Shawn Michaels

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## The Rockers(1988-1991)

Shawn Michaels debuted with Marty Jannetty at Superstars 145 defeating Dream Team, they were involved in a battle royal NO1 contendership for the WWF Championship as Shawn eliminated former WWF champion Koko B.Ware but was eliminated by Rick Rude.

During Bret Hart's feud with The Ringmasters, he started being helped out by The Rockers who were hunting the tag titles. This led to a winner take all match at Survivor Series where Mr.Perfect, Arn Anderson and Tully Blanchard defeated Bret Hart, Shawn Michaels and Marty Jannetty to retain the intercontinental and tag team belts.

The Rockers continued their hunt as during the 8 week break they won a tournament to become the NO1 contenders to the tag titles but yet again failed to defeat Brainbusters at Wrestlemania 5

They kept being a wildly popular team and kept winning matches but didn't do much during 1989 as their shining spot was at Survivor Series teaming up with Tito Santana and Brutus Beefcake to defeat Rick Martel, Greg Valentine, Honky Tonk Man and Ted Dibiase

This surge in popularity led them to shockingly defeat the tag team champions Colossal Connection at an episode of Superstars, at Summerslam The Rockers defeated CC, Ringmasters and Demolition in a fatal 4 way tag match to become tag champions for the first time but quickly lost it a month later at SNME September 1990 to Demolition

After this loss, they started getting more and more losses with the worst one coming at Superstars 266 as they lost to a brand new team Headbangers after some bad teamwork, at Summerslam they were also defeated by rookie team Beverly Brothers, they argued with each other and Jannetty walked out on Shawn. They managed to get a tag title match at G1 Finals but Shawn walked out on Jannetty and let him be pinned. Shawn started trying to get a singles career going as he was the first man to face Jimmy Snuka in his farewell tour at Survivor Series but lost as Jannetty tried to help him but ended up just distracting him

At This Tuesday in Texas, Shawn and Jannety talked about their problems at an episode of The Barber Shop and made up as they hugged each other but Shawn quickly hit Jannety with a SCM turning heel and throwing him through a window

## Intercontinental Champion and Four Horsemen(1991-1993)

Shawn explained he just didn't need Jannetty anymore, at Royal Rumble 1992 he defeated Jannetty in a singles match and afterwards obliterated his knee with a chair. He entered the Royal Rumble match shockingly eliminated intercontinental champion Bret Hart. During the following weeks he challenged Bret to a IC title match at Wrestlemania which Bret accepted because he had respect for Shawn due to The Rockers day and them being allied, Shawn says he doesn't want any respect from Bret and started getting on his face. At Wrestlemania 8, Shawn won his first singles title defeating Bret Hart in the opening match.

Later on the night, after Koko B.Ware won the WWF Championship, Shawn Michaels, Lex Luger and Bret Hart attacked him and the remaining participants of the main event as they ushered in a new era, they pointed to the stage as WCW Heaviweight champion Ric Flair made his debut and they formed WWF's version of the Four Horsemen

The brand split began as all of Four Horsemen were drafted to Smackdown, Shawn was mostly involved in beatdowns and being the dick of the Horsemen, he ended Tatanka's streak at Smackdown 6 retaining his IC title after cheating with a lowblow. At In Your House 2, Shawn defeated Rick Steiner, Scott Steiner, Owen Hart, Doink The Clown and Tatanka to win the MITB briefcase, Rick Martel started feuding with Shawn trying to get an IC title match and Martel reunited with Tito Santana to beat Shawn and Bret and get the match. At Summerslam Shawn defeated Martel in a ladder match to retain both the MITB briefcase and the IC title

Shawn ended up losing the IC title at G1 Finals in a handicap match against Demolition, at Survivor Series Four Horsemen along with their manager Bobby Heenan faced RAW's top tag team Empire and Heenan turned on 4HM to join Empire causing them the loss, Ric Flair won RAW’s WWF Championship as all of Four Horsemen were traded to RAW in exchange for Empire.

During this year, tensions began brewing again between Shawn and Bret after Shawn defeated Bret in a G1 match and an incident where Shawn accidentally SCM’d Bret. Four Horsemen coming to RAW caused a series of amazing shows which started with Four Horsemen invading RAW and injuring half the roster with Vince Mcmahon then firing GM Jim Duggan and replacing him with Harley Race. Bret, Luger and Shawn Michaels were defeated by 3 local wrestlers in one of the most iconic RAW moments which got the tensions between Bret and Shawn even higher as Shawn teased doing a SCM to him which Bret noticed. At Royal Rumble 1993, they got their win back against the Lucky Trio

Shawn refused to respect Bret and Bret kept saying that ever since they lost against the Lucky Trio because of Shawn, he wanted to beat his ass. At Wrestlemania 9, Lex Luger defeated Ric Flair to win the WWF Championship when Shawn Michaels came out, cashed in and became WWF Champion himself, the main event of Wrestlemania 9 was Bret Hart defeating Shawn Michaels to finally become WWF Champion in 1993’s Match of the Year, all Four Horsemen members held the title once during this night as they all shake hands and throw the 4HM sign to end the show

## Four Horsemen breakup(1993-1994)

Shawn Michaels started acting even more as a dick during 1993 hiring bodyguard Diesel and even having him attack Bret Hart some times just because Shawn wanted a WWF title rematch, he finally got it at RAW 83 but tapped to his biggest rival. At Summerslam Shawn and Diesel lost to Headshrinkers in a fatal 4 way ladder match for the RAW tag titles also involving Heavenly Bodies and Rock N Roll Express.

There was a clear civil war brewing as Flair and Shawn acted like heels doing multiple beatdowns while Bret and Luger acted like babyfaces. Shawn managed to advance onto the G1 finals but lost to Sid after Mr.Perfect attacked Shawn, in the main event Shawn SCM'd Rick Martel in his WWF title match against Bret Hart as Shawn made it clear his intentions that he wanted Bret as champion because ONLY SHAWN COULD END HIS REIGN

At Survivor Series, Shawn, Perfect, Luger and Diesel defeated King Kong Bundy, Ludvig Borga, Adam Bomb and Doink The Clown as part of Team RAW vs Team Smackdown which got Shawn another WWF title match, he was scheduled to have the shot at In Your House 10 but he was attacked backstage by someone unknown and injured so Lex Luger took his spot

Flair and Shawn ended up injuring GM of RAW Harley Race with Bret and Luger pushing them off. A huge segment happened to close off RAW 112 as Harley Race came out in a wheelchair with all of Four Horsemen in the ring. All of Four Horsemen had a legit claim for the title as Luger and Bret didn’t have a clean ending, Shawn had won the Survivor Series Briefcases and Ric Flair had won the Royal Rumble, Shawn tried to SCM Harley but Bret grabbed his leg telling him that enough is enough, Shawn calls him a coward for not putting the title on the line which finally begins a brawl between them and eventually all of Four Horsemen as Harley Race decides that Bret will defend against Shawn Michaels, Ric Flair and Lex Luger in a big Four Horsemen fatal 4 way, they continue brawling as 4HM has split. In the episode of RAW before Wrestlemania, after teasing it for a year but never doing it, Shawn Michaels finally hits the SCM on Bret Hart standing tall with the title. At Wrestlemania 10, Bret Hart defeated all his Four Horsemen members to retain the title.

## Smackdown and feud with Yokozuna(1994-1995)

In the RAW after Wrestlemania, Shawn announced to the world that he lost fair and squared and he has all the respect in the world for Bret Hart, Shawn was traded to Smackdown and on his last night on RAW him and Bret decided to have a friendly 30 minute iron man match which ended in a 2-2 draw officially turning Shawn face before he went to Smackdown

Shawn debuted at Smackdown 89 saving Owen Hart from a beatdown by Razor Ramon and Savio Vega but Owen screamed he didn't need Shawn's help, he got a european title shot against Owen at Smackdown 90 but failed to win, after the match Yokozuna attacked Shawn

Yokozuna explained that Crush, his now tag team partner and a former rival of Shawn, didn't like Shawn and that's why he attacked him. At In Your House 11, Shawn showed his comedy skills in a match against Yokozuna which he won

Shawn SCM'd Razor Ramon at Smackdown 100 starting a feud for the european title, at Summerslam 1994 Shawn defeated Ramon in a ladder match to win the european belt, his first feud was against Hakushi who wanted to make it the "asian belt" but Shawn defeated him at G1 Finals, at Survivor Series Ramon won the title back with help from Jeff Jarrett

He entered a tournament for the vacant world heaviweight title and defeated Mr.Perfect at Royal Rumble 1995 to win the belt but Owen Hart returned, cashed in and became world champion. The brand split ended and Shawn was moved back to RAW, he got his rematch against Owen but Yokozuna and Crush helped Owen win forming Camp Cornette and reigniting their feud. At Wrestlemania 11, Shawn defeated Yokozuna and Crush in a handicap match

## D-Generation X(1995-1997)

Shawn continued feuding with Camp Cornette making sure they wouldn't win a thing, this interconnected with Hunter Hearst Helmsley as Yokozuna was gonna continue beating him down after a win but Shawn saved him. Hunter asked for help by Shawn against his "war" against Bodydonnas, Shawn accepted but told Hunter to chill out a bit and maybe get a bit more edgy, he didn't need to be a gentleman all the time

At In Your House 17, Hunter and Shawn lost their first tag match together against Bodydonnas after Camp Cornette interfered, Shawn was disappointed and didn't wanna team up with him anymore, Hunter asked for "another fucking chance" swearing for the first time in RAW programming, Hunter and Shawn quickly became the most popular WWF act as they started acting against the rules. At Summerslam, they defeated Camp Cornette as they were called a bunch of degenerates

Bob Holly joined Camp Cornette and due to his feud against 123 Kid, he joined D-Generation X by association as he was renamed X-Pac. At Survivor Series, they introduced a woman into their group Chyna as all of them defeated British Bulldog, Yokozuna, Razor Ramon and Bob Holly for Hunter and Shawn to become tag team champions

Shawn and Hunter continued being popular bringing up controversial segments in their promos like the WWF Screwjob and talking shit about the owner of WWF Vince Mcmahon but due to the curtain call, Shawn and Hunter had to be punished somehow so they lost the tag titles to Ahmed and Bradshaw in 4 minutes at Wrestlemania 12, Hunter was fired and Shawn's push was derailed for another year

With Hunter fired, Billy Gunn and Road Dogg were added to DX as they became tag team champions, he turned on X-Pac at King of the Ring as he was going to WCW, he spent the following weeks trying to reveal the newest member of DX but kept being interrupted. Mankind defeated him at Summerslam and in the main event Shawn revealed Barry Windham as the newest DX member as he faced off against WWF champion Vader but lost

DX started feuding with Hart Foundation as the top stable with Shawn aiming for the WWF title again, he entered the 1997 rumble at number 21 and lastly eliminated The Undertaker to win. Shawn was scheduled to face Vader but Bret was also the NO1 contender, they had a match at RAW to determine the wrestlemania challenger which Shawn won, Bret ended up still getting a title shot as he turned heel, won the WWF title and joined Hart Foundation as its leader. At Wrestlemania 13, Shawn defeated Bret to become a 2 time WWF champion

## WWF Champion(1997-1998)

Hart Foundation continued its feud against DX as at Canadian Stampede there was a big winner take all between DX and Stone Cold vs Hart Foundation where HF won as Owen became WWF champion, Bret became IC champion, Bulldog and Neidhart became tag champions

Shawn started blaming Austin for their loss and started a feud against him as well which culminated at Money in the Bank with Shawn defeating Austin to become NO1 contender to the WWF title. At Summerslam, Shawn defeated Owen Hart(and Bret Hart who cashed in during the match) to become WWF champion yet again

He continued his matches against now former members of Hart Foundation as the group started splitting away, he defeated Jim Neidhart at Ground Zero and Brian Pillman at G1 Finals. He was scheduled to face G1 winner The Undertaker at Survivor Series but 1 week before the show, he vacated the belt due to "losing his smile", at Survivor Series he made an appearence wanting to be the special guest ref for the main event of Bret Hart vs The Undertaker for the vacant title but Vince only accepted if Shawn could defeat the debuting MMA fighter Ken Shamrock. Shamrock knocked him out, Bret came out and accepted that Shawn would be the ref. During the match, he tried to chairshot Bret but Bret ducked and Shawn accidentally hit Undertaker, Bret took profit and won the title

Undertaker was pissed and they had the 2nd hell in a cell match at Badd Blood to determine the NO1 contender to the WWF belt which Shawn won after Kane debuted

At Royal Rumble 1998, it was Bret Hart defending the WWF title against Shawn Michaels in what was decided to be their last match together for the next 5 years, Owen Hart was added as the special guest ref and screwed over his brother as he rang the bell without Bret tapping.

On the next episode of RAW, it was revealed that Owen Hart was now a DX member and they had all aligned themselves to Vince Mcmahon who conspired with them to make sure Austin wouldn't become champion as he had just won the 1998 Royal Rumble. Shawn was part of some of the biggest RAW moments that brought WWF to mainstream involving Mike Tyson joining DX and being part of a huge 8 men tag team match. At Wrestlemania 14, Stone Cold defeated Shawn Michaels to win the WWF title and retain the Intercontinental title

## The Corporation and first retirement(1998-1999)

Vince debuted his stable of The Corporation and billed Shawn Michaels as its golden boy, Shawn had his rematch in a ladder match at Unforgiven but even with help from Big Boss Man, Shawn failed, he got another shot in the next episode of RAW with Vince Mcmahon as the special guest ref where suddenly Billy Gunn, Road Dogg and X-Pac turned on Shawn Michaels and The Corporation as they helped Austin win

Shawn lost everyone from DX including Owen Hart who decided to join Jim Cornette's led stable The Union, he got another title shot in a fatal 4 way but lost again as Vince showed himself to be really disappointed in Shawn.

The Rock ended up getting a match against Stone Cold and beat him clean in a non title match as Vince was shocked, Vince started showing favoritism towards Rock and replacing Shawn as the golden boy of his stable

Shawn entered the G1 and was involved in the block that was solely The Union members so he had to claw his way to the finals with no help while The Rock won B Block with all of The Corporation's help. At G1 Finals, Vince Mcmahon was the special guest ref for Rock vs Shawn as Vince rang the bell without Shawn tapping to give The Rock the win

Vince Mcmahon explained that he only screwed over Shawn because he was never able to defeat Austin while The Rock was but Shawn didn't buy it, Vince told him it was punishment for all the shit DX did to him throught the years and now they're even, he tried to shake hands with him and Shawn SCM'd him turning babyface again. Shawn defeated Pat Patterson, Gerald Brisco and Steve Blackman in a handicap match at Survivor Series to become NO1 contender to the WWF belt. He faced The Rock in an episode of RAW and Vince lowblowed Shawn for Rock to retain

The week afterwards as The Union and The Corporation were about to beat each other up, DX's theme hit as they reunited along with Chyna who was the last to betray The Corporation. Shawn only wanted a 1 on 1 match against Vince Mcmahon which he managed to get as all DX members defeated a member of The Union, he got a steel cage match against Vince but with the stipulation that if Shawn put his hands on him, he'd be fired, Austin returned during the match and beat up Vince himself.

Shawn eliminated Vince at the Royal Rumble as he, DX and Austin started causing havoc on Vince throught the weeks, Shawn looked for any gap he could find to face Vince 1 on 1 and had one last preposition, no holds barred, if Shawn won The Corporation would be forced to disband but if Vince won, Shawn was forced to retire, Vince gave him the match if he could survive a 5 men gauntlet which he did as he defeated The Big Show, Faaroq, Test, Owen Hart, The Rock and an unannounced match against Undertaker. Vince still stacked the odds against Shawn as he forced him to face Ken Shamrock before him at Wrestlemania 15, Shawn defeated him in 40 seconds but was unable to defeat Vince Mcmahon as Shane returned and helped Vince win which forced Shawn to retire

After his retirement, he became a full time commentator along with Jerry Lawler and Jim Ross

## Career history

### Companies/Promotions

 WWF(Smackdown)
 WWF(RAW)
 WWF(Smackdown)
 WWF

### Face/heel turns

 Heel
 Face
 Heel
 Face

## Championships and Accomplishments

* World Wrestling Federation
* WWF Championship(4 times)
* World Heaviweight Championship(1 time)
* Intercontinental Championship(1 time)
* European Championship(1 time)
* World Tag Team Championships(2 times) - with Marty Jannety(1), Hunter Hearst Helmsley(1)
* Royal Rumble(1997)
* Money in the Bank(1992)
* Match of the Year (1993) vs Bret Hart at Wrestlemania 9
* Group of the Year(1995) with Hunter Hearst Helmsley, X-Pac and Chyna