Undertaker taping his fist is one of the infamous wrestling backstage stories

The match itself wasn’t bad at all in my opinion but the chain of events that led up to it and what that match created is what really stands out to me. Plus I remember watching it live on the old black box

The fans would have given pretty much anything to have had that 97-98 DX Shawn, during the remaining Attitude years…Once people like myself started watch religiously, Shawn (the best performer) had already retired and we could only watch VHS tapes, to behold his glory. I once met HBK during an autograph signing in early 99 and I begged him to come back and wrestle for the people like me, who never got to see him…Shawn looked up at me and there was more sadness and regret than I’ve ever seen in another person before.

If my career was over in 3 days and my ability to walk was in danger and some idiot fan hit me with a battery I wouldn't want to come back out either

It’s sad because HBK carried the wagon through the worst days. Company almost closes down while he’s on top, he’s under alot of pressure the company starts getting white hot and he helps ushers in a new era but sadly he can’t reap the rewards from his hard work so they drape a shirt over him and they found a shiny new toy (Steve Austin). I’m thankful he found Christ. Otherwise his story would have ended much different than it did.

Y’all hate on Shawn waaaay to Much ! He’s the #goat

shawns back healed up the minute wcw went out of business and vince mcmahon didnt have to pay shawn to stay home and not go there

JR nails it. Polite as possible & professional as hell . JR understands the business and humanity......you don't come across that often. Man, BBQ, legend! 🤔A BBQ Legendary Man! My all time favorite commentator as a kid. Fun to reflect as an adult. Good ol'JR. We love you. ... Stop with the cigs. Please. Thank you {in advance}

Not your standard 5 star hbk watch still better than 99% of the roster with a broken back

At the end of the day HBK always wants to give a Shawn Michaels match at WrestleMania. And that this particular that he could not do that.

Most people seem to feel this was a bad match, or at least not the best match they could have had. I strongly disagree. Like Curt did for Bret at Summerslam, even with a back that needed surgery, Shawn sold amazingly well for Austin. The moves he pulled off in that match despite his condition were ridiculous. Steve performed well too & deserves a good amount of credit. A "bad HBK match" is a lot better than what wwe does today, & I'm not even his biggest fan. It was a great match accept for the Tyson ending. His whole involvement was unnecessary-just a desperate ploy for tickets & ratings

I wonder if the rumor of The Undertaker threatening to beat up Shawn Michaels if he didn’t drop the title to Stone Cold was ever true.

Without even listening to this his mood was salty because the wwe was getting better and better without the kliq influence while wcw was starting to get stale. The kliq had this mentality that they ran wrestling but here was austin taking over and HHH was obviously leaning towards the management side and not the kliq side.

Was a classic match and is what took WWF over the top

I think the main event of WrestleMania 14 is a damn good. Both men are basically crippled and they had a hell of a match!

why are they both rocking backwards and forwards?

Does anybody have the post press conference. Or the Open work out?

But what did Cowboy think of the match?

Why does Shawn deserve the Shirt drop. That was disrespectful

The main reason I love JR's podcast is because he just out and out confirms what Prichard refers to as the "rumors and innuendo" about all these wrestlers. Not gonna accuse Prichard of lying like so many others do, but he definitely toes the company line a little more closely.

I don’t care what anyone says . I call bullshit on his “back injury”. He never wanted to do jobs . And I could argue that he took himself just as serious as he claimed Bret did . At least Bret was honest about it . All back surgeons tell you that you need surgery . He saw that supposed “casket injury” as an opportunity to give a finger to Vince .

First retirement of Shawn was the best that happened to the industry and Shawn himself, he became a better human after all, didn't lose his in-ring capabilities and improved his image, that was required. That gave him enough time to know his mistakes and come back a better person.

During his entrance when he got on the turnbuckle hitting his pose,, you could tell he wasn't in the best of moods, but still felt like he was the man but was being taken away from him and it wasn't his choice at that time

This whole thing should’ve been bret hart vs stone cold. The best thing was Shawn dropping the belt and getting the help he needed. Wait did Jim Ross say we have a president complaining about losing! You’re the man JR

what steroids do i have to take to look like 1996 shawn michaels

Shawn's abs look airbrushed in the thumbnail. I thought something looked off but I couldnt pin it down til now

Hbk son Cameron killed wrestling lol

Ugh, why do wrestling podcasts insist on bringing politics and/or the virus up, in just about every conversation? 😩

Wtf is he all of a sudden doing these HBK rants for??? Seems like he's just trying to nitpick and it doesn't come off right coming from him.... and he hasn't added anything new to none of these stories, just basically retelling things we've already heard, not letting sleeping dogs lay... he's coming off petty with these rehashed stories we don't even need from him.

1:15 yet he did a kip up during the match.

I still thought the match was good and from the perspective of myself, I never knew Michaels was having a "bad" match.

Shawn Michaels is the greatest wrestler ever. He was electric in his prime

Once again Shawn's bad behavior is showcased to the world and of course Vince is silent..

Back injury my ass, Michaels went to rehab

Oh yes it does

I always thought it was a GREAT MATCH! and everyone always says that it wasn't a good match?!?

MARCH 29 2023 ON THIS DAY IN WWE HISTORY MARCH 29 1998 25 YEARS AGO STONE COLD STEVE AUSTIN WON HIS 1ST WWE CHAMPIONSHIP AFTER DEFEATING SHAWN MICHAELS TO WIN THE WWE CHAMPIONSHIP THE FACT IT WAS 25 YEARS LATER AND ONE OF THE GREATEST MOMENTS IN WWE HISTORY

Shawn was the first and last of his kind

yeah now you know how Bret Hart felt 2 years earlier 👍

Conrad reminds me of a younger JR. He’s got a very promising future. Would like to see him lose his shit on commentary like JR did

The shawn Michaels mike tyson ending was a repeat of randy savage buster douglas

All through Shawn's back injury he was paid 15 grand a week soon as that stopped his back is healed

I never believed the back injury . It was bad acting on his part . You could tell he was faking . He wanted to get out of doing the job . But this time vince out his foot down and made him drop it to the hottest wrestling character in the world . That Kip up was a b “f**k you!”. You know how easy it is to go to a surgeon and have them find an excuse to operate ?

Bah gawd, King! Ol' JR shooting on everybody, even Trump!

Seems like JR is the childish one 🤔

That much fame that fast. Its happened again and again,

HBK>SCSA If you ain't down with that, I got two woooooords for ya:

JR a lib ?

JR voted for Biden

Trump "lost".

That was A 5 star match, hbk coming to the ring, he wasn’t under the influence, if he was, the match would have been a forfeit, but he had to have taken some painkillers to do the match, after wards of how the match when down, probly under the influence, p.s. your not in a great mood, when your back is KILLING YOU (wrestler or just a person) you will abuse alcohol and drugs ( drugs if you have them, I don’t do drugs).

Ah you went there lol, as a life long member of the group he said stole it, i definitely know we would try, and i know we did , lol we changed over 30 million votes 😂😂😂 and they almost proved it but luckily we stopped that also!

God Conrad is terrible at his job

HBK was in the best shape of his life before WM14 so his back couldn’t have been that bad. He easily gained 20lbs of muscle in a couple of months. Sure he was taking roids like M & M’s up to the match to get that big but you still have to train heavy to gain that mass in that short of time. And if your back is that bad then there’s no way you can train that hard. So yeah he was mostly faking all that agony.

HAIL KING HBK.....NOTICE WRESTLING DIED SLOWLY AFTER WM14...HBK IS HEAD OF THE KLIQ..SO SLOWLY WCW'S RATINGS ASWELL WENT DOWN AFTER.....CUZ NASH AND HALL HAD NO DIRECTION

Man i hope Jr is not a leftist or anywhere near the democratic side 😅 sure sounds like it

They ran off the top wrestler (Hart) and relied on a coked-out cry baby (Michaels). Now thats smart booking.

People need to stop protecting Shawn. His actions speak for themselves. He was selfish baby who just cared about himself

Jr. U know about wrestling. I can't listen to your politics. Please stick to the topic u liberal cheerleader.

Trump didn't lose. It was your standard Montreal Screw Job.

I guess I now know on which side of the political spectrum JR lies. He kind of tipped his hand on that one with his candid remarks. Not surprising. Anyway, despite his demons (which we all have), Shawn Michaels helped carry the WWF (I still say WWF because I'm an old school hardcore fan) through its dark years; when it was on the verge of closing its doors. When the mass exodus of talent occured in the early nineties, I thought the WWF was finished. It was the likes of Shawn, Bret Hart, Scott Hall (Razor Ramon) and The Undertaker that helped keep it on life support. Now, all of a sudden they find a new talent in Stone Cold (of which I'm still a huge fan so not knocking him) and Shawn has to take the fall to get him over. I'm sure the WWF's attitude about it was "We no longer need you. We have our appointed guy now and you're injured so you are now an expired commodity". At that point, I'm sure Shawn thought the sun had set on his career. That can get a man down easily, especially if he's still young. When the time comes that you can no longer do what you love, that can take a huge toll on you mentally and emotionally. It can easily lead to deep depression and ultimately substance abuse to cope, which I think was the case with Shawn. I'm glad he was able to find peace and purpose in his personal life outside of the business. He's better off for it.

Typical Michaels not wanting to do the job for someone else.

He said, "we have a president that's doing that now"