Michael Hickenbottom

About

Michael Shawn Hickenbottom, better known by his ring name, Shawn Michaels, is an American professional wrestling personality, television presenter and retired professional wrestler. He is currently signed to WWE, where he has served as an ambassador for the company since December 2010. Michaels wrestled for WWE, from 1988 until his first retirement in 1998, owing to a severe back injury. He appeared in non-wrestling roles from 1998 to 2000 and resumed his wrestling career in 2002 until retiring ceremoniously in 2010. In the WWE, Michaels headlined major pay per view events in four decades from the 1980s to the 2010s, closing the company's premier annual event WrestleMania on five occasions Michaels was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame class of 2011. Following Michaels' induction, WWE said of Michaels, "Ask any Superstar on the WWE roster who the most gifted sports-entertainer of all...

Known for

RawSeries • 1993WWE NXTSeries • 2010WWE Friday Night SmackDownSeries • 1999WWF SuperstarsSeries • 1986WWE SuperstarsSeries • 2009Mid-South WrestlingSeries • 1981WWF Wrestling ChallengeSeries • 1986Pacific BlueSeries • 1996World Class Championship WrestlingSeries • 1982WWE Saturday Night's Main EventSeries • 1985WWE ECWSeries • 2006The Best of WWESeries • 2020WWE Old SchoolSeries • 1973WWE EVOLVESeries • 2025Dark Side of the RingSeries • 2019WWE Tough EnoughSeries • 2001WWE ConfidentialSeries • 2002Wrestlemania RewindSeries • 2014Biography: WWE LegendsSeries • 2021WWE LFGSeries • 2025WWE This Is AwesomeSeries • 2022Undertaker: The Last RideSeries • 2020The Marine 6: Close QuartersMovie • 2018The Resurrection of Gavin StoneMovie • 2017