10 Wrestlers You Can Tell HATED Working For WWE
9. Shawn Michaels
Shawn Michaels - in what many perceived as a victory for the very concept of karma - missed the massive paydays of the Attitude Era when he all but broke his back at the 1998 Royal Rumble. Fair play to the man; he fought through the pain barrier to put Steve Austin over huge on the Grandest Stage, at WrestleMania XIV - but when he return later in the year, it felt like a grim consolation prize.
Michaels turned up at the commentary desk every now and then in later months. Similarly broken by a pill addiction, he slurred his way through various broadcasts, cracking ugly, racist jokes at the expense of Kaientai. The Attitude Era is often held aloft as this spirited wonderland in which everybody, from megastars to Oddities, was insanely over - and there was Shawn Michaels, depressed and depressing, wheeled out for no other reason than he was there. Michaels also made sporadic appearances as the Commissioner of the WWF into 1999. It was more of the same, sad stuff. The Bret Hart-triggring Michaels was once so much a jackass that he retained an element of charm.
Bestowing the WWF Women's title on Debra because she had better and fresher breasts than Sable, this post-retirement tale was the story of a charmless man - a man who everybody, even himself, wanted to be anywhere else.