10 Most Notorious Shawn Michaels Urban Legends

The Rock Refused To Work With Him

Story: It’s one amongst the most effective “dream matches” that ne'er happened: choreographer Michaels vs. The Rock. choreographer was a prime guy once The Rock started in late 1996. In 1997, The Rock was associate degree ascending star. there have been stories that came out spoken language that Michaels (along along with his sidekick Triple H) didn’t need The Rock to be an enormous star and tried to sabotage him. attributable to that, The Rock had a difficulty with them. Michaels suffered a significant back injury in 1998, was out for four years and once he came back, The Rock wasn’t a full timer any longer though they were severally within the 2 biggest matches at SummerSlam 2002. If he ne'er suffered that injury perhaps they might have feuded. we have a tendency to simply don’t grasp.

Here’s however Michaels explained it on the Jim Ross podcast a couple of months ago: “I will bear in mind several, a few years agone, as I came back, Pat Patterson asked this (working with The Rock) and that i aforesaid, ‘Sure, whoever you would like.’ however he wasn’t interested, which was it. however I liked  anybody that I hadn’t been within the ring with.”