Shawn Michaels Says He Still Considers WrestleMania 26 Match With The Undertaker To Be His Final Match
Shawn Michaels discusses his Crown Jewel match
In 2018, Shawn Michaels came out of retirement to team with Triple H against The Brothers Of Destruction (Kane & Undertaker) at the Crown Jewel event.
The match was largely panned, prompting fans to critique Michaels for choosing to come out of retirement. Speaking with Chris Van Vliet for a new interview, Michaels explained why he still considers his WrestleMania 26 match to be his final match.
“It’s that one with Undertaker [at WrestleMania 26]. Because the other one, it was a tag match, it was DX, and I feel kind of bad, because I don’t mean it in a negative way, but that was just sort of like, I don’t know. It was like Kiss going out, and not even with the original members or whatever, and playing a concert at The Troubadour or something. It was like, Oh, but they’re not really retired, and I know Kiss never retired, just felt like a special, separate one-off. HBK and Mr. Wrestlemania, The Showstopper, whatever, that ended with Taker at WrestleMania, because I still came back and refereed the match between Hunter and Taker and again, and will always play a role in the WWE. Would it count if I went into the Rumble this year or something? Don’t get me wrong.”
Michaels was then quickly asked if he’ll be in the upcoming Royal Rumble match, which will take place in Saudi Arabia.
”Oh, heavens no! Probably shouldn’t have said that. I was just using that as an example. But no, I don’t consider those a match. A single performance by me, by HBK, by that guy. That’s not who that was. That was a dude hanging out with his buddies and having a match. So one was the artist, the other one is was a dude, like I said, hanging out with his buddies.”
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Special thanks to Chris Van Vliet and his team for providing the quotes in this article.
