10 Secret WWE Pasts Of AEW Wrestlers

7. Shawn Spears

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The 2006 D-Generation-X reunion inspired endless insipid comedy segments as Triple H and Shawn Michaels were given hours of precious television to relive their youth (in this case, infancy) at the expense of everyone they came into contact with. From dropping gloop and poop on the Spirit Squad and The McMahons, to selling the one of most absurd t-shirts in wrestling history by dragging the living and dead sh*t out of a joke about Vince and a rooster, the duo were a side-splitting laugh riot for literally any fan under the age of six.

But it wasn't all absolutely f*cking abysmal!

One vignette stood apart from the rest and still does now, not least because it's actually quite funny in parts. The segment cast then-WWE developmental prospect Shawn Spears as 'Stan', a backstage WWE employee leathered in the face by a Shawn Michaels superkick. Needled by Triple H to be more 'controversial', Shawn threw a massive tantrum down a long corridor, wiping out anybody in his way with 'Sweet Chin Music'.

Spears was given a line and a name for his character before becoming 'HBK's first victim.

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