10 WWE Careers That Were Transformed In One Year
8. Shawn Michaels - 1992
When 'The Heartbreak Kid' smashed Marty Jannetty through the Barber Shop window, it kicked off one of several hugely transcendent years in his remarkable career.
Kicking off 1992 by kicking The Rockers into touch, Michaels worked every major pay-per-view that year, culminating in a Champion Vs Champion clash with Bret Hart at that year's Survivor Series. The pair were standouts in a time of walkouts as the shape and scale of the company began to change, but their attempts to move the workrate scale as Heavyweight and Intercontinental Champions respectively were noble, if low-drawing.
Going by 'The Wrestler Of The 1990s' right on the cusp of that phrasing feeling a little dated, the 'Boy Toy' went about proving it with matches of such a standard that it was impossible not to reward him with the legendary worker's belt by year's end. In 12 months, he'd gone from being a wrestler desperate to shake the shackles of being in a tag team to one that looked as if he'd been doing this exact bit all his working life.