#LEGACY OF THE VOID TRAINER PRO#
#LEGACY OF THE VOID TRAINER PROFESSIONAL#

There, he and tag team partner Marty Jannetty defeated The Batten Twins for the NWA Central States Tag Team Championship, later losing it back to the Battens. In April 1985, Michaels went to work for another NWA territory in Kansas City called Central States Wrestling. In January 1985, he debuted for World Class Championship Wrestling (WCCW), the NWA territory in Dallas, Texas. Michaels's performance in his debut match impressed many veterans, including Terry Taylor. After his training with Lothario, he debuted as Shawn Michaels with the National Wrestling Alliance's (NWA) Mid-South Wrestling territory on October 16, 1984, against Art Crews, losing to Crews via swinging neckbreaker. During his training, Hickenbottom adopted the ring name, 'Shawn Michaels'.

#LEGACY OF THE VOID TRAINER PROFESSIONAL#

Hickenbottom began to train under Mexican professional wrestler Jose Lothario. Professional wrestling career National Wrestling Alliance (1984вЂ“1985) He then began pursuing a career in professional wrestling. After graduating, Hickenbottom attended Southwest Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas, but soon realized that college life was not for him. He was a stand-out linebacker at Randolph High School on Randolph Air Force Base and eventually became captain of the football team. Hickenbottom was already an athlete his career began at the age of six when he started playing football. He knew he wanted to become a professional wrestler at the age of 12 and said he performed a wrestling routine in his high school's talent show, complete with fake blood. Additionally, Hickenbottom moved around frequently since his father was in the military. Ever since, he has been referred to as Shawn. As a child, Hickenbottom disliked the name Michael, so his family and friends just called him Shawn. The last of four children вЂ“ Randy, Scott, and Shari are his older siblings вЂ“ he was raised in a military family and spent a brief part of his early years in Reading, Berkshire, England, but grew up in San Antonio, Texas. Hickenbottom was born on July 22, 1965, in Chandler, Arizona. 5.1 Shawn Michaels' MacMillan River Adventures.2.5.11 One match return and NXT backstage work (2018вЂ“present).2.5.10 WWE Hall of Famer and sporadic appearances (2010вЂ“2018).2.5.9 Final matches and second retirement (2009вЂ“2010).2.5.8 Various feuds and championship pursuits (2007вЂ“2009).2.4 World Wrestling Federation and return to AWA (1987вЂ“1988).2.3 American Wrestling Association (1986вЂ“1987).

#LEGACY OF THE VOID TRAINER PRO#

Michaels won the Pro Wrestling Illustrated ' Match of the Year' reader vote a record eleven times, and his match against John Cena on April 23, 2007, was ranked by WWE as the best match ever aired on the company's flagship Raw program. 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 two time WWE Hall of Fame inductee ( 2011 as singles wrestler and 2019 as part of D-Generation X).

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 twice challenged for the WWF Championship and won his first Intercontinental Championship, heralding his arrival as one of the industry's premier singles stars. After winning the AWA World 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 pay-per-view events between 19, main-eventing the company's flagship annual event, WrestleMania, five times. Michaels resumed his wrestling career with WWE in 2002 and retired ceremoniously in 2010, before being assigned as a trainer in 2016. He performed in non-wrestling roles for the next two years and returned to the ring for a match in his own Texas Wrestling Academy (TWA) in 2000. Michaels wrestled consistently for WWE, formerly the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), from 1988 until a back injury forced his first retirement in 1998. Widely regarded as one of the greatest professional wrestlers of all time, he is known by the nicknames 'Heartbreak Kid', 'The Showstopper', and 'Mr. Michael Shawn Hickenbottom (born July 22, 1965), better known by his ring name Shawn Michaels, is an American retired professional wrestler.

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