Shawn Michaels being left seven figures

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From a Q&A on the Powerslam magazine website

Is it true that Shawn Michaels received a seven-figure inheritance from a wrestling fan in the mid-1990s?

Yes. Shawn Michaels was left the money in a wrestling fan’s will. It was a subject about which he didn’t like to talk at the time, if I remember rightly.

This is the first I've ever heard of this, can anybody shed any more light on it?

[willyjakes]

Seems kind of weird and I'm still not 100% sure it's accurate.

However I suspect whatever wrestling fan left it to him was perhaps an older woman that Shawn may have had a long term affair with. That's why he doesn't like to talk about it.

[Bob Schlapowitz]

Sept 1, 2014 11:15:39 GMT -5 willyjakes said:

Seems kind of weird and I'm still not 100% sure it's accurate.

However I suspect whatever wrestling fan left it to him was perhaps an older woman that Shawn may have had a long term affair with. That's why he doesn't like to talk about it.

Shawn is Lex Luthor?

[nisidhe]

There was some talk about it at the time, but I was never aware that there might have been anything going on between them apart from a fan being sweet on a wrestler. People seemed to have just shrugged and moved on.

[chazraps]

Or he might not like to talk about it because death and inheritance is a pretty private thing. Think about it, let's say in whatever job you have now, a stranger who you helped and made their life just a little bit better regularly passes on. They have tremendous wealth and not many people to leave it to, but they want to give it to someone who brightened up their days. It's not really the kind of thing you can brag about to people or discuss, and one of the conditions of receiving it may have for it to be a silent gesture out of respect. Who knows.

[Surfer Sandman]

I wish someone would leave me seven figures.

But alas, sexy boy I am not.

[Bob Schlapowitz]

Sept 1, 2014 11:29:47 GMT -5 chazraps said:

Or he might not like to talk about it because death and inheritance is a pretty private thing. Think about it, let's say in whatever job you have now, a stranger who you helped and made their life just a little bit better regularly passes on. They have tremendous wealth and not many people to leave it to, but they want to give it to someone who brightened up their days. It's not really the kind of thing you can brag about to people or discuss, and one of the conditions of receiving it may have for it to be a silent gesture out of respect. Who knows.

Mid 1990's Shawn didn't seem like the type of guy who would care about any of that.

[D'Jasper Probincrux III]

Dave Meltzer was asked about this recently. I don't remember his full response, but he said that Michaels has changed his story a few different times about it. One version was that he did take the money, one was that he talked the person out of giving it to him, etc.

[chazraps]

Sept 1, 2014 11:38:52 GMT -5 Bob Schlapowitz said:

Sept 1, 2014 11:29:47 GMT -5 chazraps said:

Or he might not like to talk about it because death and inheritance is a pretty private thing. Think about it, let's say in whatever job you have now, a stranger who you helped and made their life just a little bit better regularly passes on. They have tremendous wealth and not many people to leave it to, but they want to give it to someone who brightened up their days. It's not really the kind of thing you can brag about to people or discuss, and one of the conditions of receiving it may have for it to be a silent gesture out of respect. Who knows.

Mid 1990's Shawn didn't seem like the type of guy who would care about any of that.

Well who knows how this person we've never met acted about a peculiar private matter two decades ago.

[Muskrat]

I just heard about this for the first time recently, I'm quite intrigued by the whole thing.

[Mike Bockwinkel]

He's had a long career. I'm sure there was way more than 7 action figures made of him.

[Kevin Hamilton]

You don't often think of people that have access to seven figures who aren't famous to be wrestling fans really.

[Deleted]

He probably blew it all on drugs anyways. Wacky 90s HBK was such a scoundrel.

[Racksman]

Sept 1, 2014 12:41:12 GMT -5 @akeem said:

He probably blew it all on drugs anyways. Wacky 90s HBK was such a scoundrel.

For some reason, I pictured Sidney Portier saying this, and it became 2000X funnier.

[Martin: #TeamBella Treasurer]

Just finished Bob Holly's autobiography on my tablet (don't judge) and he references this too. He also mentions that Savage and Stephanie were "very friendly". Old Sparky Plugg knows all the myths and rumours!!

[tigermaskxxxvii]

It's bad enough that Shawn was pilled up, in the main event, and part of a powerful backstage clique/kliq. But an out of the blue seven figure inheritance on top of that? The dude must've been insufferable backstage!

Sept 1, 2014 12:36:35 GMT -5 Kevin Hamilton said:

You don't often think of people that have access to seven figures who aren't famous to be wrestling fans really.

Appearently we're a much more lucrative demographic than what Madison Avenue gives us credit for!

[Deleted]

Would be awesome if there was a wacky clause to it.

You will inherit 3 million dollars if.... you defeat the Undertaker at Wrestlemania!!!!

[543Y2J]

Damn, this is the first time I have ever heard of this....

[Hit Girl]

Leona Helmsley was very generous it seems.

[OVO 40 hunched over like he 80]

His Texas Academy Wrestling shows looked kinda cool and fancy, did he funded the whole thing by himself? Wonder if the money story is true if he used some of it for the school.
If HBK convinced the fan to not give him the money, then he's a better person than me.