Shawn Michaes is currently retired from in-ring competition, but throughout his career he was known as Mr. WrestleMania. The Heartbreak Kid put one some impressive matches on the Grandest Stage of Them All and at WrestleMania 24 he defeated Ric Flair in the Nature Boy’s retirement match.
Recently Shawn Michaels spoke to Sam Roberts about his creative process for coming up with the match and he noted that the ideas came to him in the middle of the night.
“That particular match was something that came to me in the middle of the night. I woke up out of sleep. I think it was like two o’clock in the morning, [I] got up out of bed, and then just went to the table and started writing. Then I’m coming down to the end of it. Those thoughts that are in my head and of course, like a movie [I get] a little teardrop. I’m like ‘Oh my goodness. Is this too like namby pamby?’
I mean, wrestling audience, they can be tough. I just thought, ‘oh, I don’t know.’ But again, because it was so emotional for me because I knew where Ric was at that time, and I knew how important it was to him. It was genuinely important to me because it was important to him.”
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