Shawn Michaels

Shawn Michaels, born Michael Shawn Hickenbottom in 1965, is an American professional wrestler who spent most of his career with the World Wrestling Federation, later renamed WWE, and is known by the nicknames the Heartbreak Kid and Mr. WrestleMania. He began in the American Wrestling Association, where he formed The Midnight Rockers with Marty Jannetty, and rose to prominence as a singles star in the WWF in the early 1990s. He co-founded the stable D-Generation X, won the WWF Championship three times and the World Heavyweight Championship once, and was the first man to win the Royal Rumble match as the first entrant. He wrestled from 1988 until a first retirement in 1998, returned in 2002, retired again in 2010, and made a one-off final appearance in 2018, later working in WWE talent development and on the NXT brand.