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WWE Super Star Shawn Heartbreak Kid Michaels shares the stories of his 20+ year wrestling career, his life, and his faith in this blockbuster WWE Super Star biography.

Winning and losing. Heels and babyfaces. Kliqs and Curtain Calls. Tearing down house shows and tearing up hotel rooms. Ladders and cages. Vacated titles and unwarranted suspensions. Works and screwjobs. Heartaches and backbreaks. Forced retirements and redemption. Rock 'n' roll and Graceland. There are two sides to every story; for Shawn Michaels, there is Heartbreak & Triumph.

World Wrestling Entertainment fans think they know The Heartbreak Kid. He's The Showstopper who pushes his high-flying abilities to the limit. He's the company's first Grand Slam champion. And of course, he's forever the guy who conspired with WWE Chairman Vince McMahon to screw Bret Hitman Hart out of the WWE Championship.

Heartbreak & Triumph introduces us to Michael Shawn Hickenbottom, the youngest of four children whose really conservative upbringing made him shy and afraid that people wouldn't like me if I showed who I really was. But upon discovering Southwest Championship Wrestling (SWCW) one night, Hickenbottom realized instantly what he wanted to become. From there, Hickenbottom fully recounts Shawn Michaels's tutelage under Mexican wrestler Jose Lothario; working matches at Mid-South Wrestling; flying high with Marty Jannetty as The Midnight Rockers in the American Wrestling Association (AWA); and how a barroom confrontation almost prevented the tandem from ever joining the World Wrestling Federation. The Rockers would climb to the top of World Wrestling Entertainment's tag-team division in the late 1980s.

Heartbreak & Triumph tells what dissolved Michaels's partnership with Jannetty and started his transformation into The Heartbreak Kid. You'll learn firsthand of the unfair allegation that brought about HBK's classic Ladder match with Razor Ramon at WrestleMania X; the incident in Syracuse that set the stage for Shawn's unbelievable comeback victories at Royal Rumble 1996, and in the Iron Man WWE Championship match with Bret Hart at WrestleMania XII; and how his escalating backstage feud with Hart inadvertently built toward the formation of D-Generation X, as well as the first-ever Hell in a Cell contest against Undertaker.

Beyond the squared circle, Michaels clears the air about his days running with The Kliq -- Kevin Nash (Diesel), Scott Hall (Razor Ramon), Paul Levesque (Triple H), and Sean Waltman (The 1-2-3 Kid) -- their contributions to WWE's wildly successful Attitude era, and the consequences of their uncharacteristic Madison Square Garden Curtain Call in May 1996. And for the first time anywhere, Michaels shoots completely straight about his role in the biggest scandal in wrestling history, the infamous Montreal screwjob at Survivor Series 1997.

While reliving the crippling back injury that forced him to retire in his prime following his WWE Championship loss at WrestleMania XIV, Michaels credits the new loves in his life -- his second wife Rebecca, his children, and his newfound faith -- with giving him the strength to kick his habit, recover physically, and make a jubilant return to the ring at SummerSlam 2002. Now back on top and doing what he enjoys most, the WWE Superstar regards Heartbreak & Triumph as the perfect means to review my life, and attempt to figure out how I became the person I am.
About the Author: Shawn Michaels is a retired professional wrestler and Hall of Famer, also known as the Heartbreak Kid.

Aaron Feigenbaum is the author of The Unauthorized History of DX.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781416516866
  • Publisher: World Wrestling Entertainment
  • Publisher Imprint: World Wrestling Entertainment
  • Depth: 25
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 352
  • Series Title: English
  • Sub Title: The Shawn Michaels Story
  • Width: 156 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1416516867
  • Publisher Date: 07 Nov 2006
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Edition: Reprint
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 22 mm
  • Weight: 431 gr


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