page_title: Cody Michaels
section_title: Professional wrestling career
hierarchical_section_title: Cody Michaels / Professional wrestling career
caption_attribution_description: English: Cody Michaels and Dick Flanagan The Heartbreakers 1987
context_page_description: Mark Keenan, better known by his ring name Cody Michaels Jr., is an American former professional wrestler. After suffering a serious neck injury, Michaels retired and has worked behind the scenes as a booker and promoter.
context_section_description: Keenan played college football prior to becoming a professional wrestler. He was trained by Dominic DeNucci in Pittsburgh, alongside friends Mick Foley, Brian Hildebrand, and former college teammate Shane Douglas.
  Beginning in 1986, Michaels wrestled for United States Wrestling Association (USWA), World Wrestling Federation (WWF), Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW), National Wrestling Alliance (NWA), and American Wrestling Association (AWA). During his in-ring career, his tag team partners included Jeff Jarrett, Douglas, Foley, Jerry Lynn, Bill Dundee, and DeNucci himself. Michaels' opponents included Steve Austin, Eddie Gilbert, Foley, The Iron Sheik, The Fabulous Ones, and Douglas. Michaels previously was part of a tag team known as The Heartbreakers, with Dick Flanagan, in the late 1980s that was managed by "Captain" Lou Albano for a time.
  In March 1991 Michaels was seriously injured in a match against John Tatum at the Sportatorium in Dallas, Texas. He sustained a broken neck which eventually led to the end of his in-ring career.
caption: Michaels and Dick Flanagan (1987)
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