It’s been eight years since HBK laced up his wrestling boots. These days WWE Hall of famer Shawn Michaels trains the future generation of top WWE stars down in NXT, along with various projects outside the company. But Is Shawn Michaels looking to return to the square circle sometime soon? The former WWE champion doesn’t appear to have any desire to steal the show one more time:
“Let’s just say I did it and the match is phenomenal, the reality is this hairline is still what it is — like it’s all hot and sweaty — and even if the match is phenomenal and everything else, you’re still gonna bust my chops because I’ve got no way not to expose to you that I’m 53. That’s the thing — and I don’t mean it in a bad way — but you want me to nip up and everything look as if it was 1996, ’97. That’s not gonna happen because father time waits for no man. There’s a lot of stuff like what do you do and even does the young guy benefit when all is said and done. I don’t know, it just seems like more trouble than it’s worth.”
Shawn Michaels and WrestleMania are no strangers to one another. The heartbreak kid has countless classics at the grandest show of them all against the likes of The Undertaker, Razor Ramon, Stone Cold Steve Austin, Ric Flair, Kurt Angle, and Bret Hart. There’s no doubt that a ton of work and care are put into each match and build, something Michaels doesn’t want to put his family through again:
“The getting ready for [WrestleMania] is 100% work and I don’t know whether I want to put myself or my family through to do it again and steal the show at 53 for God’s sake. Now it’s a whole different ball of wax is someone says, ‘do you wanna go down and work with some other 40 plus-year-old guys or 50 or whatever and mess around and be silly. You know what I mean? That doesn’t seem like work to me. Something like that I would consider but nobody ever talks about that. It’s always me and somebody half my age.”
In an interview with Bill Simmons of ESPN.com shortly after his retirement, Michaels stated that his decision to retire came a month before WrestleMania XXV, when a backstage employee asked about his son Cameron, and, in response to Shawn telling the employee that he’d just turned nine, the employee said that he was “halfway gone”; meaning that he was halfway to his eighteenth birthday, and after that, he’d be “gone”. The statement affected Michaels greatly; he did not want to be absent when his son left home, so he decided that year would be his last year as an active wrestler. While Shawn Michaels has left his in-ring days behind him, there’s no doubt that the WWE Hall of famer will be remembered by fans fondly from years to come.
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