New Details Emerge On Shawn Michaels Documentary

A new documentary focusing on Shawn Michaels is reportedly close to premiering, offering a fresh look at the WWE Hall of Famer’s career.

According to WrestleVotes Radio on Fightful Select, the full-length feature has been completed and is expected to include new interviews with Shawn Michaels’ peers and former rivals. While an official release date has not yet been announced, the project is reportedly ready for its debut.

The documentary is expected to explore Michaels’ career in depth, from his rise as one of WWE’s most celebrated performers to his multiple championship reigns and lasting influence on the industry.

Michaels currently serves as WWE’s Senior Vice President of Talent Development and Creative for NXT, playing a key role behind the scenes in shaping the next generation of Superstars.

Shawn Michaels’ WWE Hall Of Fame Career

Shawn Michaels is one of the most decorated and widely regarded wrestlers of all time, having begun his career in 1984 after training with famed Mexican wrestler Jose Lothario. Michaels worked in the territories throughout the mid-1980s until he and his fellow Rockers tag team partner, Marty Jannetty, debuted with the WWE (then WWF) in 1987. However, they were fired just two-weeks later over an incident at a bar.

Michaels and Jannetty re-joined WWE in 1988, and they became one of the top tag teams in the promotion, despite never winning the WWE Tag Team Championship, although a switch was planned to happen in 1990 as a title switch that saw The Rockers defeating The Hart Foundation was filmed due to contract negotation issues with Jim Neidhart, but Neidhart eventually signed a new contract and the title switch wasn’t acknowledged or broadcast on TV.

The Rockers split in 1992 as Michaels turned heel on Jannetty in a famous segment on Brutus Beefcake‘s Barber Shop, where he threw Jannetty through a window. Michaels went on to win the Intercontinental Title during his initial heel run, and he and Bret Hart became the top two stars of the New Generation Era, with Michaels winning his first WWE Championship by defeating Hart in a 60-minute Iron Man Match at WrestleMania XII.

Michaels and Triple H would go on to form the D-Generation-X stable in 1997, and he would be involved in the infamous Montreal Screwjob at the 1997 Survivor Series, where Vince McMahon, Michaels, and other alleged conspirators executed a plan to beat Bret Hart against his knowledge so that Michaels could win the WWE Title, as Hart was set to depart for WCW soon after Survivor Series and would be still champion while no longer contracted to WWE.

Michaels retired in 1998 due to complications he was suffering from as a result of herniating two discs in his spine during a Casket Match with The Undertaker. Michaels returned to WWE in 2002 and feuded with Triple H, and would go on to have a career resurgence, featuring some of his best matches during his second comeback against Chris Jericho, Kurt Angle, and The Undertaker.

Michaels would retire for a second time after losing a career-threatening match against The Undertaker at WrestleMania 26, and he would not wrestle again until Crown Jewel 2018, where he teamed with Triple H to defeat Kane and The Undertaker in a match that many regard as the worst of Michaels’ career.