Shawn Michaels On What Was Supposed To Happen When He Joined The NWO

Shawn Michaels is a WWE Hall of Famer, and a legendary wrestler. He retired from in-ring competition several years ago, but fans will be seeing him on TV this week when he appears on the Raw 25th anniversary show.

Shawn’s name has been attached to some of the most iconic moments in wrestling history, and at one point he even joined one of the most infamous stables ever created.

In 2002, Shawn Michaels returned to Raw to join the NWO, but the angle quickly fell apart.

HBK was asked about the original plans for the group during an interview with NBC Sports, and the WWE Hall of Famer seems just as confused as everyone else in regards to where the storyline was going.

“I honestly don’t know where it was supposed to go because I had just gotten back to WWE. The extent of it, that I knew, was that Kevin [Nash] was supposed to work with Hunter at the next Pay-Per-View. I know that we had turned on Booker and then we turned on [Big] Show, but I honestly don’t know where it was going because I was just finding my footing and didn’t know enough to be asking someone, ‘Where is this going?’ I had no intention of wrestling at that point and then of course, so many things changed after Kevin went down. I need to hunt someone down and find the answer.”

Shawn Michaels competed on the very first episode of Monday Night Raw, and with the 25th anniversary show set to be simulcast from the Barclays Center and the Manhattan Center, the WWE Hall of Famer was asked which location he would like to visit.

“Well I gotta tell you, I hope that’s where I get to go. No one has made any decisions yet as far as I know. As much as I love the Barclays Center, I would rather get to go back to the Manhattan Center. I don’t know that at the time I was mature enough to appreciate how unbelievably cool and awesome that building was. It’s sort of like a rock band. They start out in those places and then you want to get to play in stadiums. As phenomenal as it is to be in front of 80 or 90,000 people in a stadium, it’s really hard to beat going back to those intimate places, filling them up, and feeling that electricity, that passion, that excitement in that environment. For me if I were to get to pick, that’s where I would want to go back to, especially on that night.”