![]() ![]() Michaels made his televised debut on Octoteaming with Jim Hornet in a losing effort against the tag team of Hercules Hernandez and "Dr. Michaels's performance in his debut match impressed many veterans, including Terry Taylor. After his training with Lothario, he debuted as Shawn Michaels with the National Wrestling Alliance's (NWA) Mid-South Wrestling territory on October 16, 1984, against Art Crews, losing to Crews via swinging neckbreaker. During his training, Hickenbottom adopted the ring name, "Shawn Michaels". Hickenbottom began to train under Mexican professional wrestler Jose Lothario. Professional wrestling career Part of a series on His cousin Matt Bentley is also a wrestler. He attended Southwest Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas, but dropped out to pursue a career in professional wrestling. He was a stand-out linebacker at Randolph High School on Randolph Air Force Base and eventually became captain of the football team. He was a keen athlete while growing up, and his sporting career began at the age of six when he played football. He knew he wanted to become a professional wrestler at the age of 12 and performed a wrestling routine at his high school's talent show, complete with fake blood. Additionally, Hickenbottom moved around frequently since his father was in the military. Ever since, he has been referred to as Shawn. As a child, he disliked the name "Michael" and convinced his family and friends to address him by his middle name. He was raised in a military family and briefly spent some of his early years in the English town of Reading, Berkshire, but grew up primarily in San Antonio, Texas. He has an older sister named Shari and two older brothers named Randy and Scott. ![]() Michael Shawn Hickenbottom was born in Chandler, Arizona, on July 22, 1965. Michaels has been a participant in several first installments of a number of WWE's signature gimmick matches-namely the first Hell in a Cell at the Badd Blood: In Your House, the first Ladder match during a taping of WWF Wrestling Challenge (and subsequent first pay-per-view installment at WrestleMania X), both the inaugural (as part of The Rockers tag team) and first televised (at WrestleMania XII) Iron Man matches, and Elimination Chamber at the 2002 Survivor Series. Michaels won the Pro Wrestling Illustrated " Match of the Year" reader vote a record eleven times, and his match against John Cena on April 23, 2007, was ranked by WWE as the best match ever aired on the company's flagship television program, Raw. He is also a two-time Royal Rumble winner (and the first man to win the match as the first entrant), the company's first Grand Slam Champion and fourth Triple Crown Champion, as well as a two-time WWE Hall of Fame inductee ( 2011 as a singles wrestler and 2019 as part of D-Generation X). Michaels is a four-time world champion, having held the WWF Championship three times and WWE's World Heavyweight Championship once. Within the year, Michaels twice challenged for the WWF Championship and won his first Intercontinental Championship, heralding his arrival as one of the industry's premier singles stars. After winning the AWA World Tag Team Championship twice, the team continued to the WWF as The Rockers and had a high-profile breakup in January 1992. Michaels also wrestled in the American Wrestling Association (AWA), where he founded The Midnight Rockers with Marty Jannetty in 1985. He was the co-founder and original leader of the successful stable, D-Generation X. In WWF/WWE, Michaels headlined pay-per-view events between 19, main-eventing the company's flagship annual event, WrestleMania, five times. In 2016, he began working as a coach at the WWE Performance Center, and from 2018 as a producer on NXT, before becoming the Senior Vice President of Talent Development Creative for the NXT brand itself. He returned for a one-off final match in 2018. He performed in non-wrestling roles for the next two years, resuming his wrestling career with WWE in 2002 until ceremoniously retiring in 2010. Michaels wrestled consistently for WWE, formerly the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, renamed in 2002), from 1988 until his first retirement in 1998. Regarded as one of the greatest professional wrestlers of all time, he is known by the nicknames "The Heartbreak Kid" (often abbreviated as HBK), "The Showstopper", and "Mr. 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. Michael Shawn Hickenbottom (born July 22, 1965), better known by his ring name Shawn Michaels, is an American retired professional wrestler. ![]()
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