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Also known as Sean Michaels, HBK, Michael Shawn Hickenbottom, The Heartbreak Kid, Mr. WrestleMania

American professional wrestler

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Shawn Michaels is an American professional wrestler, actor, screenwriter, and musician. Born on July 22, 1965, in Chandler, Arizona, he is a member of the group D-Generation X. His career began on October 16, 1984. He has received the WWE Hall of Fame and the Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame awards.

Michaels was educated at Texas State University. He has also been involved in American football as a linebacker and in fighting as a wrestler for WWE. His physical attributes include a height of 185 and a mass of 98. He speaks English and has an unmarried partner named Tammy Lynn Sytch.

Synthesized by Vinony from 43 facts across 9 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, Open Library, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, TMDb, Wikiquote, Thesportsdb, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Works
8

via Open Library + Wikidata

Film & TV

Acting · Chandler, Arizona, USA

Michael Shawn Hickenbottom, better known by his ring name, Shawn Michaels, is an American professional wrestling personality, television presenter and retired professional wrestler. He is currently signed to WWE, where he has served as an ambassador for the company since December 2010. Michaels wrestled for WWE, from 1988 until his first retirement in 1998, owing to a severe back injury. He…

Known for

  • The Heartbreak Kid: Becoming Shawn Michaels — Self2026
  • NXT Stand & Deliver 2026 — Shawn Michaels2026
  • WrestleMania IX: Becoming a Spectacle — Self2025
  • WWE Hall of Fame 2025 — Shawn Michaels2025
  • WrestleMania 41: Saturday — Shawn Michaels2025
  • WWE/AAA Worlds Collide 2025 — Shawn Michaels2025
  • AAA Triplemanía XXXIII — Shawn Michaels2025
  • WWE/AAA Worlds Collide 2025: Las Vegas — Shawn Michaels2025
  • WWE NXT Homecoming — Shawn Michaels2025
  • WWE Legend Profiles — Shawn Michaels2025

via TMDB

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United States
Active from
1965

via MusicBrainz · CC0

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
19,059
Total plays
89,809

Tags

wweShawn MichaelssexydanceSoundtracks

Shawn Michaels (Born Michael Shawn Hickenbottom on July 22, 1965) is a retired professional wrestler who performed in World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), formerly known as World Wrestling Federation (WWF) from 1988 to 2010. Unlike most wrestlers, Michaels does perform his own entrance theme, "Sexy Boy". It was first used by Michaels after turning on his "Rockers" tag team partner, Marty Janetty, on a segment of Brutus "The Barber" Beefcake's "The Barber Shop" talk show segment in WWF. <a hre

via Last.fm · Shawn Michaels

Quotes

  • The day you win the world federation championship should be among the happiest days of your life.

via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA

Key facts

Born
Michael Shawn Hickenbottom , ( 1965-07-22 ) July 22, 1965 (age 60) , Chandler, Arizona , U.S.
Spouses
Theresa Wood, ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1988 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1994 ) ​ Rebecca Curci , ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1999 ) ​
Relative
Matt Bentley (cousin)
Ring name s
Sean Michaels , Shawn Michaels
Billed height
6 ft 1 in (185 cm)
Billed weight
225 lb (102 kg)
Billed from
San Antonio, Texas
Trained by
José Lothario
Debut
October 8, 1984
Retired
March 28, 2010

via Wikipedia infobox

Sports profile

Sport
Fighting
Team
_Retired WWE
Position
Wrestler
Nationality
United States

via TheSportsDB

~40 min read

Encyclopedic overview

Shawn Michaels (born Michael Shawn Hickenbottom; July 22, 1965) is an American retired professional wrestler. He is signed to WWE, where he is the Senior Vice President of Talent Development, Creative, and oversees the creative aspects of the NXT brand, the promotion's developmental territory. Regarded as one of the greatest professional wrestlers of all time, he is known by the nicknames "the Heartbreak Kid" (often abbreviated as HBK), "the Showstopper", and "Mr. WrestleMania".

Michaels wrestled consistently for WWE, formerly the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, renamed in 2002), from 1988 until his first retirement in 1998. He performed in non-wrestling roles for the next two years, resuming his wrestling career with WWE in 2002 until ceremoniously retiring in 2010. He returned for a one-off final match in 2018. In 2016, he began working as a coach at the WWE Performance Center, and was a producer on NXT in 2018, before becoming the Senior Vice President of Talent Development Creative for the NXT brand itself.

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