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Shawn Michaels is often considered one of the greatest legends in professional wrestling, and his career spanned two decades. He was one of the biggest names of WWE as long as he was active in the promotion and he has also been the WWE World Champion. He was also one of the faces of the promotion during the 90s.
Shawn Michaels might have been the most selfless person during his Second Run in WWE, which lasted over the span of 2002 to 2010. His coworkers had always been critical of him because of his first run in the promotion, as he had been widely criticized for being a very selfish wrestler. It is said that he was a completely different man during his second run.
Ken Shamrock remembers working with Shawn Michaels
One of his former co-workers, Ken Shamrock, who had been one of the biggest prospects of WWE during the early Attitude Era, recently shared his experience working with The Heart Break Kid, and revealed that he has a pleasant memory working with the WWE Hall of Famer. Speaking with the “Wrestling Life Online” podcast, he said the following;
Ken Shamrock and Shawn Michaels worked during the early Attitude Era
“Shawn Michaels was, from all the things I heard—I never saw it. We were great together. He was pleasant to me. He was respectful to me. But again, I can see some of the things that unfolded, um, where I could see why people would say those things about Shawn. But I think the real Shawn, I think we see now today. I think we now see who he really is. And I think he is a good guy.”
“He made a tremendous decision, you know. He’s definitely able to be comfortable because he did so many great things in wrestling, and he made so many people happy, and he really helped a lot of people get through a lot of hard times because of the joy he brought to people.
Ken Shamrock is presently under a legend's contract with WWE
"So, those are the things that I think he could truly hang his hat on, and he could really, really use that popularity that he was able to gain through that character to really help a lot of people understand, you know, having a life of fulfillment and what that looks like.”
Ken Shamrock and Shawn Michaels worked together during the early Attitude Era but Michaels retired from wrestling after his defeat to Stone Cold Steve Austin on the main event of WrestleMania XIV. When he returned to WWE in 2002, Ken Shamrock was gone from the promotion and the two legends never got to work with each other ever again.
