Shawn Michaels recently spoke with The Mirror UK while promoting next week’s RAW 25 special; you can read a few highlights below:
Shawn Michaels comments on being a part of RAW 25 with D-Generation X:
It will be a blast. It’s one of those things from a comfort standpoint and thinking about all the unbelievable, crazy things we did down the years on Monday Night Raw… it will be something that is in my wheelhouse and a lot of fun to do. The reuniting of DX will be a blast.
It’s going to be simulcast, which I don’t think has been done for quite a long time, from the Barclays Center and the Manhattan Center. I think there will be a lot of exciting things going on that night. And I say that because I have found out absolutely nothing! People keep asking me, which one am I going to be at, and I don’t know yet. I think they might keep all of us in the dark, until right before show time, so it’s exciting for everybody.
Michaels comments on being part of the first ever episode of RAW back in 1993:
Oh my goodness. I was talking about that the other day. It’s something, gosh, I can remember thinking about this whole Monday night thing and it being live and being prime time. It was just so very different at the time and such a big risk to all of us. Most of us had all been a part of the Saturday morning or late Saturday night wrestling shows for as long as we could remember. And this was a really big jump to prime time and live television.
I can remember there being so many unanswered questions going into it and wondering ‘gosh, will this work?” and “how long is it going to last?” There were so many unknowns. It’s amazing now to realise, 25 years later, it’s now three hours long and heck, it’s practically done – I don’t want to say in our sleep, so to speak – but it’s become our normal. It’s been an amazing journey to be a part of it all these years.
Michaels reveals his favorite memories from his history on WWE RAW:
I guess I would bookend them with that first Raw… and my retirement thing and saying goodbye [on March 29, 2010]. They were both very big moments for me. The third would be a tough one. I’ve had so many special moments with the WWE in general. Trying to limit any of my favourites to just three is very challenging for me.
The hour match with John Cena is probably in there [on April 23, 2007], I think about some of the stuff Jericho and I did, Scott Hall, Kevin Nash, Steve Austin, Bret Hart, Hunter, there are so many good things there. And of course some of the stuff I did with Undertaker. It’s very hard to file it down to just three.
