5 rare, unused character designs for WWE legends revealed

#2. Shawn Michaels

Shawn Michaels the biker

Splitting from Marty Jannetty in the early 1990s, Shawn Michaels ended his days as a tag team wrestler and went on to enjoy a solid singles career for a couple of years. After that, he hit it big as The Heartbreak Kid with feuds against the likes of Bret Hart and Razor Ramon, the latter leading to the iconic WrestleMania 10 ladder match for the Intercontinental Championship. But it's fascinating to see the very first insights into what was planned for his first solo run before he reached such incredible levels of fame.

The designs are great and, looking back at the Michaels of, say, 1992 to 1993, it's clear to see that while some of this design did, in fact, make it into shaping how he ended up looking and sounding. Although, it's fair to say there appears to be a more prominent 'biker' aspect to the concepts that we never saw it quite follow through to the on-screen persona.

Michaels the Biker part 2

Above, we can see the hat had shades that did make the cut, but quite what they were seeing then, that they visualised Michaels as a biker, isn't exactly clear.