HBK regrets coming out of retirement
Mar 18, 2021 18:07:53 GMT -5
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Time and greater context have left Shawn Michaels regretting coming out of retirement to take what turned into a disastrous tag team match between him and Triple H against the Undertaker and Kane in 2018.
“I do,” Michaels said during a Zoom interview. “I had no idea that from Mark’s standpoint he was looking at it as that might be one he could walk away on.”
The 55-year-old Michaels, currently a producer for NXT, had said in the past that he had no regrets about the match at the Crown Jewel show in Saudi Arabia. But Undertaker, whose real name is Mark Calaway, said during the “The Last Ride” docuseries last year that “if that match came off the way that it was intended and the way that we wanted it to, that might have been enough for me.”
It appears it has changed Michaels’ feelings about his decision.
“That’s something that I think to myself now, ‘oh my goodness I wish that I’d have known that,’ ” he said.
“I do,” Michaels said during a Zoom interview. “I had no idea that from Mark’s standpoint he was looking at it as that might be one he could walk away on.”
The 55-year-old Michaels, currently a producer for NXT, had said in the past that he had no regrets about the match at the Crown Jewel show in Saudi Arabia. But Undertaker, whose real name is Mark Calaway, said during the “The Last Ride” docuseries last year that “if that match came off the way that it was intended and the way that we wanted it to, that might have been enough for me.”
It appears it has changed Michaels’ feelings about his decision.
“That’s something that I think to myself now, ‘oh my goodness I wish that I’d have known that,’ ” he said.
He has been able to break off the match from the rest of his career, saying it “lives in a separate world to me.”
“All I can do is apologize to the guys,” Michaels said.
He knows other people can’t compartmentalize in the same way, but it has allowed him to be at peace with the match and his career. Don’t expect the Crown Jewel debacle to haunt him and lure him back to the ring.
“I think people have always been kind of confused with my peace and joy with the way I did things and that somehow there should be something nagging at me, something left unfinished,” Michaels said. “I think it’s hard for people to not always see me as Shawn Michaels and I see the entire picture and I know the guy who started as a 200-pound guy that wasn’t supposed to make it. So for me, I compare that to what I did get the opportunity to do and it’s hard not to be happy about that.”
“All I can do is apologize to the guys,” Michaels said.
He knows other people can’t compartmentalize in the same way, but it has allowed him to be at peace with the match and his career. Don’t expect the Crown Jewel debacle to haunt him and lure him back to the ring.
“I think people have always been kind of confused with my peace and joy with the way I did things and that somehow there should be something nagging at me, something left unfinished,” Michaels said. “I think it’s hard for people to not always see me as Shawn Michaels and I see the entire picture and I know the guy who started as a 200-pound guy that wasn’t supposed to make it. So for me, I compare that to what I did get the opportunity to do and it’s hard not to be happy about that.”
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To this day I still haven't seen that match, I've only seen gifs of it. Man lol.
