12 WWE Hall-Of-Famers Who Wrestled After Being Inducted

12. Shawn Michaels

Hall of Fame induction: 2011

Let’s start with perhaps the saddest example on this list. Shawn Michaels famously lost a retirement match against The Undertaker at WrestleMania 26 in 2010. It was a near-perfect coda on his career, capping off an astonishing second act that many thought would never happen, and many argued was better than the first part.

Years passed, and opportunities abounded for HBK to dust off his chaps and get back in the ring, but he resisted, claiming that his retirement was for real. That is, until that sweet, sweet Saudi blood money was thrown at him, and Michaels partnered with Triple H to take on Undertaker and Kane at Crown Jewel 2018.

D-Generation X versus the Brothers of Destruction might have been a dream match 15 years prior, or even 10 years earlier, but in 2018, it was four AARP members stumbling through an embarrassment of a match that only served to damage all their legacies for one big payday.

HBK must’ve recognized how bad it was, because Michaels hasn’t wrestled since.