels won a handicap match against Spirit Squad (Kenny, Johnny, Mitch, Nicky and Mikey) and after the match, Michaels's former partner, Marty Jannetty, descended to help Michaels from an attack by the Spirit Forces. After the two reunite, McMahon offers a contract to Jannetty if he "kisses his ass." The following week, Jannetty refused McMahon's offer and instead took Master Master Challenge Chris Master. Michaels tried to help Jannetty, which eventually led to Shane attacking Michaels and forcing her to kiss his father in the back. On Main Event Saturday Night, Shane defeated Michaels in Street Fight, a game without disqualification and where judgment conditions could happen anywhere, after he applied snipers to Michaels, which caused McMahon to immediately order for the bell for sounded, though Michaels did not give up, which is an allusion to "Montreal Screwjob". Despite the distractions of Spirit Squad and Shane, Michaels beat McMahon in WrestleMania 22 in No Holds Barred match, a match in which there was no disqualification. In Backlash, The McMahons (Vince and Shane) defeated Michaels and "God" in the tag team match, with the help of Spirit Squad in a match that is not disqualified. On the May 22 episode Raw , the Squad was written to injure Michaels knee. This is the angle written so Michaels can undergo surgery on his knee, which has been injured for quite some time.
In 2006, a series of events took place that suggested the reunion of Michaels and Triple H as DX. They start at WrestleMania 22, where both Michaels and Triple H do crotch, during their match. On Raw, both continue to send chops, when Michaels fights with Vince McMahon and Triple H goes to challenge John Cena for the WWE Championship, repeatedly clashing heads with Vince McMahon in the process. On the June 12th episode Raw , DX is officially reunited. During the Triple H gauntlet match, which makes him compete with the Spirit Forces. Michaels came to help Triple H, and both did DX "crotch chops." In Vengeance, the DX beat the Spirit Squad in a 5-versic 2 handicap game. They also defeated the Spirit Squad in the Main Event Saturday night in a 5-on-2 elimination game and beat The McMahons at SummerSlam. At Unforgiven, DX once again beat McMahons and ECW World Champion The Big Show in Hell in a Cell match, finally ending a nine-month feud.
On Cyber ​​Sunday, DX takes Rated-RKO (Edge and Randy Orton). Referees selected by fans Eric Bischoff allowed the use of armchairs illegally to give Rated-RKO an unattainable win and praise as the first tag team to beat DX in the tag team match since their reform in June 2006. In the Survivor Series, however, the DX Team emerged as the winner against the Rated-RKO Team in a sweeping victory. On the New Year's Revolution, Triple H suffered quadriceps right torn right during their match with Rated-RKO. Rated-RKO claimed victory over the DX, citing Triple H injury, as "the end" of the DX. On January 15, Michaels lived up to his words "dealing" with Rated-RKO, from his comments in the previous week, when he issued Randy Orton with a con-chair-to after a disability match against Edge and Orton.
Various feuds (2007-2009)
On January 29th episode Raw , Michaels won the World Tag Team Championship with WWE Champion John Cena after defeating Rated-RKO. He then defeated both Edge and Orton in the Third one-on-one match of Threats on another episode of Raw to get a shot at the WWE Championship. At WrestleMania 23, Cena retained the championship, after which he made Michaels submit to STFU. The next night at Raw, Michaels and Cena competed in two back-to-back teams of ten royal battles, winning the first and losing titles in both to The Hardys (Matt and Jeff) when Michaels threw Cena over rope. Michaels's hostility with Cena continues and she confronts Cena, Edge and Randy Orton in the Fatal Four-Way Match in Backlash for the WWE Championship. Cena retained the championship when Michaels performed Sweet Chin Music in Cena causing him to fall on Orton, which earned Cena pinfall.
Michaels then entered a feud with Randy Orton when Orton claimed that he could defeat Michaels. A week before their game schedule on Judgment Day, after Michaels won the game against Edge, Orton intervened, punting Michaels in the head. Orton attacked Michaels again, just before their game on Judgment Day, interrupting the Michaels interview segment. Michaels fainted during their match, causing Orton to win with the referee's cessation. After that, Orton went on the beating, when he did the RKO to falling Michaels. Michaels was later removed from the ring by a stretcher. During the feud, Michaels conjured up concussions of the story. This injury was used to make Michaels not act, because she needed surgery for her knee. Michaels returns on October 8th episode Raw , performing a superkick to the newly crowned WWE Champion, Randy Orton, during the title ceremony at the end of the show and then celebrating the losing champion. as Vince McMahon watched. On Cyber ​​Sunday, Michaels was chosen by fans to face Orton for the WWE Championship; though he won through disqualification when Orton hit Michaels with a low blow, which resulted in Orton retaining the championship. Michaels got another chance at the WWE Championship, when he was given a rematch against Orton in the Survivor Series. In their match, Michaels is banned from using Sweet Chin Music at Orton's request, referring to Michaels Orton's superkicking week after week. Michaels lost the match, when Orton did RKO for a victory that ended their hostilities.
As part of the plot involving Ric Flair, Michaels faced Flair in a Thrilling Career game at WrestleMania XXIV, where he won by doing Sweet Chin Music and ending Flair's career. After that, Batista confronts Michaels about her actions in WrestleMania, calling her selfish and selfish. Both are facing off in Backlash with Chris Jericho as the guest referee. Michaels won after faking a knee injury and doing Sweet Chin Music. Jericho then faces Michaels on this issue, in which Michaels admits to pretending to be injured to defeat Batista. Michaels then defeated Jericho on the Day of Judgment. At One Night Stand, Michaels lost to Batista in a stretcher game, ending their feud. On June 9th episode of Raw , Michaels was attacked by Chris Jericho during his talk show segment, The Highlight Reel , thrown straight through the television screen. The following week, it was revealed that, in the context of the plot, Michaels suffered a separate retina. In The Great American Bash, a match between Michaels and Jericho is scheduled, where Jericho attacks the eyes of Michaels, which causes Jericho to win with the referee's cessation.
A month later at SummerSlam, Michaels announced his retirement from professional wrestling. That night, Jericho beat Michaels wife in the face. On the next Raw , Michaels leaves his retirement and challenges Jericho to the unauthorized match at Unforgiven, which Jericho receives. The following week, they signed the contract simultaneously for an unapproved game. During this time, they started fighting, causing a small, legitimate tricep tear to Michaels. He was medically cleared to compete in Unforgiven, and defeated Jericho so loudly that the referee called the match. That night, Jericho replaces CM Punk in a World Heavyweight fighting match, and wins the title. Next month. at No Mercy, Michaels lost the championship with Jericho.
In December 2008, Michaels, having lost his family savings due to the global recession, was reluctant to accept a one-year general employment contract from John Bradshaw Layfield (JBL). After failing to help JBL win the World Heavyweight Class Championship from John Cena at Royal Rumble, and ridiculed for it, Michaels agreed to face JBL in the "All or None" game in No Way Out in February. Michaels wins the match, letting him out of his contract early, while still receiving full payment.
On March 2nd, Raw , Michaels became the first to beat Vladimir Kozlov, and earned a match with The Undertaker at WrestleMania XXV in April. The Undertaker beat Michaels in a highly acclaimed match to extend WrestleMania's winning streak to 17-0. After WrestleMania, Michaels took the absent from WWE.
Last match and retirement (2009-2010)
Michaels returned to WWE programming in a series of segments that aired on the episode of August 10, 2009 Raw , where she, in the storyline, left WWE. Triple H met Michaels at the office cafeteria in Texas where he worked as a chef; across all segments, Triple H tries to convince Michaels to return to WWE and reform the DX. After several incidents during the segment, Michaels agreed to work with Triple H to face The Legacy (Cody Rhodes and Ted DiBiase) in SummerSlam. On a pay-per-view event, DX beats Legacy. Both teams exchanged victories, with their feud ending in October. Two months later, at TLC: Tables, Ladders and Chairs, DX beat Chris Jericho and Big Show to win the Unified WWE Tag Team Championship in Tables, Ladders, and Chairs match (TLC). On the January 4, 2010 episode of Raw , Michaels buried the ax with old rival Bret Hart, as they shook hands and hugged the ring. In contrast to the storyline featured on the show, this is actually a real-life reconciliation laid out to rest the hostility around the Montreal Screwjob. While some people doubt his sincerity, both men affirm that it is genuine. DX lost the Unified Tag Team Championship in a Triple Threat match to The Miz and Big Show teams on the February 8th episode of Raw , the match also included The Straight Edge Society (CMG and Luke Gallows)). In the payment room of the Elimination Chamber, Michaels financed the Undertaker World Heavyweight Championship at the main event. At WrestleMania XXVI, Michaels lost to The Undertaker and, as a result, he was forced to retire due to the provisions of the match, the same way HBK ended Ric Flair's career. The following night, on March 29th episode of Raw, Michaels gave an emotional farewell speech, departing with a familiar sentence, "Shawn Michaels has left the building."
In an interview with Bill Simmons of ESPN.com not long after his retirement, Michaels stated that his decision to retire came a month before WrestleMania XXV, when a backstage employee asked about his son Cameron and, in response to Shawn informing the employee that he Just nine years old, the employee said he was "half way"; meaning he was halfway to his eighteenth birthday, and after that, he would "go". The statement strongly influenced Michaels; he does not want to be absent when his son leaves home, so he decides that year will be his last year as an active wrestler.
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>On February 13, 2012, he faced Triple H about accepting The Undertaker challenge for Hell in a Cell at Wrestlemania XXVIII, and announced he would be the special guest referee for it. August 6 is "Shawn Michaels Appreciation Night". She appeared on Raw , where she was confronted by Brock Lesnar, then again after the broadcast for the Awards Night ceremony.
On January 24 NXT , he announced a tournament to crown the Team NXT Tag Team Champions. On 1st April 2013 Raw , Michaels again offered to corner Triple H in her match with Lesnar at WrestleMania 29. During the match, Michaels gave Paul Heyman a super-skinning, helping Triple H win and keep the job. She came back on May 27 Raw in the backstage segment with John Cena, and again at SummerSlam pre-show.
In October 2013, Michaels won a fan poll to be a special guest referee for Hell in a Cell match between Daniel Bryan and Randy Orton for an empty WWE Championship. She did Sweet Chin Music at Bryan, allowing Orton to win. The next night at Raw, he explained that he was annoyed with Bryan for attacking Triple H during the game. He degraded Bryan for showing no respect, turning heels for the first time since 2005. Bryan applied "Yes!" Key on Michaels to end the segment. On December 9, he gave Bryan an award for Superstar of the Year. That night, Bryan attacked Michaels with a knee run after Michaels attacked CM Punk with Sweet Chin Music.
On the episode of August 25, 2014 from Raw, Michaels returns along with fellow Hulk Hogan and Ric Flair legends in the panel segment of the legend, where he predicts Bray Wyatt to win the rumble. The three legends were then involved in a quarrel with the Big Show. Michaels appeared on WrestleMania 31, disturbing as a DX member in the Sting vs. game. Triple H, featuring Sweet Chin Music to Sting. On the WWE tour in Australia Michaels was confronted by Bo Dallas and called an existing one and got Sweet Chin Music because of problems he faced again in the process. Michaels appeared on the October 19, 2015 episode of Raw , facing Seth Rollins who was cutting promos to release Kane from his job as Director of Operations.
Coach and sporadic (2016-present)
At WrestleMania 32, Michaels made an appearance during the show with her underwear in the ring, facing The League of Nations with Mick Foley and Stone Cold Steve Austin where Michaels ushered Sweet Chin Music to Alberto Del Rio and King Barrett before celebrating with Foley, Austin and New Day.
At the end of 2016, Michaels coaches at the WWE Performance Center.
On January 9, 2017 episode Raw , Michaels returned to WWE, promoting her new movie. Michaels was later confronted by Rusev, Lana and Jinder Mahal, before Enzo Amore and Big Cass ca, e into the Michaels side, leading into a match between Big Cass and Mahal, with Michaels being on the corner of Big Cass. Big Cass won the match, after Michaels watched Rusev in the ringide, distracting Mahal. On the March 13th episode of Raw, Michaels advised Roman Reigns on The Undertaker for their match at WrestleMania 33, before Braun Strowman attacked Reigns in the driveway.
According to Pro Wrestling Torch in 2017, Michaels with Terry Taylor taught finishing classes at the WWE Performance Center, the last of four grade levels.
Michaels and many other WWE legends appeared on January 22, 2018 episode of Raw 25 Years.
Personal life
Hickenbottom's first marriage to Theresa Wood soon ended in a peaceful divorce. He married Rebecca Curci, a former WCW Nitro Girl known as Whisper, on March 31, 1999, at the Graceland Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas, Nevada. Only Elvis's mate and impersonator were present. Their son, Cameron Kade, was born on January 15, 2000, and a daughter, Cheyenne, born on August 19, 2004 followed. His cousin Matt Bentley was also a professional wrestler, having wrestled in TNA Wrestling and WWE.
In 1996, Hickenbottom pose for a non-nude layout in Playgirl magazine. Just after she posed, she found Playgirl had most homosexual readers, some of whose wrestlers teased her.
He's ambidextrous, and it's hard to tell the difference between right and left, which affects football matches as a boy. He uses his right hand to draw and color and his left hand to write. He usually kicks with his right foot in Sweet Chin Music, but uses one of his arms to drop his signature elbow, depending on his position.
Hickenbottom is a born-again Christian. He was raised a Catholic, but became a non-denominational Christian because of his wife. After his conversion, his robe attire often incorporates the symbol of the cross and he often makes a praying movement on his knee during the entrance of the ring. He was in the audience for a television service from John Hagee Cornerstone Church in his hometown San Antonio, where he was also a Bible teacher. In 2008, he appeared on the Trinity Broadcasting Network program with fellow professional wrestler Sting.
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Shawn Michaels' MacMillan River Adventures
Michaels is the host of the outdoor television show, Shawn Michaels' MacMillan River Adventures. . Michaels joins hunting partner and old friend Keith Mark, owner and operator of the MacMillan River Adventures camp in Yukon, Canada, as they hunt for large animals around the world. This series airs on CarbonTV.
Movieography
HBK line
During their 2015-16 season, the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League named the line, consisting of Carl Hagelin, Nick Bonino and Phil Kessel, "HBK Line" due to the fact that the first initials of the trio, from their last name, are the same as the moniker used by The Heartbreak Kid Shawn Michaels.
After weeks of fun with Penguins fans on Twitter, the team officially invited Michaels for their Eastern Conference Final with Tampa Bay Lightning (which consists of several wrestlers in his fanbase, including Hulk Hogan and Titus O'Neil) at Consol Center Energy, where Michaels received. Michaels met Penguins owner Mario Lemieux and sat down with former Pittsburgh Steelers defensive midfielder Brett Keisel during the game. Keisel also gave Michaels a tour of the city including at Steelers headquarters and lunch at Primanti Brothers in the city's Strip District. The Penguins lost the game in overtime 4-3, but went on to beat Lightning in the series and advance to the Stanley Cup Final, eventually defeating San Jose Sharks for the Stanley Cup. Michaels eventually became friends with Keisel and attended the annual "Shear Da Beard" event in 2017.
Beyond his many performances with WWE, it was not Michaels's first visit to Pittsburgh. In 2013, it appears in the opening of Field & amp; Stream store in Cranberry City suburb.
While Penguins successfully defended their Stanley Cup championship the following year, the HBK Line broke up when Kessel moved into the 2nd row with Evgeni Malkin and Bonino leaving the team at free agent.
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