Shawn Michaels

Michael Shawn James Hickenbottom (born July 22, 1965 in Scottsdale, Arizona) is a professional wrestler better known as Shawn Michaels or the Heartbreak Kid (HBK). He currently performs for World Wrestling Entertainment on its RAW brand.

Trivia

• Chris Jericho admitted that he emulated Michaels, early in his career
• Michaels' chaps and tights come in many different colors such as red, black, and white which are made by "The Legend," Kevin Allen.
• Michaels filmed a "shoot interview" with RF Video in 2000 to talk about his career from a "behind the scenes" perspective.
• Michaels began using his "Sweet Chin Music" superkick in the early-90s after years of studying the manuever from the master of the superkick, Chris Adams.
• Michaels' cousin, Matt Bentley, is also a wrestler.
• Michaels is the only wrestler in WWE history to simultaneously hold the WWE European Championship and the WWF Championship.
• Michaels competed in the first ever Ladder Match in WWE history, losing to Bret Hart with the WWE Intercontinental Championship on the line on July 21, 1992, during a WWF Wrestling Challenge taping.
• Michaels is the only wrestler in WWE history to have forfeited all three of the main titles: the WWE Championship, the Intercontinental Championship, and the World Tag Team Championship. No other wrestler has ever forfeited more than one.
• In addition, of his eleven title reigns, he has actually only lost five of them in a match, only four of which were real contests. He has forfeited one WWF Championship and one Intercontinental Championship, was stripped of one Intercontinental Championship, forfeited or was stripped of all of his Tag Team Championships, and lost his European Championship by just laying down for friend and teammate Triple H (Michaels was the WWF Champion at the time and hence "gave" the lesser European title to Triple H).