That's a SHOWSTOPPING performance! | Shawn Michaels

If you're not as excited for the WWE Royal Rumble Match as Shawn Michaels was in 1995... you're doing it WRONG! | WWE

October 1995: Trouble on the Horizon By the fall of 1995, Shawn Michaels was riding high once again. After capturing the Intercontinental Championship over the summer, the Heartbreak Kid was back at the center of WWF’s main event scene — a fan favorite with the world seemingly at his feet. But as October rolled in, that momentum began to take a darker turn. On the October 9th, 1995 edition of Monday Night Raw, Shawn teamed with Diesel and The Undertaker in a blockbuster main event against Yokozu

In the fall of 1995, the momentum of Shawn Michaels’ skyrocketing career came to a sudden and shocking halt. Just weeks after a red-hot summer that saw him capture the WWF Intercontinental Championship, the Heartbreak Kid’s story took a turn that blurred the line between wrestling storylines and harsh reality. On October 13th, 1995, while out in Syracuse, New York, Shawn was attacked outside a nightclub in an incident that quickly became headline news — both inside and outside the world of wrest