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‐ That way he's standing,
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I mean, it looks like
it's higher, right?
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Because you do that
from the second rope.
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Boom!
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This job to me is the greatest
life that I could ever live.
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For years people told me
I was too small,
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that I couldn't do this
and I couldn't do that
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and I wasn't going to make it.
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And I've shoved it
in everybody's face.
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No time‐outs in this, man.
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I realize I can't be popular
with everybody all the time.
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So in the meantime, I'm going
to be popular with me,
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and I'm going to be the best.
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‐ There are definitely
two lives of Shawn Michaels.
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You know,
there's who he was before...
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‐ You will not ever
in your lives
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see a man more charismatic,
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more flamboyant,
or more talented
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than the Heartbreak Kid
Shawn Michaels.
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‐ The greatest in‐ring
performer of all time.
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Being a prick
comes natural to Shawn.
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It did.
He was a dick.
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‐ The showstopper,
the headliner, the main event.
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‐ There was so much
bad blood between us,
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and I was always like,
"If I see him, I'll kill him."
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I had so much anger about it.
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‐ Nobody steals my spotlight.
I want it all.
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‐ Shawn Michaels
could do absolutely anything,
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any style to perfection
with anyone.
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When the bell rings,
no one is as good as Shawn.
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‐ I will give you a show
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like you have never ever
seen before.
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Why?
Because I can.
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‐ The only man
to win every major title.
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‐ You can't say anybody
was better, but also tormented.
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He was, like,
on self‐destruct mode.
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‐ I just knew
that he didn't love himself.
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There was something
in him that he despised.
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‐ If you're taking pain pills
at 12 in the afternoon,
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belligerent, falling down,
staggering,
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everything that
you have in your life is this.
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And it's all going away.
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‐ On more than one occasion,
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I really wanted to beat
the hell out of Shawn,
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but I knew there was
a good man
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behind all this other crap.
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‐ The biggest thing
that he ever did
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is turning
his life around
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to where he is now.
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‐ And so, yep,
there are two lives there.
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But there's one Shawn Michaels.
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‐ The very best sports
entertainer in the world.
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[rock music plays]
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[tense music]
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‐ I love it. I say this.
I say we‐‐again‐‐
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Vince used to always tell me
"You go all the way out there,
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I'll reel you back in
if I want to,"
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you know what I mean?
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‐ NXT started out
as a developmental brand
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that grooms WWE superstars.
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‐ Any kind of count up, DQ,
or whatever ends the match.
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‐ There's Shawn's fingerprints
in almost every talent in NXT.
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Shawn is very hands on.
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‐ Then he sits up behind him
and then whack!
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‐ He sold out arenas
all around the world
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when he was
the Heartbreak Kid.
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He's in a different place
in his life now.
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He's humble, he wants
to be behind the scenes.
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It isn't about him.
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He wants to help others
achieve their dreams.
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You've got to say it
with passion and anger.
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‐ Here we go, guys,
three, two, one.
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‐ Seeing Shawn today,
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it's sometimes hard
for people to believe
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that's Shawn Michaels.
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Certain levels of talent
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command certain levels
of respect.
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‐ Just attack
of Johnny Gargano.
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‐ Oh, jeez.
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‐ I added the plexiglass.
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‐ His knowledge
and his wisdom of the business
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and all that stuff,
it's so valuable.
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So excellent job.
Yeah, go, you got this.
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‐ Shawn Michaels' life
is a story
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that a lot of people
could relate to.
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He always wanted more.
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It was a life of never enough.
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And then,
his life totally changes.
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A lot of us have that,
if we're lucky.
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I think the Shawn Michaels
story is one that's really cool
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and one that all of us
can stand to learn from.
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[twangy guitar]
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‐ I was born
into a military family.
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My father was
in the Air Force.
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It was
Michael Shawn Hickenbottom,
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but everybody in my family
called me Shawn.
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My father was a pilot,
so early on we moved a lot.
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He was going to Vietnam.
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We went to England,
then Maryland
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and then we moved to Texas.
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I was about eight‐ish.
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From that point on,
I was in the state of Texas.
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You don't have long‐lasting
friendships in the Air Force.
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The hardest part
for making friends
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was having the last name.
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The roll call, Hickenbottom,
Michael Hickenbottom.
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You could hear the snickers
all over the room.
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Hickenbottom. And, of course...
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It's like, "Son of a biscuit,
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I wish I had
a different last name."
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‐ Shawn was well‐loved.
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He was always very quiet
and very shy growing up.
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He wasn't an extrovert.
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t a good, friendly,
nice little boy.
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And people liked him.
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He was involved in sports
all of his life.
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He just enjoyed
doing everything.
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‐ I was a big fan
of playing football,
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because of the contact.
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You know, contact and athletics
were appealing to me.
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And then I'm 12 years old,
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getting to stay up late
on a Saturday night,
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and this wrestling show
starts.
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Southwest
Championship Wrestling.
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The beginning montage,
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the guy is slow motion
jumping off the top rope.
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I was enthralled in it.
It was just‐‐[laughs]
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I don't know,
the neatest thing I ever saw.
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‐ The best in professional
wrestling and I'm‐‐
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‐ After the show,
I walked out
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and my mom was in the kitchen.
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I said, "I know what I'm
going to do when I grow up."
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And she said, "What's that?"
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I said, "I'm going to be
a professional wrestler."
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She was like,
"Oh, that's nice, honey."
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‐ He began to talk about
that's what he wanted to do,
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and I was sure that ultimately
he would grow out of that,
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but he never did.
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‐ Down at the Freeman Coliseum,
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Shawn would periodically
get to go,
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and, oh,
he saw Tully Blanchard.
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‐ Wahoo McDaniel,
Eddie Mansfield, Scott Casey.
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‐ Of course, then later,
Ric Flair was a wrestling god,
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and he would buy
wrestling magazines,
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and he would look
at Ric Flair,
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and then he would
stand in the mirror,
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and try to talk like him
and look like him.
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‐ Being a wrestling fan,
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it was really a black sheep
source of mockery.
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It's not something you say
with a great deal of pride.
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It was just a relationship
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between me and wrestling
for a while
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and my dad
was an amateur wrestler
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at the University of Iowa,
so he was a real wrestler.
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And, of course, he just gave
some gruff like, "That's fake."
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The kindest thing
I could say about it was
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I considered it to be
an athletic soap opera,
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which has always been
my description
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of professional wrestling.
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‐ Then a new kid
gets transferred.
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His name is Kenny Kent.
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I met Shawn the summer of 1980.
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We were sophomores
in high school. Both 15.
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He would want to wrestle
and throw around his friends,
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and they didn't like it.
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And so I instantly became
his little tag team partner
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and we would just
bash each other
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and throw each other around,
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and that's really what
developed our friendship.
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‐ They'd practice out
in the pool. Frightening.
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[laughs]
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Shawn would lift him
straight him, Kenny,
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and then they'd fall
into the pool.
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His way of practicing.
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‐ Shawn dreamed
of wrestling.
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He would call me and
tell me these matches
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that he would lay out
and prepare.
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He was really obsessed with it.
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[crowd cheering]
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‐ In that time,
you struggled back and forth
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with people who are
telling you it's fake,
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but I am there
watching the guy‐‐whap!
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I mean, hitting the guy
and sweat's flying off.
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There's something to it.
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They've got me
hook, line, and sinker.
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‐ We were a very small school.
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We did not have
a wrestling team.
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But our senior year,
we had a talent show
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and it was Shawn's idea
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that me and him were gonna
do a wrestling match.
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Everything was going
quite well
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until I threw Shawn
off the stage into the crowd,
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and beat his head on the table
a couple of times.
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There was just blood gushing
all over his head.
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And people are going nuts.
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‐ I think we came in second.
We didn't win.
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‐ We got beat
by a group of cheerleaders
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so, you know, two guys
in little tightie whities
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versus cheerleaders,
they're gonna win every time.
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‐ We graduate,
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and then it's
"What are you gonna do?"
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Well, have you decided
what you want?"
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"I still want
to be a wrestler."
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I recognized that I said it
when I was 12,
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but it's just been
a big, big part of my life.
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Okay, that's awesome.
That's not a possibility.
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‐ But, you know, at 17,
you look at him and you think
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you don't know
what you're talking about.
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We said,
"You're going to college."
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‐ There wasn't
a lot of open understanding
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in what I was doing.
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‐ We went off to Southwest
Texas State University.
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When we lived together
at college,
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there were many nights
I would hear him
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and he's standing there
with his shirt off
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and he'd be talking
and screaming at the mirror,
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practicing.
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At the end
of his second semester,
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I think his GPA was 0.4.
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School just wasn't for him,
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and he was ready to make his
move into the wrestling world.
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‐ Essentially, he said,
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"I don't want to waste anymore
of my time or your money.
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I am going to be
a professional wrestler."
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‐ My dad played golf
with this guy,
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and apparently he's the guy
that's a local promoter
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here in San Antonio.
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We go down there,
and Jose Lothario was there.
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‐ From San Antonio, Texas,
superstar Jose Lothario.
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‐ I understood
he was a legitimate name.
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The gentleman stated
"Well, he has to be trained.
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"Jose could do the training
if you wanted.
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It's gonna cost $3,000."
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‐ I thought
about facing him
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when he was 35
or 40 years old,
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and having him say
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"Dad, if you'd have
just given me the chance,
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I could have been
a professional wrestler."
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And I couldn't face
that thought.
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And so I said,
"What the hell."
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[soft music]
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‐ You know,
I wake up every day
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never forgetting
what I did for a living.
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I sort of developed a habit
getting up in the morning,
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stretching
and then the heat pad.
249
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Over the years, you just
come up with a system
250
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that your body responds
well to.
251
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I do some form of training
every day, you know,
252
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to be comfortable
for the rest of the day.
253
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I plan on getting, you know,
new knees, knee replacements
254
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and shoulder replacements.
255
00:11:00.285 --> 00:11:03.872
Those things are gonna add
to my quality of life.
256
00:11:03.997 --> 00:11:05.540
It's not like
I got into this stuff thinking
257
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I want to be independently
wealthy and be 100% healthy.
258
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That doesn't happen.
259
00:11:11.629 --> 00:11:13.173
So I don't know,
I don't mind it.
260
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I don't think that's some big,
crazy sacrifice.
261
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♪
262
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[upbeat music playing]
263
00:11:25.268 --> 00:11:30.815
‐ I first came
across Shawn Michaels in 1983.
264
00:11:30.899 --> 00:11:32.358
Shawn was training
with a gentleman
265
00:11:32.483 --> 00:11:34.068
by the name of Jose Lothario.
266
00:11:34.194 --> 00:11:37.864
Jose was a big star
in Houston, Texas,
267
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Dallas, San Antonio.
268
00:11:40.033 --> 00:11:43.703
‐ He was Hispanic,
so there was a Luchador style.
269
00:11:43.828 --> 00:11:46.748
It was the aerial side
of things.
270
00:11:46.831 --> 00:11:49.042
Thankfully,
in all of that process,
271
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he saw that, "Oh, my goodness,
he's actually pretty good."
272
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It was worth
the $3,000, period,
273
00:11:56.049 --> 00:11:58.593
for him to get me
my first job in Louisiana,
274
00:11:58.676 --> 00:11:59.928
and that could not
have happened
275
00:12:00.011 --> 00:12:01.262
without Jose Lothario.
276
00:12:01.346 --> 00:12:05.725
‐ The pride of Vero Beach,
Florida, Terry Taylor.
277
00:12:05.850 --> 00:12:07.644
‐ The first time
I met Shawn Michaels
278
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working for Mid‐South,
279
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there was this young,
innocent, cheerful,
280
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vibrant sort of
281
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lost young man.
282
00:12:16.027 --> 00:12:17.987
‐ I was scared
of everything.
283
00:12:18.071 --> 00:12:20.823
It was a lot of confusion,
a lot of unknown.
284
00:12:20.949 --> 00:12:23.826
How in God's name
is this supposed to go on?
285
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[upbeat music]
286
00:12:25.036 --> 00:12:26.329
I came walking
through the back,
287
00:12:26.412 --> 00:12:28.456
and Terry Taylor was
standing there at the curtain.
288
00:12:28.539 --> 00:12:30.083
‐ I said, "How long have you
been in the business?"
289
00:12:30.166 --> 00:12:31.709
And he goes,
"That was my first match."
290
00:12:31.834 --> 00:12:34.629
And I couldn't believe it,
because this isn't easy.
291
00:12:34.712 --> 00:12:36.005
‐ Shawn Michaels.
292
00:12:36.089 --> 00:12:38.967
A very young man,
and very inexperienced,
293
00:12:39.092 --> 00:12:41.511
but he has a great deal
of natural athletic ability.
294
00:12:41.636 --> 00:12:44.097
‐ We drove
3,000 miles a week.
295
00:12:44.180 --> 00:12:45.640
That means there's
a lot of time
296
00:12:45.682 --> 00:12:46.891
that you're in the car
doing this,
297
00:12:46.975 --> 00:12:48.184
and he would ask questions.
298
00:12:48.309 --> 00:12:50.645
‐ A young man
who is quite handsome.
299
00:12:50.728 --> 00:12:52.814
‐ I was very well mannered,
I was quiet,
300
00:12:52.939 --> 00:12:54.315
and I wanted to do
nothing but learn.
301
00:12:54.399 --> 00:12:56.943
‐ Some young people
come in, "I know everything."
302
00:12:57.026 --> 00:12:58.903
Nothing like that with Shawn.
303
00:12:59.028 --> 00:13:02.156
Humble, passionate,
driven, hungry.
304
00:13:02.240 --> 00:13:03.825
[crowd cheers]
305
00:13:03.866 --> 00:13:06.703
‐ At about six months,
the owner, Bill Watts,
306
00:13:06.828 --> 00:13:10.748
came to me and he got me
set up in Kansas City.
307
00:13:10.873 --> 00:13:13.084
I was going to have
the opportunity to begin
308
00:13:13.167 --> 00:13:17.463
to grow as a wrestler,
as a performer.
309
00:13:17.588 --> 00:13:19.090
‐ We're hearing
all this, like,
310
00:13:19.173 --> 00:13:20.967
this guy Shawn Michaels,
Shawn Michaels is coming in.
311
00:13:21.009 --> 00:13:22.885
We're like,
"Damn, nobody has gotten
312
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"any attention like this.
313
00:13:24.971 --> 00:13:26.431
What's wrong with us?"
314
00:13:26.514 --> 00:13:27.932
We walked in the dressing room
315
00:13:28.016 --> 00:13:30.059
and this guy had
real short hair,
316
00:13:30.184 --> 00:13:33.396
green tights pulled up
to under his chest.
317
00:13:33.479 --> 00:13:34.981
Let me ask this nerd, like,
318
00:13:35.064 --> 00:13:36.983
"Hey, do you know
who Shawn Michaels is?"
319
00:13:37.066 --> 00:13:39.652
And he leaned back he goes,
"I'm Shawn Michaels."
320
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[laughs]
321
00:13:41.529 --> 00:13:43.990
I was like, "Oh, damn,
we got some work to do."
322
00:13:44.073 --> 00:13:45.116
They threw us
together because
323
00:13:45.199 --> 00:13:46.367
they needed
a match real quick.
324
00:13:46.492 --> 00:13:50.788
We didn't have time to prepare
for it, but it clicked.
325
00:13:50.872 --> 00:13:52.332
‐ Marty Jannetty.
326
00:13:52.373 --> 00:13:54.959
‐ Marty just carried himself
with such confidence.
327
00:13:55.043 --> 00:13:57.962
He was enjoying himself.
He was outgoing.
328
00:13:58.046 --> 00:14:01.466
I was so sort of shy,
conservative.
329
00:14:01.549 --> 00:14:02.717
‐ Shawn Michaels.
330
00:14:02.842 --> 00:14:04.552
‐ Shawn came
from a military family.
331
00:14:04.635 --> 00:14:09.015
Shawn was protected
from a lot of the evils
332
00:14:09.140 --> 00:14:11.267
that lurk in the real world
333
00:14:11.351 --> 00:14:13.436
and having some notoriety,
being on television,
334
00:14:13.519 --> 00:14:16.439
you've got women, you've got
alcohol, you've got drugs.
335
00:14:16.522 --> 00:14:19.567
And it's all readily
available to you.
336
00:14:19.650 --> 00:14:21.152
‐ Yeah,
he liked it right away.
337
00:14:21.235 --> 00:14:23.905
At first,
he wasn't old enough,
338
00:14:23.988 --> 00:14:25.239
so he had to wait
in the parking lot.
339
00:14:25.365 --> 00:14:28.576
We'd bring girls down to him
and beer down to him.
340
00:14:28.701 --> 00:14:30.161
‐ Marty Jannetty
one day said,
341
00:14:30.244 --> 00:14:34.207
"I see something in you
that's just dying to get out."
342
00:14:34.332 --> 00:14:35.708
He said,
"You just need somebody
343
00:14:35.833 --> 00:14:37.126
"to bring it out of you,
344
00:14:37.210 --> 00:14:38.711
and I'm gonna bring it out."
345
00:14:38.836 --> 00:14:41.422
‐ From the Showboat
Hotel and Casino
346
00:14:41.506 --> 00:14:43.132
in Las Vegas, Nevada,
347
00:14:43.216 --> 00:14:46.928
this is AWA Championship
Wrestling on ESPN.
348
00:14:47.011 --> 00:14:48.805
‐ So, I was 20 years old.
349
00:14:48.888 --> 00:14:51.349
TV tapings are in Las Vegas.
350
00:14:51.474 --> 00:14:53.142
At that time,
Marty and I, you know,
351
00:14:53.226 --> 00:14:54.143
I knew he was out there,
352
00:14:54.227 --> 00:14:57.271
so we just started
looking around.
353
00:14:57.355 --> 00:14:58.481
[upbeat music]
354
00:14:58.523 --> 00:15:01.651
All of a sudden there he is,
he's down there playing.
355
00:15:01.734 --> 00:15:03.069
And go down there,
356
00:15:03.194 --> 00:15:05.696
and I went and just do‐do‐do,
pulled it down.
357
00:15:05.780 --> 00:15:06.906
‐ I'm sitting there with him,
358
00:15:07.031 --> 00:15:08.157
and all of the sudden
we hear this,
359
00:15:08.282 --> 00:15:09.742
"Ding, ding, ding,
ding, ding, ding."
360
00:15:09.826 --> 00:15:14.288
Red lights go flashing around,
and Shawn hit triple 7s.
361
00:15:14.372 --> 00:15:17.208
Won 750 bucks
the first time.
362
00:15:17.333 --> 00:15:21.796
The irony of it now, like,
oh, this place was‐‐
363
00:15:21.879 --> 00:15:22.964
Vegas and the nightlife
of Vegas
364
00:15:23.089 --> 00:15:24.674
and everything else
would be my down‐‐
365
00:15:24.757 --> 00:15:25.967
[laughs]
Would be my downfall.
366
00:15:26.008 --> 00:15:27.802
It started later that night.
367
00:15:27.844 --> 00:15:30.680
It's the first line of yayo,
you know.
368
00:15:30.805 --> 00:15:33.224
[laughs]
The first line of blow.
369
00:15:33.349 --> 00:15:37.437
And it's, "Oh, my gosh, this
is the greatest thing ever."
370
00:15:37.520 --> 00:15:40.648
And it's just this
whole world opens up.
371
00:15:40.731 --> 00:15:43.192
I'd have never been able
to get that guy out of me,
372
00:15:43.317 --> 00:15:46.320
and Marty is the guy
that helped tap into that.
373
00:15:46.404 --> 00:15:48.573
I don't even know
how much I knew was there.
374
00:15:48.698 --> 00:15:49.824
♪
375
00:15:49.866 --> 00:15:52.869
‐ Me and Shawn partied
Monday night, Tuesday night,
376
00:15:52.994 --> 00:15:54.662
Wednesday night,
Thursday night.
377
00:15:54.745 --> 00:15:56.164
Come Friday,
we were burned out.
378
00:15:56.205 --> 00:15:59.125
Big Van Vader,
he comes to hang out with us.
379
00:15:59.208 --> 00:16:01.461
He looked at Curt Hennig
and he goes,
380
00:16:01.544 --> 00:16:04.005
"I thought you said
these guys partied."
381
00:16:04.130 --> 00:16:06.716
And Curt said, "They don't
start until midnight."
382
00:16:06.841 --> 00:16:08.134
‐ The Midnight Rockers.
383
00:16:08.259 --> 00:16:10.344
What a sensational pair
they are.
384
00:16:10.470 --> 00:16:13.973
‐ It was like magic.
The Judas Priest song come on.
385
00:16:14.056 --> 00:16:17.143
‐ They love to party.
386
00:16:17.185 --> 00:16:18.853
‐ They've taken
the AWA by storm.
387
00:16:18.936 --> 00:16:19.979
‐ The move
happening faster
388
00:16:20.104 --> 00:16:21.397
than we can
even talk about it.
389
00:16:21.522 --> 00:16:22.857
‐ They've got to put
a bigger roof on the arenas
390
00:16:22.982 --> 00:16:24.150
to hold these two kids in it.
391
00:16:24.275 --> 00:16:26.861
‐ These two
are indeed sensational,
392
00:16:26.986 --> 00:16:28.154
to say the least.
393
00:16:28.237 --> 00:16:31.616
‐ ♪ Living after midnight
394
00:16:31.699 --> 00:16:33.993
♪ Rocking 'til the dawn
395
00:16:34.076 --> 00:16:35.703
[crowd cheering]
396
00:16:35.786 --> 00:16:39.207
‐ Midnight Rockers had
a hell of a run in the AWA.
397
00:16:39.332 --> 00:16:41.334
They'd had TV on ESPN.
398
00:16:41.375 --> 00:16:42.877
‐ The World
Tag Team Championship
399
00:16:43.002 --> 00:16:44.962
is Marty Jannetty
and Shawn Michaels' goal.
400
00:16:45.087 --> 00:16:46.172
‐ They were smaller guys,
401
00:16:46.297 --> 00:16:48.716
but they could work
with the giants
402
00:16:48.841 --> 00:16:50.551
and have a great match.
403
00:16:50.676 --> 00:16:52.136
[crowd cheering]
404
00:16:52.220 --> 00:16:53.679
‐ The Tag Team
Championship of the World
405
00:16:53.804 --> 00:16:56.891
is what they are fighting for
here tonight.
406
00:16:57.016 --> 00:16:59.018
‐ I think he cracked
his head on the cement
407
00:16:59.143 --> 00:17:00.937
when he went out there.
408
00:17:01.020 --> 00:17:02.605
‐ The blood match,
if you will,
409
00:17:02.688 --> 00:17:06.150
was the first time that a
national audience got exposed
410
00:17:06.275 --> 00:17:08.903
to the talent
of the Midnight Rockers.
411
00:17:08.986 --> 00:17:11.322
‐ This is absolute mayhem.
412
00:17:11.405 --> 00:17:14.617
‐ The match itself
was very bloody, very gory.
413
00:17:14.700 --> 00:17:17.036
‐ One of the
toughest, roughest matches
414
00:17:17.161 --> 00:17:19.247
that we have ever seen.
415
00:17:19.372 --> 00:17:20.498
‐ That was kind of like
416
00:17:20.581 --> 00:17:22.333
a defining moment
in their career,
417
00:17:22.416 --> 00:17:25.419
that they were made
at that level.
418
00:17:26.212 --> 00:17:28.089
‐ If we was on the road
300 days a year,
419
00:17:28.172 --> 00:17:29.924
we partied 290 of them.
420
00:17:30.007 --> 00:17:31.217
[laughs]
421
00:17:31.300 --> 00:17:32.927
We used to do a lot of drugs.
422
00:17:33.010 --> 00:17:34.637
There was a lot
of powder around.
423
00:17:34.720 --> 00:17:37.181
‐ You look at rock stars
and you look at rock bands.
424
00:17:37.265 --> 00:17:41.394
There was a tendency to want
to go wild and destroy things.
425
00:17:41.519 --> 00:17:43.229
It's fun when you're young,
426
00:17:43.312 --> 00:17:45.106
because you feel like a rebel.
427
00:17:45.189 --> 00:17:47.191
We've made it, man.
Look at this.
428
00:17:47.316 --> 00:17:49.360
And throw a beer bottle
up against the wall,
429
00:17:49.443 --> 00:17:51.529
and it was, like,
oh, we'll pay for it later.
430
00:17:51.654 --> 00:17:53.239
‐ We always did the job,
431
00:17:53.322 --> 00:17:54.407
but it was just partying
all night.
432
00:17:54.532 --> 00:17:56.742
Destroy your room
at the Showboat
433
00:17:56.867 --> 00:17:59.996
and we got the entire, uh, AWA,
434
00:18:00.037 --> 00:18:02.999
the entire company
got kicked out of there.
435
00:18:03.124 --> 00:18:07.211
It wasn't very long
that we had a reputation.
436
00:18:07.336 --> 00:18:12.174
And once you get it, everybody
else knows you got it.
437
00:18:12.300 --> 00:18:15.136
WWE was starting
to really separate itself.
438
00:18:15.219 --> 00:18:16.137
If that's where
you wanted to go,
439
00:18:16.220 --> 00:18:18.139
that's where you
set your goals.
440
00:18:18.180 --> 00:18:22.810
Finally, Marty got the call
to go into New York.
441
00:18:22.893 --> 00:18:28.691
‐ In 1987, the Rockers
started in Buffalo, New York.
442
00:18:28.816 --> 00:18:32.737
Marty and Shawn looked
at this as their big break.
443
00:18:32.862 --> 00:18:35.031
That night in the bar,
444
00:18:35.156 --> 00:18:37.450
the other talent
looked at Shawn and Marty
445
00:18:37.533 --> 00:18:42.163
as these two young punks
with a chip on their shoulder.
446
00:18:42.246 --> 00:18:43.581
They're gonna have to earn
447
00:18:43.664 --> 00:18:46.626
the respect
of the WWE locker room.
448
00:18:46.709 --> 00:18:49.170
‐ We were scared, man.
We were scared.
449
00:18:49.295 --> 00:18:53.257
So that night, that's why
we kind of kept to ourselves,
450
00:18:53.341 --> 00:18:55.051
and Terry Garvin come up
and he said,
451
00:18:55.176 --> 00:18:56.135
"No, don't do that.
452
00:18:56.218 --> 00:18:58.679
Don't do that.
Y'all have to mingle."
453
00:18:58.804 --> 00:19:02.558
‐ And then all of a sudden
Jimmy Jack Funk, he came over.
454
00:19:02.642 --> 00:19:05.853
He's hammering down these
drinks and he's like, "Hey!
455
00:19:05.936 --> 00:19:07.313
You guys are big partiers!"
456
00:19:07.396 --> 00:19:12.443
He starts eating his glass.
"Come on let's do it."
457
00:19:12.526 --> 00:19:13.986
I at least
gotta be a little tough.
458
00:19:14.111 --> 00:19:17.657
So then I break
a wine glass over my head.
459
00:19:17.740 --> 00:19:21.786
And that was it,
I turn around, I leave.
460
00:19:21.869 --> 00:19:23.496
I would never say
we didn't earn
461
00:19:23.537 --> 00:19:24.747
our reputations,
any of that,
462
00:19:24.872 --> 00:19:25.915
but the wrestling business
463
00:19:25.998 --> 00:19:27.208
is one giant
fish story, all right?
464
00:19:27.291 --> 00:19:29.293
So something happened once
in the wrestling business,
465
00:19:29.418 --> 00:19:31.796
that gets magnified
to ten times.
466
00:19:31.879 --> 00:19:33.297
‐ Some people say
467
00:19:33.381 --> 00:19:35.633
that Shawn or Marty
threw a beer bottle,
468
00:19:35.716 --> 00:19:41.222
which started a chain of events
that couldn't be stopped.
469
00:19:41.347 --> 00:19:42.890
‐ "And then these two guys,
470
00:19:42.973 --> 00:19:44.642
"I mean, they're in there
just getting crazy,
471
00:19:44.767 --> 00:19:48.312
tearing up the bar, throwing
stuff all over the place."
472
00:19:48.437 --> 00:19:52.274
And that's not at all
what happened.
473
00:19:52.358 --> 00:19:56.070
‐ The next day,
Shawn and Marty were fired,
474
00:19:56.195 --> 00:19:58.906
and it was over for them
after one day,
475
00:19:59.031 --> 00:20:03.828
from just the story
and the hearsay and innuendo.
476
00:20:03.911 --> 00:20:06.372
‐ I normally
give reasons as to, you know,
477
00:20:06.497 --> 00:20:09.041
why I'm gonna do something
and I'm sure I did with them,
478
00:20:09.166 --> 00:20:12.461
but that was one and done, out.
479
00:20:12.545 --> 00:20:14.880
‐ He said,
"The guys don't like it."
480
00:20:14.964 --> 00:20:17.258
He said, "They won't let you
make it here."
481
00:20:17.341 --> 00:20:22.805
In my mind,
I'm 23 and it's over.
482
00:20:22.888 --> 00:20:26.142
That was my one big shot.
483
00:20:26.267 --> 00:20:29.311
It happened now and it's gone.
484
00:20:33.983 --> 00:20:36.986
‐ Take a look at Takeover.
485
00:20:37.069 --> 00:20:38.821
We'll watch it,
and I'll Skull you.
486
00:20:38.904 --> 00:20:39.822
‐ Okay.
487
00:20:39.905 --> 00:20:41.157
[laughs]
488
00:20:41.282 --> 00:20:43.534
‐ Shawn Michaels
put his heart and soul
489
00:20:43.617 --> 00:20:45.119
into being
the best pro wrestler
490
00:20:45.202 --> 00:20:46.412
that he could possibly be,
491
00:20:46.537 --> 00:20:49.498
and he does
the exact same thing
492
00:20:49.623 --> 00:20:51.584
as a coach
and as producer.
493
00:20:51.709 --> 00:20:53.461
‐ Stop there
and look at each other.
494
00:20:53.544 --> 00:20:55.421
Can that stuff take
a little longer?
495
00:20:55.504 --> 00:20:57.590
‐ He will find ways
to pick apart
496
00:20:57.673 --> 00:20:59.717
every little thing
to make it better.
497
00:20:59.842 --> 00:21:02.136
‐ Aim for the head.
498
00:21:02.219 --> 00:21:03.637
You can't hold back on that,
499
00:21:03.721 --> 00:21:05.556
because that's gonna cause you
not to get all the way around.
500
00:21:05.681 --> 00:21:07.308
‐ Shawn has this
amazing ability
501
00:21:07.433 --> 00:21:10.144
to instill a confidence in you.
502
00:21:10.227 --> 00:21:11.896
This was a tremendous bout.
503
00:21:12.021 --> 00:21:13.814
‐ I mean, someone
like Shawn Michaels
504
00:21:13.898 --> 00:21:16.484
gives that to you, that's all
the motivation that you need.
505
00:21:16.609 --> 00:21:20.780
[laughter]
506
00:21:22.364 --> 00:21:25.159
[crowd cheering]
507
00:21:25.242 --> 00:21:27.495
‐ The unfortunate byproduct
508
00:21:27.620 --> 00:21:33.542
of Shawn and Marty being fired
after their first day in WWE
509
00:21:33.626 --> 00:21:37.171
is Marty and Shawn had burned
their bridge in the AWA.
510
00:21:37.296 --> 00:21:38.422
Where do you go?
511
00:21:38.506 --> 00:21:39.840
And welcome once again
512
00:21:39.965 --> 00:21:41.467
to Continental Championship
Wrestling and we have‐‐
513
00:21:41.509 --> 00:21:44.762
‐ We ended up
in Birmingham, Alabama.
514
00:21:44.845 --> 00:21:46.555
Continental Wrestling.
515
00:21:46.680 --> 00:21:48.766
I was wrestling
in front of 25 people
516
00:21:48.849 --> 00:21:50.351
at 300 bucks a week.
517
00:21:50.434 --> 00:21:52.812
If you wanted to get $50
in cash,
518
00:21:52.895 --> 00:21:55.439
you get your other $50 in blow,
you could do that.
519
00:21:55.523 --> 00:22:00.194
Which is probably what I did
nine times out of ten.
520
00:22:00.319 --> 00:22:03.614
‐ I heard him talk about
how depressed he was.
521
00:22:03.697 --> 00:22:06.492
At that time, we was
doing a lot of cocaine.
522
00:22:06.534 --> 00:22:07.868
And we would talk
about wrestling
523
00:22:07.952 --> 00:22:11.163
and we would watch wrestling
videos and we would study.
524
00:22:11.247 --> 00:22:12.665
I had to go home
to my girlfriend
525
00:22:12.790 --> 00:22:14.583
like at two or three
or four in the morning.
526
00:22:14.708 --> 00:22:17.211
Sometimes the next
morning sun was out.
527
00:22:17.336 --> 00:22:19.672
And evidently,
the way he says it,
528
00:22:19.797 --> 00:22:22.258
I let him down 'cause
I didn't stay with him more
529
00:22:22.341 --> 00:22:23.801
and he was by himself.
530
00:22:23.884 --> 00:22:25.761
When you're doing cocaine,
you don't want to be alone.
531
00:22:25.845 --> 00:22:28.639
[laughs]
532
00:22:28.681 --> 00:22:30.850
‐ When you're up
at 4:00 in the morning
533
00:22:30.975 --> 00:22:36.438
coming down from the yayo,
that's like, it's very dreary.
534
00:22:36.522 --> 00:22:39.650
Because the low
is just so really low.
535
00:22:39.775 --> 00:22:41.527
I was like,
"Man, if I had a gun,
536
00:22:41.652 --> 00:22:42.820
"this is one
of those times
537
00:22:42.903 --> 00:22:45.823
that I was reckless enough
to have the balls to do it."
538
00:22:45.906 --> 00:22:48.075
At that time, it would
have wrecked my parents.
539
00:22:48.200 --> 00:22:53.497
You know, their suffering is
what pulled me back from that.
540
00:22:53.581 --> 00:22:56.083
But the thing is
I never told them the truth.
541
00:22:56.208 --> 00:22:58.252
So I'm not telling like,
"Jeez, Mama, I'm just partying,
542
00:22:58.335 --> 00:23:00.963
getting hammered
and doing blow."
543
00:23:01.005 --> 00:23:04.925
‐ Shawn and Marty,
they wanted to come back.
544
00:23:05.009 --> 00:23:08.012
I remember Pat Patterson giving
them the advice
545
00:23:08.137 --> 00:23:09.555
to continue to work
546
00:23:09.680 --> 00:23:15.019
and continue to reverse
the reputation that you have,
547
00:23:15.144 --> 00:23:17.313
and prove to us
that you belong.
548
00:23:17.438 --> 00:23:19.481
And that's what
Marty and Shawn did.
549
00:23:19.565 --> 00:23:21.191
‐ Pat was instrumental
in saying,
550
00:23:21.317 --> 00:23:22.985
"Vince, he's a great talent."
551
00:23:23.027 --> 00:23:25.279
and it is difficult for me
to make that decision,
552
00:23:25.362 --> 00:23:26.697
because he was a jerk.
553
00:23:26.822 --> 00:23:28.324
I mean, doing
some stupid things.
554
00:23:28.407 --> 00:23:30.326
But Pat was right.
555
00:23:30.409 --> 00:23:32.995
‐ I was there in '88
when they came back.
556
00:23:33.078 --> 00:23:34.246
It had been a year
557
00:23:34.330 --> 00:23:37.583
since the Rockers had kinda
screwed up on their first day.
558
00:23:37.666 --> 00:23:40.294
‐ We're gonna bring you back,
but you're on probation.
559
00:23:40.377 --> 00:23:42.004
You know,
keep your [bleep] together.
560
00:23:42.087 --> 00:23:45.007
Yes, sir.
561
00:23:45.132 --> 00:23:46.467
‐ Two newcomers, the Rockers.
562
00:23:46.592 --> 00:23:48.427
These guys are excitement
personified.
563
00:23:48.510 --> 00:23:50.554
They'll be high flying.
564
00:23:50.679 --> 00:23:52.806
‐ I met Shawn in 1990.
565
00:23:52.890 --> 00:23:55.768
They were pretty much,
you know, fun loving guys.
566
00:23:55.851 --> 00:23:57.311
They even tested me
a little bit with their,
567
00:23:57.394 --> 00:23:59.229
you know, their antics.
568
00:23:59.355 --> 00:24:02.483
Actually, you know, they were
both pretty much peckerheads.
569
00:24:02.566 --> 00:24:04.902
I mean, I've got to call
a spade a spade.
570
00:24:05.027 --> 00:24:06.487
‐ The Rockers
have got a bag full of tricks
571
00:24:06.612 --> 00:24:07.821
and you ain't
seen nothing yet,
572
00:24:07.947 --> 00:24:09.615
so get ready,
because here we come.
573
00:24:09.698 --> 00:24:11.200
Wow!
574
00:24:11.325 --> 00:24:13.744
‐ They were definitely
innovators
575
00:24:13.869 --> 00:24:16.246
doing tandem moves together.
576
00:24:16.330 --> 00:24:18.999
You know, such a cohesive unit.
577
00:24:19.083 --> 00:24:22.544
The fans went nuts for them,
especially the women.
578
00:24:22.670 --> 00:24:26.215
You know,
the long hair and all that.
579
00:24:26.298 --> 00:24:27.216
‐ There was a transitional
moment
580
00:24:27.299 --> 00:24:29.468
happening in the business
581
00:24:29.510 --> 00:24:32.012
where the athleticism
was picking up.
582
00:24:32.137 --> 00:24:36.350
The ability to do things that
Shawn and Marty could do.
583
00:24:36.475 --> 00:24:38.060
‐ Oh, what a backdrop!
584
00:24:38.185 --> 00:24:40.145
‐ Tag team wrestling now
585
00:24:40.229 --> 00:24:43.273
has been impacted a great deal
by what Marty and I did.
586
00:24:43.357 --> 00:24:44.817
[camera shutter clicking]
587
00:24:44.900 --> 00:24:47.695
‐ The first time you ever
make a magazine is huge,
588
00:24:47.820 --> 00:24:50.239
and we would always go
to the stores,
589
00:24:50.364 --> 00:24:51.699
stop and look
at the magazine racks.
590
00:24:51.824 --> 00:24:54.827
I remember one time
I heard Shawn "Oh, my God!"
591
00:24:54.868 --> 00:24:55.995
And there was a picture of us.
592
00:24:56.078 --> 00:24:59.540
It said
"From Imitators To Innovators"
593
00:24:59.623 --> 00:25:01.542
and he's holding it up
and he was so proud
594
00:25:01.667 --> 00:25:05.129
and I was, like, "Oh, man!
Yeah, we did it!
595
00:25:05.170 --> 00:25:06.213
‐ Shawn Michaels,
596
00:25:06.296 --> 00:25:09.258
Marty Jannetty, the Rockers.
597
00:25:09.341 --> 00:25:11.218
‐ That's a real
notch in the belt,
598
00:25:11.343 --> 00:25:13.470
to be on Saturday night's
main event.
599
00:25:13.595 --> 00:25:14.722
‐ Saturday night's
main event
600
00:25:14.847 --> 00:25:16.932
was finally going
to be the Rockers
601
00:25:17.016 --> 00:25:19.476
winning
the Tag Team Championship
602
00:25:19.601 --> 00:25:22.688
against Bret Hart
and Jim the Anvil Neidhart.
603
00:25:22.813 --> 00:25:24.982
‐ It was gonna be five stars.
604
00:25:25.024 --> 00:25:27.234
It was gonna be as good
a match as we ever had.
605
00:25:27.359 --> 00:25:28.986
[crowd cheering]
606
00:25:29.028 --> 00:25:31.822
‐ We're in the process
of having that match,
607
00:25:31.905 --> 00:25:35.617
and all of a sudden,
the rope breaks.
608
00:25:35.701 --> 00:25:37.494
Bret, the consummate pro,
609
00:25:37.578 --> 00:25:40.039
he understands it's not live,
it's taped.
610
00:25:40.122 --> 00:25:41.540
We can fix all this.
611
00:25:41.623 --> 00:25:42.916
‐ It's taped.
All you've got to do
612
00:25:43.042 --> 00:25:45.002
is grab a hold
and then they'll fix it
613
00:25:45.127 --> 00:25:46.670
and then you're still
in that hold,
614
00:25:46.754 --> 00:25:48.047
then the match can carry on.
615
00:25:48.172 --> 00:25:50.841
And I told them,
I said, "Just fix the rope."
616
00:25:50.924 --> 00:25:52.926
"Fix the rope, fix the rope.
We'll take care of this."
617
00:25:53.010 --> 00:25:56.764
And then we get word,
just to continue without it,
618
00:25:56.847 --> 00:25:59.141
so that's what we do.
619
00:25:59.266 --> 00:26:03.729
‐ It was a disaster,
and I was so sick about it.
620
00:26:03.812 --> 00:26:05.439
‐ We get our
championship victory.
621
00:26:05.522 --> 00:26:08.192
We are doing our best
to look excited
622
00:26:08.317 --> 00:26:14.656
in what is this huge steaming
pile of crap in the ring.
623
00:26:14.740 --> 00:26:16.241
‐ It just looked horrible.
624
00:26:16.366 --> 00:26:18.285
So the match never aired.
625
00:26:18.368 --> 00:26:19.828
‐ Vince calls me and said,
626
00:26:19.912 --> 00:26:22.539
"We're not going to
acknowledge that you've won.
627
00:26:22.664 --> 00:26:24.333
You're going to give
the belts back.
628
00:26:24.416 --> 00:26:25.542
[scoffs]
629
00:26:25.667 --> 00:26:26.960
‐ Like, okay.
630
00:26:27.044 --> 00:26:28.754
Are we gonna have
another opportunity?
631
00:26:28.837 --> 00:26:33.342
No, probably just gonna
go in other directions.
632
00:26:33.425 --> 00:26:34.760
Unbelievably disappointed,
633
00:26:34.843 --> 00:26:38.138
because that's not what you
imagine that moment being.
634
00:26:38.222 --> 00:26:40.099
Done, it's over.
635
00:26:44.353 --> 00:26:47.397
[crowd cheering]
636
00:26:47.523 --> 00:26:52.778
‐ We were on the road
300 days a year for years.
637
00:26:52.861 --> 00:26:55.823
The same hotels,
same rental car,
638
00:26:55.906 --> 00:26:58.617
some of the same girls.
639
00:26:58.700 --> 00:27:00.828
[crowd cheering]
640
00:27:00.911 --> 00:27:02.663
‐ He kicked his own partner
641
00:27:02.746 --> 00:27:04.498
right in the face.
642
00:27:04.581 --> 00:27:06.834
‐ I remember we were
in Denver.
643
00:27:06.917 --> 00:27:10.629
Roddy Piper came in our room
and we had a few girls there,
644
00:27:10.754 --> 00:27:13.715
and Roddy kept
bragging on Shawn.
645
00:27:13.841 --> 00:27:16.927
‐ He was stirring up the pot
as far as saying,
646
00:27:17.010 --> 00:27:18.554
you know, I could be a singles
and, you know,
647
00:27:18.679 --> 00:27:21.306
have great success
and things like that.
648
00:27:21.390 --> 00:27:23.642
And he'd look at me and go
"We've got to work on you.
649
00:27:23.767 --> 00:27:25.894
You're still rough
around the edges."
650
00:27:26.019 --> 00:27:27.855
I was like,
"Roddy, shouldn't we talk
651
00:27:27.980 --> 00:27:29.773
about that some other time?"
652
00:27:29.857 --> 00:27:32.776
And Shawn shoved me
at that point.
653
00:27:32.860 --> 00:27:34.820
[overlapping chatter]
654
00:27:34.903 --> 00:27:36.488
‐ Everybody got in a fight
655
00:27:36.572 --> 00:27:40.325
because everybody was not
in their best frame of mind,
656
00:27:40.409 --> 00:27:41.702
like all the time.
657
00:27:41.785 --> 00:27:43.203
‐ And he attacked me
in the hallway
658
00:27:43.328 --> 00:27:45.914
and then I didn't want to hit
him once, let alone,
659
00:27:46.039 --> 00:27:47.833
you know, over and over.
Had blood.
660
00:27:47.916 --> 00:27:50.085
Like, it looked like you'd,
you know, gutted a deer
661
00:27:50.169 --> 00:27:51.295
or something.
662
00:27:51.420 --> 00:27:53.172
‐ There was speculation
that Marty Jannetty
663
00:27:53.297 --> 00:27:55.090
and Shawn Michaels
are not getting along.
664
00:27:55.174 --> 00:27:56.967
There was speculation
that Shawn Michaels
665
00:27:57.009 --> 00:27:59.553
is kinda wanting to go
on his own.
666
00:27:59.636 --> 00:28:01.180
‐ All of my success
at that point
667
00:28:01.305 --> 00:28:05.017
was Tag Team, but there
was never a time in my career
668
00:28:05.142 --> 00:28:07.019
where someone didn't
say to me,
669
00:28:07.144 --> 00:28:09.521
like, "I think
you've got some talent."
670
00:28:09.646 --> 00:28:12.858
It was eventually
gonna come down to me.
671
00:28:12.941 --> 00:28:15.152
I remember
the first time he told me,
672
00:28:15.235 --> 00:28:17.029
"I want to be
the World Champion one day.
673
00:28:17.154 --> 00:28:19.823
I don't want to tag
the rest of our career."
674
00:28:19.948 --> 00:28:22.534
"I just need you to let me know
when you're ready for that.
675
00:28:22.659 --> 00:28:23.994
Don't spring it on me."
676
00:28:24.077 --> 00:28:27.247
And then he sprung it
on me anyway.
677
00:28:27.372 --> 00:28:31.168
Welcome to the Barbershop,
ladies and gentlemen.
678
00:28:31.293 --> 00:28:36.298
Let's welcome them right now.
They're the Rockers.
679
00:28:36.423 --> 00:28:37.633
[audience cheering]
680
00:28:37.674 --> 00:28:40.302
Recently there's been
a lot of controversy,
681
00:28:40.427 --> 00:28:41.803
a lot of rumors flying guys.
682
00:28:41.929 --> 00:28:43.805
Maybe you guys are
gonna break up.
683
00:28:43.889 --> 00:28:45.807
You've been having
some problems.
684
00:28:45.891 --> 00:28:47.601
‐ I didn't become familiar
with Shawn
685
00:28:47.684 --> 00:28:52.940
until he showed up in WWE with
Marty Jannetty as the Rockers.
686
00:28:53.023 --> 00:28:55.651
That's my first introduction
to Shawn Michaels.
687
00:28:55.692 --> 00:28:59.071
‐ See, one without
the other isn't any good.
688
00:28:59.154 --> 00:29:01.156
Oh! Oh, I knew
he was gonna do that.
689
00:29:01.281 --> 00:29:03.617
I just knew
he was gonna do that.
690
00:29:03.700 --> 00:29:06.078
[overlapping chatter]
691
00:29:06.203 --> 00:29:08.622
Oh, my God!
692
00:29:08.705 --> 00:29:10.832
‐ I would argue
the Barbershop window
693
00:29:10.916 --> 00:29:13.418
was the greatest tag team
breakup of all time.
694
00:29:13.502 --> 00:29:17.589
It is the standard bearer
for turning on a friend.
695
00:29:17.673 --> 00:29:19.633
‐ The super kick?
Oh, he laid it in.
696
00:29:19.716 --> 00:29:23.053
[laughs]
Oh, he got me back for Denver.
697
00:29:23.178 --> 00:29:24.513
[laughs]
698
00:29:24.638 --> 00:29:27.849
Is there a problem
with the Rockers?
699
00:29:27.975 --> 00:29:30.269
‐ It was so effective
700
00:29:30.352 --> 00:29:35.816
that it makes Shawn one of the
most hated men in wrestling.
701
00:29:35.899 --> 00:29:39.403
Shawn Michaels
changed forever that day.
702
00:29:43.865 --> 00:29:47.744
‐ I had this
strange thing with Marty,
703
00:29:47.869 --> 00:29:50.664
because without him,
704
00:29:50.747 --> 00:29:55.168
so much of the good
doesn't happen for me.
705
00:29:55.294 --> 00:29:58.088
But there's a ceiling
on being a tag team, period,
706
00:29:58.171 --> 00:30:02.634
when it's called a leading man
as opposed to a leading duo.
707
00:30:02.718 --> 00:30:04.678
It's just a natural evolution.
708
00:30:04.761 --> 00:30:06.596
Now everybody is gonna find out
709
00:30:06.680 --> 00:30:09.641
what Shawn Michaels
has known all along,
710
00:30:09.766 --> 00:30:11.101
that he is, without a doubt,
711
00:30:11.184 --> 00:30:13.478
the hottest thing in the WWE
712
00:30:13.562 --> 00:30:15.981
has ever, ever laid eyes on.
713
00:30:16.064 --> 00:30:19.192
[rock music playing]
714
00:30:19.276 --> 00:30:21.987
♪
715
00:30:22.070 --> 00:30:24.865
‐ The Heartbreak Kid,
Shawn Michaels, was something
716
00:30:24.990 --> 00:30:27.659
that Shawn just pretty much
came up with.
717
00:30:27.784 --> 00:30:30.996
I don't think that anybody
really mapped out
718
00:30:31.079 --> 00:30:33.123
The Heartbreak Kid.
719
00:30:33.206 --> 00:30:37.961
‐ It's sort of an Elvis
meets Freddie Mercury.
720
00:30:38.045 --> 00:30:42.132
‐ Shawn Michaels
is leavin' the building!
721
00:30:42.215 --> 00:30:47.637
‐ It was allowing me a vehicle
to let this other person out.
722
00:30:47.763 --> 00:30:49.473
To get out there in front
of a bunch of people
723
00:30:49.556 --> 00:30:53.643
and you can‐‐wow, you can just
be somebody you've never been.
724
00:30:53.769 --> 00:30:55.312
‐ Has this guy got it all
or what?
725
00:30:55.437 --> 00:30:57.564
No, I don't know where
all that came from,
726
00:30:57.689 --> 00:30:59.066
I really don't.
727
00:30:59.191 --> 00:31:01.443
He figured Shawn Michaels
could do whatever he wanted to.
728
00:31:01.526 --> 00:31:03.862
What, an alter ego maybe.
729
00:31:03.987 --> 00:31:06.656
The Kentucky waterfall
mullet alone,
730
00:31:06.740 --> 00:31:10.577
probably one of the greatest
mullets of all time.
731
00:31:10.702 --> 00:31:14.498
The dangling earrings,
the Village People outfit.
732
00:31:14.581 --> 00:31:15.832
Your girlfriend wants him,
733
00:31:15.957 --> 00:31:17.501
you're gonna go over
and kick his ass,
734
00:31:17.626 --> 00:31:20.837
but maybe he's gonna kick
yours and take her anyway.
735
00:31:20.962 --> 00:31:23.423
And that's where his heat was.
736
00:31:23.507 --> 00:31:24.674
‐ I was a pretty kid.
737
00:31:24.800 --> 00:31:27.427
I was a pretty man, I don't
mind telling you, at one time.
738
00:31:27.511 --> 00:31:30.013
I could play
the part of Mr. Confident
739
00:31:30.138 --> 00:31:31.264
and everything else,
740
00:31:31.348 --> 00:31:32.516
and could do everything
under the sun.
741
00:31:32.641 --> 00:31:33.809
Couldn't do a lick.
742
00:31:33.892 --> 00:31:36.520
Elvis and Freddie Mercury
were onstage,
743
00:31:36.645 --> 00:31:39.773
they were so frickin' positive,
744
00:31:39.856 --> 00:31:42.359
but in their lives
they struggled.
745
00:31:42.484 --> 00:31:44.986
There was something
there between me
746
00:31:45.070 --> 00:31:47.656
and those individuals
that I could relate to.
747
00:31:47.739 --> 00:31:49.157
You are not comfortable
with who you are,
748
00:31:49.241 --> 00:31:50.867
you're not comfortable
with yourself.
749
00:31:50.992 --> 00:31:53.412
Not knowing
who I was as a human being,
750
00:31:53.495 --> 00:31:56.123
out there
you're playing this role,
751
00:31:56.206 --> 00:32:00.794
but you can do it
with just unbridled confidence
752
00:32:00.919 --> 00:32:03.046
and you absolutely cannot do it
753
00:32:03.171 --> 00:32:05.715
by yourself
in your own hotel room.
754
00:32:05.841 --> 00:32:06.925
I am a high‐performance,
755
00:32:07.008 --> 00:32:08.635
state‐of‐the‐art
wrestling machine.
756
00:32:08.677 --> 00:32:12.305
‐ I think any great character
will be confused
757
00:32:12.389 --> 00:32:14.516
between the human being
and the character,
758
00:32:14.641 --> 00:32:19.062
and Shawn Hickenbottom kinda
morphed into the Heartbreak Kid
759
00:32:19.187 --> 00:32:20.397
at all times.
760
00:32:20.480 --> 00:32:22.983
Shawn was becoming
a little bit more difficult.
761
00:32:23.066 --> 00:32:24.234
And the Intercontinental title
762
00:32:24.359 --> 00:32:27.237
is coming
to the sexiest man, hey.
763
00:32:27.362 --> 00:32:29.990
‐ The WWE was still
the land of the giants,
764
00:32:30.073 --> 00:32:31.992
and there were still
a lot of big guys,
765
00:32:32.117 --> 00:32:33.994
and Shawn wanted
to break through
766
00:32:34.119 --> 00:32:36.079
what he considered
a glass ceiling of,
767
00:32:36.204 --> 00:32:40.000
"I'm not six‐foot‐eight,
I'm not 300 pounds.
768
00:32:40.125 --> 00:32:44.963
I wanna be what I am,
and I wanna be the guy."
769
00:32:45.046 --> 00:32:46.965
‐ When you are that talented
770
00:32:47.090 --> 00:32:50.010
and that hell‐bent
on succeeding,
771
00:32:50.135 --> 00:32:52.512
but you have the chip
on your shoulder
772
00:32:52.637 --> 00:32:53.722
of being the little guy
773
00:32:53.847 --> 00:32:54.764
to get to where
he needed to be,
774
00:32:54.848 --> 00:32:55.891
he had to stand his ground,
775
00:32:55.974 --> 00:32:57.392
he had to fight
for what he wanted.
776
00:32:57.517 --> 00:32:59.436
‐ I was
at the very least as good
777
00:32:59.519 --> 00:33:01.897
or better than, you know,
anybody else
778
00:33:02.022 --> 00:33:03.857
that I was sharing
a locker room with.
779
00:33:03.982 --> 00:33:05.150
I was getting an opportunity
780
00:33:05.233 --> 00:33:07.194
that not many guys like me
were gonna get.
781
00:33:07.319 --> 00:33:09.988
‐ We got a new
Intercontinental Champion!
782
00:33:10.113 --> 00:33:12.199
‐ Shawn may
have been six‐one,
783
00:33:12.324 --> 00:33:14.618
but his ego and the chip
on his shoulder
784
00:33:14.701 --> 00:33:16.077
made him nine‐foot‐five.
785
00:33:16.161 --> 00:33:17.454
‐ Shawn Michaels,
786
00:33:17.537 --> 00:33:19.539
he's our
Intercontinental Champion!
787
00:33:19.623 --> 00:33:21.291
‐ '92‐'93,
788
00:33:21.374 --> 00:33:23.710
Intercontinental Champion
at the time,
789
00:33:23.835 --> 00:33:25.712
looking for Shawn
to really step up
790
00:33:25.837 --> 00:33:28.089
and become a huge star for us.
791
00:33:28.173 --> 00:33:29.257
‐ One thing I did have
792
00:33:29.341 --> 00:33:31.468
is I wasn't scared
of anything.
793
00:33:31.551 --> 00:33:33.887
I was the most dangerous
person in the world
794
00:33:34.012 --> 00:33:35.514
'cause I had nothing to lose.
795
00:33:35.639 --> 00:33:39.142
And when you are like that
in a creative line of work,
796
00:33:39.267 --> 00:33:43.188
you are frickin' unbeatable.
797
00:33:43.313 --> 00:33:47.025
‐ Welcome to WrestleMania 10!
798
00:33:47.150 --> 00:33:49.194
[cheers and applause]
799
00:33:49.319 --> 00:33:52.405
‐ In the process of studying
Shawn Michael's matches,
800
00:33:52.531 --> 00:33:54.908
the one that many people
go back to
801
00:33:55.033 --> 00:33:56.409
is the infamous ladder match.
802
00:33:56.535 --> 00:33:59.913
The match that Shawn Michaels
and Razor Ramone made famous
803
00:34:00.038 --> 00:34:01.373
at WrestleMania 10.
804
00:34:01.498 --> 00:34:03.124
‐ We are making history here.
805
00:34:03.208 --> 00:34:06.002
‐ So right before
WrestleMania 10, leading up,
806
00:34:06.127 --> 00:34:07.587
there was a suspension
with Shawn,
807
00:34:07.671 --> 00:34:10.215
where Shawn had been out
of the company for a while.
808
00:34:10.340 --> 00:34:13.343
Shawn left as
the Intercontinental Champion.
809
00:34:13.468 --> 00:34:16.179
‐ Yeah, he failed
a drug test for 'roids.
810
00:34:16.304 --> 00:34:17.973
At that time, brother,
811
00:34:18.056 --> 00:34:19.933
pills were bein' passed around
in bars.
812
00:34:20.016 --> 00:34:20.934
Like, guys go, "Here, man.
813
00:34:21.017 --> 00:34:22.811
Canadian Valium,
here take this."
814
00:34:22.852 --> 00:34:24.729
‐ Shawn did not feel
815
00:34:24.854 --> 00:34:28.149
that he should have been
suspended, was pissed off.
816
00:34:28.233 --> 00:34:30.235
Vince didn't wanna put up
with him,
817
00:34:30.360 --> 00:34:32.654
thought he was an out
of control egomaniac.
818
00:34:32.779 --> 00:34:35.156
‐ And they'd tell
Shawn to send the belt back
819
00:34:35.240 --> 00:34:38.118
and he says,
"No, I'm not sending it back."
820
00:34:38.201 --> 00:34:40.537
‐ Shawn decides
he wants to come back.
821
00:34:40.662 --> 00:34:42.539
Well, Razor's the
Intercontinental Champion.
822
00:34:42.622 --> 00:34:44.874
‐ So take both
championship belts,
823
00:34:44.958 --> 00:34:46.084
hang 'em above the ring,
824
00:34:46.167 --> 00:34:48.253
you fight to climb the ladder,
825
00:34:48.336 --> 00:34:50.338
whoever gets the championships
above the ring,
826
00:34:50.463 --> 00:34:52.090
that's your true champion.
827
00:34:52.173 --> 00:34:53.717
‐ The two
Intercontinental Championship
828
00:34:53.800 --> 00:34:56.219
belts hanging from above.
829
00:34:56.344 --> 00:34:58.680
‐ For the following contest,
830
00:34:58.805 --> 00:35:01.391
there are no rules!
831
00:35:01.516 --> 00:35:03.643
‐ With the ladder up. Oh!
832
00:35:03.768 --> 00:35:06.313
[cheers and applause]
833
00:35:06.396 --> 00:35:07.981
‐ From high above!
834
00:35:08.106 --> 00:35:09.149
Oh!
‐ Oh!
835
00:35:09.274 --> 00:35:12.277
It's the most barbaric,
insane,
836
00:35:12.360 --> 00:35:14.988
car crash excitement
you've ever seen.
837
00:35:15.071 --> 00:35:16.990
‐ It's starting to shake!
Oh, no!
838
00:35:17.073 --> 00:35:18.366
‐ Oh!
839
00:35:18.491 --> 00:35:20.994
‐ I was able
to have a presence
840
00:35:21.119 --> 00:35:23.747
that I don't
think they knew that I had.
841
00:35:23.872 --> 00:35:26.625
It isn't about size,
it is about presence.
842
00:35:26.708 --> 00:35:28.877
[cheers and applause]
843
00:35:29.002 --> 00:35:30.462
‐ Oh! Oh!
844
00:35:30.587 --> 00:35:33.048
‐ Shawn actually
lost the match,
845
00:35:33.131 --> 00:35:35.634
but it put Shawn
at a different level
846
00:35:35.717 --> 00:35:38.011
that people believed
847
00:35:38.136 --> 00:35:40.263
this little bastard
could do anything.
848
00:35:40.347 --> 00:35:43.600
[cheers and applause]
849
00:35:43.683 --> 00:35:49.022
If you didn't before,
or you didn't want to believe,
850
00:35:49.147 --> 00:35:56.696
Shawn made you believe.
851
00:35:56.780 --> 00:35:59.074
[thuds]
852
00:35:59.199 --> 00:36:00.700
‐ Should close it
and just drop it to the side.
853
00:36:00.825 --> 00:36:03.161
Boom and then you say,
"Okay, mister, here we go."
854
00:36:03.244 --> 00:36:04.412
You know, whatever.
855
00:36:04.537 --> 00:36:06.164
I don't know,
just throwing it out there.
856
00:36:06.289 --> 00:36:09.334
This weekend, we have
one of our bigger events.
857
00:36:09.459 --> 00:36:10.835
Five‐man ladder match.
858
00:36:10.960 --> 00:36:12.045
Is that gonna...
859
00:36:12.170 --> 00:36:13.463
Someone will be holding
that right there.
860
00:36:13.546 --> 00:36:16.800
Many, many years ago,
it was just two of us
861
00:36:16.883 --> 00:36:18.301
and one ladder.
862
00:36:18.426 --> 00:36:19.678
And now,
these young men and women
863
00:36:19.803 --> 00:36:21.638
have taken it to a whole
nother level.
864
00:36:21.721 --> 00:36:23.348
Got a lot of moving parts
around here.
865
00:36:23.431 --> 00:36:26.393
‐ I always dreamed
of being in a ladder match
866
00:36:26.476 --> 00:36:28.144
obviously because
of Shawn and Razor.
867
00:36:28.186 --> 00:36:30.146
[thuds]
868
00:36:30.188 --> 00:36:34.901
Ladder matches are about
crazy stunts, big falls,
869
00:36:35.026 --> 00:36:36.111
it's a car crash come to life.
870
00:36:36.194 --> 00:36:38.154
He is the face
of the ladder match
871
00:36:38.196 --> 00:36:39.572
and to have him kind of
help us out,
872
00:36:39.698 --> 00:36:42.158
have him kinda watch over us,
you can't dream it up.
873
00:36:42.242 --> 00:36:43.827
It's perfect.
874
00:36:43.910 --> 00:36:46.579
There you go.
875
00:36:48.832 --> 00:36:51.376
[cheers and applause]
876
00:36:51.501 --> 00:36:54.713
‐I met him
in the locker room, 1993,
877
00:36:54.838 --> 00:36:56.131
and wanted to know
878
00:36:56.256 --> 00:36:59.134
if I'd be interested
in becoming his bodyguard.
879
00:36:59.217 --> 00:37:01.678
And the first thing out
of Shawn's mouth is,
880
00:37:01.761 --> 00:37:05.432
"Just so you know,
everybody hates us."
881
00:37:05.515 --> 00:37:08.268
The bodyguard position
was 24/7.
882
00:37:08.351 --> 00:37:11.438
It wasn't just
on television persona,
883
00:37:11.521 --> 00:37:13.648
a lot of people
didn't like him.
884
00:37:13.732 --> 00:37:16.484
‐ Shawn Michaels
was misunderstood
885
00:37:16.526 --> 00:37:17.986
all throughout his career.
886
00:37:18.069 --> 00:37:19.571
There was a certain perception
887
00:37:19.654 --> 00:37:21.448
that he was
an ass[bleep], frankly.
888
00:37:21.531 --> 00:37:23.241
Shawn was selfish.
889
00:37:23.366 --> 00:37:25.452
Shawn did have
an out of control ego,
890
00:37:25.535 --> 00:37:26.995
and Shawn did
feel that he
891
00:37:27.078 --> 00:37:28.413
was better
than everybody else.
892
00:37:28.538 --> 00:37:32.751
To be successful and to take
it to the next level,
893
00:37:32.834 --> 00:37:35.253
you have to start looking out
for yourself.
894
00:37:35.336 --> 00:37:37.464
It's not a team sport.
895
00:37:37.547 --> 00:37:39.549
‐ The one thing that was
the saving grace for Shawn
896
00:37:39.674 --> 00:37:44.137
was he was so good
in the ring.
897
00:37:44.220 --> 00:37:45.680
As a performer,
if you work with a guy
898
00:37:45.764 --> 00:37:47.599
that makes you look
that good,
899
00:37:47.682 --> 00:37:49.142
I don't care
what you think of him,
900
00:37:49.267 --> 00:37:50.852
you want to work with him.
901
00:37:50.935 --> 00:37:54.481
‐ Shawn Michaels,
Kevin Nash, Scott Hall,
902
00:37:54.564 --> 00:37:57.650
1‐2‐3 Kid, and then
Paul LeVesque, Triple H.
903
00:37:57.734 --> 00:38:00.153
these were guys that loved
hanging out together
904
00:38:00.278 --> 00:38:05.867
and hence the Kliq
began to form.
905
00:38:05.992 --> 00:38:08.411
‐ We all just hit it off,
and then it was‐‐you know, we‐‐
906
00:38:08.536 --> 00:38:10.288
All we did was talk non‐stop
about the business and,
907
00:38:10.371 --> 00:38:13.750
you know, we were all just
so passionate about it.
908
00:38:13.875 --> 00:38:15.043
‐ The perception was
that the Kliq
909
00:38:15.126 --> 00:38:17.086
was all‐knowing
and all‐powerful,
910
00:38:17.170 --> 00:38:19.339
and that if you crossed
the Kliq,
911
00:38:19.422 --> 00:38:20.924
they'll just go Vince
and you'll be blackballed.
912
00:38:21.007 --> 00:38:22.884
‐ They couldn't call
any of the shots,
913
00:38:23.009 --> 00:38:26.429
but I listened, and they had
some really good ideas.
914
00:38:26.513 --> 00:38:28.348
Really smart, individually.
915
00:38:28.473 --> 00:38:31.309
And Shawn's very smart
when he's sober.
916
00:38:32.310 --> 00:38:34.354
Shawn had an attitude,
917
00:38:34.437 --> 00:38:37.398
when he drank even more so
on top of pills
918
00:38:37.524 --> 00:38:38.775
and Shawn would say,
919
00:38:38.858 --> 00:38:41.820
you know, the wrong thing
at the wrong time.
920
00:38:41.861 --> 00:38:44.656
And he was protected
in a WB environment.
921
00:38:44.781 --> 00:38:49.369
You know,
but outside that environment‐‐
922
00:38:49.494 --> 00:38:50.995
‐ Shawn Michaels,
British Bulldog,
923
00:38:51.120 --> 00:38:52.831
1‐2‐3 Kid walk into a bar.
924
00:38:52.914 --> 00:38:56.042
Me, Scott, and Kev
were in Europe.
925
00:38:56.125 --> 00:38:58.419
It was where we find out
that this all happened.
926
00:38:58.503 --> 00:39:00.463
Bunch of Marines
in a tough bar.
927
00:39:00.547 --> 00:39:04.008
Every eye in that place turns
to the three wrestlers
928
00:39:04.092 --> 00:39:05.385
that just walked
in the door,
929
00:39:05.510 --> 00:39:07.762
of which Shawn
is the megastar.
930
00:39:07.846 --> 00:39:10.473
Every girl in that place
starts to look at Shawn,
931
00:39:10.598 --> 00:39:12.517
Shawn is very enamored
with that,
932
00:39:12.642 --> 00:39:14.060
and Shawn is at
this point in his life,
933
00:39:14.185 --> 00:39:18.273
like, "[bleep] you lookin' at?
Is there a problem, jarhead?"
934
00:39:18.356 --> 00:39:20.275
They go to walk out,
six Marines walk out,
935
00:39:20.358 --> 00:39:21.526
beat the [bleep] out of Shawn
936
00:39:21.651 --> 00:39:24.654
and leave him in the side
of the car.
937
00:39:24.737 --> 00:39:26.489
‐ And the last
thing I can remember is,
938
00:39:26.614 --> 00:39:28.241
you know,
there being the coat check.
939
00:39:28.366 --> 00:39:31.578
The next thing is waking up
in the hospital.
940
00:39:31.661 --> 00:39:36.040
And everything
else is a complete blank.
941
00:39:36.165 --> 00:39:37.709
That was four days
942
00:39:37.834 --> 00:39:41.337
out of a seven day week,
situations like that.
943
00:39:41.462 --> 00:39:43.715
Getting beat up by nine guys
in Syracuse,
944
00:39:43.798 --> 00:39:45.133
to me, there's not
a whole lot of shame in.
945
00:39:45.258 --> 00:39:48.428
You know, that kind of stuff
just sort of happens to me.
946
00:39:48.511 --> 00:39:49.721
I've got two choices‐‐
947
00:39:49.804 --> 00:39:52.432
sit home and cry,
or to come out and be a pain.
948
00:39:52.515 --> 00:39:55.643
And I got news for you,
folks, I'm all cried out.
949
00:39:55.768 --> 00:39:56.853
‐ This moment of existence
950
00:39:56.978 --> 00:39:59.272
was the 20 minutes
in the ring every night.
951
00:39:59.355 --> 00:40:01.024
He wouldn't be messed up.
952
00:40:01.107 --> 00:40:02.692
He'd go in there
and he'd kill it every night,
953
00:40:02.775 --> 00:40:05.069
and then the second
he was done‐‐
954
00:40:05.194 --> 00:40:06.863
[clicks tongue]
955
00:40:06.946 --> 00:40:09.490
"I'm in pain,
and I took some stuff,
956
00:40:09.574 --> 00:40:11.451
"so I wouldn't be
in pain this morning,
957
00:40:11.534 --> 00:40:12.744
but I'm messed up."
958
00:40:12.827 --> 00:40:14.662
Why would you hang out
with this misery 24/7?
959
00:40:14.704 --> 00:40:16.748
No, it's not.
It's again like your brother.
960
00:40:16.873 --> 00:40:18.750
It's like a family member.
961
00:40:18.875 --> 00:40:20.793
Shawn owes his life
to Triple H,
962
00:40:20.877 --> 00:40:24.047
Paul Leveque,
owes his life to him.
963
00:40:24.172 --> 00:40:25.465
‐ Shawn Michaels knows
964
00:40:25.590 --> 00:40:28.426
that the greatest match
of his life
965
00:40:28.509 --> 00:40:31.304
must come this Sunday night.
966
00:40:31.429 --> 00:40:33.806
By the time
you get to the mid‐90s,
967
00:40:33.932 --> 00:40:36.184
Bret Hart
has become a crowd favorite.
968
00:40:36.309 --> 00:40:40.813
Bret is a very soft‐spoken,
quiet, Canadian gentleman.
969
00:40:40.939 --> 00:40:44.776
Shawn is an outspoken,
loud, brash American.
970
00:40:44.859 --> 00:40:48.947
Only one person can
be the absolute alpha dog.
971
00:40:49.030 --> 00:40:52.617
The Iron Man match,
the boyhood dream realized,
972
00:40:52.700 --> 00:40:57.372
it added another layer to the
Shawn Michaels character.
973
00:40:57.497 --> 00:40:58.498
‐ The Iron Man match,
974
00:40:58.623 --> 00:41:00.333
it's the opportunity
where I get to,
975
00:41:00.458 --> 00:41:02.919
you know, get
my first world championship.
976
00:41:03.002 --> 00:41:05.797
‐ There's only one
Heartbreak Kid!
977
00:41:05.838 --> 00:41:10.218
Unbelievable, what a ride!
978
00:41:10.343 --> 00:41:12.011
‐ An hour‐long match,
979
00:41:12.095 --> 00:41:14.806
it's gonna be a long night at
the office, in wrestling terms.
980
00:41:14.931 --> 00:41:19.394
‐ For the WWE Championship!
981
00:41:19.519 --> 00:41:21.479
‐ We start to have our issues.
982
00:41:21.604 --> 00:41:24.649
You know, I was never
big on the Kliq idea.
983
00:41:24.732 --> 00:41:27.110
It was a testy match
in a lot of ways.
984
00:41:27.193 --> 00:41:29.278
‐ Hart's in big trouble.
985
00:41:29.362 --> 00:41:31.406
[cheers and applause]
986
00:41:31.531 --> 00:41:33.199
‐ There was a famous part
987
00:41:33.324 --> 00:41:34.659
where I jump off
the second rope.
988
00:41:34.784 --> 00:41:36.285
[groans]
989
00:41:36.369 --> 00:41:38.663
He comes up and kicks me
in the face
990
00:41:38.705 --> 00:41:39.872
as hard as he could.
991
00:41:39.998 --> 00:41:41.165
I mean, he almost
knocked me out.
992
00:41:41.290 --> 00:41:42.500
‐ Oh, my goodness!
993
00:41:42.583 --> 00:41:44.293
We stiff each other a lot
of times in that match.
994
00:41:44.419 --> 00:41:47.213
[cheering and chatter]
995
00:41:47.338 --> 00:41:50.299
‐ One, two, out!
996
00:41:50.425 --> 00:41:52.969
[bell dings]
997
00:41:53.094 --> 00:41:57.432
‐ The boyhood dream
has come true!
998
00:41:57.515 --> 00:41:59.058
‐ The boyhood dream has
come true,
999
00:41:59.183 --> 00:42:02.645
because that was Shawn's
boyhood dream, it was.
1000
00:42:02.770 --> 00:42:04.856
And that's exactly
what happened.
1001
00:42:04.939 --> 00:42:07.608
‐ It was a very
big moment for my career.
1002
00:42:07.692 --> 00:42:09.736
It's like, oh, it's the first
World Championship
1003
00:42:09.819 --> 00:42:11.988
and you go like, "Hmm,
I pictured it being different."
1004
00:42:12.071 --> 00:42:14.824
I wasn't at a good place
and all that kinda stuff.
1005
00:42:14.949 --> 00:42:18.077
Just a lot of responsibility
that goes with that.
1006
00:42:18.202 --> 00:42:20.246
Now every guy in that locker
room, their well‐being,
1007
00:42:20.371 --> 00:42:24.333
their life, you know,
their livelihood and all that
1008
00:42:24.417 --> 00:42:26.502
depends on the job
that you do.
1009
00:42:26.627 --> 00:42:29.672
You know, it all
falls on your shoulders.
1010
00:42:29.756 --> 00:42:31.299
The whole thing
was uncomfortable.
1011
00:42:33.384 --> 00:42:37.889
‐ As we got into 1996,
Ted Turner, who owned WCW,
1012
00:42:37.972 --> 00:42:41.642
our competitors,
was being very aggressive
1013
00:42:41.684 --> 00:42:45.480
in his quest for new talent.
1014
00:42:45.605 --> 00:42:47.732
Scott Hall and Kevin Nash,
1015
00:42:47.857 --> 00:42:52.612
they were going to leave
and go to Ted Turner's WCW.
1016
00:42:52.695 --> 00:42:54.822
The last matches being
1017
00:42:54.947 --> 00:42:58.618
in New York
in Madison Square Garden.
1018
00:42:58.701 --> 00:43:01.370
‐ On my 19th, 1996,
1019
00:43:01.454 --> 00:43:04.123
one of the greatest days
of wrestling,
1020
00:43:04.207 --> 00:43:05.833
and my life as well.
1021
00:43:05.958 --> 00:43:08.544
Me and my friend went
to a house show
1022
00:43:08.669 --> 00:43:09.962
which was not televised,
1023
00:43:10.088 --> 00:43:11.881
we would sneak in
a camera past security
1024
00:43:11.964 --> 00:43:14.509
and we would film the shows.
1025
00:43:14.592 --> 00:43:18.387
Shawn was my hero
and was my idol growing up.
1026
00:43:18.471 --> 00:43:19.931
[audience cheering]
1027
00:43:20.014 --> 00:43:21.557
The ending shows
Shawn Michaels
1028
00:43:21.682 --> 00:43:23.267
giving Diesel a super kick.
1029
00:43:23.351 --> 00:43:25.645
Match is over.
1030
00:43:25.770 --> 00:43:28.231
And then all of a sudden
Razor Ramon comes out.
1031
00:43:28.356 --> 00:43:29.816
I'm like, "Oh, cool."
1032
00:43:29.899 --> 00:43:32.485
They start hugging and I'm
screaming like a little girl.
1033
00:43:32.568 --> 00:43:34.070
Oh, my God!
1034
00:43:34.195 --> 00:43:35.363
Who's this?
1035
00:43:35.446 --> 00:43:37.073
And it turns out to be
Hunter Hurst Helmsley.
1036
00:43:37.156 --> 00:43:40.243
They all start hugging and, you
know, obviously saying goodbye.
1037
00:43:40.368 --> 00:43:43.329
It was insane.
That night was magical.
1038
00:43:43.371 --> 00:43:45.665
Yeah!
1039
00:43:45.748 --> 00:43:47.166
The business was
well protected
1040
00:43:47.291 --> 00:43:50.670
up until then, and our cameras
still kept going.
1041
00:43:50.753 --> 00:43:52.672
The only camera
that was there.
1042
00:43:52.755 --> 00:43:55.633
If we were not involved
in taping the curtain call,
1043
00:43:55.716 --> 00:43:59.387
it would not be talked
about as much today.
1044
00:43:59.512 --> 00:44:01.139
‐ Place is going insane.
1045
00:44:01.222 --> 00:44:03.558
Everybody knows everything
on the inside of the business.
1046
00:44:03.683 --> 00:44:05.017
There's no secrets.
1047
00:44:05.143 --> 00:44:06.644
‐ People in the business
didn't like it.
1048
00:44:06.727 --> 00:44:09.230
They thought it was
the worst thing that happened.
1049
00:44:09.355 --> 00:44:11.566
Here's this bad guy,
who we have no idea
1050
00:44:11.691 --> 00:44:13.985
is friends with all
these other guys.
1051
00:44:14.026 --> 00:44:16.362
‐ It's breaking
the fourth wall
1052
00:44:16.487 --> 00:44:17.864
and just telling people,
1053
00:44:17.947 --> 00:44:19.323
"Everything we just did
is bull [bleep]. "
1054
00:44:19.407 --> 00:44:22.827
Shawn Michaels is now hugging
and kissing the guy
1055
00:44:22.910 --> 00:44:25.997
that he's just spent 20 minutes
beating the hell out of.
1056
00:44:26.038 --> 00:44:27.540
We entertained you,
but now it's all over,
1057
00:44:27.623 --> 00:44:31.210
we're really good buddies.
Taboo in the wrestling business.
1058
00:44:31.335 --> 00:44:34.714
‐ The tape
was leaked out to a writer.
1059
00:44:34.839 --> 00:44:36.924
The tape blows up on its own.
1060
00:44:37.008 --> 00:44:38.843
‐ I had no idea
that was gonna happen.
1061
00:44:38.926 --> 00:44:41.846
It was something
that's never been done before.
1062
00:44:41.929 --> 00:44:46.601
I'm watching this and going,
"What the hell is going on?"
1063
00:44:46.684 --> 00:44:49.103
The Kliq was an insult
to our business.
1064
00:44:49.187 --> 00:44:51.272
If they had done that
in the '70s, early '80s,
1065
00:44:51.355 --> 00:44:53.608
they'd all four of them get
the [bleep] beat out of 'em.
1066
00:44:53.691 --> 00:44:57.862
They wrestle each other and
they all kiss and say goodbye.
1067
00:44:57.945 --> 00:44:59.780
‐ Somebody's gotta
go down for it.
1068
00:44:59.864 --> 00:45:02.992
Kev's gone, Scott's gone,
Shawn's the champ.
1069
00:45:03.075 --> 00:45:08.497
Stuff rolls downhill and,
yeah, it all rolled on me.
1070
00:45:08.581 --> 00:45:10.166
‐ Triple H is the one
1071
00:45:10.249 --> 00:45:13.336
that probably paid
the heaviest price
1072
00:45:13.461 --> 00:45:15.296
as far as his career
1073
00:45:15.379 --> 00:45:18.424
kind of hitting
a roadblock at that point.
1074
00:45:18.507 --> 00:45:20.134
Shawn didn't really
pay a price.
1075
00:45:20.218 --> 00:45:22.637
‐ I was inherently
selfish regardless,
1076
00:45:22.762 --> 00:45:27.475
so I'm sure I didn't feel
the compassion for him,
1077
00:45:27.558 --> 00:45:32.188
as maybe I should have.
1078
00:45:32.313 --> 00:45:34.690
‐ There was a bit
of a shutdown on Shawn.
1079
00:45:34.815 --> 00:45:37.652
Business is‐‐it's okay,
but it's not great.
1080
00:45:37.735 --> 00:45:38.945
You know,
there's a lot of banter
1081
00:45:39.028 --> 00:45:41.447
about Shawn's not
working as champion.
1082
00:45:41.530 --> 00:45:43.324
He's not drawing.
1083
00:45:43.407 --> 00:45:45.534
He's collapsing
under the pressure.
1084
00:45:45.618 --> 00:45:47.495
I can see him
falling apart.
1085
00:45:47.620 --> 00:45:51.165
Kevin and Scott are gone,
and I'm all he's got now.
1086
00:45:51.249 --> 00:45:52.416
He's a mess.
1087
00:45:52.541 --> 00:45:55.753
‐ I felt a lot of pressure
and I didn't handle it well.
1088
00:45:55.836 --> 00:45:57.672
For me, it was all about
1089
00:45:57.755 --> 00:45:59.590
running and escaping,
and honestly,
1090
00:45:59.674 --> 00:46:01.092
you know, there was running
1091
00:46:01.175 --> 00:46:03.135
and escaping from the dude
I'd become.
1092
00:46:03.261 --> 00:46:05.054
Better than having
to face that,
1093
00:46:05.137 --> 00:46:08.349
I might just take a few
of these and knock myself out.
1094
00:46:08.432 --> 00:46:10.810
Won't have to pay attention
to it till tomorrow.
1095
00:46:10.893 --> 00:46:12.520
‐ He'd be pilled up,
passed out,
1096
00:46:12.645 --> 00:46:16.232
put Shawn on a luggage cart
and roll him up to his room,
1097
00:46:16.315 --> 00:46:18.859
and get him undressed,
take the dip out of his mouth,
1098
00:46:18.985 --> 00:46:20.361
and put him on his side,
put a pillow behind him
1099
00:46:20.486 --> 00:46:22.446
so he wouldn't roll over and
choke to death in his sleep.
1100
00:46:22.530 --> 00:46:25.324
And set an alarm and get up
every two, three hours
1101
00:46:25.408 --> 00:46:26.575
to go check on him.
1102
00:46:26.659 --> 00:46:28.202
And that was every night.
1103
00:46:28.286 --> 00:46:32.206
Well, you know, every night?
Sad existence.
1104
00:46:36.627 --> 00:46:38.671
[cheers and applause]
1105
00:46:38.796 --> 00:46:40.965
‐ What everybody
has to understand
1106
00:46:41.007 --> 00:46:43.301
about Shawn Michaels
is this‐‐
1107
00:46:43.342 --> 00:46:44.635
If I wanna come out here
1108
00:46:44.760 --> 00:46:48.639
and look like a blithering
idiot on live TV,
1109
00:46:48.681 --> 00:46:50.850
believe me, I'm gonna do it.
1110
00:46:50.933 --> 00:46:54.228
Why?
Because I can.
1111
00:46:54.353 --> 00:46:56.772
‐ He had a drug problem
for a while,
1112
00:46:56.856 --> 00:46:58.316
a serious one,
1113
00:46:58.357 --> 00:47:02.611
and he kind of fell
in the hole even deeper.
1114
00:47:02.695 --> 00:47:06.157
But it wasn't until
he became champion
1115
00:47:06.240 --> 00:47:08.659
that I felt that Shawn, uh,
1116
00:47:08.784 --> 00:47:12.747
started to question himself.
1117
00:47:12.872 --> 00:47:14.999
‐ I called his dad,
the colonel,
1118
00:47:15.082 --> 00:47:16.917
and said,
"I'd like to visit."
1119
00:47:17.001 --> 00:47:18.794
So I flew down to meet him
1120
00:47:18.919 --> 00:47:21.297
and I'm saying, "You're probably
not aware of this,
1121
00:47:21.339 --> 00:47:24.592
Shawn really
has a drug problem."
1122
00:47:24.675 --> 00:47:26.052
The colonel got angry.
1123
00:47:26.177 --> 00:47:29.472
He just didn't want to hear it.
1124
00:47:29.597 --> 00:47:31.932
‐ I don't know that anybody
knew how to address it.
1125
00:47:32.016 --> 00:47:34.101
Even things like rehab,
my parents,
1126
00:47:34.185 --> 00:47:35.311
you know, God love 'em,
1127
00:47:35.394 --> 00:47:37.897
I don't that they knew
what it was that you did,
1128
00:47:37.980 --> 00:47:39.231
except just to be worried.
1129
00:47:39.357 --> 00:47:42.443
Not long after that
I tweaked my knee.
1130
00:47:42.526 --> 00:47:44.653
[cheers and applause]
1131
00:47:44.779 --> 00:47:46.322
I went to this dude
in San Antonio
1132
00:47:46.405 --> 00:47:48.824
who doesn't know anything
about wrestling,
1133
00:47:48.866 --> 00:47:50.326
and obviously sees
I've torn my ACL
1134
00:47:50.368 --> 00:47:52.244
and he's like,
"Dude, you're done."
1135
00:47:52.370 --> 00:47:56.499
You know, he said, "You're not
wrestling with a torn ACL."
1136
00:47:56.582 --> 00:48:00.044
I know that over
the last several months,
1137
00:48:00.169 --> 00:48:01.962
I've lost a lot of things,
1138
00:48:02.046 --> 00:48:03.464
and one of them
has been my smile.
1139
00:48:03.547 --> 00:48:06.634
‐ He went in the ring
to announce he was retiring
1140
00:48:06.717 --> 00:48:08.469
'cause he had a bad knee.
1141
00:48:08.552 --> 00:48:10.679
I didn't believe his knee
was the issue.
1142
00:48:10.805 --> 00:48:12.598
I always thought
the issue was
1143
00:48:12.681 --> 00:48:15.851
he didn't want to wrestle me
at WrestleMania 13
1144
00:48:15.976 --> 00:48:17.436
and drop the belt to me.
1145
00:48:17.520 --> 00:48:21.524
I doubted Shawn's integrity
as far as his injury went.
1146
00:48:21.649 --> 00:48:22.650
You phony little faker,
1147
00:48:22.775 --> 00:48:24.318
why don't you take your little
pussyfoot injury‐‐
1148
00:48:24.402 --> 00:48:25.528
‐ All right,
all right, knock it off.
1149
00:48:25.611 --> 00:48:28.072
No, no, no.
‐ It's all right.
1150
00:48:28.197 --> 00:48:29.323
I'm not going anywhere.
1151
00:48:29.407 --> 00:48:30.991
‐ And go back
and find your smile.
1152
00:48:31.033 --> 00:48:32.410
‐ I got accused
of faking it.
1153
00:48:32.535 --> 00:48:33.953
Bret told everybody
I was faking it.
1154
00:48:34.036 --> 00:48:37.832
My excuse is drug addicts
lie all the time.
1155
00:48:37.873 --> 00:48:39.166
Well, there's no doubt
1156
00:48:39.208 --> 00:48:41.043
that you found your smile
again as you stated...
1157
00:48:41.168 --> 00:48:42.795
‐ A year off
of the wrestling business
1158
00:48:42.878 --> 00:48:43.963
was a year of no pay.
1159
00:48:44.088 --> 00:48:47.133
That's just not‐‐
That isn't feasible.
1160
00:48:47.174 --> 00:48:49.343
And they said, "Well, look,
you can put a brace on it
1161
00:48:49.468 --> 00:48:51.011
and wrap it up."
1162
00:48:51.137 --> 00:48:52.805
They went and they got me
a brace and everything else.
1163
00:48:52.888 --> 00:48:55.015
I was like, "Okay,
I can do this."
1164
00:48:55.099 --> 00:48:58.144
And it is time
for the Heartbreak Kid,
1165
00:48:58.185 --> 00:49:00.980
Shawn Michaels
to return to action!
1166
00:49:01.021 --> 00:49:02.398
[suspenseful music]
1167
00:49:02.523 --> 00:49:05.860
‐This was a moment where
things needed to change.
1168
00:49:05.943 --> 00:49:07.820
Business was bad.
1169
00:49:07.903 --> 00:49:09.321
WCW was starting to kill us.
1170
00:49:09.405 --> 00:49:11.115
Put Shawn and I
together on TV.
1171
00:49:11.198 --> 00:49:14.743
We will multiply each other's
personalities on screen.
1172
00:49:14.827 --> 00:49:17.496
Put us together.
DX is born.
1173
00:49:17.621 --> 00:49:19.123
[hard rock music]
1174
00:49:19.206 --> 00:49:21.375
‐ ♪ Degenerate
into something fool ♪
1175
00:49:21.500 --> 00:49:24.295
♪ We just got tired of doing
what you told us to do ♪
1176
00:49:24.378 --> 00:49:27.006
‐ Degeneration X
consisted of Shawn,
1177
00:49:27.089 --> 00:49:28.466
Triple H, and Chyna.
1178
00:49:28.591 --> 00:49:32.761
Two goofs in Shawn and Hunter
that were immature,
1179
00:49:32.845 --> 00:49:36.140
and did everything that
you weren't supposed to do.
1180
00:49:36.223 --> 00:49:38.267
‐ Shawn Michaels,
1181
00:49:38.350 --> 00:49:40.895
you're a disgrace
to professional wrestling.
1182
00:49:41.020 --> 00:49:44.440
I saw it as inmates
had taken over the asylum.
1183
00:49:44.523 --> 00:49:46.066
I'm gonna
start with the degenerate
1184
00:49:46.192 --> 00:49:47.902
right beside
you in the green shirt.
1185
00:49:47.985 --> 00:49:50.029
‐ ♪ Degeneration X
1186
00:49:50.112 --> 00:49:52.990
‐ Suck it!
[laughs]
1187
00:49:53.073 --> 00:49:54.992
‐ Yeah, I can't say
I liked it.
1188
00:49:55.075 --> 00:49:57.328
That smut and
the crotch shots.
1189
00:49:57.411 --> 00:49:59.497
It did get pretty raunchy.
1190
00:49:59.538 --> 00:50:01.457
‐ I don't think
it was over the line.
1191
00:50:01.540 --> 00:50:04.710
You know, we were getting our
tails kicked in the ratings.
1192
00:50:04.793 --> 00:50:08.797
DX took it to the very,
very tipping point
1193
00:50:08.923 --> 00:50:10.758
of going too far.
1194
00:50:10.841 --> 00:50:12.468
But that's what we needed.
1195
00:50:12.593 --> 00:50:16.430
It was kind of a whole facelift
for the company.
1196
00:50:16.514 --> 00:50:17.473
They loved it.
1197
00:50:17.556 --> 00:50:19.141
Ratings are going up,
your segments are hot.
1198
00:50:19.225 --> 00:50:20.309
We are the Degeneration X,
1199
00:50:20.392 --> 00:50:24.688
you make the rules,
and we will break 'em!
1200
00:50:24.772 --> 00:50:26.023
‐ They were the anti‐authority.
1201
00:50:26.148 --> 00:50:27.650
They could do anything
they wanted.
1202
00:50:27.775 --> 00:50:29.652
‐ We were just trying
to make each other laugh,
1203
00:50:29.735 --> 00:50:31.403
say something so stupid
that people would go,
1204
00:50:31.529 --> 00:50:33.489
"Oh, my God,
I can't believe he said that."
1205
00:50:33.572 --> 00:50:37.326
Your old lady is not too
thrilled with your privates.
1206
00:50:37.409 --> 00:50:39.328
‐ You would think, like, okay,
so now everything's great
1207
00:50:39.411 --> 00:50:40.829
backstage with Shawn.
No.
1208
00:50:40.955 --> 00:50:42.540
We're still approaching this
from a place of anger.
1209
00:50:42.665 --> 00:50:44.291
We know we're
pissing people off
1210
00:50:44.375 --> 00:50:46.460
and we're trying
to be dicks.
1211
00:50:46.585 --> 00:50:48.671
‐ I got in trouble
for a lot of stuff
1212
00:50:48.754 --> 00:50:50.464
that we all thought was funny,
1213
00:50:50.548 --> 00:50:52.800
and clearly we might have been
the only ones.
1214
00:50:52.883 --> 00:50:56.929
I'm goin' out
in a blaze of glory!
1215
00:50:57.012 --> 00:50:58.597
[cheers and applause]
1216
00:50:58.681 --> 00:51:02.226
‐ At that point,
Shawn's DX personality
1217
00:51:02.351 --> 00:51:05.062
and his real personality
have kind of morphed,
1218
00:51:05.187 --> 00:51:07.982
so Shawn really
never turned it off.
1219
00:51:08.065 --> 00:51:10.317
‐ This is what
it's come down to,
1220
00:51:10.359 --> 00:51:11.485
they're looking at somebody
1221
00:51:11.610 --> 00:51:13.988
that's got no respect
for anything.
1222
00:51:14.071 --> 00:51:16.907
‐ There was a true animosity
1223
00:51:17.032 --> 00:51:18.409
between Bret and Shawn,
1224
00:51:18.534 --> 00:51:20.744
just spiraled
completely out of control.
1225
00:51:20.869 --> 00:51:24.873
‐ In the beginning,
Shawn and Bret were friends
1226
00:51:24.957 --> 00:51:29.128
and the antagonistic
relationship
1227
00:51:29.211 --> 00:51:33.591
that they had on camera,
that was all orchestrated.
1228
00:51:33.674 --> 00:51:35.217
But it became personal.
1229
00:51:35.342 --> 00:51:37.761
It became personal
between Bret and Shawn,
1230
00:51:37.845 --> 00:51:39.555
because one guy
would go too far.
1231
00:51:39.638 --> 00:51:43.809
‐ I never knew enough
to avoid the confrontation.
1232
00:51:43.934 --> 00:51:46.186
If something bothered Bret,
I made sure that I did it.
1233
00:51:46.312 --> 00:51:49.148
He stabbed the WWE in the back.
1234
00:51:49.231 --> 00:51:52.484
Why? For his financial gain.
1235
00:51:52.568 --> 00:51:54.528
‐ Instead of facing me
like a man,
1236
00:51:54.653 --> 00:51:58.198
but you were too busy posing
for girlie magazines.
1237
00:51:58.324 --> 00:51:59.867
You know, you don't
like me talking about you
1238
00:51:59.950 --> 00:52:03.162
posing for "Playgirl," but
you did pose for "Playgirl."
1239
00:52:03.245 --> 00:52:07.333
And we finally had a fisticuff
in the dressing room.
1240
00:52:07.416 --> 00:52:09.251
‐ Oh, my God, Bret and Shawn
just got into a fight
1241
00:52:09.335 --> 00:52:11.545
and pulled each other hair
in the locker room. What?
1242
00:52:11.670 --> 00:52:13.130
I run over there
and find Shawn,
1243
00:52:13.213 --> 00:52:14.673
he's got a big chunk
of hair missing
1244
00:52:14.798 --> 00:52:16.008
out of the side of his head.
"What are you doing?"
1245
00:52:16.133 --> 00:52:17.718
‐ I realize that
I hate your guts.
1246
00:52:17.801 --> 00:52:20.638
‐ We had a lot
of these resets and talks,
1247
00:52:20.679 --> 00:52:23.432
and we would always end up
offending each other quickly
1248
00:52:23.515 --> 00:52:25.392
right after that.
[laughs]
1249
00:52:28.562 --> 00:52:29.730
‐ We are live
1250
00:52:29.813 --> 00:52:33.734
in the sold‐out Molson Centre
in Montréal, Quebec,
1251
00:52:33.859 --> 00:52:38.113
where tonight,
it will finally be settled.
1252
00:52:38.197 --> 00:52:40.866
Who is the man?
1253
00:52:40.991 --> 00:52:42.534
‐ Bret is the champion,
1254
00:52:42.660 --> 00:52:45.287
but Bret's on his way to WCW,
1255
00:52:45.371 --> 00:52:49.458
and he doesn't wanna drop
the title to Shawn.
1256
00:52:49.541 --> 00:52:52.628
But they couldn't let Bret
leave with the title,
1257
00:52:52.753 --> 00:52:56.131
and then show up
on WCW TV the next night.
1258
00:52:56.173 --> 00:52:58.926
‐ Who's gonna win?
1259
00:52:59.009 --> 00:53:00.511
‐ I don't know.
1260
00:53:00.594 --> 00:53:02.805
‐ Bret thought the match
was going to go one way,
1261
00:53:02.930 --> 00:53:07.184
Shawn and Vince McMahon come
up with a different plan.
1262
00:53:07.309 --> 00:53:09.520
Bret doesn't know
about the plan.
1263
00:53:09.645 --> 00:53:12.106
‐ We're being told by Vince,
1264
00:53:12.189 --> 00:53:14.316
like, this goes to your grave.
1265
00:53:14.441 --> 00:53:17.903
This is high‐level
espionage, man.
1266
00:53:18.028 --> 00:53:19.822
Nobody ever knows this.
1267
00:53:19.863 --> 00:53:22.533
‐ It's kind of
what's best for business.
1268
00:53:22.658 --> 00:53:23.826
‐ Look out!
1269
00:53:23.867 --> 00:53:25.703
Shawn Michaels is not
gonna waste any time.
1270
00:53:25.786 --> 00:53:28.288
‐ The whole thing
was uncomfortable.
1271
00:53:28.372 --> 00:53:31.792
I was out there,
you know, being Judas.
1272
00:53:31.875 --> 00:53:35.087
[dramatic music]
1273
00:53:35.170 --> 00:53:37.131
[groans]
1274
00:53:37.256 --> 00:53:38.507
‐ They had created a spot
1275
00:53:38.632 --> 00:53:41.969
where Shawn was gonna put
Bret's move,
1276
00:53:42.094 --> 00:53:46.098
which is a submission hold,
the Sharpshooter, on Bret.
1277
00:53:46.181 --> 00:53:47.808
‐ Look at this!
1278
00:53:47.891 --> 00:53:49.643
‐ Oh, you're kidding me.
1279
00:53:49.727 --> 00:53:52.646
‐ It's definitely one
of the most fabled stories
1280
00:53:52.688 --> 00:53:53.981
in our industry.
1281
00:53:54.064 --> 00:53:55.607
The Montreal Screw Job.
1282
00:53:55.691 --> 00:53:58.485
‐ It's just minutes
into that match,
1283
00:53:58.569 --> 00:54:01.280
not one person on Planet Earth
1284
00:54:01.363 --> 00:54:04.283
thinks the match
is going to end.
1285
00:54:04.366 --> 00:54:06.660
‐ Are you kidding me?
1286
00:54:06.785 --> 00:54:09.496
[bell rings]
1287
00:54:09.580 --> 00:54:13.333
[rock music playing]
1288
00:54:13.417 --> 00:54:15.669
‐ So when, all of a sudden,
the bell rings,
1289
00:54:15.794 --> 00:54:19.882
there's complete confusion
as to why the match has ended.
1290
00:54:20.007 --> 00:54:21.300
‐ What happened?
1291
00:54:21.383 --> 00:54:23.218
Bret Hart gave up
in a Sharpshooter.
1292
00:54:23.343 --> 00:54:26.305
‐ He said, "Bret submitted,"
which didn't happen.
1293
00:54:26.346 --> 00:54:29.433
‐ Wow,
you talk about controversy.
1294
00:54:29.516 --> 00:54:30.851
‐ It was basically a hit
1295
00:54:30.934 --> 00:54:33.479
to make sure that they got
the title off of Bret.
1296
00:54:33.562 --> 00:54:36.815
‐ Ring the bell!
Ring the bell!
1297
00:54:36.899 --> 00:54:39.276
‐ I could see Vince
yell at him to ring the bell.
1298
00:54:39.359 --> 00:54:41.570
‐ Ring the bell!
[bell rings]
1299
00:54:41.695 --> 00:54:43.322
‐ Like, "They're trying
to screw me now."
1300
00:54:43.405 --> 00:54:44.907
‐ Michaels
with a Sharpshooter
1301
00:54:44.990 --> 00:54:47.743
has become the WWE Champion!
1302
00:54:47.826 --> 00:54:52.331
And Bret Hart is standing
in disbelief.
1303
00:54:52.414 --> 00:54:53.916
‐ He didn't know
Vince was coming out.
1304
00:54:53.999 --> 00:54:56.376
I think he just felt like
maybe if he was out there,
1305
00:54:56.502 --> 00:54:57.795
he might get some heat off me,
1306
00:54:57.920 --> 00:55:01.548
you know, thus making
my denial plausible.
1307
00:55:09.932 --> 00:55:12.726
Vince says, "I wanna
take the heat for this.
1308
00:55:12.851 --> 00:55:13.644
"I don't want
anyone to think
1309
00:55:13.727 --> 00:55:14.937
you had anything
to do with it."
1310
00:55:15.020 --> 00:55:16.230
‐ Maybe you could go?
1311
00:55:16.313 --> 00:55:17.689
‐ Okay, let's get outta here.
1312
00:55:17.815 --> 00:55:19.274
‐ I took the heat,
and should have.
1313
00:55:19.358 --> 00:55:22.653
I didn't want anyone
to know Shawn was involved.
1314
00:55:22.736 --> 00:55:26.740
And Bret comes over and knocks
the [bleep] outta me.
1315
00:55:26.824 --> 00:55:30.494
One punch,
and knocked him out cold.
1316
00:55:30.577 --> 00:55:32.579
He went straight
down on his back.
1317
00:55:32.663 --> 00:55:33.705
Out cold.
1318
00:55:33.831 --> 00:55:38.043
And after I knocked Vince out,
1319
00:55:38.168 --> 00:55:39.711
Shawn was crying.
1320
00:55:39.837 --> 00:55:42.464
Shawn was sat on the bench
and was crying.
1321
00:55:42.589 --> 00:55:43.799
‐ And even though
I didn't feel
1322
00:55:43.882 --> 00:55:45.634
like I did anything wrong
that night,
1323
00:55:45.717 --> 00:55:49.888
you're still carrying a burden
by not coming clean with that.
1324
00:55:50.013 --> 00:55:52.182
To say, "Yes, I knew."
1325
00:55:52.307 --> 00:55:54.434
‐ Vince asked Shawn
to do something
1326
00:55:54.518 --> 00:55:56.353
for everyone in this company.
1327
00:55:56.478 --> 00:55:58.397
Who else would have had
the balls,
1328
00:55:58.522 --> 00:56:01.650
the guts, right or wrong,
1329
00:56:01.733 --> 00:56:04.027
how many other people would
have done it?
1330
00:56:08.866 --> 00:56:11.743
‐ I remember going
to his house in San Antonio,
1331
00:56:11.869 --> 00:56:13.203
and I'm driving
my minivan down there.
1332
00:56:13.328 --> 00:56:14.329
I've got my wife
and three kids at home,
1333
00:56:14.371 --> 00:56:17.332
and I pull into his
gorgeous home.
1334
00:56:17.416 --> 00:56:19.293
I don't have 20 bucks
in my pocket.
1335
00:56:19.418 --> 00:56:20.627
And I'll never forget,
1336
00:56:20.752 --> 00:56:23.589
he put his arms out like this,
and he just looked up
1337
00:56:23.672 --> 00:56:26.967
and he goes,
"You could have had all this."
1338
00:56:27.092 --> 00:56:29.678
But I realize, you know,
somewhere along the way,
1339
00:56:29.761 --> 00:56:31.889
that I saw him lose so much.
1340
00:56:32.014 --> 00:56:33.181
He got into drugs
1341
00:56:33.307 --> 00:56:35.893
and there were some really bad
side effects to his fame.
1342
00:56:36.018 --> 00:56:38.437
‐ I looked at Kenny
a lot of times,
1343
00:56:38.520 --> 00:56:40.480
and having a wife
and a family,
1344
00:56:40.564 --> 00:56:43.567
and just being as happy
as can be.
1345
00:56:43.692 --> 00:56:45.360
And I've always looked
at and admired,
1346
00:56:45.485 --> 00:56:49.615
and thought it was pretty
enviable to have.
1347
00:56:49.698 --> 00:56:52.451
But in my line of work,
it was always wondering
1348
00:56:52.534 --> 00:56:56.997
can you have both,
or is that not possible?
1349
00:56:57.122 --> 00:56:59.291
They don't mix.
1350
00:56:59.374 --> 00:57:02.711
[cheers and applause]
1351
00:57:02.794 --> 00:57:07.007
‐ The following
contest is a casket match
1352
00:57:07.132 --> 00:57:11.553
for the WWE Championship!
1353
00:57:11.678 --> 00:57:13.639
[cheers and applause]
1354
00:57:13.764 --> 00:57:15.182
‐ This casket match
1355
00:57:15.307 --> 00:57:19.227
is the Undertaker's specialty.
1356
00:57:19.311 --> 00:57:21.063
‐ The object of a casket match
1357
00:57:21.146 --> 00:57:22.898
is to beat your opponent down
far enough
1358
00:57:22.981 --> 00:57:25.901
that you can throw them
into the casket or coffin
1359
00:57:26.026 --> 00:57:26.860
and shut the lid.
1360
00:57:26.985 --> 00:57:30.656
And if you do that,
you win the match.
1361
00:57:30.781 --> 00:57:33.659
Somewhere through the course
of that match,
1362
00:57:33.742 --> 00:57:37.996
I threw him over
this giant coffin...
1363
00:57:38.121 --> 00:57:40.123
[grunts]
1364
00:57:40.207 --> 00:57:41.500
‐ Michaels' back dropped
1365
00:57:41.583 --> 00:57:43.460
on that big old wooden casket.
1366
00:57:43.543 --> 00:57:46.380
I wanted to clear it
and go to the floor,
1367
00:57:46.505 --> 00:57:48.799
and I just didn't quite
get far enough,
1368
00:57:48.924 --> 00:57:50.550
and bam,
I just hit the corner.
1369
00:57:50.676 --> 00:57:52.636
But I didn't really
think much about it.
1370
00:57:52.719 --> 00:57:53.971
You know,
you still finish the match.
1371
00:57:54.054 --> 00:57:56.264
‐ Look at the look
on his face!
1372
00:57:56.348 --> 00:57:57.975
The Undertaker
dragging Michaels
1373
00:57:58.058 --> 00:58:00.602
right down into
the depths of Hell!
1374
00:58:00.686 --> 00:58:03.063
The next day, I just
remember getting up like,
1375
00:58:03.188 --> 00:58:07.818
ah, you know, waking up
and not being able to move.
1376
00:58:07.901 --> 00:58:10.654
First time I recall
being in that much pain.
1377
00:58:10.696 --> 00:58:13.156
We do all the X‐rays.
1378
00:58:13.240 --> 00:58:14.282
Apparently, I blew a disc,
1379
00:58:14.366 --> 00:58:17.869
and that's the kind of stuff
that needs to be fused.
1380
00:58:17.995 --> 00:58:20.831
Doctor says, "Oh,
you can't wrestle after that."
1381
00:58:20.956 --> 00:58:23.834
[explosion]
[cheers and applause]
1382
00:58:23.917 --> 00:58:27.045
He said I'm never gonna wrestle
again, yadda, yadda, yadda.
1383
00:58:27.170 --> 00:58:28.714
And I said,
"Nobody tells me what to do,
1384
00:58:28.839 --> 00:58:31.717
so we're going
to WrestleMania with Steve."
1385
00:58:31.842 --> 00:58:34.761
You have never,
ever had one of these!
1386
00:58:34.845 --> 00:58:36.430
So you give me enough drugs,
all right,
1387
00:58:36.513 --> 00:58:41.143
so let's do whatever we can
to get me to WrestleMania.
1388
00:58:41.184 --> 00:58:45.439
‐ Getting Shawn
to WrestleMania was a battle.
1389
00:58:45.522 --> 00:58:50.360
He had a bad back,
he was heavily medicated.
1390
00:58:50.485 --> 00:58:52.487
He is the WWE Champion
1391
00:58:52.612 --> 00:58:53.822
and the man who will
defend his title
1392
00:58:53.905 --> 00:58:54.823
against Stone Cold,
1393
00:58:54.906 --> 00:58:56.950
with Mike Tyson
as the Enforcer.
1394
00:58:57.034 --> 00:58:59.411
Here, ladies and gentlemen,
Shawn Michaels.
1395
00:58:59.536 --> 00:59:01.204
‐ I choose to make an ass
1396
00:59:01.329 --> 00:59:04.207
out of a toughest SOB.
1397
00:59:04.332 --> 00:59:06.084
I can do that anytime I want.
1398
00:59:07.878 --> 00:59:11.923
[overlapping chatter]
1399
00:59:12.007 --> 00:59:13.925
‐ I was gonna
have to dope myself up
1400
00:59:14.009 --> 00:59:15.761
and drop the belt to Steve,
1401
00:59:15.844 --> 00:59:18.764
and then I guess
I'll let my career be over.
1402
00:59:18.847 --> 00:59:20.599
[dramatic music]
1403
00:59:20.682 --> 00:59:22.100
‐ He was bitter.
1404
00:59:22.184 --> 00:59:24.436
It had nothing to do
with him losing,
1405
00:59:24.519 --> 00:59:25.979
it had to do with being
replaced.
1406
00:59:26.104 --> 00:59:29.107
He never had his moment.
He never had his run.
1407
00:59:29.191 --> 00:59:30.650
I'm still the greatest.
And then this‐‐
1408
00:59:30.776 --> 00:59:31.985
Now it's his run.
1409
00:59:32.110 --> 00:59:35.405
What do I do?
Now I'm the backup guy?
1410
00:59:35.530 --> 00:59:36.531
One of the most
messed‐up things
1411
00:59:36.656 --> 00:59:37.991
I ever heard Shawn say
in his life is,
1412
00:59:38.075 --> 00:59:39.409
"I should've taken
so many pills,
1413
00:59:39.493 --> 00:59:40.869
"I died after WrestleMania 10.
1414
00:59:40.994 --> 00:59:42.704
"I'd have been
the biggest star of all time.
1415
00:59:42.829 --> 00:59:45.665
I'd have been Elvis."
1416
00:59:45.791 --> 00:59:47.084
‐ It's hopelessness,
1417
00:59:47.167 --> 00:59:49.044
and certainly,
that's where I was.
1418
00:59:49.169 --> 00:59:52.798
I am not just, uh, you know,
a drug addict.
1419
00:59:52.881 --> 00:59:53.799
I'm an angry one,
1420
00:59:53.924 --> 00:59:56.259
and I mean angrier than ever.
1421
00:59:56.343 --> 00:59:59.096
At that time in my life,
that's all I had.
1422
00:59:59.179 --> 01:00:02.974
I identified who I was with
what I was doing in that ring.
1423
01:00:03.100 --> 01:00:06.728
And without it, I wouldn't have
known what to do with my life.
1424
01:00:06.853 --> 01:00:08.563
[cheers and applause]
1425
01:00:08.688 --> 01:00:10.732
‐ On the day
of WrestleMania 14,
1426
01:00:10.816 --> 01:00:12.651
we barely talked.
1427
01:00:12.734 --> 01:00:14.945
He didn't feel like doing
business with me.
1428
01:00:15.028 --> 01:00:18.824
Triple H was a conduit
between most of it.
1429
01:00:18.907 --> 01:00:20.450
‐ He was pissed.
1430
01:00:20.534 --> 01:00:22.410
He wasn't about to talk
to Steve about this match.
1431
01:00:22.494 --> 01:00:25.330
I helped him put it together
by going from room to room,
1432
01:00:25.372 --> 01:00:27.874
and it was just‐‐it was
so difficult to do.
1433
01:00:27.999 --> 01:00:30.794
‐ It was difficult.
I remember that day.
1434
01:00:30.877 --> 01:00:34.798
I'm thinking, I don't know
what Shawn's going to do.
1435
01:00:34.881 --> 01:00:36.133
‐ He's retiring,
1436
01:00:36.216 --> 01:00:39.177
you know, this could be
his final screw you.
1437
01:00:39.302 --> 01:00:42.639
‐ Nobody has ever,
ever outperformed
1438
01:00:42.722 --> 01:00:46.268
Shawn Michaels
in a big match situation.
1439
01:00:46.351 --> 01:00:47.769
‐ I'm not in great shape.
1440
01:00:47.853 --> 01:00:51.815
My back, pretty bad
being in that much pain.
1441
01:00:51.857 --> 01:00:54.151
Get the cortisone shots
and stuff like that.
1442
01:00:54.276 --> 01:00:56.319
‐ Oh, my God!
1443
01:00:56.444 --> 01:00:59.614
I feel like I'm putting him
over, that's good enough.
1444
01:00:59.698 --> 01:01:03.326
‐ Awesome, he got it!
The Stunner!
1445
01:01:03.451 --> 01:01:05.871
Mike Tyson in!
1446
01:01:05.996 --> 01:01:08.081
[cheers and applause]
1447
01:01:08.165 --> 01:01:09.541
‐ Shawn's always
been a troublemaker,
1448
01:01:09.666 --> 01:01:12.002
he always wants to get in your
face, talk [bleep].
1449
01:01:12.127 --> 01:01:13.962
Even when he's
on your team, he was talking.
1450
01:01:14.045 --> 01:01:16.923
He's an irritant,
that's what he is.
1451
01:01:17.007 --> 01:01:22.804
Shawn, um, has sour grapes.
1452
01:01:22.929 --> 01:01:24.472
[cheers and applause]
1453
01:01:24.598 --> 01:01:26.474
‐ Tyson! Tyson!
1454
01:01:26.600 --> 01:01:27.893
‐ It was kind of a close blow,
1455
01:01:28.018 --> 01:01:33.690
'cause Shawn was pretty much
out for a little while.
1456
01:01:33.815 --> 01:01:35.692
‐ Tyson takes
the Austin 3:16 shirt
1457
01:01:35.775 --> 01:01:37.777
and lays it
across Shawn's chest.
1458
01:01:37.861 --> 01:01:39.654
This was adding
insult to injury,
1459
01:01:39.779 --> 01:01:41.823
and this was rubbing salt
in the wound.
1460
01:01:41.907 --> 01:01:43.909
I would have been pissed too.
1461
01:01:44.034 --> 01:01:45.994
‐ Not exactly the screw job,
1462
01:01:46.077 --> 01:01:48.747
but it was them
getting the last laugh
1463
01:01:48.872 --> 01:01:51.666
as far as, you know,
"Good, little prick,
1464
01:01:51.791 --> 01:01:53.210
"you put us through hell
this week,
1465
01:01:53.335 --> 01:01:55.420
but we're at least gonna
get you going out the door."
1466
01:01:55.503 --> 01:01:57.797
‐ The new WWE Champion,
1467
01:01:57.839 --> 01:02:00.133
Stone Cold Steve Austin.
1468
01:02:00.258 --> 01:02:01.509
[applause]
1469
01:02:01.593 --> 01:02:03.803
He was going
to that press conference
1470
01:02:03.929 --> 01:02:06.389
to just let everybody
know I'm pissed off.
1471
01:02:06.514 --> 01:02:10.435
He walked in the door
and he yelled some stuff.
1472
01:02:10.518 --> 01:02:11.811
‐ Oh, yeah. It's [bleep] up.
1473
01:02:11.937 --> 01:02:13.855
It was just‐‐it's selfish
and it's stupid,
1474
01:02:13.980 --> 01:02:17.859
but, you know, that's
where he was at that time.
1475
01:02:17.984 --> 01:02:20.820
‐ Shawn is suffering
from ruptured disc
1476
01:02:20.904 --> 01:02:23.573
as we speak,
and will not participate
1477
01:02:23.698 --> 01:02:25.158
at this press conference.
1478
01:02:25.242 --> 01:02:28.536
Nonetheless, he participated,
uh, in the arena
1479
01:02:28.662 --> 01:02:30.163
in an extraordinary way,
1480
01:02:30.247 --> 01:02:31.581
and there is
no athlete in the world
1481
01:02:31.665 --> 01:02:35.418
that can say they can do
what Shawn Michaels does.
1482
01:02:35.502 --> 01:02:36.211
[dramatic music]
1483
01:02:40.507 --> 01:02:43.301
[soft music]
1484
01:02:43.385 --> 01:02:45.637
‐ I got on the plane
the next morning
1485
01:02:45.762 --> 01:02:49.808
and went home and began to,
I don't know,
1486
01:02:49.849 --> 01:02:52.018
let it all sort of sink in.
1487
01:02:52.143 --> 01:02:53.520
It takes some time
1488
01:02:53.645 --> 01:02:57.357
before it goes from being
time off to the reality
1489
01:02:57.482 --> 01:03:00.944
of how exactly is the rest
of your life gonna go
1490
01:03:01.027 --> 01:03:04.364
when you're done at 33?
1491
01:03:04.489 --> 01:03:07.450
Okay, see if I can
get one done here.
1492
01:03:07.534 --> 01:03:09.202
All they knew at the time
1493
01:03:09.286 --> 01:03:12.330
was stuff like that,
you don't recover from,
1494
01:03:12.455 --> 01:03:14.624
people don't get back
in the ring and wrestle again.
1495
01:03:14.708 --> 01:03:15.959
The thing is,
1496
01:03:16.084 --> 01:03:19.796
I can't keep coming out here
week after week after week
1497
01:03:19.879 --> 01:03:21.298
going back and forth
with all this.
1498
01:03:21.381 --> 01:03:23.967
I get to get busy with my
rehab‐‐
1499
01:03:24.050 --> 01:03:25.635
My physical therapy.
1500
01:03:25.719 --> 01:03:28.513
My physical therapy
for my back.
1501
01:03:28.596 --> 01:03:29.597
[sighs]
1502
01:03:29.681 --> 01:03:33.059
Now I've got a legitimate
reason to have pain pills
1503
01:03:33.184 --> 01:03:37.731
and I've got a prescription
and everything else.
1504
01:03:37.856 --> 01:03:39.190
I just wanna be a pro wrestler.
1505
01:03:39.316 --> 01:03:41.484
That's what I was trying
to go back to.
1506
01:03:41.568 --> 01:03:45.530
So I began to start the Shawn
Michaels Wrestling Academy.
1507
01:03:45.655 --> 01:03:47.824
We had a couple of rings,
I had a little workout room.
1508
01:03:47.907 --> 01:03:50.952
There were a couple of guys
that came through my school
1509
01:03:51.036 --> 01:03:53.830
that went on to have
WWE success.
1510
01:03:53.913 --> 01:03:55.582
It was a great experience,
it really was.
1511
01:03:55.707 --> 01:03:59.336
I did it for about
two and a half, three years.
1512
01:03:59.461 --> 01:04:03.506
So I'm at home,
and I'm watching TV,
1513
01:04:03.631 --> 01:04:04.799
and then all of a sudden
1514
01:04:04.883 --> 01:04:06.343
the introduction
of this new Nitro Girl.
1515
01:04:06.468 --> 01:04:10.055
‐ Tampa Bay
girl herself, Whisper.
1516
01:04:10.180 --> 01:04:15.018
And she's out there
with this chair,
1517
01:04:15.143 --> 01:04:20.106
just doing this dance,
and it's captivating.
1518
01:04:20.190 --> 01:04:23.526
And she's absolutely the most
beautiful thing I've ever seen.
1519
01:04:23.651 --> 01:04:25.779
[soft music]
1520
01:04:25.862 --> 01:04:27.405
‐ We were at a rehearsal
1521
01:04:27.489 --> 01:04:29.157
and one
of the Nitro Girls, Spice,
1522
01:04:29.240 --> 01:04:31.368
had mentioned to me that
a man named Shawn Michaels,
1523
01:04:31.451 --> 01:04:33.953
a former wrestler,
wanted to meet me
1524
01:04:34.037 --> 01:04:35.830
and that was the first time
I'd ever heard of him.
1525
01:04:35.914 --> 01:04:36.998
I called her up.
1526
01:04:37.082 --> 01:04:38.875
We probably
talked for three hours
1527
01:04:38.958 --> 01:04:40.668
on the phone each night
for two weeks.
1528
01:04:40.794 --> 01:04:42.670
‐ Two weeks of talking
and emailing,
1529
01:04:42.754 --> 01:04:46.716
and then I flew out
to San Antonio to see him,
1530
01:04:46.841 --> 01:04:49.010
and we dated
for about two weeks.
1531
01:04:49.094 --> 01:04:50.637
After that he told me
he loved me,
1532
01:04:50.720 --> 01:04:51.888
and I told him I loved him.
1533
01:04:52.013 --> 01:04:53.973
Two weeks after that,
we got married.
1534
01:04:54.057 --> 01:04:57.769
‐ It was the Graceland
Wedding Chapel, yeah. Yeah.
1535
01:04:57.852 --> 01:04:59.729
You know,
an Elvis impersonator
1536
01:04:59.854 --> 01:05:00.772
walking down the aisle.
1537
01:05:00.855 --> 01:05:02.732
[humming]
1538
01:05:02.857 --> 01:05:04.234
It was fantastic.
1539
01:05:04.359 --> 01:05:08.154
It was just the greatest‐‐
the greatest thing ever.
1540
01:05:08.279 --> 01:05:12.492
There was one evening
where my pills have kicked in,
1541
01:05:12.617 --> 01:05:15.328
and I'm out of it.
1542
01:05:15.412 --> 01:05:17.455
‐ Shawn was in
tremendous pain.
1543
01:05:17.539 --> 01:05:19.958
When he would take
the muscle relaxers,
1544
01:05:20.041 --> 01:05:24.546
he would usually pass
out over his food.
1545
01:05:24.629 --> 01:05:27.006
The very first time
that Shawn ever did that
1546
01:05:27.132 --> 01:05:28.299
was when we were
first married,
1547
01:05:28.383 --> 01:05:30.009
so it was a bit of a shock
to me.
1548
01:05:30.093 --> 01:05:31.511
So I got him in the shower,
1549
01:05:31.636 --> 01:05:33.430
'cause he had spilled food
all over his chest,
1550
01:05:33.513 --> 01:05:38.017
and I would say it probably
happened a couple times a week.
1551
01:05:38.101 --> 01:05:40.937
‐ The worst time, again,
1552
01:05:41.020 --> 01:05:43.815
was when she was
eight months pregnant
1553
01:05:43.898 --> 01:05:45.233
and she's doing
everything she can,
1554
01:05:45.316 --> 01:05:46.860
at eight months pregnant
with her belly,
1555
01:05:46.985 --> 01:05:49.779
trying to hold me up.
1556
01:05:49.863 --> 01:05:51.239
‐ I took pity on him,
1557
01:05:51.364 --> 01:05:53.491
and I just prayed for him,
is all I could do.
1558
01:05:53.616 --> 01:05:55.326
But it didn't make me think,
you know,
1559
01:05:55.410 --> 01:05:57.203
"What in the world
have I gotten into?"
1560
01:05:57.287 --> 01:06:00.206
If I was fearful, I was fearful
for our unborn child.
1561
01:06:00.290 --> 01:06:03.835
And I hoped that it would end
whenever the baby was born,
1562
01:06:03.960 --> 01:06:06.254
and it didn't.
1563
01:06:06.337 --> 01:06:11.426
‐ Here in Cleveland,
Ohio, we will make history.
1564
01:06:11.509 --> 01:06:13.803
‐ I don't remember
why Shawn was there.
1565
01:06:13.928 --> 01:06:17.056
He must have been some doing
something in the show.
1566
01:06:17.182 --> 01:06:21.936
We all go, me, Taker,
Rock, Vince is in the ring.
1567
01:06:22.020 --> 01:06:23.688
"Now I own WCW."
1568
01:06:23.813 --> 01:06:28.318
Shawn is messed up, pilled up.
1569
01:06:28.401 --> 01:06:31.654
So this is
a celebratory moment.
1570
01:06:31.779 --> 01:06:36.367
He's belligerent, loud,
falling down, staggering,
1571
01:06:36.493 --> 01:06:42.040
Vince calls him in, tells him,
"Go home, I'm done with you."
1572
01:06:42.165 --> 01:06:44.501
Shawn goes ballistic.
1573
01:06:44.584 --> 01:06:47.962
Walks by me in the hallway,
just goes off.
1574
01:06:48.046 --> 01:06:51.007
‐ You know, I went
1575
01:06:51.132 --> 01:06:54.010
and browbeat Hunter
unfairly, obviously.
1576
01:06:54.135 --> 01:06:56.513
‐ And I just went off back,
1577
01:06:56.596 --> 01:06:59.849
you know, in his face,
screaming match back and forth,
1578
01:06:59.933 --> 01:07:01.267
and he storms out.
1579
01:07:01.351 --> 01:07:02.560
‐ Now that's another one
that makes me cry.
1580
01:07:02.685 --> 01:07:04.646
I went and said some
mean stuff to him
1581
01:07:04.771 --> 01:07:06.439
and walked out.
1582
01:07:06.523 --> 01:07:10.026
And, you know,
1583
01:07:10.151 --> 01:07:12.487
that sucks as well.
1584
01:07:13.988 --> 01:07:18.826
‐ And I don't talk to him
for a long time.
1585
01:07:18.910 --> 01:07:22.080
‐ We didn't speak,
I don't know,
1586
01:07:22.205 --> 01:07:25.166
I mean I would think at least
a year, two years.
1587
01:07:25.250 --> 01:07:28.586
It was, what do they call it,
the rock bottom.
1588
01:07:28.670 --> 01:07:31.881
[dramatic music]
1589
01:07:32.882 --> 01:07:36.302
[indistinct chatter]
1590
01:07:36.386 --> 01:07:39.055
‐ Our son was at the age
to where he was,
1591
01:07:39.180 --> 01:07:41.641
you know, walking around,
more aware of things,
1592
01:07:41.683 --> 01:07:43.184
and it was the night
1593
01:07:43.309 --> 01:07:45.019
when Shawn had fallen asleep
on the couch‐‐
1594
01:07:45.144 --> 01:07:46.145
a drug‐induced sleep‐‐
1595
01:07:46.229 --> 01:07:48.064
with our son
climbing all over him
1596
01:07:48.189 --> 01:07:49.566
and saying, "Daddy's asleep."
1597
01:07:49.691 --> 01:07:51.484
‐ To me,
the biggest thing again
1598
01:07:51.568 --> 01:07:54.153
was Cameron saying,
"Daddy's tired."
1599
01:07:54.237 --> 01:07:56.281
And it sort of dawning on me
1600
01:07:56.364 --> 01:07:59.075
that he was now being able
to recognize
1601
01:07:59.200 --> 01:08:02.745
clearly my state of mind.
1602
01:08:02.829 --> 01:08:05.373
I went into the bathroom
and closed the door.
1603
01:08:05.456 --> 01:08:07.166
Looking at yourself
in the mirror
1604
01:08:07.250 --> 01:08:09.168
and, you know,
1605
01:08:09.252 --> 01:08:12.046
I sat there and cried
like a baby and wept,
1606
01:08:12.171 --> 01:08:15.008
you know,
realizing that you are failing,
1607
01:08:15.133 --> 01:08:17.260
you know,
a two‐year‐old little boy.
1608
01:08:17.343 --> 01:08:19.220
And all of those things
1609
01:08:19.345 --> 01:08:22.515
sort of came crashing down
that night,
1610
01:08:22.640 --> 01:08:26.060
and I just‐‐it's the first
time I ever feel
1611
01:08:26.144 --> 01:08:28.479
like such a frickin' failure.
1612
01:08:28.605 --> 01:08:30.106
And I think that that was
the last straw for him,
1613
01:08:30.189 --> 01:08:32.817
and when he woke up
the next morning,
1614
01:08:32.900 --> 01:08:35.945
he told me he was never
taking pills or drinking again,
1615
01:08:36.029 --> 01:08:37.989
and from that point,
he didn't.
1616
01:08:38.072 --> 01:08:39.991
It was an instantaneous
letting go
1617
01:08:40.074 --> 01:08:41.534
of the drugs and alcohol.
1618
01:08:41.659 --> 01:08:43.369
‐ I just called him
up out of the clear blue,
1619
01:08:43.494 --> 01:08:46.539
I just asked him when the last
time he talked to Paul,
1620
01:08:46.664 --> 01:08:51.711
and, um, he just avoided
that situation.
1621
01:08:51.836 --> 01:08:56.924
I just said, "Man, you're wrong,
you got to call him."
1622
01:08:57.008 --> 01:08:58.593
I called Hunter
and let him know,
1623
01:08:58.676 --> 01:09:02.680
you know, how sorry I was
and how out of line I was.
1624
01:09:02.805 --> 01:09:04.807
And I said,
"I hope you can forgive me."
1625
01:09:04.932 --> 01:09:07.143
I needed that from Hunter.
1626
01:09:07.226 --> 01:09:09.479
For me, it was easy,
like, I didn't‐‐
1627
01:09:09.562 --> 01:09:11.981
as long as it
wasn't drugs talking to me.
1628
01:09:12.065 --> 01:09:13.650
‐ It's good to see you.
1629
01:09:13.691 --> 01:09:14.651
[patting]
1630
01:09:14.776 --> 01:09:15.652
‐ Group hug.
1631
01:09:15.777 --> 01:09:18.279
‐ Of course,
I do regret the pain
1632
01:09:18.363 --> 01:09:20.281
that it caused people
in my life,
1633
01:09:20.365 --> 01:09:23.076
but there is a part of that
that I don't think
1634
01:09:23.201 --> 01:09:27.288
that Michael Shawn Hickenbottom
can get
1635
01:09:27.372 --> 01:09:29.582
to where he got creatively
1636
01:09:29.707 --> 01:09:34.671
without a little bit of that
reckless, risky mindset.
1637
01:09:34.796 --> 01:09:38.758
I wouldn't have
had the guts to do it.
1638
01:09:38.841 --> 01:09:41.219
‐ It was our
first Christmas together,
1639
01:09:41.344 --> 01:09:43.429
and I gave Shawn a Bible
and some other books,
1640
01:09:43.513 --> 01:09:45.348
and he began reading them.
1641
01:09:45.473 --> 01:09:48.976
‐ I had never had anything
that I could grasp
1642
01:09:49.060 --> 01:09:51.312
that was bigger
than the wrestling business.
1643
01:09:51.396 --> 01:09:55.566
That's just not enough to base,
I don't know, a life on.
1644
01:09:56.651 --> 01:09:59.153
‐ I worked at Cornerstone
Church in San Antonio, Texas.
1645
01:09:59.237 --> 01:10:02.031
All of a sudden
I heard a deep voice said,
1646
01:10:02.115 --> 01:10:04.450
"I want to come
to a Bible study."
1647
01:10:04.534 --> 01:10:06.577
And then I got up from my desk
1648
01:10:06.703 --> 01:10:08.830
and stuck my head out the door,
1649
01:10:08.913 --> 01:10:10.748
and I said,
"Well, you can come to mine."
1650
01:10:10.873 --> 01:10:12.917
When he left,
everybody came out and said,
1651
01:10:12.959 --> 01:10:14.585
"Do you know who that was?"
1652
01:10:14.669 --> 01:10:16.212
I said, "No, I don't know
who that was, who was it?"
1653
01:10:16.337 --> 01:10:17.630
And they said,
"Shawn Michaels,"
1654
01:10:17.714 --> 01:10:19.674
and I said,
"Well, who's Shawn Michaels?"
1655
01:10:22.093 --> 01:10:23.553
He said, "Well, first, Keith,
1656
01:10:23.678 --> 01:10:26.305
I want you to pray
for my back."
1657
01:10:26.389 --> 01:10:28.057
He says,
"I've been out of wrestling
1658
01:10:28.182 --> 01:10:29.308
and I want to go back."
1659
01:10:29.392 --> 01:10:31.060
I said, "Well,
there's a simple prayer
1660
01:10:31.144 --> 01:10:32.478
that we can pray together."
1661
01:10:32.603 --> 01:10:34.981
And while he was saying
that prayer,
1662
01:10:35.064 --> 01:10:38.359
tears just come
out of his eyes.
1663
01:10:38.484 --> 01:10:40.486
‐ I got nobody
to blame but me,
1664
01:10:40.570 --> 01:10:43.489
and I don't have anything
in common with the other dude,
1665
01:10:43.573 --> 01:10:45.408
and I don't know
how I got that way.
1666
01:10:45.533 --> 01:10:48.244
It wasn't from family.
It wasn't from upbringing.
1667
01:10:48.327 --> 01:10:50.079
‐ He was so desperate
1668
01:10:50.163 --> 01:10:54.208
to get back in that close
relationship with Rebecca
1669
01:10:54.333 --> 01:10:55.918
and his son.
1670
01:10:56.002 --> 01:10:57.795
‐ I was now a dad,
I was a husband,
1671
01:10:57.837 --> 01:11:03.134
and I was really devoted
and thrilled about that.
1672
01:11:03.259 --> 01:11:04.469
‐ You're like a child,
1673
01:11:04.594 --> 01:11:07.346
you just want to tell
everybody, "I've been saved."
1674
01:11:14.312 --> 01:11:15.980
‐ Once Shawn got
his life together
1675
01:11:16.022 --> 01:11:18.232
and found Christ,
it was night and day.
1676
01:11:18.316 --> 01:11:19.692
When he looks back
at his life,
1677
01:11:19.776 --> 01:11:22.153
that's the biggest thing
that he ever did.
1678
01:11:22.236 --> 01:11:23.529
‐ You were
dealing with the grownup
1679
01:11:23.654 --> 01:11:24.906
when Shawn came back,
1680
01:11:25.031 --> 01:11:27.825
someone who was there
to do business.
1681
01:11:27.909 --> 01:11:31.162
Shawn was a lot calmer
and much easier to deal with.
1682
01:11:31.245 --> 01:11:32.830
‐ Shawn Michaels of old
1683
01:11:32.955 --> 01:11:34.582
is very different from Shawn
Hickenbottom,
1684
01:11:34.707 --> 01:11:35.917
the man I married.
1685
01:11:36.000 --> 01:11:37.960
The sexy boy
and all that kinda stuff,
1686
01:11:38.002 --> 01:11:39.253
and his cocky attitude
1687
01:11:39.337 --> 01:11:41.130
and the cocky little smile
that he does.
1688
01:11:41.214 --> 01:11:45.301
That's so far
from who he really is.
1689
01:11:45.426 --> 01:11:47.011
‐ I remember
somebody asking me,
1690
01:11:47.136 --> 01:11:50.556
they said, you know, "Hey,
I heard Shawn found religion."
1691
01:11:50.640 --> 01:11:52.058
Yeah. They laughed,
1692
01:11:52.141 --> 01:11:56.979
and I said, "I don't anybody
that died OD'ing on religion."
1693
01:11:57.104 --> 01:11:58.648
‐ He had called Triple H.
1694
01:11:58.731 --> 01:12:01.818
He thanked Hunter
for the time on the road
1695
01:12:01.901 --> 01:12:04.695
because before his marriage
to me,
1696
01:12:04.821 --> 01:12:08.449
the one who took
care of him was Hunter.
1697
01:12:08.533 --> 01:12:10.993
That night, after Shawn
had gone to bed,
1698
01:12:11.077 --> 01:12:14.747
he woke up in the morning and
the pain was gone in his back.
1699
01:12:14.872 --> 01:12:16.749
It was definitely a miracle.
1700
01:12:16.833 --> 01:12:19.710
So, he was physically ready
to go back in the ring,
1701
01:12:19.836 --> 01:12:24.048
and I knew that the Lord
would take care of him.
1702
01:12:24.173 --> 01:12:25.716
‐ We were kind of
having conversations
1703
01:12:25.800 --> 01:12:27.718
at the time, and then he said,
1704
01:12:27.844 --> 01:12:29.262
"I want my son to see me
do this one time,"
1705
01:12:29.345 --> 01:12:30.805
he said, "But I don't know
that I can do it,
1706
01:12:30.888 --> 01:12:32.723
I don't know physically
if I can or not,"
1707
01:12:32.807 --> 01:12:34.308
and he said, "If I'm going to,
1708
01:12:34.392 --> 01:12:37.436
I only trust one person,
that's you.
1709
01:12:37.520 --> 01:12:40.481
If you consider it,
I would love to do it.
1710
01:12:40.565 --> 01:12:44.402
What do you think?"
1711
01:12:44.527 --> 01:12:48.030
‐ Moments away
from the non‐sanctioned fight
1712
01:12:48.155 --> 01:12:51.659
between two men who were,
at one time, best friends,
1713
01:12:51.701 --> 01:12:53.786
Shawn Michaels and Triple H.
1714
01:12:53.870 --> 01:12:59.375
Shawn Michaels last wrestled
1,609 days ago,
1715
01:12:59.500 --> 01:13:02.044
if you can believe that.
1716
01:13:02.169 --> 01:13:03.337
‐ His whole family was there.
1717
01:13:03.421 --> 01:13:06.048
You know,
they were all scared to death.
1718
01:13:06.173 --> 01:13:07.842
Got in the ring,
did a couple of things.
1719
01:13:07.967 --> 01:13:09.635
[bell rings]
1720
01:13:09.719 --> 01:13:12.722
Never missed a beat,
not a moment, not an anything.
1721
01:13:12.847 --> 01:13:14.724
‐ I was on my chair
like a redneck,
1722
01:13:14.807 --> 01:13:16.517
just screaming
and yelling for him.
1723
01:13:16.601 --> 01:13:17.894
Of course, I cried at the end.
1724
01:13:17.977 --> 01:13:19.478
‐ Like,
how is this possible,
1725
01:13:19.604 --> 01:13:24.525
that he is this good still,
after all that time
1726
01:13:24.609 --> 01:13:28.821
and injury and everything else?
Unbelievable.
1727
01:13:28.905 --> 01:13:32.783
‐ It was just as easy
as the day is long,
1728
01:13:32.867 --> 01:13:34.660
it was poetic,
it was phenomenal,
1729
01:13:34.744 --> 01:13:38.205
it was everything that is right
and good about the world
1730
01:13:38.289 --> 01:13:41.334
in this line of work, and,
you know, my family there,
1731
01:13:41.417 --> 01:13:42.960
out there
with my best friend.
1732
01:13:43.085 --> 01:13:50.134
‐ The Heartbreak Kid,
Shawn Michaels!
1733
01:13:50.217 --> 01:13:51.802
‐ After the Summerslam,
1734
01:13:51.886 --> 01:13:54.221
that's when there was
a sense of peace and joy
1735
01:13:54.347 --> 01:13:56.807
in the midst of doing
your job and your family,
1736
01:13:56.933 --> 01:14:01.270
combining these two worlds
that I've never had together,
1737
01:14:01.354 --> 01:14:02.939
and I'm not even
the same person.
1738
01:14:03.022 --> 01:14:06.525
And now,
and it all feels so right.
1739
01:14:06.609 --> 01:14:07.735
That's as good as it gets,
you know,
1740
01:14:07.818 --> 01:14:10.488
it's heaven on Earth here
in this room.
1741
01:14:10.571 --> 01:14:12.990
‐ Shawn Michaels
changed completely
1742
01:14:13.115 --> 01:14:14.367
as a human being.
1743
01:14:14.492 --> 01:14:16.243
And somehow, as a character,
1744
01:14:16.369 --> 01:14:21.874
he managed to keep a lot
of the aura that he always had.
1745
01:14:21.999 --> 01:14:26.587
I could argue that Shawn was
at his best after he came back.
1746
01:14:26.671 --> 01:14:29.757
[cheers and applause]
1747
01:14:29.840 --> 01:14:31.634
‐ To me,
1748
01:14:31.717 --> 01:14:36.222
the greatest in‐ring performer
1749
01:14:36.347 --> 01:14:38.307
of all time.
1750
01:14:39.642 --> 01:14:41.560
[soft music]
1751
01:14:41.644 --> 01:14:43.729
‐ It gets more difficult
1752
01:14:43.854 --> 01:14:46.023
to find a new mountain,
a new challenge.
1753
01:14:46.148 --> 01:14:48.651
Sometimes that mountain
or that new challenge
1754
01:14:48.693 --> 01:14:49.860
just isn't there.
1755
01:14:49.944 --> 01:14:51.404
And so later on in my career,
I learned that
1756
01:14:51.529 --> 01:14:54.281
when I disconnect from it,
something will usually happen,
1757
01:14:54.365 --> 01:14:56.158
and, you know,
the one with Flair
1758
01:14:56.200 --> 01:14:59.328
is the one I honestly
always speak of.
1759
01:14:59.453 --> 01:15:01.914
Remember the story
of Old Yeller?
1760
01:15:01.998 --> 01:15:05.126
The Showstopper's gonna
take you, Old Yeller,
1761
01:15:05.209 --> 01:15:10.339
behind the woodshed
and put you out of your misery.
1762
01:15:10.464 --> 01:15:14.510
I lost myself in that drama.
[laughs]
1763
01:15:14.635 --> 01:15:16.012
I get a call from my buddy,
Kenny,
1764
01:15:16.137 --> 01:15:17.888
who's now been
made aware of the match.
1765
01:15:18.014 --> 01:15:19.890
It's like, oh my goodness,
he said, "Can you believe it?"
1766
01:15:20.016 --> 01:15:23.811
‐ It was overwhelming to think
that the guy that we idolized
1767
01:15:23.853 --> 01:15:27.606
that we would watch a little TV
box in San Antonio, Texas,
1768
01:15:27.690 --> 01:15:30.276
somehow their lives were going
to interconnect.
1769
01:15:30.359 --> 01:15:33.195
Ric was his guy.
He absolutely loved Ric Flair.
1770
01:15:33.279 --> 01:15:36.365
‐ Kenny took me back
to that time.
1771
01:15:39.744 --> 01:15:43.247
‐ This was why I went
from New York to Orlando,
1772
01:15:43.372 --> 01:15:46.167
was to see this moment.
1773
01:15:46.208 --> 01:15:47.209
[bell rings]
1774
01:15:47.293 --> 01:15:48.753
‐ Now in this match,
1775
01:15:48.836 --> 01:15:53.382
should Ric Flair lose,
he must retire.
1776
01:15:53.466 --> 01:15:54.759
‐ I remember feeling
1777
01:15:54.842 --> 01:15:56.802
like the way Ric Flair
started this match,
1778
01:15:56.927 --> 01:15:59.805
that he had a chance.
1779
01:15:59.930 --> 01:16:02.224
[grunts]
1780
01:16:02.308 --> 01:16:04.977
‐ There's no other way
to put it‐‐he carried me.
1781
01:16:05.061 --> 01:16:08.564
He gave everything
that anybody could ever give
1782
01:16:08.689 --> 01:16:10.232
to a match that night.
1783
01:16:10.316 --> 01:16:13.194
‐ Oh, wait a minute,
wait a minute, look out.
1784
01:16:13.319 --> 01:16:15.613
Good grief!
1785
01:16:15.696 --> 01:16:17.573
Oh, not again!
1786
01:16:17.656 --> 01:16:18.866
‐ It becomes clear
1787
01:16:18.991 --> 01:16:22.244
that Ric Flair
just doesn't have enough.
1788
01:16:22.328 --> 01:16:25.247
I love this part, I could
tear up talking about it.
1789
01:16:25.372 --> 01:16:28.292
Flair, like an old dog,
still fighting,
1790
01:16:28.375 --> 01:16:30.127
he thinks he still has it.
1791
01:16:30.211 --> 01:16:34.131
And that's when Shawn sort
of has to have that moment
1792
01:16:34.256 --> 01:16:36.634
where he says,
"I'm sorry, I love you."
1793
01:16:36.759 --> 01:16:38.761
‐ Flair wants to fight.
1794
01:16:38.844 --> 01:16:40.971
‐ And just turns
the lights out.
1795
01:16:41.055 --> 01:16:46.477
It was as beautiful and perfect
an ending to a wrestling match
1796
01:16:46.602 --> 01:16:48.479
as you will ever have.
1797
01:16:48.521 --> 01:16:50.898
‐ He knew I didn't
want to go,
1798
01:16:51.023 --> 01:16:53.734
and he said,
"I love you."
1799
01:16:53.818 --> 01:16:54.902
It's a great moment
in wrestling.
1800
01:16:54.985 --> 01:16:56.737
I don't care what anyone says,
1801
01:16:56.821 --> 01:16:59.782
you can't replace something
like that.
1802
01:16:59.865 --> 01:17:01.158
‐ Unashamed
1803
01:17:01.242 --> 01:17:03.619
that it was my love letter to,
you know,
1804
01:17:03.702 --> 01:17:07.706
the wrestling business
and to Ric Flair.
1805
01:17:12.336 --> 01:17:16.173
‐ It is show day,
and we're off to the shi‐zow.
1806
01:17:16.257 --> 01:17:19.760
I've been doing this
for 35 years,
1807
01:17:19.844 --> 01:17:20.970
and days like today,
1808
01:17:21.053 --> 01:17:22.930
it's a different kind
of anxiety that I have now.
1809
01:17:23.013 --> 01:17:24.765
I have anxiety
for the performers
1810
01:17:24.849 --> 01:17:26.892
for the entire show as a whole.
1811
01:17:27.017 --> 01:17:29.186
For me it's just
all fantastic,
1812
01:17:29.311 --> 01:17:31.522
especially when it goes well
for them,
1813
01:17:31.647 --> 01:17:33.023
and they come back
and they're jacked.
1814
01:17:33.107 --> 01:17:34.900
It's ten times better than‐‐
1815
01:17:35.025 --> 01:17:36.652
than when I had
that opportunity.
1816
01:17:36.777 --> 01:17:38.696
This is where
I'm supposed to be.
1817
01:17:38.821 --> 01:17:41.740
I absolutely love it.
1818
01:17:43.367 --> 01:17:45.536
[soft music]
1819
01:17:45.619 --> 01:17:46.871
‐ What moment would you say
1820
01:17:46.996 --> 01:17:49.081
you're most proud of,
and then by the same token,
1821
01:17:49.165 --> 01:17:51.041
what moment would you say
you are least proud of?
1822
01:17:51.167 --> 01:17:52.585
‐ Most proud I guess would be
1823
01:17:52.668 --> 01:17:54.128
winning the world title.
1824
01:17:54.211 --> 01:17:57.715
And least proud would probably
be the Montreal incident.
1825
01:17:57.840 --> 01:18:00.676
One is everything
you aspire to do,
1826
01:18:00.801 --> 01:18:02.219
and the other
is the complete opposite.
1827
01:18:02.344 --> 01:18:05.139
Something you really
don't want to be a part of.
1828
01:18:05.264 --> 01:18:08.809
It's the long‐term guilt,
it's the shame,
1829
01:18:08.893 --> 01:18:11.687
it's the loathing that you know
this person has for you.
1830
01:18:11.812 --> 01:18:13.522
‐ There was so much
bad blood between us,
1831
01:18:13.647 --> 01:18:18.110
and I was always like,
if I see him, I'll kill him.
1832
01:18:18.194 --> 01:18:20.654
I've always believed
that I had so much anger,
1833
01:18:20.779 --> 01:18:22.281
that I think it
led to my stroke
1834
01:18:22.364 --> 01:18:23.991
and lot of things
that I went through.
1835
01:18:24.116 --> 01:18:25.451
And I remember
thinking about Shawn
1836
01:18:25.534 --> 01:18:27.703
and how we were good friends
once upon a time,
1837
01:18:27.786 --> 01:18:29.997
and, you know,
that it wasn't just Shawn.
1838
01:18:30.122 --> 01:18:31.373
I was guilty too.
1839
01:18:31.457 --> 01:18:33.959
And I remember thinking
it'd be good to put it to bed.
1840
01:18:34.084 --> 01:18:36.503
‐ And I've certainly
talked about my regret
1841
01:18:36.629 --> 01:18:39.173
and the hope
for reconciliation.
1842
01:18:39.298 --> 01:18:41.217
It took him some time
to get there.
1843
01:18:41.342 --> 01:18:42.927
Vince had suggested
there's gotta be a way
1844
01:18:43.010 --> 01:18:46.472
we can do this live,
in front of the world.
1845
01:18:46.513 --> 01:18:48.098
‐ I've got 12 years
of things
1846
01:18:48.182 --> 01:18:49.391
that I've wanted
to get off my chest.
1847
01:18:49.516 --> 01:18:50.768
I want to call back there
1848
01:18:50.851 --> 01:18:53.479
and ask Shawn Michaels
to come out here.
1849
01:18:53.562 --> 01:18:55.147
I call for a truce,
1850
01:18:55.231 --> 01:18:57.233
and I call for you
to shake my hand.
1851
01:18:57.358 --> 01:18:59.401
The fact that we did that
in the ring
1852
01:18:59.485 --> 01:19:01.737
and we shook hands
and all that was very honest
1853
01:19:01.862 --> 01:19:03.656
and very sincere.
1854
01:19:03.739 --> 01:19:05.407
‐ You know
that everybody's watching
1855
01:19:05.491 --> 01:19:06.742
when you are trying to have
this very real moment
1856
01:19:06.867 --> 01:19:07.993
with one another.
1857
01:19:08.035 --> 01:19:09.745
Art does imitate life.
1858
01:19:09.870 --> 01:19:12.081
‐ He's matured,
and he's a different guy,
1859
01:19:12.206 --> 01:19:13.916
[cheers and applause]
1860
01:19:14.041 --> 01:19:15.167
and I thought he finally,
you know,
1861
01:19:15.292 --> 01:19:16.919
he's got his priorities
all in order.
1862
01:19:17.002 --> 01:19:19.213
[cheers and applause]
1863
01:19:19.296 --> 01:19:20.589
‐ Welcome
1864
01:19:20.673 --> 01:19:23.467
to the 25th anniversary
1865
01:19:23.550 --> 01:19:27.805
of WrestleMania!
1866
01:19:27.888 --> 01:19:31.308
70,000 WWE fans.
1867
01:19:31.433 --> 01:19:34.311
‐ By the time Shawn
Michaels and Undertaker
1868
01:19:34.436 --> 01:19:36.814
meet at WrestleMania 25,
they're veterans,
1869
01:19:36.897 --> 01:19:38.274
they've been around forever.
1870
01:19:38.357 --> 01:19:39.358
And somehow,
1871
01:19:39.483 --> 01:19:43.696
they're actually
both in their absolute prime.
1872
01:19:43.821 --> 01:19:48.659
[ethereal music playing]
1873
01:19:48.742 --> 01:19:50.369
‐ One of my
favorite entrances,
1874
01:19:50.494 --> 01:19:51.870
Shawn as The Undertaker,
1875
01:19:51.954 --> 01:19:56.083
but in all white,
ascending from the clouds.
1876
01:19:56.208 --> 01:20:01.964
Such a stark contrast
to what I'm about to do.
1877
01:20:02.006 --> 01:20:05.426
It was the battle between
heaven and hell.
1878
01:20:05.509 --> 01:20:06.760
‐ Prior to 2002,
1879
01:20:06.844 --> 01:20:09.013
we did not have a great
relationship.
1880
01:20:09.096 --> 01:20:11.181
We did not like each other
outside the ring.
1881
01:20:11.307 --> 01:20:14.018
‐ This guy,
I genuinely liked now.
1882
01:20:14.101 --> 01:20:16.645
And it had been years
and years and years
1883
01:20:16.770 --> 01:20:19.356
since we had worked together,
1884
01:20:19.440 --> 01:20:21.400
since the time
that he had injured himself
1885
01:20:21.483 --> 01:20:22.985
in the casket match.
1886
01:20:23.068 --> 01:20:24.403
‐ Unknown to us
at the time,
1887
01:20:24.528 --> 01:20:27.656
we're about to create one of
the most epic things ever done
1888
01:20:27.781 --> 01:20:29.325
in the wrestling business.
1889
01:20:29.408 --> 01:20:31.327
‐ There's that
brash arrogance.
1890
01:20:31.452 --> 01:20:36.582
70,000 chanting HBK
the other half, Undertaker.
1891
01:20:36.665 --> 01:20:38.167
[audience screaming]
1892
01:20:38.208 --> 01:20:40.586
‐ Ooh!
‐ Whoa!
1893
01:20:40.669 --> 01:20:43.672
[cheers and applause]
1894
01:20:43.756 --> 01:20:46.800
[triumphant music]
1895
01:20:46.884 --> 01:20:48.385
‐ You know
when you're in the middle
1896
01:20:48.510 --> 01:20:50.721
of something really special,
and we did.
1897
01:20:50.846 --> 01:20:52.931
‐ Incoming!
1898
01:20:53.015 --> 01:20:56.810
Tombstone piledriver.
1899
01:20:56.894 --> 01:21:00.481
♪
1900
01:21:00.606 --> 01:21:04.318
[bell rings]
1901
01:21:04.443 --> 01:21:06.862
‐ I just remember
getting to Shawn,
1902
01:21:06.987 --> 01:21:09.114
and we just embraced,
and hugged,
1903
01:21:09.198 --> 01:21:10.699
and thanked each other.
1904
01:21:10.824 --> 01:21:12.493
It was an awesome moment.
1905
01:21:12.576 --> 01:21:14.411
‐ It was on the ride home
the next day,
1906
01:21:14.495 --> 01:21:16.705
just settling into me
that I just don't know
1907
01:21:16.789 --> 01:21:19.875
that I'm ever going
to encounter,
1908
01:21:19.958 --> 01:21:21.960
from a performance standpoint,
1909
01:21:22.044 --> 01:21:24.129
anything greater
than that thing
1910
01:21:24.254 --> 01:21:26.715
that I experienced last night.
1911
01:21:26.840 --> 01:21:28.509
‐ There's only one match
1912
01:21:28.634 --> 01:21:31.220
that can be considered
Match of the Year,
1913
01:21:31.303 --> 01:21:33.889
Shawn Michaels
and the Undertaker.
1914
01:21:33.972 --> 01:21:37.893
[rock music playing]
1915
01:21:38.018 --> 01:21:42.314
‐ Undertaker, I can beat you.
1916
01:21:42.356 --> 01:21:49.029
You and me, WrestleMania,
one more time.
1917
01:21:49.154 --> 01:21:52.449
[cheers and applause]
1918
01:21:52.533 --> 01:21:55.911
‐ So, I remember
tuning into WrestleMania 26.
1919
01:21:55.994 --> 01:21:57.746
I had a knot in my stomach
1920
01:21:57.871 --> 01:22:01.625
knowing that if Shawn Michaels
wasn't able to win this one
1921
01:22:01.708 --> 01:22:03.043
that he would retire.
1922
01:22:03.168 --> 01:22:05.003
But it was a beautiful,
artistic way
1923
01:22:05.129 --> 01:22:07.548
to end the career
of Shawn Michaels.
1924
01:22:07.673 --> 01:22:13.178
[cheers and applause]
1925
01:22:13.303 --> 01:22:17.891
‐ One, two, three!
[bell dings]
1926
01:22:17.975 --> 01:22:22.980
‐ Shawn Michaels'
career is over.
1927
01:22:23.063 --> 01:22:24.648
‐ My heart was broken.
My heart was broken.
1928
01:22:24.731 --> 01:22:27.484
but I'm glad also that he got
to leave on his own terms.
1929
01:22:27.568 --> 01:22:30.195
‐ It was important
that I get out of there
1930
01:22:30.320 --> 01:22:33.574
to let the fans show him
the appreciation he deserved.
1931
01:22:33.699 --> 01:22:38.120
[cheers and applause]
1932
01:22:38.203 --> 01:22:40.205
‐ I have to imagine
that Tom Brady
1933
01:22:40.330 --> 01:22:43.625
and Michael Jordan, as much
as they appreciate the fans,
1934
01:22:43.709 --> 01:22:46.336
I think more than anything
it's about their teammates
1935
01:22:46.420 --> 01:22:49.673
and the people that they played
that means the most to them.
1936
01:22:49.798 --> 01:22:52.593
[clapping]
1937
01:22:52.676 --> 01:22:54.595
[dramatic music]
1938
01:22:54.678 --> 01:22:57.139
A lot of time,
there's still a chasing
1939
01:22:57.222 --> 01:22:58.515
of that last perfect one,
1940
01:22:58.640 --> 01:23:01.059
and that's why
I'm so appreciative
1941
01:23:01.185 --> 01:23:03.312
that I can define
some form of finish line.
1942
01:23:04.605 --> 01:23:06.607
There's two things
that I thrive on,
1943
01:23:06.690 --> 01:23:07.941
it's two things
that I'm in love with,
1944
01:23:08.025 --> 01:23:10.152
which is, you know,
Rebecca and the kids,
1945
01:23:10.194 --> 01:23:11.570
and the wrestling business.
1946
01:23:11.653 --> 01:23:14.156
Oh, yeah, my team.
1947
01:23:14.281 --> 01:23:16.241
They're the two greatest
loves of my life.
1948
01:23:16.366 --> 01:23:18.494
That's never changed.
1949
01:23:18.577 --> 01:23:21.205
[applause]
1950
01:23:22.748 --> 01:23:24.416
You've probably been
to more ladder matches
1951
01:23:24.541 --> 01:23:27.336
than half the people
in the ring, I would imagine.
1952
01:23:27.461 --> 01:23:29.087
[soft music]
1953
01:23:29.171 --> 01:23:31.715
And then stops,
loads up the‐‐
1954
01:23:31.840 --> 01:23:33.133
Whoa, he goes down.
1955
01:23:33.217 --> 01:23:35.969
‐ It's awesome for me
to have Shawn there.
1956
01:23:36.053 --> 01:23:37.513
I can tell you
what he's thinking,
1957
01:23:37.638 --> 01:23:40.015
he can tell you
what I'm thinking,
1958
01:23:40.098 --> 01:23:41.433
and there's a chemistry there.
1959
01:23:41.517 --> 01:23:42.476
We have this uncanny
with each other.
1960
01:23:42.559 --> 01:23:44.311
‐ There's just a little
something in there
1961
01:23:44.353 --> 01:23:46.230
to do, just a small little‐‐
1962
01:23:46.313 --> 01:23:48.023
‐ Shawn's, you know, a legend
1963
01:23:48.148 --> 01:23:51.902
and for a legend to walk
into an environment
1964
01:23:52.027 --> 01:23:52.903
full of performers.
1965
01:23:53.028 --> 01:23:54.446
‐ Go get them, boys.
[laughs]
1966
01:23:54.530 --> 01:23:56.907
‐ They revere him so much.
1967
01:23:56.990 --> 01:23:59.326
‐ Welcome to NXT Takeover.
1968
01:23:59.409 --> 01:24:02.329
There is the North American
Championship.
1969
01:24:02.412 --> 01:24:04.206
Who will climb the ladder?
1970
01:24:04.289 --> 01:24:05.874
‐ Shawn has been a role model
1971
01:24:05.958 --> 01:24:07.751
both in and out of the ring.
1972
01:24:07.834 --> 01:24:09.253
‐ Ding, ding, ding.
1973
01:24:09.336 --> 01:24:10.963
‐ I have so much
respect for that man,
1974
01:24:11.088 --> 01:24:13.799
for not just what he's done
for professional wrestling,
1975
01:24:13.882 --> 01:24:15.008
but for the type
of person he is.
1976
01:24:15.133 --> 01:24:16.301
‐ [laughs]
1977
01:24:16.426 --> 01:24:19.972
‐ To me and so many others,
he's the greatest.
1978
01:24:20.055 --> 01:24:22.015
[all exclaiming]
1979
01:24:22.140 --> 01:24:25.686
And it's insane
how kind, generous,
1980
01:24:25.811 --> 01:24:26.770
and humble the guy is.
1981
01:24:26.853 --> 01:24:28.272
‐ That is good stuff.
1982
01:24:28.355 --> 01:24:31.024
‐ Sometimes
I think he doesn't realize
1983
01:24:31.149 --> 01:24:32.067
that he's Shawn Michaels.
1984
01:24:32.192 --> 01:24:36.280
Step carefully.
Whoa! Gee.
1985
01:24:38.031 --> 01:24:41.201
Oh, my God!
1986
01:24:41.285 --> 01:24:42.619
That was frickin' great!
1987
01:24:42.703 --> 01:24:45.414
When you said
a tale of two lives,
1988
01:24:45.539 --> 01:24:49.960
that's what it's been.
1989
01:24:50.085 --> 01:24:52.129
Believe it or not,
the same business
1990
01:24:52.212 --> 01:24:54.339
that might have
almost killed me,
1991
01:24:54.423 --> 01:24:56.550
I think, is the same business
that saved me.
1992
01:24:56.633 --> 01:24:58.343
No, you did a great job,
phenomenal.
1993
01:24:58.468 --> 01:24:59.636
Thank you very much.
1994
01:24:59.720 --> 01:25:02.264
‐ These guys are easy
to work with, so‐‐
1995
01:25:02.347 --> 01:25:05.392
‐ I know I accomplished
more than what I wanted.
1996
01:25:05.517 --> 01:25:08.145
I never lost touch
with the 19‐year‐old dude
1997
01:25:08.270 --> 01:25:11.523
that was hoping to have
a car and an apartment,
1998
01:25:11.607 --> 01:25:14.109
and be the Southwest
Heavy weight champion.
1999
01:25:14.192 --> 01:25:16.486
A lot more has happened
since then.
2000
01:25:16.570 --> 01:25:20.407
[applause]
2001
01:25:20.532 --> 01:25:22.659
Whoa!
2002
01:25:22.784 --> 01:25:24.703
Jiminy Cricket.
2003
01:25:24.828 --> 01:25:29.666
Holy Toledo.
[laughs]
2004
01:25:29.708 --> 01:25:33.754
‐ That's like the Shawn thing.
That's like the Shawn dance.
2005
01:25:33.837 --> 01:25:36.965
‐ Golly!
2006
01:25:37.049 --> 01:25:39.092
Frickin' awesome.
2007
01:25:39.176 --> 01:25:40.844
‐ ♪ I'm just a sexy boy
2008
01:25:40.969 --> 01:25:43.347
♪ Sexy boy
2009
01:25:43.430 --> 01:25:48.477
Oh, goodness gracious!
That is good stuff.