Shawn Michaels
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1965-07-22
- Works
- 8
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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
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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
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Minimal information for studies of extracellular vesicles 2018 (MISEV2018): a position statement of the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles and update of the MISEV2014 guidelines
· 2018 · cited 9,308x
- MotionCor2: anisotropic correction of beam-induced motion for improved cryo-electron microscopy
· 2017 · cited 8,455x
- Genome-wide atlas of gene expression in the adult mouse brain
· 2006 · cited 5,196x
- Single-cell RNA-seq highlights intratumoral heterogeneity in primary glioblastoma
· 2014 · cited 4,483x
- Nitrogen Cycles: Past, Present, and Future
· 2004 · cited 4,344x
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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
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Key dates
- Born
- 22 July 1965
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Part of
- D-Generation X
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Chandler
- Occupation
- musician
- Political party
- Republican Party (United States)
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
Article
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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