WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.799 --> 00:00:14.000 This is ww Superstar Drew McIntire and you're listening to the WWE podcast show, 2 00:00:15.320 --> 00:00:27.559 the one that Everybody wants me three sixty and says, just rust your ass 3 00:00:28.120 --> 00:00:34.960 is my You're gonna acknowledge me? Hey, what's going on? Guys? 4 00:00:35.000 --> 00:00:40.359 And welcome back to WWE Retro on the WWE Podcast on this Friday, July 5 00:00:40.520 --> 00:00:45.200 twenty feet. As obviously, I wasn't here last week. Life got the 6 00:00:45.200 --> 00:00:49.679 best of me and I didn't have enough time to come up on here and 7 00:00:49.719 --> 00:00:53.159 record. But I am back this week, and I am back to talk 8 00:00:53.200 --> 00:00:57.399 about what I previewed on the weekend review or not that we can review the 9 00:00:57.520 --> 00:01:02.399 currency of WWE with Matt and that is Sean Michaels. He'll turn in two 10 00:01:02.439 --> 00:01:06.280 thousand and five. He'll turn that last only a matter of weeks and one 11 00:01:06.400 --> 00:01:11.319 that was a rarity for Shawn Michaels in his career post two thousand and two, 12 00:01:11.560 --> 00:01:15.200 when he returned to the company after taking a four and a half years 13 00:01:15.239 --> 00:01:22.079 off. Giver take and I did cover HBK versus Hulk Hogan when this show 14 00:01:22.200 --> 00:01:27.239 was rivalries, but I wanted to focus in more on the impact it had 15 00:01:27.840 --> 00:01:34.879 for Shawn Michaels specifically now Shawn Michaels, obviously in his first round with the 16 00:01:34.920 --> 00:01:38.040 company was predominantly a heel when he turned heel on Marginetti, breaking up the 17 00:01:38.120 --> 00:01:45.159 Rockers, when he was the head of Degeneration X, very much a heel, 18 00:01:45.280 --> 00:01:48.519 and when he returned in two thousand and two, obviously in real life 19 00:01:48.519 --> 00:01:53.200 he became a born again Christian and coming back as a legacy star, a 20 00:01:53.280 --> 00:01:59.120 guy that the fans just appreciated. He cemented himself as a baby face and 21 00:01:59.200 --> 00:02:02.680 the top baby face on Monday Night Raw, but by the time two thousand 22 00:02:02.680 --> 00:02:07.920 and five came around, he didn't need to continue to be the top baby 23 00:02:07.959 --> 00:02:12.280 face on Raw. From two thousand and two to late two thousand and four, 24 00:02:12.360 --> 00:02:15.599 he kind of always had to be. Like you had stintants of Kevin 25 00:02:15.719 --> 00:02:23.800 Nash Or Booker t Scott Steiner Goldberg had a decent run as the top baby 26 00:02:23.800 --> 00:02:28.159 face on Monday Night Raw, Chris Beno of course in OH four, winning 27 00:02:28.159 --> 00:02:30.759 the Rumble, coming over to Monday Night Raw, and winning the World Championship 28 00:02:30.759 --> 00:02:36.599 at Russellming at twenty. But the constant was always Sean Michaels. He was 29 00:02:36.599 --> 00:02:40.479 the guy that WWE could always go back to and plug and play as the 30 00:02:40.520 --> 00:02:46.199 top baby face on Monday and Night Raw, the typical foe for Triple Age, 31 00:02:46.479 --> 00:02:50.360 a guy that you always knew what you were going to get. But 32 00:02:50.439 --> 00:02:53.120 by the time two thousand and five came around, it really was a changing 33 00:02:53.159 --> 00:02:57.840 of the guard for w W. We were moving on from the Ruthless Aggression 34 00:02:57.840 --> 00:03:00.680 era. We were still in it, but we were arting to see the 35 00:03:00.759 --> 00:03:02.000 light at the end of the tunnel, but none in a good way. 36 00:03:02.080 --> 00:03:07.479 Right. Ruthless Aggression was an amazing era for WWE, but you were starting 37 00:03:07.479 --> 00:03:10.800 to look past the curd Angles and the Triple H's and the Shawn Michaels and 38 00:03:10.840 --> 00:03:15.800 the Undertakers as who would be the next faces of the company, The Batistas, 39 00:03:15.840 --> 00:03:21.120 the Randy Orton's, the Bobby Lashley's. At this point in time, 40 00:03:21.120 --> 00:03:25.919 he was just coming up on SmackDown and obviously John Cena wrestling at twenty one 41 00:03:27.000 --> 00:03:31.840 rolls around. Batista wins the World Heavyweight Championship. John Cena wins WWE Championship 42 00:03:31.919 --> 00:03:37.039 and we have our top two baby faces in the company. Batista goes to 43 00:03:37.080 --> 00:03:42.080 SmackDown, John Cena comes to Raw and all of a sudden, we have 44 00:03:42.199 --> 00:03:46.280 a brand new, top tier baby face on Monday at Raw for the foreseeable 45 00:03:46.319 --> 00:03:51.319 future. Now, this wasn't something that would push Shawn Michaels to the wayside. 46 00:03:51.719 --> 00:03:55.000 He still had at least another four years in him of being a top 47 00:03:55.039 --> 00:04:00.000 tier superstar at the company, and obviously he would go on to Long Degeneration 48 00:04:00.360 --> 00:04:05.800 X have his historic back to back wrestling matches with the Undertaker. Just because 49 00:04:05.840 --> 00:04:10.599 you now had a top tier baby face on Monday Night Raw in John Cena, 50 00:04:10.680 --> 00:04:13.879 a guy who was entering his prime, someone who would become the face 51 00:04:13.919 --> 00:04:18.040 of the company for the following decade, you still had a lot of runway 52 00:04:18.120 --> 00:04:21.920 left, or a decent amount of runway left with Shawn Michaels as a baby 53 00:04:21.959 --> 00:04:28.279 face, but in the immediate future. It allowed WWE to do something that 54 00:04:28.439 --> 00:04:30.920 they weren't able to do beforehand. And I don't think that they could have 55 00:04:30.920 --> 00:04:39.319 afforded to you Shawn Michaels as a heel beforehand before this, because they were 56 00:04:39.360 --> 00:04:44.439 missing those top tier baby faces. Austin was gone, the Rock was gone, 57 00:04:44.920 --> 00:04:49.199 Undertaker was on SmackDown. Bobby Lashley or not Bobby Lashley, brock Lesner 58 00:04:49.639 --> 00:04:54.360 was supposed to be that guy, but he quickly became better used as a 59 00:04:54.439 --> 00:04:57.560 heel and then walked away from the company in early two thousand and four. 60 00:04:58.160 --> 00:05:03.040 So wwe really didn't have the ability to you Shawn Michaels as anything other than 61 00:05:03.079 --> 00:05:06.480 a baby phase. Like I said, you had Chris Benwall, you had 62 00:05:08.000 --> 00:05:11.319 I guess Eddie Guerrero as well, but he turned hell in two thousand and 63 00:05:11.319 --> 00:05:15.120 five two with Ray Musteo like, you could not afford to not have Shawn 64 00:05:15.160 --> 00:05:20.519 Michaels as a baby phase. He was that one constant guy up until John 65 00:05:20.560 --> 00:05:25.199 cen has showed up in June to two thousand and five. Something else that 66 00:05:25.240 --> 00:05:29.240 started happening in the center of two thousand and five was Hulk Hogan returning to 67 00:05:29.399 --> 00:05:32.160 WWE in an in ring capacity for the first time in over two years, 68 00:05:32.160 --> 00:05:36.800 something that we had not seen Hogan do pretty much since his program with Vince 69 00:05:36.879 --> 00:05:42.959 McMahon that culminated at Wrestling in nineteen. In two thousand and three, and 70 00:05:43.839 --> 00:05:48.480 Hogan and Michaels being two of the greatest performers and wrestlers in the history of 71 00:05:48.519 --> 00:05:54.199 the business, we're sure to cross pass in some capacity, and one would 72 00:05:54.240 --> 00:05:59.399 assume, and we first saw them crossing paths as tag team partners, tagging 73 00:05:59.399 --> 00:06:03.000 them in a raw A very you for excite a lot of way for a 74 00:06:03.000 --> 00:06:06.879 lot of fans, something that we would have only thought was possible in a 75 00:06:08.000 --> 00:06:14.800 dream match setting. But this was until we had a version of Sean Michael's 76 00:06:14.839 --> 00:07:00.439 Present itself that we had not seen since nineteen ninety eight. I still can't 77 00:07:00.480 --> 00:07:12.240 plays crying Me and Hunting sing the same on the part of Jo. They 78 00:07:12.360 --> 00:07:16.360 want to get the right out there, but we didn't even something up to 79 00:07:16.480 --> 00:07:47.399 get it. We can't go everything. I won't want you take you she 80 00:07:47.519 --> 00:07:55.399 comes, she said, get to get your money, and it was like, 81 00:08:50.000 --> 00:08:56.440 so, you know, we always wondered what a heel Shawn Michaels would 82 00:08:56.440 --> 00:09:01.600 be like because we hadn't seen it in the Ruthless Aggression era. And when 83 00:09:01.639 --> 00:09:07.639 I say we, I kind of mean in the sense of a a new 84 00:09:07.720 --> 00:09:09.919 age fan at this point in time, because if you were a fan back 85 00:09:11.000 --> 00:09:15.919 in the Attitude are you knew this version Shawn Michaels. But in the Ruthless 86 00:09:15.919 --> 00:09:18.799 Aggression era, someone who started watching and let's say the tail tale tail end 87 00:09:18.840 --> 00:09:22.960 of the Attitude era, like myself, you only knew Shawn Michaels as a 88 00:09:24.080 --> 00:09:28.480 baby face. You only knew Shawn Michaels as someone who was a fan favorite 89 00:09:28.559 --> 00:09:33.679 and someone who always fought for the site the side of good. But seeing 90 00:09:33.799 --> 00:09:37.919 him kick Hogan's head off, I would have nowhere. And to be honest, 91 00:09:39.480 --> 00:09:41.200 just one thing I want to say. We always say RKO out of 92 00:09:41.240 --> 00:09:45.480 nowhere, but I think the sweetch In music was the actual move that came 93 00:09:45.480 --> 00:09:50.879 out of nowhere, and in a lot of ways was more out of nowhere 94 00:09:50.919 --> 00:09:54.519 than the RKO ever was. Like I remember him kicking Triple h in the 95 00:09:54.600 --> 00:09:58.159 head at the beginning of their triple threat match with c and a Survivor series. 96 00:09:58.720 --> 00:10:03.679 The entire like gimmick of his build to John Cena against fighting John Cena 97 00:10:03.720 --> 00:10:09.200 at WrestleMania twenty three was when would he snap and when would he finally kick 98 00:10:09.279 --> 00:10:11.679 seeing his head off? And I just found the way that Michaels was able 99 00:10:11.720 --> 00:10:16.200 to deliver that sweet him music quite literally out of nowhere was something we had 100 00:10:16.279 --> 00:10:18.960 never seen before, and continued, I've never seen Orton is a close second 101 00:10:20.000 --> 00:10:22.919 with the Archao, but the sweet Shim music is just something something special. 102 00:10:24.840 --> 00:10:28.360 The next part about this was seeing how would Shawn Michaels build his character as 103 00:10:28.399 --> 00:10:33.279 a heel. How were we supposed to hate Sean Michaels after loving the guy 104 00:10:33.840 --> 00:10:39.200 for three years, after just cheering the guy and cheering him on when he 105 00:10:39.320 --> 00:10:43.039 was the World heavyweight champion, him cheering him on and his multiple main event 106 00:10:43.120 --> 00:10:46.559 matches against Triple h and cheering him on in his classic against Curt Angel that 107 00:10:46.759 --> 00:10:50.279 very same year at wrestleming A twenty one. Well, one of the first 108 00:10:50.320 --> 00:10:56.120 things we got to see Shawn Michaels display himself as a heel was when he 109 00:10:56.919 --> 00:11:05.080 went on Larry Fling and had the chance to mock Haul Cogan um in which 110 00:11:05.159 --> 00:11:07.679 the whole thing was satire. Right if Larry Fling, Larry King, if 111 00:11:07.720 --> 00:11:11.159 you guys have been watching wrestling for long enough, you know what that is. 112 00:11:11.279 --> 00:11:16.799 But Shawn Michael's mocking Haul Hogan, that was some aside to Shawn Michael's 113 00:11:16.840 --> 00:11:24.840 we had not seen, probably since his degeneration. Next days, ladies and 114 00:11:24.960 --> 00:11:58.399 gentlemen, tonight, Oh ware gonna join me tonight? Oh You'll be squaring 115 00:11:58.440 --> 00:12:01.360 off against Shawn Michaels. I saw a slam. Now that's Sean Michaels. 116 00:12:01.720 --> 00:12:05.200 He's a tough guy, isn't he. We're gon be telling as something. 117 00:12:05.279 --> 00:12:09.320 Brother. This is a dream match, brother, one that I've always dreamed 118 00:12:09.399 --> 00:12:11.320 up. Brother, But I did news story of Cobby a hundred and two 119 00:12:11.399 --> 00:12:13.840 years old. Brother. But I tell him I said a little biting at 120 00:12:13.879 --> 00:12:16.799 summer Slam and every day at the home, sir way, so that he's 121 00:12:16.840 --> 00:12:20.960 not a dead brother, He's a little at the more his time. Let 122 00:12:20.000 --> 00:12:24.279 me ask you a question, hockey, are you up? Bad guy? 123 00:12:24.360 --> 00:12:26.720 You run? Good guy? What lawn camber? Brother, I'm a great 124 00:12:26.799 --> 00:12:31.559 guy. Oh when that camera goes off. Brother, Oh, it's a 125 00:12:31.639 --> 00:12:33.879 different story. Brother, he ho brother, Brother, Brother, Brother, 126 00:12:35.000 --> 00:12:41.240 Brother, he's seeing Brother. Shaun MICUs is honestly an amazing athlete. Brother, 127 00:12:43.240 --> 00:12:45.720 but he never quite made it to the upper tier. Brother. You 128 00:12:45.840 --> 00:12:48.639 see, after I walked out of the w W, Brother, I decided 129 00:12:48.679 --> 00:12:52.320 to go make it even more money somewhere else. Brother. They gave the 130 00:12:52.399 --> 00:12:54.960 ball to Shawn Michels, but he couldn't quite get the job done. You 131 00:12:56.080 --> 00:13:00.240 see, he's got more important things on his mind that becoming the greatest sir 132 00:13:00.519 --> 00:13:03.879 that's ever stepped into the ring. Brother. They more concerned about going out 133 00:13:03.919 --> 00:13:07.919 there each and every night brother and stealing the show. Brother, he works 134 00:13:09.000 --> 00:13:13.960 just as hard and Dald Quick Michigan brother as he does and Masster Square Garden 135 00:13:13.080 --> 00:13:16.720 Brother, see the holds your brother, he's got a philosophy. Brother. 136 00:13:18.320 --> 00:13:20.600 Once so people are in the building. Brother, you've already got there, 137 00:13:20.919 --> 00:13:28.159 actuating from bucking Brother. But Sean Michael's brother. He broadly go out there 138 00:13:28.279 --> 00:13:31.600 and nearly kill himself every night. Brother, just to make sure those people 139 00:13:31.879 --> 00:13:37.080 get their money's work. Brother, Let's you see something. He's not gonna 140 00:13:37.600 --> 00:13:43.519 It's not gonna matter, Brother, because you're the lean Jean Brother. What 141 00:13:43.720 --> 00:13:48.519 the holiest Larry King, Larry King whatever, Larry, I'm still a ticket 142 00:13:48.639 --> 00:13:54.360 here. Brother, Who what's you're gonna do? Brother? When the Holster 143 00:13:54.519 --> 00:13:58.200 comes at too so much? That's so much, Larry, Brother, who're 144 00:13:58.240 --> 00:14:01.320 gonna hold up? Brother? You want me for the first time in history? 145 00:14:01.360 --> 00:14:03.559 Brother, for the first time. Brother was the last time, Brother, 146 00:14:03.799 --> 00:14:09.879 the only time Brother Bell range Brother. Oh oh, brother did get 147 00:14:11.879 --> 00:14:22.320 kid? Yeah, God Gran grand God grand brother. Brother, Brother, 148 00:14:22.120 --> 00:14:52.120 I got my brother, brother brother the last m hm oh, Cogan, 149 00:14:54.039 --> 00:15:03.039 you've got your reality show. Hogan knows best. What are you going to 150 00:15:03.120 --> 00:15:13.200 do in reality? Kids? So there was a lot of truth to that 151 00:15:13.399 --> 00:15:16.080 promo of Shawn Michaels, because yes it was comedy base, yes it was 152 00:15:16.159 --> 00:15:20.840 satire. Yes it was him mocking Hulk Cogan, but the whole thing of 153 00:15:20.919 --> 00:15:26.440 the camera's going off and him not caring if it's Balcreek Michigan or you know 154 00:15:26.759 --> 00:15:31.080 what Sean Michaels does as opposed to what Hogan does. I feel like there's 155 00:15:31.080 --> 00:15:35.840 a lot of randomosity. And you've heard the rumors and the stories about how 156 00:15:35.399 --> 00:15:41.159 Sean Michaels really didn't enjoy working with Hulk Hogan and how they were supposed to 157 00:15:41.159 --> 00:15:45.240 have back to back matches, each of them getting a victory or Hulk Cogan 158 00:15:45.440 --> 00:15:48.559 changing the creative you know, the infamous thing that doesn't work for me, 159 00:15:48.759 --> 00:15:54.000 brother, which which is what he did in at WCW, and in their 160 00:15:54.320 --> 00:15:58.720 match at SummerSlam, you saw Sean Michael's really kind of make a mockery of 161 00:15:58.840 --> 00:16:02.879 Hulk Cogan over selling the you know what out of all of Hogan's moves. 162 00:16:03.799 --> 00:16:08.480 So you had a heeled promo of Shawn Michaels, but one that was still 163 00:16:08.559 --> 00:16:12.200 kind of endearing and one that had a lot of truth to it. So 164 00:16:12.360 --> 00:16:17.320 there still was a reason to cheer Shawn Michaels. And there still was a 165 00:16:17.480 --> 00:16:22.919 reason to back Shawn Michaels in this match, That was until he came to 166 00:16:22.080 --> 00:16:27.159 Montreal, Quebec, Canada. And obviously we know all the reasons as to 167 00:16:27.320 --> 00:16:32.480 why Shawn Michaels would not be welcome at the Bell Center in Montreal, And 168 00:16:33.240 --> 00:16:40.279 yours truly was in the building for Shawn Michael's promo on My Night Raw in 169 00:16:40.360 --> 00:16:44.759 two thousand and five in Montreal, and I gotta tell you, if he 170 00:16:44.960 --> 00:16:48.519 wasn't over as a heel beforehand, he certainly was over as a heel by 171 00:16:48.559 --> 00:17:21.799 the time he was done with Montreal. Six down the same, set down 172 00:17:21.920 --> 00:17:37.000 my ship and drinking us, and he prepared to me the sun is clan, 173 00:17:37.559 --> 00:17:45.680 I'm get my real woman, two rocks during the key more and the 174 00:17:45.880 --> 00:17:53.640 coach get up, get the same maybe to drinking back. What's you away 175 00:17:53.720 --> 00:18:03.720 from home? My sway, myny So I'm just just up it there. 176 00:18:03.799 --> 00:18:11.279 First off is can you believe the booing like you became accustomed to the immediate 177 00:18:11.480 --> 00:18:15.519 pop, the explosion of cheers whenever Sean Michael's music would hit, and just 178 00:18:15.720 --> 00:18:21.039 hearing the raining down of booze onto him and I was there live. I 179 00:18:21.240 --> 00:18:25.599 was eleven or twelve years old. I was there live and it was something 180 00:18:25.680 --> 00:18:29.519 to behold. It was the loudest booing I'd ever heard, and that was 181 00:18:29.640 --> 00:18:33.759 him just making his way into the building. That was it. Now wait 182 00:18:33.880 --> 00:19:11.039 until he actually started cutting his promo and kind m hm mm hm oh. 183 00:19:11.960 --> 00:19:34.359 Can I hate this, lady? Can I'm gonna game ocding rounding the bag. 184 00:19:41.119 --> 00:20:07.400 I holidan Holida. I'm no singer, but what I am it's a 185 00:20:07.640 --> 00:20:18.720 show stop by. I han't liar lol on that the I come other wwe 186 00:20:19.440 --> 00:20:36.400 you. It's truly the heart break kid Sean Michael Kogan that SummerSlam. I 187 00:20:36.680 --> 00:21:04.759 promise no mane, I guaranteed, I guarantee you summer. I will give 188 00:21:07.319 --> 00:21:22.319 you fans something to remember. Course all are you here in Montreal? I'm 189 00:21:41.519 --> 00:21:48.240 so this is the first thing is that this was a promo originally about Haul 190 00:21:48.319 --> 00:21:51.960 Cogan, right, he was building his match to Hogan. But as he 191 00:21:52.039 --> 00:21:56.279 alluded to, he has a lot of history in Montreal with Bret Hart. 192 00:21:56.440 --> 00:22:00.680 Montreal screw job. They were chanting, I was chanting you screwed Brett. 193 00:22:00.240 --> 00:22:06.079 So it was only a matter of time before Shawn Michaels would shift it over 194 00:22:06.319 --> 00:22:12.279 to Bret Hart and eventually would start talking about Bret Hart and would eventually start 195 00:22:12.440 --> 00:22:18.880 egging on the crowd about Bret Hart, and then this would result in arguably 196 00:22:19.960 --> 00:22:25.720 the biggest ruse. I don't know if what would you want to call it, 197 00:22:25.920 --> 00:22:30.359 but one of the biggest heel moments probably in the history of the business. 198 00:22:32.000 --> 00:22:55.359 If I had, if I do say so myself, Yes, miserable, 199 00:23:15.720 --> 00:23:34.680 you want right, You're not gonna get right because I screwed right landed 200 00:23:34.759 --> 00:23:45.960 in once and I'm do it again. We're right, dad, man hunt 201 00:23:48.799 --> 00:24:06.279 that he guts. And he walked down night all tonight in the list ring 202 00:24:08.319 --> 00:24:15.359 and looked me eye an eye like a man. I'd say it, man, 203 00:24:15.759 --> 00:24:27.759 I'll screwed Joe once. Now I'll screw you like that because rushed day 204 00:25:00.079 --> 00:25:41.079 m y. So he fakes, he fakes Bret Hart's return and then immediately 205 00:25:41.279 --> 00:25:48.359 starts back on his usual thing and it just back on the Hull Hogan banter. 206 00:25:48.240 --> 00:25:53.960 And this was this was really something that we hadn't really been accustomed to 207 00:25:55.119 --> 00:25:57.720 with Shawn Michaels. He would then he did it with Hulk Hogan's theme song 208 00:25:57.839 --> 00:26:03.119 again and it was just in all in all, we were not used to 209 00:26:03.240 --> 00:26:07.359 this version of Shawn Michaels. We really were not. And as the promos 210 00:26:07.359 --> 00:26:11.440 started going on like this was a promolo that lasted almost fifteen minutes to open 211 00:26:11.519 --> 00:26:15.319 the show. So then when the promo kept going on and on, we 212 00:26:15.519 --> 00:26:19.759 just kept seeing a side of Shawn Michaels that we were not used to in 213 00:26:19.880 --> 00:26:25.319 any capacity. And beyond the Brett hart stuff, beyond the Hull Cogan stuff, 214 00:26:25.880 --> 00:26:29.960 it was just a Shawn Michaels that we had no idea was even living 215 00:26:30.039 --> 00:26:33.960 inside him at this point in time. And honestly it was kind of refreshing. 216 00:26:36.960 --> 00:27:10.759 Are superstar his hands about girls and the sullar Michaels would say goodbye. 217 00:27:11.519 --> 00:27:15.359 Some Michaels had to go anywhere. Now, I personally I don't and ain't 218 00:27:15.440 --> 00:27:21.960 gonna sit there right now. I tell a good shot he's gonna get comfortable, 219 00:27:22.960 --> 00:27:25.759 even feel they can get all that. Well, he nothing be put 220 00:27:25.839 --> 00:27:30.720 on him so far? Why should he start that? Now you understand who's 221 00:27:30.839 --> 00:27:42.440 running this show. I'll continue whole Coogan. The same thing I despised about 222 00:27:42.480 --> 00:27:48.640 you is what I despised about Bret Harten. You student or some moral fiber 223 00:27:49.160 --> 00:27:56.119 that in your real life did not exist. Ye you student judgments of me 224 00:27:56.519 --> 00:28:04.400 and you whole Cogan, Well you stand or justifying anything. There isn't a 225 00:28:04.559 --> 00:28:15.680 realistic boting in your body. I'll go in and you're the biggest star in 226 00:28:17.000 --> 00:28:26.559 WWE history and it's Summer Slar. I want you to bring your big star. 227 00:28:27.599 --> 00:28:32.240 I want you to wear your baa. I want you to have your 228 00:28:32.359 --> 00:28:56.680 sun licens on and your chindelli my language. Do your teacher toooning the same 229 00:28:56.880 --> 00:29:11.640 talking you do. Yeah, every one of you Montreal Canadian men do nothing 230 00:29:11.759 --> 00:29:38.680 but stand there and talking wild walk its goge. That's summer Slam. You're 231 00:29:38.839 --> 00:29:48.680 one move from your star being snuffed out. You don't believe me, just 232 00:29:49.119 --> 00:29:57.519 ask run the hip man partner. There's a constant reverse like showing might listen 233 00:29:57.799 --> 00:30:08.559 but like six days so Sean Michaels really gets under the fans the skin. 234 00:30:08.680 --> 00:30:14.200 In Montreal, they chant shut the bleep up. You guys probably heard that 235 00:30:14.319 --> 00:30:18.119 through the audio. But you go on to lose against Hulkogan, as we 236 00:30:18.279 --> 00:30:23.440 know, overselling in hilarious fashion, and it would be a short lived heel 237 00:30:23.480 --> 00:30:27.160 turn about five or six weeks for Shawn Michaels, but a side of him 238 00:30:27.200 --> 00:30:33.319 that we would never see again and had only seen it before in nineteen ninety 239 00:30:33.359 --> 00:30:40.240 eight. So it was a cool wrinkle in Shawn Michael's post two thousand career 240 00:30:40.440 --> 00:30:44.279 in WWE, and I think in a lot of ways was something that we 241 00:30:44.359 --> 00:30:47.880 maybe should have seen more of. But obviously Sean Michaels really found his home 242 00:30:48.400 --> 00:30:53.480 as a baby face, but always had that scummy mentality where even in his 243 00:30:53.680 --> 00:31:00.440 program with the Undertaker it kind of peeked through. Sometimes. It was a 244 00:31:00.519 --> 00:31:04.039 side to Shawn Michaels that we didn't get to see as full tilt here against 245 00:31:04.119 --> 00:31:08.319 Hulk Hogan, and in the summer of O five it really was the one 246 00:31:08.440 --> 00:31:14.440 of the more intriguing version of Sean Michaels as he went full blown heel. 247 00:31:14.960 --> 00:31:17.279 Ammy, guys, that's all I got for you today. I hoped you 248 00:31:17.519 --> 00:31:21.119 enjoyed Shawn Michael's heel turn. 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