Ranking Every WWE Grand Slam Champion From Worst To Best
2. Shawn Michaels
The original and almost the best, Shawn Michaels might have been an utter pr*ck to win the European Title, a total c*nt when he held it and a complete ar*ehole in how he relinquished it, but a 'stupid piece of tin' over his shoulder was still infinitely more prestigious than the treasured item adorning the waist of half his colleagues back then.
The one saving grace about the drug-addled Shawn Michaels going on like he was the greatest of all time was that he was the greatest of all time. It was a title he neither needed nor wanted, but when Shawn completed the set before anybody else in September 1997, he stole a slice of history few others were capable of claiming ownership of.
Infamous for his ability to weasel out of losing titles in the 1990s, Michaels astonishingly took over four years to even win one in WWE. Having never snared tag gold as one half of The Rockers, 'HBK' had to wait until October 1992 for his first taste of a title, but from that point he was rarely absent from the mix. Between 1993 and 1998, he spent substantially more time with titles than without, and almost never cleanly relinquished them.