nthomas504
Pre-Show Stalwart
If Shawn never got a back injury that (at that time) ended his career, would he have been the face of the WWF.
Just on my mind
Just on my mind
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I think we will never know what would have happened in the crazy world of wrestling...
Shawn had a lot of demons back in the day and we don't know what road he could have gone down if he was not injured...
But if we think about it, the way HBK wrestled back in the 90's was only ever going to end up in a career ending injury. The man has even said himself that people were telling him to slow down and not give over 100% everytime he went out there but that wasn't in Shawn's character.
I personally as a HBK fan think that the Injury was a blessing in disguise for Shawn, it told him that he couldnt go 110% every night like he always tried to do. It told him that he was destroying his life. People are having a go at HBK on these forums for not being the man he was back in the 90's and that he does repetitive moves... Let's be realistic...
Nobody thought that HBK was gonna come back in early 2002... never mind wrestle a full schedule for the next 7 years and still be going strong!
HBK has adapted his style of wrestling to his current age and abilitites. I dont hate him for this. I appreciate he is still doing something that he doesnt need to do anymore. Everyone states that he is a sure-fire hall of famer already. This means he can hang up his boots tomorrow. But he doesnt...
He loves this business and he has changed his life for the better. This has made him enjoy what bit of his career he has left.
I for one am going to be upset when he does finally hang up those boots, but! i'm honoured that i have had the chance to be able to see this man perform and dedicate his life and health to a business and to it's fans.
Sorry if i have gone off topic a little... just got a bit carried away
I'm wondering what would HHH's career would be like, since he was Shawn's right-hand man, would he actually reach the main event heights if Shawn wasn't injured?
If Shawn Michaels didn't have a back injury then he'd probably be held in much lower regard than he is today. Like Jake said, he'd probably have been moved down the card. We'd probably have seen him face The Rock, but it wouldn't be really anything special.
His injury is what has given him legendary status. Don't get me wrong, I love Shawn Michaels. I think he's brilliant. I don't consider him a legend though. I suppose it's legendary that he's managed to cement himself as one of the best of all time when he's only appeared sporadically in main events and only had one month long title reign in the last decade and then some. Then again, that's also because he's managed to avoid holding midcard titles - that thing that says "Look at me, I'm officially a midcarder now". Flair held the IC belt, thus proving my point.
You might think he'd have been able to do that had he not been injured. Not true. Coming back from what was supposedly a career ending injury was what gave him the momentum to do that. He comes over as a grizzled legend, when all he's really done is lose to more popular wrestlers.
Had he not been injured, I think Goldberg would be held in higher regard. Smart career move.