He is also a two-time Royal Rumble winner (and the first man to win the match as the number one entrant), the first WWF Grand Slam Champion and the fourth WWF Triple Crown Champion, as well as a WWE Hall of Fame class of 2011 inductee. 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 would twice challenge for the WWF Championship and win his first Intercontinental Championship, heralding his arrival as one of the industry's premier singles stars. After winning the AWA 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 the WWF/WWE, Michaels headlined major pay-per-view events between 19, closing the company's flagship annual event, WrestleMania, five times.
He held non-wrestling roles from 1998 to 2000 and resumed wrestling in 2002 until retiring ceremoniously in 2010. In 2017, The Express Tribune declared that Michaels was "often considered to be the greatest in-ring talent ever."Ĭurrently signed to WWE as an ambassador and trainer since December 2010, Michaels wrestled consistently for WWE, formerly the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), from 1988 until his first retirement in 1998. According to Pro Wrestling Torch, he is widely regarded as the finest wrestling performer of the 1990s and 2000s. Michael Shawn Hickenbottom (born July 22, 1965), better known by his ring name Shawn Michaels, is an American actor, professional wrestling personality, television presenter and retired professional wrestler.
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