10 WWE Opponents That Shawn Michaels Refused To Do Business With

By Andrew Pollard /

6. Steve Austin

We all know the story by now: Shawn Michaels was set to drop the WWF Title to Steve Austin at Wrestlemania XIV before retiring due to injuries€ only HBK started playing up on the day of the show and had to be persuaded to do €˜the right thing€™ by a menacing-looking Undertaker. Let€™s hand it over to €˜Taker for his take on things, courtesy of an appearance on Off The Record: €œThere was a lot of problems going on around that time with Shawn and Wrestlemania that year. That was the year that Tyson was there and there was a lot of headaches being caused. It was questionable whether Shawn Michaels was gonna do the right thing or not. Who really knows, but I€™ll just put it this way: if it hadn€™t had been done the way it was done, it probably would€™ve been a very long night for Shawn Michaels.€ Numerous reports claim that Michaels was having second thoughts about doing the J-O-B on his way out of the door, and the Heartbreak Kid has even talked about how he was in a bad place at that time. As such, Undertaker was sat in Gorilla taping his fists and chewing on glass (not literally). Michaels reluctantly lost and the Austin Era was born.