10 Things WWE Wants You To Forget About SummerSlam
2. Shawn Michaels Not Playing Ball
SummerSlam 2005 was headlined by a match nobody thought they would ever see. In one corner, it was Hulk Hogan - back in WWE after a two-year absence - and in the other Shawn Michaels. Or, more precisely: an extremely ticked-off Shawn Michaels, who was in no mood to play ball.
Usually, when wrestlers are annoyed about having to "do a job", they keep quiet about it (at least initially, anyway; it's customary for many of them to air their grievances years later in revealing shoot interviews).
But HBK - even in the later, born-again years - wasn't exactly a shrinking violent. And in order to make it clear to everyone exactly how he felt about having to lose to Hogan, with no hope of a rematch, he comically over-sold every single one of the Hulkster's moves.
It has gone down as one of the funniest matches in WWE history, but something tells us the company would rather forget it ever happened.