WWE Star Recalls Having Name Changed By Shawn Michaels For Famous Segment

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WWE’s Shawn Spears has revealed what Shawn Michaels told him before their iconic ‘I just kicked Stan’ spot.

At WWE Cyber Sunday 2006, Michaels dropped a poor production worker backstage and exclaimed “I just kicked Stan” in a now-famous segment.

A fun piece of WWE trivia is that this production member was actually Shawn Spears working as an extra while he was with OVW.

Speaking on Insight with Chris Van Vliet, Spears recalled the segment, revealing that Shawn Michaels actually chose the name ‘Stan’ for him.

Recalling their conversation moments before filming the angle, Spears said:

“Cyber Sunday 2006. I’d just gotten down to OVW, and they needed a few extras. So they grabbed me, pulled me over, and this is where I meet Shawn and Hunter for the very first time.

“They’re doing DX, and they’re saying, Okay, well, Shawn is talking with Hunter. He’s like, maybe I’ll talk to him really quick. Shawn turns to me. He goes ‘What’s your name? ‘ This is (off camera), We haven’t began rolling yet, but we’re gonna roll live here at any minute.

“My name was Shawn Spears at the time, and I went, ‘Shawn.’ He just said ‘your name is not Shawn, my name’s Shawn. Your name is Stan’, So he actually gave me the name. No one else did.

“I was like, this is the best! He’s gonna kick me, just a kid in a candy store. But, yeah, he gave me the name. So I don’t know if anybody knew that, but it wasn’t creative, it wasn’t someone on the writing team or anybody else. Shawn Michaels, you’re at fault for Stan.”

Shawn Michaels – who now serves as WWE’s Senior Vice President of Talent Development Creative – has teased ‘big surprises’ for NXT’s upcoming CW premiere, which you can read more about right here.

Shawn Spears on what Shawn Michaels said to him right before their famous 'I just kicked Stan' #WWE spot:

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