Professional wrestling legend and two times WWE Hall of Famer Shawn Michaels who is a former four times WWE World Champion recently looked back at his first one on one match in WWE which took place at the SummerSlam 1992 pay per view event.
SummerSlam 1992 is memorable for a lot of reasons. It was the first event to hold the Intercontinental Championship match as the main event of the show instead of the World championship match. The British Bulldog defeated The Hitman Bret Hart to win the WWE Intercontinental championship on the main event of SummerSlam 1992.
Shawn Michaels Remembers His Summerslam 1992 Match
The show was attended by over 80000 people and it is considered as one of the best Summerslams in the history of WWE. It also marked the first singles match of the Heart Break Kid Shawn Michaels in WWE. It was after his heel run started when he betrayed his Tag Team partner Marty Jannetty. He went one on one with The Model Rick Martel.
It was the beginning of the epic singles career of Shawn Michaels. Soon he went on to team up with Diesel even though it took him 4 years to win his first WWE World Championship. After he started his singles run, it was quite clear that WWE wanted to push him as the next main event star of the promotion. Ultimately he won the WWE World Championship for a total of four times.
Shawn Michaels who is a former four times WWE World champion recently spoke to The Bump of WWE where he looked back at his first one on one match in WWE which took place at the SummerSlam 1992 pay per view event. He said;
“Well, I think the biggest thing for me, again, was sort of coming off of the tag team with The Rockers and just really having my first sort of story. The first time being involved in something and, again, with with someone that I’d never been in the ring with.
“It’s not as if Rick Martel and I had been on the ring a lot with each other. It’s SummerSlam, you’re on a pay-per-view, you’re in kind of a featured match. That was a big moment for me as a singles wrestler.”
“Very nerve-wracking because, again, at that time, you feel that every time you’re out there is make-or-break. Is this the one where they look at you like, ‘I don’t see it. I knew he was too small. I knew he wasn’t this.’
“I go back and I think of some of those very unique and different things that I was in. I don’t know, I guess I’m always flattered by the fact that I was kind of the guinea pig for WWE. Every time we had a new type of match, like, ‘Let Shawn try it, he doesn’t know any better,’ and of course, I will say this having Sherri out there was fantastic, right? She was in the middle of it all. Exactly. And of course she was she was she was the gem that tied it all together.”
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