8 WWE Hall Of Famers Who Couldn't Stay Retired

4. Shawn Michaels

Shawn Michaels WrestleMania XXVI
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As the youngest name on this list, most individuals reading this will be old enough to remember Shawn Michaels' most recent retirement. It has been six years since that fateful night in Arizona, where The Undertaker defeated Michaels with the Showstopper's career on the line at WrestleMania XXVI.

It was a match with The Deadman that also led to Michaels' first retirement 12 years prior. Michaels was defending the WWF Championship against 'Taker in a Casket Match at the Royal Rumble, and the slightest overshot on a bump onto the casket saw HBK herniate two discs and crush one completely.

Shawn dropped the belt at WrestleMania that year to Stone Cold Steve Austin, but his four years spent away from in-ring competition would give him a chance to clean his life up and come back even better. HBK was inducted in the WWE Hall of Fame one year after his second retirement.

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