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Shawn Michaels (born Michael Shawn Hickenbottom on July 22, 1965) is an American retired professional wrestler. He is signed to WWE , where he is the Senior Vice President of Talent Development, Creative, and oversees the creative aspects of the NXT brand , the promotion's developmental territory . [ 6 ]
According to Bret Hart, while he was trying to trip Shawn Michaels's knee, he heard Vince McMahon say, "Ring the bell!" and he described he knew he was screwed right after the referee rang the bell. [9] [26] Michaels's theme music then began playing as the ring announcer declared him the winner and the new WWF Champion.
Triple H and Shawn Michaels kicked off the following episode of Raw by addressing The Undertaker and Kane's attack following Triple H's victory. They stated that the respect that once existed between both sides was gone, leading Triple H and Michaels, the latter coming out of retirement, to reform D-Generation X and challenge The Brothers of ...
The Undertaker then accepted Michaels's rematch offer, after initially declining, at WrestleMania XXVI on March 28 in a Streak vs. Career match, where The Undertaker was victorious and Shawn Michaels was forced to retire. This match also made both The Undertaker and Michaels the first men in WWE history to main event WrestleMania in three ...
Shawn Michaels superkicks Daniel Bryan – Hell in a Cell. Triple H turns on Daniel Bryan and costs him the WWE Championship – SummerSlam; Mark Henry's "retirement speech" – Raw; Paul Heyman turns on CM Punk and costs him the Money in the Bank contract – Money in the Bank
Meanwhile, Shawn Michaels had made his return to WWE and joined the New World Order (nWo). Michaels and Kevin Nash planned to bring Triple H over to Raw in order to put him into the group. Mr. McMahon disbanded the nWo following several backstage complications and brought in Eric Bischoff as the Raw general manager.
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At the start of the Attitude Era, following Shawn Michaels' severe back injury and subsequent retirement from wrestling in 1998, Triple H assumed leadership of D-Generation X. At SummerSlam, Triple H defeated The Rock in a ladder match with the help of fellow D-X member Chyna to win the Intercontinental Championship.