10 Things You Didn't Know About Shawn Michaels
7. Elvis Watched Him Marry A Nitro Girl
The Nitro Girls were essentially WCW’s version of cheerleaders, used to appeal to the hot-blooded males who tuned in to watch Ted Turner’s wrestling show. Occasionally the girls' appearances would fall over into angles and storylines, but they were generally just there to give men something to ogle.
One such Nitro Girl was Whisper, also known simply as Rebecca Curci. Depending on which stories you read, Rebecca was introduced to Shawn Michaels by either Kevin Nash or Scott Hall. The rest, as they say, is history.
The pair were married in 1999, with the ceremony taking place in a Las Vegas Wedding Chapel and witnessed only by an Elvis Pressley impersonator. Seriously.
To this day, the real-life Michael and Rebecca Hickenbottom are still happily married and have two children, Cameron and Cheyenne.
And yes, the wife who was punched in the face by Chris Jericho on Raw during the Jericho/Michaels feud of 2008 was indeed Shawn’s real wife, with Jericho accidentally landing a very real punch on the jaw of the real wife on HBK’s other half.