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@@realhamonwry8620 To yours and the previous comment... its still up to who gets into the ring to get over. You can give an opportunity to whoever you want and the push doesnt work as the WWE has proved again and again lol. But yes obviously Bret Hart could make anyone look good but that never got Yokozuna or Bob Backlund over.. Taking advantage of an opportunity isnt the same as being given one. So I stand by what I said... he was given an opening, and it was on him to capitalize on it.
@@kamfisher1714 Nonsense. Bret signing with WCW came much later in the year, after Vince told him to do it. Reasonable creative control set in October.
Shawn essentially avoided doing the job to Bret, slipped back in to work with hottest wrestler in the company in Steve Austin, got inserted in a big title match with Bret and Undertaker, got to work an historic HIAC match with Taker, helped unceremoniously jettison the Hitman and got to work the big feud with Austin in the end all the while sticking it to the Harts on television and back stage. I don't see how he made it out of 1997 with his teeth still intact.
everyone loves to hate on shawn but he was machiavellian as f*ck, and let's be honest its a sharktank environment where everyone else was out for themselves. he wasn't the only one, he was just more effective.
Official story: Shawn was injured Shawn's story: Shawn was injured and on drugs Real story: Shawn was injured, on drugs, and didn't want to job to Bret
Stop it with him being hurt. He clearly was not hurt. He just didn't want to lose to Bret at Mania. He and Hogan were the biggest scumbags in wrestling.
@@kaiserrino8774 I would agree with you, but there is the issue that Shawn didn’t wrestle again on tv at least until May. I think he was injured, but not to the point where his career was in danger.
Honky Tonk man always said that Shawn knew that Dino Bravo had spoken to Rick Martel about Marty Jannetty and that they came to the conclusion that Jimmy Snuka had informed Kerry Von Erich about Greg Valentine secretly meeting with Bobby Heenan to talk about the Brooklyn Brawler’s thoughts on Mr Fuji. Brett then whispered to Davey Boy Smith about Brutus the barber beefcake and that’s why the big boss man mentioned it to Howard Finkel who in turn told Rick Rude and Mr Perfect 👌🏻
@@gemm4272 it was actually his mum that said it to Shawn coz Shawn used to always smile and his mum said to him "you don't smile anymore you seemed to hav lost your smile"
Actually Stone Cold can thank two unusual circumstances that led to an expedited rise up the ranks: Triple H being punished in '96 for the MSG Curtain Call where Austin because King of Ring instead. And Shawn Michaels dropping the WWF title and "losing his smile" & cancelling out the Shawn-Bret 'Mania rematch which led to the iconic Austin-Bret match that made Stone Cold a face and truly began his rocket launch to the top.
Well I'm glad history played out the way it did I prefer Austin vs Hart also Undertaker winning his second WWF Championship was another great thing to come out of this so thanks Shawn.
You also gotta wonder if Shawn had dropped the belt to Bret at mania 13, would they have been matched up again at survivor series? I would think not, and if not then no screw job. It really is a rabbit hole that goes in many different directions once you start going down it.
I Wonder what else would this match would have effected for the rest of 97 and beyond does Austin still build up his momentum to WM 14 would DX still form the rise of The Rock like stuff like that I wonder about lol
@@jeyDsixx18 No Montreal Screwjob, then NO Mr. McMahon, who eventually feuded with Stone Cold. There might not have been an Attitude Era, the way we knew it. The WWF at the time would have continued to lose in the ratings to the inferior product of WCW, with the NWO storyline continuing to go nowhere.
I'm so glad Shawn lost his smile because we as fans got the Austin bret submission and that was one of the greatest mania matches ever and it propelled Austin into another dimension because of the way bret put him over during the sharpshooter so thanks Shawn and thanks bret for making Austin Into a megastar
Let's rewind this a few years: According to Shawn's biography "Heartbreak and Triumph", the day before a tag match, while he was still with Marty Jannetty in 'The Rockers', Shawn tore up his right knee in a motorcycle incident. He ran out to the ring with Marty the following day but was attacked before the match began and had his knee hit with a pipe, causing the match to be a No Contest. That allowed Shawn to get his knee checked out. There were two options, full repair and reconstruction or scope it. Scoping was the least time lost (I think 6 months vs 6 weeks), so he had it scoped and cleaned out. Flash ahead to '96-'97, Shawn's desire/selfishness/whatever about putting the WWE on his back during the takeoff of the Monday Night Wars is wearing him out. He is going through everything that has been revealed with drugs, booze, and his own personal life falling apart. After a triple threat match with Bret and Sid, likely NOT the RAW in Toronto, Shawn felt his knee jam again and went to the doctor. His family doctor looked at the MRI and said 'You have no ACL'. Shawn replied, 'I know, I had it scoped'. Which is when he was told he would never wrestle again. During the process of trying to come to terms with likely retirement and Vince telling him to check out another doctor (Dr. James Andrews), he was talking to his mom who told him that along the title run that Shawn had stopped smiling. Flash then to Thursday RAW Thursday, and everything comes to the front. I think, in retrospect, it was Shawn almost having a meltdown in the middle of the ring and finally saying 'uncle'. After the promo and leaving, Vince finally convinced him to see Dr. James Andrews. Dr. Andrews told Shawn there were alternative avenues to his knee troubles and he could very well get him back wrestling. Shawn, not wanting to leave the business, took the chance and recovered to wrestle again before being forced to retire in '98. If I recall reading it correctly, he actually rehabbed his knee alongside Steve Austin while Austin was still working his own stuff.
I hate that people look at HBK during this time and just assume all of his issues were because he didn't want to job to Bret Hart. That could have been part of it, but I think what you ran down here is a far better explanation of everything Michaels was going through.
@@fishyboi98 if I recall right, it wasn’t until Bret started going after Shawn for the injury that made Shawn go ‘to hell with it, I’m not putting him over’. Which then officially turned the pre-planned work between Bret and Shawn to turn into a shoot and leading to the screw job a few months later.
This was a weird storyline in the career of Shawn Michaels but I’m glad we got the whole DX faction created from it later on leading into the late 90’s but I really hated Psycho Sid during this time point I felt as though Vader should’ve won the title at some point but looking Kane reign with the WWF Title which was one day and was terrible choice on WWE part because Kane was booked leading into that first World title win it seemed like it hurt Kane credibility a little but HBK was really controversial around this time point because he lost his smile and had some demons to handle or put energy into
I applaud your efforts in all of the work and time you invest into making these highly entertaining and educational video compilations. Easily the most addictive WWF/WWE channel out there.
With what we know about mental health and addiction in 2021, this would’ve been received totally today than in 1997. I actually feel sorry for HBK now in hindsight. He was miserable during what was supposed to be his time on top of the world.
Since you’re a wrestling historian, I appreciate you focusing most of your material on late 80s through the early 2000s...My childhood/young adult wrestling eras. Great content WB!
Me too, I watched from 1988-1993 and then 1997-2005. I really wasn't watching during the Shawn, Diesel, Bret era mostly because my family didn't have cable TV in those years.
They always talk about wrestlers who had won a grand slam of titles, but no one talks about Shawn Michaels being the only wrestler to vacate a grand slam of titles!
It’s amazing how during this era Stone Cold was just kinda thrown into the mix, and has since surpassed all these guys. I’m happy we got Austin/Bret WM13 March over the Bret/Michaels rematch.
I remember this episode with the Infamous I lost my smile. Like looking back I never knew why he forfeited the title, I just thought of it as him taking time off. I ain’t know he didn’t wanna drop it to Bret til years laters. I remember back then Bret and Shawn had intense for hatred for each other. Cause Bret Hart was more of old school type of wrestler while Shawn Michaels was more into being a showman full wit glitz and glamour. At this time Shawn and The Kliq had so much pull wit Vince that he let them do whatever they wanted and they halted a lot guy’s pushed in then WWF. Bret and Shawn would go it in the 90s. After Shawn forfeited Sid won the vacated title then he lost it to Undertaker at Mania who lost it to Bret at SummerSlam of that year. After Shawn got the belt back at Survivor Series the infamous Montreal Screwjob. Which ended their rivalry and Bret goin to WCW. Bret and Shawn would never speak to each other til 13 years later and they put it all behind them
Don’t blame him, I’d do the same for them sweet percs. Also, even my love of percs wouldn’t allow me to hand a title to Hart either. He’d prolly cry about that, too.
You really do belong in some sort of TH-cam hall of fame you know! Your videos are beyond great, they are so well put together and you really Master the fine of art of quality and quantity of your videos. Can I ask do you have a team working with you or do you do all of this on your own? You are the man!
Good video as always. Sounds like to me, Shawn had too much personal stuff/demons going on in back in ‘96, to carry the company long term. By the way it would be great if you could do a video on Booker T’s WCW run. Hell of a performer.
It's almost 12.30 a.m. here in India when you upload the video but I always wait around.❤️ Glad that you've given us a schedule of sorts😂. Keep on keepin' on mate👍🏽
Let's face it. Shawn can never be the top guy, the face of the company like HHH, Austin, Cena and Orton.. but he sure was the best wrestler on every roster he was in and in every match he fought. Whether he was in the first match of the card, his matches are must see and probable the match of the night, just because of his greatness
Been rewatching through old raws for awhile. This week got to this raw where loses his smile and the raw after. The cringe is strong. The raw after they play a tribute video with sad music. If you just tuned in or hadn't seen a show before you'd think he had died.
God such a great video I needed this with everything going on. Great memories, I was so torn between Shawn and Bret between 92 all the way to 97. I couldn't boo neither. Truly the two greatest in ring performers. I def couldn't find my smile during this feud.
I believe this channel has renewed my interest in Wrestling. I had given up completely on it, now I find myself flipping the channel to AEW, and WWE,, thank you Wrestling Bios.
Shawn is one of the founding fathers of the Attitude Era despite not wrestling through most of it. He set the bar for all that followed him after his 98 injury.
@@yoholmes273 I wouldnt say that many have come forward to says shawn was pushing vince to going along with the attitude era, also 97 heel shawn with dx was the first to push the boundaries with swearing and nudity so
how come people don’t seem to remember Shawn went into Taboo Tuesday 2004 with a torn meniscus and completed a 17 minute match with Triple H? He could easily have had the match with Bret.
Trash Millenial Outing! 🗑️ 💩 He lost (correction: had to lose!) enough matches early 90s for the rest of his life despite being way better than most of his opponents. Everything has roots. Nobody talking about the obvious nepotism in wrestling with the Hart Clan on the forefront! Bret was not better early 90s then Shawn, but def not by 1995. Bret was build the Hogan successor after Warrior was not reliable,well he had his chance and didn't bring it and WWF got in more and more financial trouble mid 90s! No one talking real truth! Everyone got their cliques from kindergarten to retirement. But when Shawn is looking after years for a friend support team to better his standings, I only hear for 25 yrs by now how huuuge crocodile tears how unfair 3 ppl of a 50 man roster, then 4 ppl, then 5. Gimme a break! Shawn is 99% better than Bret as a Sports Entertainer overall. If Bret cannot retire on his peak 1994/1995 and needed the downwirl drag, well he screwed his History. Shawn never took him that seriously but hell yeah it was his prime and not keep on wrestling in his 50s like other Narcissists! Only ugly men hate on pretty men! It always boils down to that with a thousand excuses. Still whatever he gets the girls and career merits and not the ugly hater!
For those who don't know what was going on with Shawn, it's called withdrawal. they were going town to town, he was doing a lot of his drug of choice.. some towns he'd find his drug, and other times he wouldn't find his drug, hence him being locked in a bathroom all day. I can imagine that it was Vince himself that was forced to help Michaels find those drugs on the streets of those towns using all his resources, most likely being other wrestlers. Shawn's knee probably was a lil bit messed up but it was the constant withdrawal from those pills that caused him to "lose his smile" I know there's a few idiots who will come on here and tell me that the WWF/WWE had doctors lined up to prescribe those pills for Shawn, and you're right there were.. but how many pills do you think those doctors are gonna give you before they start fearing jail time. Even if Shawn knew how to Dr. shop, and had 5 different scripts from 5 different Docs, its never enough because your tolerance only gets bigger with each passing day.. Shawn finally hit rock bottom, and Vince paid for rehab. I still love and respect Shawn as if it never happened, and he's in my top 10 favorite Wrestlers of all-time.
Shawn wouldn’t need a prescription or to go to the pharmacy to get pain pills. WWE, MLB, NBA, NFL etc…. they all have team doctors that can give athletes whatever medication they want and whatever amount they want, without going to a pharmacy. They have the drugs already at the team’s training facility. I don’t know the ends and outs how the doctors/teams legally get around having all that medication at their disposal to handout to athletes however, they do and as long as an athlete tells the doctor what’s bothering them and the doctor does an examination, they’ll get the medication they need from the team doctor. That’s part of the reason why they pay for rehab for all their athletes who want it. My neighbor is a retired baseball player and he always got his medication by going to the team facility and talking to the team doctor. His first time having a prescription and going to a pharmacy happened after he retired from baseball.
God i love new upload fron this channel. Being a lifelong wrestling fan i love these. Someday i hope your able to do a rock n wrsetling video on that aweful cartoon from my childhood lol
HBK definitely used the situation to dodge losing to Bret. He was injured. But he could’ve lost to Bret at WM13, and then gone away to have surgery etc. Let Bret have his win back, and ‘go away’ just like Bret did the year prior.
Being from Philly and also coming up in the ECW era and going there. Look at the fans crying as Shawn spoke. You would never see that today. Even when Romain Regins who is great today had cancer people didn't cry like this. But since the product really does anything special and it always seems same guys fight at every event it still doesn't compare to things like this.
Your channel is so well done my man. I loved Bret and was a fan of Shawn, despite the opinions there are about this scripted AND real life feud. I can't see wrestling ever touch this level of intensity again. Miss those days. And even the old school days before that era. Everything after attitude (maybe ruthless agression) sucks, hence why I only watch old clips on youtube sometimes.
So that what Paul E. Dangerously meant during his shoot on Vince McMahon back in November 2001. "You stole Shawn Michaels' smile, took your company public and made yourself a billionaire..."
When I watched wrestling late 80s + 90s even early 2000s I knew it was predetermined and written. But I still watched as if it was real and got drew in that way. So smaller guys beating bigger guys generally didn't work. But with Bret hart they had told a convincing story that Bret was so good technically he could pick a bigger guy apart and beat him. With Shawn they had convinced that his heart and resilience was so great that he can take everything from a bigger guy, then if he hits sweet chin then its over. That's why if Shawn tried to fight someone like Vader from on top it didn't work with the story I was told. Its the same with Daniel Bryan got over it was as a resilient baby face with heart. So when he's being booked as a top guy who can go face to face with anyone its bull the resilient technician who keeps going and picking away I can buy. Bryan beating Cecaro up or trying to fight Reigns or Lessner face to face whilst the commentary team talk him up as a top guy is silly. If u want smaller guys to beat bigger guys and me to believe it then make the story/character exsplaination work
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That's pretty cool. I can relate to being excited about this channel, and having a father who loves wrestling.
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Thank you! This was really nice to hear, brightened up my day!
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Stone Cold saw an opening and took it and ran with it. Bret Hart was exactly the guy he needed to work with to do it.
I agree
The match was Bret Hart’s idea.
You mean Hart saw an opportunity, as the entire feud and conclusion of the Hart-Austin angle was the brainchild of Bret Hart.
@@realhamonwry8620 To yours and the previous comment... its still up to who gets into the ring to get over. You can give an opportunity to whoever you want and the push doesnt work as the WWE has proved again and again lol. But yes obviously Bret Hart could make anyone look good but that never got Yokozuna or Bob Backlund over.. Taking advantage of an opportunity isnt the same as being given one. So I stand by what I said... he was given an opening, and it was on him to capitalize on it.
@@timmylong833 but the rematch didn't take place between Bret Hart vs Shawn Michaels rematch at Wrestlemania.
Shawn Michaels: How I Lost My Smile aka My Refusal to Lose the WWE Championship to Bret Hart
He didn’t lose it. He threw it away to avoid getting it stretched off his face by Bret.
Shawn Michaels: I'm Not a Baby, You Are (love him though)
@@kamfisher1714 and a promoter wouldn't have giving a wrestler creative control in their contract which is what Vince did to Bret.
I also heard in Bret Hart book that was the plan for WM 13 shawn was to drop the belt to Bret be he refused
@@kamfisher1714 Nonsense. Bret signing with WCW came much later in the year, after Vince told him to do it. Reasonable creative control set in October.
Shawn essentially avoided doing the job to Bret, slipped back in to work with hottest wrestler in the company in Steve Austin, got inserted in a big title match with Bret and Undertaker, got to work an historic HIAC match with Taker, helped unceremoniously jettison the Hitman and got to work the big feud with Austin in the end all the while sticking it to the Harts on television and back stage. I don't see how he made it out of 1997 with his teeth still intact.
If he had that anywhere else, he’d be found dead at the side of the road thanks to his attitude.
everyone loves to hate on shawn but he was machiavellian as f*ck, and let's be honest its a sharktank environment where everyone else was out for themselves. he wasn't the only one, he was just more effective.
Also Vince wanted to be Shawn, so there’s essential amnesty or immunity on some level
@@FreneticZetetic Well....... we all know Shawn was Vince's boytoy...
@@bobsapp3133 this is the truth
Official story: Shawn was injured
Shawn's story: Shawn was injured and on drugs
Real story: Shawn was injured, on drugs, and didn't want to job to Bret
Stop it with him being hurt. He clearly was not hurt. He just didn't want to lose to Bret at Mania. He and Hogan were the biggest scumbags in wrestling.
@@kaiserrino8774 I would agree with you, but there is the issue that Shawn didn’t wrestle again on tv at least until May. I think he was injured, but not to the point where his career was in danger.
@@johnepants He wasn't injured he was a drug addict.
Bret didn’t want to job at 12 and at the point Shawn had jobbed for him 40 some times throughout the early 90’s if u count house matches and all
@@Breakfast_of_Champions who wasn’t lol
Imagine telling your Boss at work...that "you lost your smile" lol
He'd lose his foot up your ass booting you out the door
" then YOU ARE FFFFIIIIRRRRREEEEEEDDD !!!!! "
Boss will ask medical report for that 😄
"Sorry boss, I was going to do those TPS reports but... my smile."
@@TheWingusDingus lol
Is that when he lost his smile or lost his balls - Jim Cornette
🤣🤣🤣 gotta love Cornette
@@only1icon1801 I was in tears of laughter Cornette saying that he got booed for it but to hell with them
Hahahahaha
Shawn just dropped his smile in Vince's lap.
I wonder if Corny thought of that one while he was letting some dude pork his wife
Shawn Michaels has relinquished the most titles in WWE History
He was made to. Remember, scripted.
Probably wwf history and not wwe. Did more with wwf than with wwe
@@skinlab4239 it’s just a name change lmfao it’s the same company
Honky Tonk man always said that Shawn knew that Dino Bravo had spoken to Rick Martel about Marty Jannetty and that they came to the conclusion that Jimmy Snuka had informed Kerry Von Erich about Greg Valentine secretly meeting with Bobby Heenan to talk about the Brooklyn Brawler’s thoughts on Mr Fuji. Brett then whispered to Davey Boy Smith about Brutus the barber beefcake and that’s why the big boss man mentioned it to Howard Finkel who in turn told Rick Rude and Mr Perfect 👌🏻
Vacant > HBK
He is so talented and always put a smile on my face but what he did to Brett I cannot forget
Both were my faves at the time. And it left me with a sour taste in my mouth. Started to follow WCW after that.
@@Seraph89_ I think he was very depressed at the time thats what he meant by losing his smile.. i loved the submission match though lol
@Ap1 no he didn't
@@gemm4272 it was actually his mum that said it to Shawn coz Shawn used to always smile and his mum said to him "you don't smile anymore you seemed to hav lost your smile"
I guess you lost your smile as well when HBK did that
Actually Stone Cold can thank two unusual circumstances that led to an expedited rise up the ranks: Triple H being punished in '96 for the MSG Curtain Call where Austin because King of Ring instead. And Shawn Michaels dropping the WWF title and "losing his smile" & cancelling out the Shawn-Bret 'Mania rematch which led to the iconic Austin-Bret match that made Stone Cold a face and truly began his rocket launch to the top.
That’s a good mention once you think about it
Third circumstance was Austin's neck injury that he suffered during his match against Owen Hart at Summerslam 1997.
@@razor_ramon_ and Vince annouce Bret that he will not paying on his offer and tell WCW to tell the deal the year prior that they offer.
"I'm pretty tireedd.......I think I'll go home now" -Shawn Gump
underrated comment😭
Forrest>HBK, Forrest has more hair.
My brother was the biggest critic of how Shawn Michaels "lost his smile". I heard about that for like a decade as Shawn was my fav lol.
HBK= the 🐐
RAW Thursday RAW, I remember that show quite well. Shawn relinquished the World Title to Gorilla Monsoon.
@@clvnhrrs1214 no foh
@@illkid86 just one man's opinion
Lol the heartbreak kid was heartbroken.
Well I'm glad history played out the way it did I prefer Austin vs Hart also Undertaker winning his second WWF Championship was another great thing to come out of this so thanks Shawn.
You also gotta wonder if Shawn had dropped the belt to Bret at mania 13, would they have been matched up again at survivor series? I would think not, and if not then no screw job. It really is a rabbit hole that goes in many different directions once you start going down it.
I Wonder what else would this match would have effected for the rest of 97 and beyond does Austin still build up his momentum to WM 14 would DX still form the rise of The Rock like stuff like that I wonder about lol
@@jeyDsixx18 No Montreal Screwjob, then NO Mr. McMahon, who eventually feuded with Stone Cold. There might not have been an Attitude Era, the way we knew it. The WWF at the time would have continued to lose in the ratings to the inferior product of WCW, with the NWO storyline continuing to go nowhere.
@@gamerdude612 If Michaels had his way, there would've been no "Rock". He tried to bury Dwayne Johnson on more than one occasion.
Lose smiles not title matches
I'm so glad Shawn lost his smile because we as fans got the Austin bret submission and that was one of the greatest mania matches ever and it propelled Austin into another dimension because of the way bret put him over during the sharpshooter so thanks Shawn and thanks bret for making Austin Into a megastar
Let's rewind this a few years:
According to Shawn's biography "Heartbreak and Triumph", the day before a tag match, while he was still with Marty Jannetty in 'The Rockers', Shawn tore up his right knee in a motorcycle incident. He ran out to the ring with Marty the following day but was attacked before the match began and had his knee hit with a pipe, causing the match to be a No Contest. That allowed Shawn to get his knee checked out. There were two options, full repair and reconstruction or scope it. Scoping was the least time lost (I think 6 months vs 6 weeks), so he had it scoped and cleaned out.
Flash ahead to '96-'97, Shawn's desire/selfishness/whatever about putting the WWE on his back during the takeoff of the Monday Night Wars is wearing him out. He is going through everything that has been revealed with drugs, booze, and his own personal life falling apart. After a triple threat match with Bret and Sid, likely NOT the RAW in Toronto, Shawn felt his knee jam again and went to the doctor. His family doctor looked at the MRI and said 'You have no ACL'. Shawn replied, 'I know, I had it scoped'. Which is when he was told he would never wrestle again.
During the process of trying to come to terms with likely retirement and Vince telling him to check out another doctor (Dr. James Andrews), he was talking to his mom who told him that along the title run that Shawn had stopped smiling.
Flash then to Thursday RAW Thursday, and everything comes to the front. I think, in retrospect, it was Shawn almost having a meltdown in the middle of the ring and finally saying 'uncle'. After the promo and leaving, Vince finally convinced him to see Dr. James Andrews. Dr. Andrews told Shawn there were alternative avenues to his knee troubles and he could very well get him back wrestling. Shawn, not wanting to leave the business, took the chance and recovered to wrestle again before being forced to retire in '98. If I recall reading it correctly, he actually rehabbed his knee alongside Steve Austin while Austin was still working his own stuff.
I hate that people look at HBK during this time and just assume all of his issues were because he didn't want to job to Bret Hart. That could have been part of it, but I think what you ran down here is a far better explanation of everything Michaels was going through.
@@fishyboi98 if I recall right, it wasn’t until Bret started going after Shawn for the injury that made Shawn go ‘to hell with it, I’m not putting him over’. Which then officially turned the pre-planned work between Bret and Shawn to turn into a shoot and leading to the screw job a few months later.
Naw Shawn didn’t want to drop the belt
When I seen the "I lost my smile" thing I never would have guessed he was still wrestling almost 22 years later... and with a shaved head too lol
And what a disaster that match was
As much as people hate on shawn it doesnt make his career any less legendary he gave us plenty of memorable moments
I always wondered about the “lost smile” hbk story
Wasn't bending over for Vince anymore.
This was a weird storyline in the career of Shawn Michaels but I’m glad we got the whole DX faction created from it later on leading into the late 90’s but I really hated Psycho Sid during this time point I felt as though Vader should’ve won the title at some point but looking Kane reign with the WWF Title which was one day and was terrible choice on WWE part because Kane was booked leading into that first World title win it seemed like it hurt Kane credibility a little but HBK was really controversial around this time point because he lost his smile and had some demons to handle or put energy into
Years later, this became one of my favourite wrestling memes of all time.
Actual title: Shawn Michaels and the allergy to losing matches
"Look pal, here's my doctor's note saying that I can't put you over."
@@t.v.rockwell4504 LMAO
To be fair he put a lot of people over in his second run
I applaud your efforts in all of the work and time you invest into making these highly entertaining and educational video compilations. Easily the most addictive WWF/WWE channel out there.
WWWF/WWF?
@@skinlab4239 I meant to write WWF / WWE. Good spot by you, thanks. Personally, I still and always will refer to it as the WWF. When it was good.
Shawn and bret had one of the best rivalries ever.
Shawn lost his smile when he ran out of booze and somas.
And anal lube.
Lol
I've never related to him more.
@@soitsanightmare 😆😆😆😆
Booze & somas do definitely make you smile, though. Even when you’re depressed.
It's time to drop the title, Shawn
Shawn: I DUN WANNA
Man, this guy is by FAR the best wrestling channel on YT. All of his content is very good quality, accurate and unbiased unlike those other channels.
With what we know about mental health and addiction in 2021, this would’ve been received totally today than in 1997. I actually feel sorry for HBK now in hindsight. He was miserable during what was supposed to be his time on top of the world.
"Knees are funny. I hurt my knee a week before but had one my best matches with stone cold Steve Austin."
Bret Hart
Since you’re a wrestling historian, I appreciate you focusing most of your material on late 80s through the early 2000s...My childhood/young adult wrestling eras. Great content WB!
Me too, I watched from 1988-1993 and then 1997-2005. I really wasn't watching during the Shawn, Diesel, Bret era mostly because my family didn't have cable TV in those years.
More like "Shawn Michaels and him not wanting to lose to Bret Hart" 😅
I like Bret’s idea for their Wrestlemania match to be rooted in reality and how Bret would turn heel.
A very edgy
I was there when Shawn lost his smile. Still live within walking distance of the building and I think of that day every time I walk by it.
They always talk about wrestlers who had won a grand slam of titles, but no one talks about Shawn Michaels being the only wrestler to vacate a grand slam of titles!
He didn't technically vacate the European title.
Again these videos are so good!
Sho' ya right.
Great substitute
for the wwe network
Yo this is dope haven't heard anyone cover this in years you the goat for this one
It’s amazing how during this era Stone Cold was just kinda thrown into the mix, and has since surpassed all these guys. I’m happy we got Austin/Bret WM13 March over the Bret/Michaels rematch.
Austin was on the rise
Because of Shawn's lost smile we got one of the greatest match of pro wrestling Bret Hart vs. Stone Cold. We should thank him actually.
Shawn had a big ego back then, but at least he changed his attitude during the 2000s and reconcile with Bret in public in 2010
Subbed. Very good information here. This channel is amazing. ❤
I think when HBK said he wanted the fans to enjoy themselves, he meant it.
Lol, suuure.
@@dildonius HBK had a rep for being a douche to wrestlers and management; but he also had a rep for treating fans well.
I remember this episode with the Infamous I lost my smile. Like looking back I never knew why he forfeited the title, I just thought of it as him taking time off. I ain’t know he didn’t wanna drop it to Bret til years laters. I remember back then Bret and Shawn had intense for hatred for each other. Cause Bret Hart was more of old school type of wrestler while Shawn Michaels was more into being a showman full wit glitz and glamour. At this time Shawn and The Kliq had so much pull wit Vince that he let them do whatever they wanted and they halted a lot guy’s pushed in then WWF. Bret and Shawn would go it in the 90s. After Shawn forfeited Sid won the vacated title then he lost it to Undertaker at Mania who lost it to Bret at SummerSlam of that year. After Shawn got the belt back at Survivor Series the infamous Montreal Screwjob. Which ended their rivalry and Bret goin to WCW. Bret and Shawn would never speak to each other til 13 years later and they put it all behind them
Shawn micheals will always be in my top 10 favourite wrestlers in all time
This channel has been the best binge worthy content about wrestling for me during this lockdown.
Thank you for the videos.
He never lost his smile.
He sold it, for pills.
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yoooooooo lmao
Opioids are amazing
Don’t blame him, I’d do the same for them sweet percs.
Also, even my love of percs wouldn’t allow me to hand a title to Hart either. He’d prolly cry about that, too.
@@estebanc9607 they really are
So sweet shawn i miss you shawn Michaels
According to HBK's first DVD, it was his mom that mentioned that he lost his smile. So he just ran with it
Its stories like these that really portray wrestlers as their own worst enemies. Shawn was second to none
You really do belong in some sort of TH-cam hall of fame you know! Your videos are beyond great, they are so well put together and you really Master the fine of art of quality and quantity of your videos. Can I ask do you have a team working with you or do you do all of this on your own? You are the man!
Good video as always. Sounds like to me, Shawn had too much personal stuff/demons going on in back in ‘96, to carry the company long term. By the way it would be great if you could do a video on Booker T’s WCW run. Hell of a performer.
6:39 I find that lighting gorgeous. Feels like a Japanese show.
I'll never stop watching your channel. I'm going to support the patreon next payday! You're doing gods work!
It's almost 12.30 a.m. here in India when you upload the video but I always wait around.❤️
Glad that you've given us a schedule of sorts😂. Keep on keepin' on mate👍🏽
Tuesday,
Thursday
(RAW/WCW)
and Sunday
Let's face it. Shawn can never be the top guy, the face of the company like HHH, Austin, Cena and Orton.. but he sure was the best wrestler on every roster he was in and in every match he fought. Whether he was in the first match of the card, his matches are must see and probable the match of the night, just because of his greatness
Orton was never a face of the company 😂😂
THIS!!! This right here is why I watch wrestling bios keep up the great work
Imagine if Shawn Michael's didn't lose his smile in 97...he would of faced bret Hart at Mania 13 ..he probably would been booked to lose and turn heel
Wasn't he
Maybe a heel vs heel match with a chip on the shoulder.
Been rewatching through old raws for awhile. This week got to this raw where loses his smile and the raw after. The cringe is strong. The raw after they play a tribute video with sad music. If you just tuned in or hadn't seen a show before you'd think he had died.
ya i never understood that whole i lost my smile and everything around it
13:30 the boy who cried knee*
God such a great video I needed this with everything going on. Great memories, I was so torn between Shawn and Bret between 92 all the way to 97. I couldn't boo neither. Truly the two greatest in ring performers. I def couldn't find my smile during this feud.
I dont really watch television. So coming home from work on tuesdays and thursdays to fresh videos from @wrestlingbios is my appointment television!
Its crazy when you think about how much happened during 19967 in both WCW and WWE. When you look back its almost like 2 years worth of storylines.
“Shawn Michaels “the wrestler” was loved by most, but Shawn Michaels “the person” was hated by most” should be his epitaph
I believe this channel has renewed my interest in Wrestling. I had given up completely on it, now I find myself flipping the channel to AEW, and WWE,, thank you Wrestling Bios.
Your the best Wrestling Bios!!! Love all these thank you! You make my days
Shawn is one of the founding fathers of the Attitude Era despite not wrestling through most of it. He set the bar for all that followed him after his 98 injury.
NOPE
@@yoholmes273 what an intellectual response
@KVlly Mr. Snarky, the orginal comment is a hilariously false statement. Absurd even
@@yoholmes273 I wouldnt say that many have come forward to says shawn was pushing vince to going along with the attitude era, also 97 heel shawn with dx was the first to push the boundaries with swearing and nudity so
LIES!
This video title reminds me of an episode of The Rugrats.
"The Land Without Smiles"
Thank you for this!
how come people don’t seem to remember Shawn went into Taboo Tuesday 2004 with a torn meniscus and completed a 17 minute match with Triple H? He could easily have had the match with Bret.
He always found a way to not put over other superstars
Didn't have a problem putting over Sid.
@@Rob_Thorsman but For Bret was different.
That's maybe because he had lost to Bret enough over his career.
Trash Millenial Outing! 🗑️ 💩
He lost (correction: had to lose!) enough matches early 90s for the rest of his life despite being way better than most of his opponents. Everything has roots. Nobody talking about the obvious nepotism in wrestling with the Hart Clan on the forefront! Bret was not better early 90s then Shawn, but def not by 1995. Bret was build the Hogan successor after Warrior was not reliable,well he had his chance and didn't bring it and WWF got in more and more financial trouble mid 90s! No one talking real truth!
Everyone got their cliques from kindergarten to retirement. But when Shawn is looking after years for a friend support team to better his standings, I only hear for 25 yrs by now how huuuge crocodile tears how unfair 3 ppl of a 50 man roster, then 4 ppl, then 5. Gimme a break!
Shawn is 99% better than Bret as a Sports Entertainer overall. If Bret cannot retire on his peak 1994/1995 and needed the downwirl drag, well he screwed his History. Shawn never took him that seriously but hell yeah it was his prime and not keep on wrestling in his 50s like other Narcissists! Only ugly men hate on pretty men! It always boils down to that with a thousand excuses. Still whatever he gets the girls and career merits and not the ugly hater!
For those who don't know what was going on with Shawn, it's called withdrawal. they were going town to town, he was doing a lot of his drug of choice.. some towns he'd find his drug, and other times he wouldn't find his drug, hence him being locked in a bathroom all day. I can imagine that it was Vince himself that was forced to help Michaels find those drugs on the streets of those towns using all his resources, most likely being other wrestlers. Shawn's knee probably was a lil bit messed up but it was the constant withdrawal from those pills that caused him to "lose his smile" I know there's a few idiots who will come on here and tell me that the WWF/WWE had doctors lined up to prescribe those pills for Shawn, and you're right there were.. but how many pills do you think those doctors are gonna give you before they start fearing jail time. Even if Shawn knew how to Dr. shop, and had 5 different scripts from 5 different Docs, its never enough because your tolerance only gets bigger with each passing day.. Shawn finally hit rock bottom, and Vince paid for rehab. I still love and respect Shawn as if it never happened, and he's in my top 10 favorite Wrestlers of all-time.
Shawn wouldn’t need a prescription or to go to the pharmacy to get pain pills. WWE, MLB, NBA, NFL etc…. they all have team doctors that can give athletes whatever medication they want and whatever amount they want, without going to a pharmacy. They have the drugs already at the team’s training facility. I don’t know the ends and outs how the doctors/teams legally get around having all that medication at their disposal to handout to athletes however, they do and as long as an athlete tells the doctor what’s bothering them and the doctor does an examination, they’ll get the medication they need from the team doctor. That’s part of the reason why they pay for rehab for all their athletes who want it. My neighbor is a retired baseball player and he always got his medication by going to the team facility and talking to the team doctor. His first time having a prescription and going to a pharmacy happened after he retired from baseball.
God i love new upload fron this channel. Being a lifelong wrestling fan i love these. Someday i hope your able to do a rock n wrsetling video on that aweful cartoon from my childhood lol
I'm glad it worked out the way it did. I loved the Austin feud with Bret
Wrestling Bios is the Bret Hart of TH-cam wrestling channels
So True 😎😎😎
Love the vids bud keep up the great work.
Shawn Michaels is the greatest wrestler of all time
Man, I love your videos. Excellent work.
Glad he got it together
8:04 - Loved that feud. So much great stuff in the WWF in 1997.
Your documentary videos are better than most WWE documentaries.
HBK definitely used the situation to dodge losing to Bret. He was injured. But he could’ve lost to Bret at WM13, and then gone away to have surgery etc. Let Bret have his win back, and ‘go away’ just like Bret did the year prior.
He's my favorite wrestler, but shenanigans like this is what keeps him from being the GOAT.
Excellent video. You really get to see the issue from all sides. Fair and balanced.
Great video. Job well done 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Being from Philly and also coming up in the ECW era and going there. Look at the fans crying as Shawn spoke. You would never see that today. Even when Romain Regins who is great today had cancer people didn't cry like this. But since the product really does anything special and it always seems same guys fight at every event it still doesn't compare to things like this.
Mate you deserve all the subscribers do you have your videos are so much more researched and referenced than anything else out there good stuff!!
Well done video as always! Great work dude!
Probably the most attractive wrestler of all time
The consistency of new content on this channel makes me keep my smile.
i remember being there as a kid gotta love lowell memorial
i remember hearing the crowd chant for sid lol
Absolutely love your videos! Keep em coming!
Your channel is so well done my man.
I loved Bret and was a fan of Shawn, despite the opinions there are about this scripted AND real life feud.
I can't see wrestling ever touch this level of intensity again. Miss those days. And even the old school days before that era. Everything after attitude (maybe ruthless agression) sucks, hence why I only watch old clips on youtube sometimes.
Another good thing that came out of this, is that the Undertaker got to have a wrestlemania moment when he recaptured the WWE title after a long time.
So that what Paul E. Dangerously meant during his shoot on Vince McMahon back in November 2001. "You stole Shawn Michaels' smile, took your company public and made yourself a billionaire..."
Fine work as always
i feel like the intro music is what HBK's TNA theme would've sounded like if he went there
When I watched wrestling late 80s + 90s even early 2000s I knew it was predetermined and written. But I still watched as if it was real and got drew in that way. So smaller guys beating bigger guys generally didn't work. But with Bret hart they had told a convincing story that Bret was so good technically he could pick a bigger guy apart and beat him. With Shawn they had convinced that his heart and resilience was so great that he can take everything from a bigger guy, then if he hits sweet chin then its over. That's why if Shawn tried to fight someone like Vader from on top it didn't work with the story I was told. Its the same with Daniel Bryan got over it was as a resilient baby face with heart. So when he's being booked as a top guy who can go face to face with anyone its bull the resilient technician who keeps going and picking away I can buy. Bryan beating Cecaro up or trying to fight Reigns or Lessner face to face whilst the commentary team talk him up as a top guy is silly. If u want smaller guys to beat bigger guys and me to believe it then make the story/character exsplaination work
I wish I was able to see HBK's Lost my smile promo on the network
It's probably on TH-cam.
Keep up the awesome work man your videos are quality.
Another great topic. Nice work mate.
Another great video upload 👌