10 Things You Didn't Know About WWE In 2018
3. Shawn Michaels & The Undertaker's Saudi Arabia Regrets
It was only during the celebrated WWE Network docuseries on The Undertaker's last few years with the company that fans learned definitively how devastated 'The Deadman' was with Crown Jewel 2018's disastrous main event.
The contest pitting D-Generation X against The Brothers Of Distraction was catastrophic for more than just the obvious reasons. A cloud hung over the relationship between WWE and Saudi Arabia due to the country's horrendous human rights record, and said cloud had never been thicker following the suspicious death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
But about those obvious reasons - Triple H, Kane, The Undertaker and Shawn Michaels somehow looked even older than they actually were, yet wrestled as if they'd never stepped between the ropes. 'The Game' got legitimately injured early on. Kane's mask and wig fell off. And this was what 'The Heartbreak Kid' came out of retirement for.
After Undertaker shared his regrets, Michaels finally did the same. Speaking to the New York Post, he said;
“I had no idea that from [Undertaker’s] standpoint he was looking at it as that might be one he could walk away on...That’s something that I think to myself now, ‘oh my goodness I wish that I’d have known that. For me it was...just a chance to be with my buddies...All I can do is apologize to the guys.”