Shawn Michaels

Shawn Michaels

Michael Shawn Hickenbottom (born July 22, 1965), better known by his ring name Shawn Michaels, is an American television presenter and a retired professional wrestler. He presents the exhibition MacMillan River Adventures Outdoor Channel, and is currently under contract with WWE, where he served as ambassador to the role since December 2010. He always did the WWE, formerly the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), from 1988 until his retirement in early 2010, although in a non-wrestling roles in 1998-2002. Hickenbottom began his wrestling career as the Mid-South Wrestling, now known as Universal Wrestling Federation and the American Wrestling Association (AWA). During that period, AWA, he performed with Marty Jannetty as The Midnight Rockers, winning the AWA World Tag Team Championship twice. Hickenbottom and Jannetty soon signed the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) in 1987, when the contract is AWA. They returned to AWA, only to return to the WWF in 1988.

He later worked as an interpreter Hickenbottom individual taking on a new character in "The Heartbreak Kid" and for the first time as a villain, and later as a favorite, he moved to the area of ​​the main event. He had a considerable influence on the decisions of the reservation that the head of the Kliq, a group of scenes, however, collapsed in 1996. The following year he joined Hunter Hearst Hemsley, often known as Triple H (HHH), Chyna and Rick Rude to form D-Generation X (DX). This group of fighters known for his crude humor immature. That same year, Hickenbottom took part in one of the most controversial matches in the history of wrestling, known as the "Treason of Montreal." After a back injury forced him to retire after losing the WWF Championship at WrestleMania XIV, Hickenbottom opened a wrestling academy, called the Shawn Michaels Wrestling Academy, which was formed in the next fighters. He made his ring return at SummerSlam in 2002.

In 2006, Hickenbottom and Triple H briefly reformed DX, but after an injury that Triple H sustained Hickenbottom returned to singles wrestling. Although since 2009, joined the duo tag-team once, and two eating Unified WWE Tag Team Championship. In the WWF / WWE, Michaels held championships, and headlining the pay-per-view events of each decade from 1990 to the 2010s, at WrestleMania XXVI, was forced to retire from in-ring competition, when he lost his playing career in jeopardy . In December 2010 he signed a long-term agreement with the WWE, when his first live appearance on the show since WrestleMania end of that month. It 'was inserted into the WWE Hall of Fame class in 2011.

Among other accolades, Hickenbottom is a world champion four times: three times the WWF Champion and former world heavyweight champion. It 'was also the winner of the 1995 and 1996, the Royal and the roar of his first Grand Slam champion. He also won the PWI Match of the Year award record eleven times. Hickenbottom currently lives in San Antonio, Texas with his wife Rebecca and their two children.