10 Wrestlers Who Returned From Injury Better Than Before
1. Shawn Michaels
In 1998, wrestling his third WrestleMania title match in the space of just four years, Shawn Michaels was on top of his game. He was also, at the time, nursing a back injury which would ultimately force him to spend four years away from in-ring competition and render his career seemingly over at just 32 years of age.
Somehow, though, he not only managed to make a comeback but he’d do so looking like he hadn’t missed a step since bowing out in ’98.
Admittedly, his schedule wasn’t quite as hectic as it had been, but in terms of matches on the big stage he was arguably better than ever. Time and again in the coming years, he stole the show at WrestleMania, with classics against Chris Jericho and Kurt Angle as well as a pair of epics versus The Undertaker – the second of which saw him bow for good at WrestleMania XXVI in possibly the second-best match the in PPV’s history.
The best, by the way, may well have been his effort the previous year, again against The Undertaker.
In short, Michaels went from being told he may never wrestle again to performing at a level above anybody else. Not a bad turnaround, all things considered.