5 Little-Known WWE Facts You Didn't Know About Shawn Michaels

Shawn Michaels is widely considered to be one of the best wrestlers in the history of the business, he was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame back in 2011 and still holds a number of records in WWE despite not stepping in the ring for more than eight years.

Recently there has been speculation that Michaels will finally make his long-awaited return to the squared circle to take on The Undertaker in Saudi Arabia in November, but as of yet, this is yet to be confirmed. There isn't a wrestling fan in the world that hasn't heard of Shawn Michaels, but there are many fans who will be unaware of some of the little-known facts about Michaels that have built him into the icon that he is today.

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#5 Michaels trained to be a wrestler when he was just 19-years-old

Michaels started training when he was just 19

Shawn Michaels has been a consistent face in the company over the past three decades, but whilst many fans think that the former WWE Champion had an easy route to WWE because he had a natural talent this definitely wasn't the case.

Michaels began training to be a professional wrestler when he was just 19-years-old and his training reportedly come cheap since the star was forced to pay around $3,000 for just two months of training with José Lothario.

Michaels later went on to make his debut in WWE back in 1987 when he was just 22-years-old which means that the former Champion worked hard for around three years before he gained the attention of WWE but as you are about to find out, this didn't go to plan.

#4. Michaels was fired from WWE just two weeks after he made his debut

Shawn's historic career nearly didn't happen

Shawn Michaels was just 22-years-old when he made his WWE debut but he will be the first to admit the fact that he was young and reckless which may be why he was fired after just two weeks of working for Vince McMahon's million dollar corporation.

Michaels and partner Marty Jannetty were signed by WWF back in 1987 but were then fired after a bar incident which was apparently a misunderstanding according to Michaels biography. WWE obviously saw the error of their ways and resigned The Rockers just a year later and the rest, as they say, is history.

#3. Michaels knew he wanted to be a wrestler when he was just 12 years old

Michaels knew what he wanted to be from a young age

Shawn Michaels knew that he wanted to be a professional wrestler when he was just 12 years old, obviously, this was too young for the former Champion to start to train which is why he didn't begin his training for another seven years. Michaels definitely didn't keep his love of the business a secret since he performed an entire match at his talent show at that time and even had the use of fake blood.

Michaels wasn't from a family that pushed the idea of him becoming a professional wrestler, but it's obvious that he was always going to make his way into the squared circle given the fact that he was naturally talented and excelled in the ring when he was given the opportunity.

#2 Shawn Michaels wrote his own theme song

Michaels wanted to sing his own entrance theme

Shawn Michaels has one of the most iconic entrance themes in WWE and interestingly it was Jimmy Hart was the one who came up with the idea for the theme but Michaels actually revealed that he was the one who wrote it. The WWE Hall of Famer actually wanted to be the one to sing the theme as well, but this never became a reality.

Michael's entire character has seemingly been a group effort since it was Curt Hennig who came up with his iconic nickname of The Heartbreak Kid. Hennig even went on to come up with Paul Levesque's nickname of Triple H. Obviously, Michaels and Triple H have become better known by these names throughout their career.

#1 Shawn Michaels spent a brief part of his childhood in England

Michaels and his family moved around a lot as a child

Shawn Michaels comes from a military family which means that when he was a child he moved around a lot. Michaels spent a lot of his childhood in Reading, Berkshire in England before he later moved and settled in San Antonio, Texas.

Michaels is best-known for his association with Texas but not many fans are aware of how much he moved around as a child. Michaels found a home within the WWE and actually chose to walk away from the ring so that he could spend the most important years of his son's life with him. Michaels admitted that following WrestleMania 25 he wanted to walk away because his son was growing up without him there and he was scared that he would miss out on his entire childhood.