7 Interesting WWE Matches For A Shawn Michaels Comeback

If you're a fan of the superhero comics, you know that in many ways, professional wrestling is the truest form of that genre. Both feature over-the-top characters, long, epic stories with different histories intertwined, and, most crucially, anything that's supposed to be permanent is bullcrap.

For comics, that's a character's death. For wrestling, it's retirement.

It would seem as though not even Shawn Michaels, whose in-ring career ostensibly ended at WrestleMania XXVI at the hands of The Undertaker, is immune from un-retirement. With WWE heavily teasing it on television and Dave Meltzer reporting the planned comeback at November's Saudi Arabia show, it looks like the Heartbreak Kid will once again don his chaps and return to the ring as a competitor. Now that we're faced with the prospect of a third HBK run in the company, it is our job as people who throw words together about wrestling online to come up with fantasy matchups.

Fair warning: this article is not going to be "List of great workers who should have 5 Star matches with HBK." Shawn Michaels isn't going to have a feud with Johnny Gargano or Andrade "Cien" Almas or what have you. The people on this list either have an intriguing history or connection to Shawn Michaels, or they would truly benefit from and naturally fit a program with the Showstopper.

Let's get the obvious one out of the way, since this is the one WWE are actively teasing now.

Many would say the end of Shawn Michaels' career at WrestleMania XXVI is the best retirement angle in the history of the business. He and The Undertaker produced the second of two acclaimed WrestleMania matches, and both the Streak and Michaels' career were forever immortalized.

The prospect of 'Taker and Shawn linking up again at, say, WrestleMania 35 is... perplexing, to say the least. Regardless of whether or not the Deadman is healthier now than he was a year-and-a-half ago thanks to much-needed knee and hip surgeries, he's still so much older and clearly is not the same in-ring performer he once was. That's not even touching on Shawn being a complete mystery aged 53. Frankly, the idea of a match between these two coming even close to the heights they reached nearly a decade ago is laughable.

However, this is WWE we're talking about, and if there's one thing they're great at, it's milking nostalgia for all its worth. Even if 'Taker-Michaels "Last Time Ever" is going to be a flaming car wreck, let's face it, we're all going to watch it with full attention.