Shawn Michaels Opens Up About Being Satisfied With Infamous 2018 Return

For a long time, Shawn Michaels was one of the only former WWE stars to stick to his retirement after being retired by The Undertaker at WrestleMania XXVI in 2010.

That was until Shawn Michaels returned to Crown Jewel in 2018, where he teamed with Triple H in Saudi Arabia to take on Kane and the aforementioned Undertaker in a tag team match.

Speaking with Gary Cassidy of Inside The Ropes, Shawn Michaels opened up about his feelings about the match, likening it to going to a ten-year reunion after graduating from high school:

“Even that second one, it felt like its own entity unto itself. It had nothing to do with, really, to me, “one more match.” It was about going out there and having an experience with my guys.

“I mean, it was sort of like just a… I don’t know. It’s like somebody saying, ‘You graduated high school?’ ‘Yes. But I’m going to go back to my ten-year reunion,’ and I’m still going to do that, but it doesn’t mean I’m going back to high school and I want to go through it again. So, I guess that’s how I looked at it was, it was an experience that I just wanted to have – special – with these guys.”

Michaels said that he looks back on his retirement with “complete joy and satisfaction”, noting that he hasn’t struggled with his retirement like other people have done in the past:

“As I say, I still look at my retirement and all of it, again, with nothing but complete joy and satisfaction. I have since, all those years, really begun to understand and appreciate how special that was for me, because so many guys have struggled with it in the past.”

Speaking about that, Shawn Michaels said that he never struggled to step away from the ring like The Undertaker has:

“No, no! Like I said, I guess that’s the thing – I can compartmentalise that. I don’t know if it’s fair, but I can. I think that’s one of the reasons I was able to walk away and be at peace, unlike a lot of people who have struggled with that. And I do understand it.”

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