Cast

Michael Hickenbottom

Acting

Cast

Michael Hickenbottom

Known for

Acting

Born

1965-07-22

From

Chandler, Arizona, USA

Also known as Shawn Michaels, The Heartbreak Kid, HBK

Biography

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 time is and nearly everyone will have the same answer Shawn Michaels." Michaels is a four time world champion: a three-time WWF Champion and a former World Heavyweight Champion. He was also the winner of the 1995 and 1996 Royal Rumbles and was the company's first Grand Slam Champion. He has also won the PWI Match of the Year Award a record eleven times. Michaels currently resides in San Antonio, Texas with his wife, Rebecca, and their two children.

Michael Hickenbottom

Michael Hickenbottom

Biography

WWF: D-Generation X

WrestleMania 41: Saturday

WWE SuperTape: Volume 1

WWF: Mick Foley - Hard Knocks & Cheap Pops

WWE: WrestleMania Monday

Batista - I Walk Alone

Shawn Michaels: Mr Wrestlemania

WWE: Macho Man - The Randy Savage Story

WWE Hottest Matches

WWF Rock And Rumble

WWE: Shawn Michaels - Boyhood Dream

WWE SlamFest

Mick Foley: Madman Unmasked

Inside the WWF

Batista: The Animal Unleashed

Warrior's Greatest Matches

WWE SuperTape: Volume 4

WWE WrestleFest '91

WWE UK Fan Favorites 1993

WWE WrestleMania XX

WWE WrestleMania X

WWE U.K. PPV

WWE WrestleMania XXIV

Greatest Wrestling Factions

WWE WrestleMania XXVIII

DX: Confidential

WWE World Tour '90

WWE Royal Rumble 2008

WWE Royal Rumble 2007

WWE Royal Rumble 2006

WWE Wrestlemania XIX

The Resurrection of Gavin Stone

WWE Royal Rumble 2004

The Marine 6: Close Quarters

John Cena's Greatest Rivalries

WWE Royal Rumble 2009

WWE: Best of the 2000's

WWE WrestleMania 32

WWE WrestleMania 31

WWE WrestleMania 21

WWE No Mercy 2008

You Think You Know Me? The Story of Edge

Razor Ramon

WWE Funniest Moments

WWE Royal Rumble 2003

90 Feet from Home

Kevin Nash: Too Sweet

WWE Invasion of the Bodyslammers

WWE WrestleMania 22

NXT Stand & Deliver 2026

WWE Royal Rumble 2002

WWE Royal Rumble 2010

WWE WrestleMania XXV

WWE: DX: One Last Stand

The Heartbreak Kid: Becoming Shawn Michaels

WWE WrestleMania 23

WWE WrestleMania 29

WWE Smack 'Em Whack 'Em

WWE Judgment Day 2007

WWE Survivor Series 2006

WWE Survivor Series 2009

WWE Wrestlemania XXVI

WWE UK Rampage

WWE Royal Rumble 2005

WWE Royal Rumble 2013

WWE Hell in a Cell 2009

WWE Royal Rumble 1995

WWE No Way Out 2007

WWE Terminators '96

WWE No Way Out 2008

WWE Cyber Sunday 2008

WWE: Attitude Era: Vol. 3 Unreleased

WWE SummerSlam 2009

WWE SummerSlam 2002

WWE Survivor Series 2003

WWE Survivor Series 2005

WWE One Night Stand 2008