 What's good y'all is your boros back again with another video So we're gonna check out why Shawn Michaels was the 90s most hated man in wrestling man We all know the stories of how Shawn was before he found God before he changed his ways or whatnot We know Shawn The stories of how he was pretty much he was he was difficult To deal with back in an in the early 90s or whatnot because he knew he was the guy at that time he knew he was one of the main attractions and He had a lot of pullback stage, but he also had a lot of controversy in beefs and issues So we're gonna check out why he was the most hated in the 90s, man This should be an interesting one. This is by stun by wrestling. I'm subscribed to him So make sure you guys go check him out. Appreciate all love support man. Let's get right into this one, man Should be good when y'all go subscribe to him, man Shawn Michaels was such an incredible performer. Nobody had provided WWE fans with so much entertainment in so many ways a devastating back injury in 1998 seemingly cut Michaels career short It was everyone's belief that Michaels time in the ring was over and the fans thanked him for his service Nobody ever expected Michaels to come back and yet he did when Michaels returned four years later He was like a brand new man. Yeah Incredibly Michaels would go on to provide almost another decade of career defining moments including WrestleMania matches and moments that will be remembered forever facts facts However, Michael's peers in the locker room have provided a different perspective on the man over the years By all accounts Michaels was like the devil behind the scenes during his first run in the 90s Causing trouble for everyone around him in this video We will take a closer look at why Shawn Michaels was one of the 90s most hated men in wrestling This this definitely sounds about right with many people's All right, man, man to check out some more of wrestling's most hated man It sounds like after he's wrestling debut Shawn Michaels was quickly paired with Marty genetic as the midnight rockers in 1985 The team absolutely thrilled at that look at the guns providing them with in-ring action They'd never seen before the tag team Synchronicity that the midnight rockers displayed in their AWA matches was Revolutionary and they set the pace for many of the tag teams that followed them in the years to come The boys were just a team on screen They would ride together and bunk together always talking about the business and how they could continue to innovate Matches reports were abound that the midnight rockers really did rock all night long And in the words of vergonia became tough to handle as their newfound fame Quickly went to their heads by day Michaels was thrilling in the ring and had an incredible mind for the business But by night he became a party animal alongside genetic He was out all night hunting for women and often getting kicked out of bars and totally trashing hotel rooms Michael's first visited Las Vegas in 1986 His cocaine habit also started that night Moment that he would later describe as the start of his downfall It would be an addiction spanning over a decade in an interview Marty genetic Estimated that he and Michaels were on the road for 300 days a year and they parted for 290 of those days Pat Patterson skated the rockers for WWE in 1987 their reputation was well ahead of them and according to Michaels They were treated accordingly by the boys already in the Federation's locker room We came into a pretty cold reception people had heard about us They thought we were young punks all of it was true for the first few weeks Michaels and genetic tried to keep a low profile backstage But once they were comfortable they joined Davey Boy Smith and Jim Powers in the bar after a show Late into the evening Jimmy Jack funk appeared and started literally chewing glass and getting in the boys faces Eventually Michaels broke a bottle over his own head to try and shut bunk up It later transpired that genetic had been hitting on a girl in the bar that Powers was Later claimed that Michaels and genetic ended up tearing the bar up and caused a huge ruckus Whether that was true or not It was enough for Vince McMahon to backtrack on his decision to hire the rockers in the first place Yeah, it was a devastating moment for both men having so briefly reached the top of the mountain They ended up getting fired and going back down to the bottom this time Wrestling in front of just 50 people for the continental territory in Knoxville, Tennessee Yeah, to know money Michael says that losing his job with WWE was devastating to him and he immediately entered a downward spiral of drug-taking and suicidal thoughts He said that the only thing stopping him from taking his life was the devastation that it would have caused his parents After the experience of being at the top of the mountain employed by Vince McMahon Ron Fuller's continental wrestling promotion was like being in the gutter each booking provided the boys with no more than $300 and genetic claimed that often they would accept payments in cocaine to top up their fee Eventually new continental armstrong reached the end of his rope with Michaels and genetic and gave them their two weeks notice The boys decided to quit right away and walked out the door leaving armstrong with a hole in his booking sheet Luckily for the Rockers They still had some name value and so were invited into the Memphis wrestling territory who had connections back with the AWA As they started to pick their game back up in the ring Michaels could see that the writing was on the wall for the AWA as the industry was rapidly changing and they needed to get back To WWE Vince McMahon was feeling generous in 1988 and gave Michaels and Ginetti a second chance But they were told that this was their final opportunity in the ring The Rockers got back to their highly motivated best and the fans immediately took to the young babyface tag team The Rockers never reached the top of the tag team Maintain however and truth be told Ginetti was starting to irritate Michaels Most of the fans at the time didn't realize that tensions had been brewing between the men for months That bad sentiment came to a head one night in a hotel lobby blood was spilled very publicly Exactly how the fight started between Michaels and Ginetti is still a mystery However, the fight was brutal enough for the police to be called Yeah, I didn't know they had it luckily Randy Savage arrived at the hotel just in time to vage for the pair and To sign some autographs for the cops Otherwise, it would have been a night in the cells for both men on screen The fans were shocked and disgusted by Michaels as he threw Ginetti through the barbershop window Classic moment. He'll Michaels was adamant that he wanted to be a single Superstar and to not have to share the spotlight with anybody else in hindsight I see the beginnings of these negative traits in Michaels There would be evidence all the way through his career in the 90s He was a wrestler who was a selfish and arrogant as he was gifted a drug addict Who still managed to deliver gold every time he laced up his boots night after night while Michaels was rid of Ginetti He still recognized the importance of having someone's back and more importantly Having somebody to watch his back in a business that was notoriously volatile Damn that was crazy the clique were a notorious backstage faction formed of Michaels Kevin Nash Scott Hall And Paul Levesque aka Triple H Michaels was glad when Hall was hired to play the part of Razor Ramon as they'd both been buddies while working in the AWA Kevin Nash walked through the door next on the recommendation of Michaels to play his on-screen bodyguard Hall and Nash had been friends since their days as lower midcarders in WCW and the trio hit the road together Sean Walkman joined the group after Nash witnessed Walkman playing pranks on other members of the locker room backstage Nash immediately knew that Walkman was the kind of guy that could hang with the clique The guys were fans of Triple H ever since they saw him wrestle on WCW Saturday night And they became even bigger fans when they found out he didn't drink or do drugs So he could be the designated driver and a bank carrier number one Sean Michaels needed and it was even better because he was the clear leader of the pack The man had strength in numbers backstage and began leaning on Vince McMahon to influence booking decisions in their favour But it cost the card McMahon had little choice but to acquiesce to their many demands Shane Douglas said it wasn't just the guys on the bottom rung I know that there was this very strong reaction among some of the bigger names in the dressing room They didn't like what was going on with the clique They saw it as a threat to their ability to make money to their ability to have talent to wrestle and oppose off of Shane Douglas himself was affected by the clique during his brief run with the company in 1995 Sean Michaels and Douglas were supposed to wrestle for the Intercontinental Champion shipper in your house for however Michaels had to vacate the title before the match due to a Supposed injury Douglas would receive the Intercontinental title via forfeit however He would be embarrassed shortly thereafter when Scott Hall would force him to defend the title Hall went on to defeat Douglas for the belt making him the shortest ever After just 20 minutes Indications of the clique using their power backstage to get what they wanted The Douglas wasn't good enough to compete in the federation very early on this Humiliation on screen was the final nail in the coffin two months of backstage pressure and Politicking to get rid of Douglas on behalf of the clique and sure enough It wouldn't be long before he was out the door and back in ECW Douglas would see on this treatment by the clique for years to come even using the experience to feed back into his character In ECW the real reason that Michaels had to forfeit the Intercontinental title to Douglas was due to him being needy beaten Unconscious during a bar fight in October 1995 on television An angle was concocted whereby Michaels had suffered a concussion The clique had been momentarily split up due to half the roster going on a European tour and the other half staying in the US Michaels and Waltman decided to hit the bar one night and Michael started flirting with a girl on the dance floor So the girl turned out to be the girlfriend of a soldier who took offense to Michaels hitting on his woman Of course things quickly escalated and Michaels ended up getting knocked out after getting his head Slammed in a car door damn The age would later say a million times where we'd been out places and sure would do the exact same thing But I was there Kev was there Scott was there, you know, it's different Nobody in the locker room at the time was surprised that Michaels ended up in this situation Hotel next door neighbor Sunni didn't ask any questions as she escorted Michaels to the local emergency room Sunny whose real name was Tamara Sitch was WWE's number one woman in the mid 90s now considered to be the Federation's first real diva She debuted alongside real-life teenage sweetheart Chris Candido as fitness freaks the Body Donners in 1995 Sitch's act of kindness in taking Michaels to the hospital led to them getting closer and closer She would check on him every day Michaels didn't care about the feelings of Sitch's actual part of Chris Candido as the couple made their affair very Oh, I'll be honest with you Shawn Michaels was Was the original Wrestling city boy, bro Shawn Michaels was the first I'm pointing it out. I'm claiming this now Shawn Michaels was the very first Wrestler that was a city boy before city boys was a thing as exactly was Shawn Michaels was bro He didn't care if you had a chick. He didn't care, you know If you was married and it didn't matter if Shawn wanted you he was gonna shoot for you You know what Shawn actually deserved this hoodie right here. I'm wearing Let me let me move the screen so y'all can see it move the mic You see this hoodie you see this hoodie. It's a toxic hoodie. He was the embodiment of toxic He should have been wearing this for sure Let's get back to it man. Vs to everyone around them They even went on vacation together with Sitch showing off the photos of them both in Jamaica right under Candido's nose according to Sitch she and Michael's would even have sex multiple times and at WWE shows While click members acted as a lookout in the interim many wrestlers have stated how distraught Candido was during that time period and her Michael's didn't care what anyone else thought about the situation In a later interview just credible said the click didn't take any prisoners They didn't hold anything back. I know Shawn Michael's was notorious, you know And I love Shawn to death, but he was and he'll tell you himself He was a prick due to his attitude Michael's was almost impossible to deal with face-to-face Nobody could judge Michael's mood on a day-to-day basis as his alcohol and drug consumption reached almost out of control levels He's life being ruled by uppers and donors not even Vince McMahon himself was safe Vince Russo would later say Shawn Disrespected everybody. I never saw anybody getting Vince's face more than Shawn not even close I think Shawn to this day is the only person. I've seen like scream at Vince and get away with it Yeah, confirmed Kevin Nash Michael's just did not care yet Friends around him Shawn out of his ass nobody could doubt that he was the best wrestler on the roster if not in the entire world Well, that's apart from arch nemesis Brett According to Hart always became a member of the clique back in 1994 when WWE was on the tour of Germany Hart was still on good terms with Michael's haul and Nash at the time and the men were drinking in the hotel bar The men broached the idea of a wrestler's union to Hart whereby he would be the leader and would take the group's ideas to Vince McMahon This was before Michael's had an established relationship of his own with the boss And they knew that Hart already had that relationship in place and therefore could influence McMahon's decisions at the time Hart declined to the offer He was well aware that all three men's social habits didn't align with his own and he personally felt that he would get no Benefits from unionizing with them as far as Brett Hart was concerned in 1994 He was the golden child. Yeah, and his push had already begun Yeah, as the 90s wore on animosity between the men would grow into complete Hatred for one another in many ways their career had ran in parallel Both debuting as smaller guys Wrestling a more technical style in their respective tag teams in the 1980s Hart was always slightly ahead of Michael's in his career winning the WWE Championship first The WWE had long been known as the land of the Giants thanks to the likes of Hulk Hogan and Andre the Giants in the 1980s Yet the decision to put the belt on Hart proved that Vince McMahon was willing to look at smaller More athletic guys to main event the company going forward. It was a big thing right there This was a breakthrough ever since he arrived in the company He'd been concerned that his height would hold him back So he certainly knew he had the opportunity to be world champion himself going forward at WrestleMania 11 Michael's faced his buddy diesel for the world Championship in the main event Michael's went into the match as the heel challenger But he actually emerged as a baby face and a losing effort thanks to his craved pleasing antics As far as Hart was concerned Michael's had gone into business for himself and decided to turn himself face Now they were both on the exact same trajectory They were both baby faces fighting for the same spot as number one in the company Bret Hart would go on to defeat diesel for the world title for a third time at the 1995 Survivor Series Hart felt really Unappreciated as the champion and he believed he's reigned to be transitional He believed that they were just waiting for the right time to give Michael's the belt and he was right WrestleMania 12 the two fan favorites clashed in an Iron Man match, which was won by Michael's After the match Michael's barked at heart to get the fuck out of his ring while he celebrated Wow later would say that he felt like yesterday's news to Vince McMahon and other members of management and Michael's and the rest of the clique had directly influenced them at the time Michael's gloated to heart that he was going to defend the belt against Scott Hall and Triple H and try and get one more main event between himself and Kevin Nash in an interview Michael said in my mind I can certainly believe that I have the arrogance at that time to think that I could dictate who I was gonna work with and In my mind, I can even believe me at that time Rationalizing that I'm taking care of my buddies and working with my buddies and not thinking in February 1997 Michael's vacated the championship on a special Thursday night episode of raw Michael's told the viewing audience that he'd suffered a career threatening knee injury and more Importantly, he'd lost his smile in reality Michael's has always insisted that he was both injured and at the peak of his drug addiction at the time But others have always maintained that he didn't really want to drop the belt to Bret Hart directly Which is why the injury storyline was put on the table instead That makes my heart would continue to oppose each other in terms of mindset right up until Hart's last day in WWE a comment in 1997 on an episode of raw in which Michael's Ironically insinuated that Hart had been having an affair with Sonny even resulted in a real backstage fight between the men I can see that been written and videos have been made about the Montreal Scrooge over the 1997 survivor series However, Michael's denied all knowledge of the plan to screw Hart out of the title for years It took a long time for the truth to finally come out about the events that occurred that night and Michael's was fully in on the job Yeah, Michael's would later say that he considered that night to be the lowest point of his entire career Yeah, Mark Calloway aka the Undertaker Recognized the danger that the clique represented very early on he could see the many ways that the clique were causing damage to WWE locker room morale was at an all-time low in the early 90s as the clique squashed everyone They didn't approve of desk. The fear of being picked on was Monumental among the wrestlers in the locker room as the clique didn't just rib the other talents They targeted them and ensured that their careers in WWE were short and totally miserable Calloway saw that the clique were trying to monopolize the best spots on the card for themselves and They were mostly succeeding Calloway formed a group of his own known as the Bone Street crew alongside Yoko Zuna And they carefully selected other wrestlers to join them based off their similar mindset While it has been later claimed that the group didn't ever come to blows with the clique Calloway's boys did try and keep them in check by the middle of 1996 However, there wouldn't be a clique left to deal with The curtain call was an incident that took place at a Madison Square Garden house show in April 1996 With Kevin Nash and Scott Hall leaving for WCW It was the end of the clique as they knew it to the fans the men in the ring were enemies when they decided to hug each other In front of the fans at MSG. They were breaking kayfabe. Yeah, Vince McMahon was totally furious Sean Michaels managed to avoid punishment for his actions considering he was one of WWE's biggest stars and got off the hook As Scott Hall and Kevin Nash were out the door all of the punishment fell to Triple H Vader was an exciting prospect in 1996 The agile big man had proved his worth by providing thrilling Contests in WCW and Japan and he held multiple world championships on his way to the federation Vader seemed like the remedy to WWE's lacking main event scene and surely his violent style would Compliment Michael's high-flying agility perfectly a match at Sub-aslam 1996 between Michaels and Vader for the title was the end goal and the feud was set up at the Royal Rumble in January of that year So far so good only problem was Michaels didn't like Vader and didn't want to work with him One rumor suggests that Michael thought that Vader didn't wash his wrestling gear often enough and was Unhygienic and thought that Vader worked too rough and believed that Vader would cause him an injury Yeah in ring style So the writing was on the wall for Vader's main event push during the match at Sub-aslam When Vader forgot to execute a planned spot coming off the top rope Michael's angrily yelled at Vader during the match due to the discrepancy After the match Michaels complained to McMahon as was so often the case at the time and McMahon agreed Vader would end up sliding down the card until he was finally released in 1998 His true potential was never seen in Wow Michael's politics towards his fellow wrestlers finally came to bite him in the ass for literally decades to come When he decided to pick on the rock during his formative years The Rock's massive rise to prominence came after the one first retirement at WrestleMania 14 in 1998 But that didn't stop Michaels from having a go in 1997 Michaels had originally Disrespected the Rock's grandmother during a show in Hawaii when he was a teenager and the Rock never forgave him for that Matters were made even worse when the Rock arrived in the company Brett Hart claimed in his autobiography That both Michaels and Triple H despised the Rock when he debuted despite being hampered by a Terrible gimmick the young Rocky my via was obviously gifted in the ring and Michaels was getting scared believing that he would take the place of his best friend at Triple H And so Michaels tried to force Vince McMahon to get the intercontinental title off my of here But the idea was nixed the Rockers never truly forgiven Michaels for his behavior And so that dream match has never come to fruition For sure Michaels there must have been a lot of soul searching done between his retirement in 1998 and he's returned to the ring in 2002 By all accounts he was a different man apparently having famed God and becoming clean from drinking drugs The man will always be a legend in the wrestling business in the truest sense of the word However, we shouldn't forget all of those he trampled over in order to get there This was a good one man. This was a good one man. I love this. This is this was This was fantastic. I love this video. Make sure y'all go subscribe to the homie stunned by wrestling I'm subscribed to I'm gonna link down the original video down below in the description So you guys can go check them out. This was very dope I didn't want to pause it too much cuz I wanted to you know, don't want to make this video too too long But this was very enjoyable very informative and it's crazy how much pool Shawn Michaels had back then where he could tell Vince. I don't think he's he got it in events And then he just slides down the card until eventually he's let go. That's Insane bro, but I'm glad that he was able to overcome his demons and he's in a much better place And and this is a testament to anyone that feels like you can't change bro You can always be a better version of yourself if you allow that to happen, you know Surround yourself with good people good environments and you can change your ways people can be forgiven You know, of course people not gonna forget what he's done But hopefully people can forgive what he's done and what he's doing now So comment down below. Let me know man. What's your favorite? We're not gonna focus on the negative. What's your favorite? Shawn Michaels HPK match of all time. Let me know down below But I appreciate all the love and support you guys have shown on the channel road to 150k. Appreciate your kicking me See you next one. Peace