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Shawn Michaels profile written by
Christina Roddey
"The Man"
He is the Showstopper, the Main
Event, the Headliner, the Icon, Mr. WrestleMania,
and Heartbreak Kid. He has wrestled and won 3
out 4 of WWE first matches (such as Hell in the
Cell, Iron Man, Elimination Chamber, and Ladder
Matches). He is WWE first Grand Slam Champion.
He is no other is Shawn Michaels.
Born
Michaels Shawn Hickenbottom on July 22, 1965 in
Chandler, Arizona but grew up in San Antonio,
Texas. After, graduating from high school, he
attended Southwest Texas State University, but
soon realize college was not for him. Michaels
began pursuing a career in professional
wrestling. He started to train under Jose
Lothario.
Michaels debuts in the
Mid-South Wrestling and Texas All-Star Wrestling
(TAW) promotion. During his time with TAW, he
and Paul Diamond were awarded the TAW Tag Team
Championship by Chavo Guerrero, Sr. He had also
debuted in American Wrestling Association (AWA),
teaming with Marty Jannetty. They were called
"The Midnight Rockers". They won the AWA World
Tag Team Championship. In 1987, The Rockers were
signed to WWF. Two weeks later, they were let go
for a bar incident.
1988, The Rockers was
re-debuted with WWF. October 1990, The Rocker
were to win the tag team titles from Bret Hart
and Jim Neidhart at a taping. WWF void the win
due to a collapsed turnbuckle during the match
and the match would never broadcast or
acknowledged on television. The Rockers would
eventually split during a taping of Brutus "the
Barber" Beefcake's Barbershop. Michaels
superkick (Sweet Chin Music).
HBK
started his singles as a cocky and very vain
villain. He also had his first manager
"Sensational" Sherri Martel, who also sung his
theme music "Sexy Boy". Michaels was a big
competitor for the Intercontinental
Championship. But he failed to win the I-C from
Bret Hart in the first- ever Ladder Match.
However, he won the belt from "The British
Bulldog" Davey Boy Smith at Saturday Night's
Main Event. When he lost the belt, he hired a
"bodyguard" named Diesel (Kevin Nash), to help
him win it back.
In 1993, Michaels quit
the company, so it was said. But in reality, he
was suspended for testing positive for steroids,
which he still denies. Michaels returned to WWF
television for Nov. Survivor Series to replaced
Jerry Lawler in a match.
August 1994,
Michaels and Diesel became tag team champions.
The next night at SummerSlam, Diesel lost the
I-C to Razor Ramon when Michaels accidentally
kicked Diesel. After that they split, he won the
Royal Rumble and became #1 contender for the WWF
Championship against Diesel ( who won it from
Bob Backlund) at WrestleMaina XI. He then hired
Sycho Sid as his new bodyguard. Michaels lost
the match and was attacked by his new bodyguard
the next night.
May 19, 1996, an incident
known as "Curtain Call: The MGS Incident", where
Michaels won the Steel Cage match against Kevin
Nash. After the match, Scott Hall and Triple H
join them in the ring to give a goodbye hug to
Scott Hall and Kevin Nash (who was leaving to go
to WCW). They was known as the Clique.
Later that summer, Michaels and Triple H, along
with Chyna and Rick Rude form a group called
D-Generation X. Also known as DX. This had
marked the beginning a the Attitude Era. He was
also heavily involved with the "Montreal
Screwjob", as the fans called it. While with DX,
he became both European and WWF Champion at the
same time. He lost the European title to Triple
H ( actually he let him pinned him). Then at
WrestleMania XIV, he lost his WWF title to Stone
Cold Steve Austin and was force to retire
because of his back injures.
He came back
as Commissioner in 1998, then left again. He
came back again in 2002, to join NWO until they
disbanded later that year. Shawn Michaels is
still an active wrestler in the WWE. He is one
of the wrestlers that is still there since RAW
debuted. Right now, Shawn is at war with Chris
Jericho, who punched Shawn's wife in the face at
SummerSlam which caused him to come out of
retirement (which he announced it at SummerSlam
before Jericho came out). He is now in the
running for special referee at Cyber Sunday for
the WWE title match between Jericho and Batista.
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