7 Wrestlers Shawn Michaels Refused To Lose Against

7. Dean Douglas

Shawn Michaels has a pretty shoddy history of forfeiting titles, choosing to walk away from a championship reign as opposed to putting someone over to take the belt forward. One such example came way back in 1995, when HBK forfeited the Intercontinental Championship to Dean Douglas, better known to the wrestling world as Shane Douglas.

The story behind this forfeiture is a little murky, but the official line was that Michaels got into a number of altercations with some marines and found himself unable to compete. The truth is surely going to be a little less cut and dry, and most reports suggest that despite the scuffle with the marines Michaels was more then able to work the match.

The problem stemmed from HBK's refusal to lose to Douglas and drop the title, so he chose to forfeit the strap instead. Douglas' reign lasted all of 11 minutes, dropping the title to Razor Ramon (coincidentally a good friend of, yes, Shawn Michaels).

Authored by John Bills

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Born in the middle of Wales in the middle of the 1980's, John can't quite remember when he started watching wrestling but he has a terrible feeling that Dino Bravo was involved. Now living in Prague, John spends most of his time trying to work out how Tomohiro Ishii still stands upright. His favourite wrestler of all time is Dean Malenko, but really it is Repo Man. He is the author of 'An Illustrated History of Slavic Misery', the best book about the Slavic people that you haven't yet read. You can get that and others from www.poshlostbooks.com.

Posted On: 7th Aug 2016

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