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Shawn
Michaels News
HBK
IS THE SHOWSTOPPER ONCE AGAIN!
Courtesy WWE.com
Shawn
Michaels delivered Sweet Chin Music to Triple H and won the World Heavyweight
Championship Sunday night before a rabid sellous crowd at Madison Square
Garden!
HBK, who hadn't held a title since dropping the WWE Championship to Steve
Austin at WrestleMania 14, also pinned Chris Jericho in the Elimination
Chamber match to set up his showdown with The Game.
Jericho looked unstoppable upon entering the ring. Y2J sent both Kane
and Booker T back to the locker rooms after scoring pinfalls. RVD also
looked impressive, starting the match with high-octane offense against
the defending champion, Triple H.
After
Michaels scored the pinfall, Madison Square Garden erupted with defeaning
cheers and a shower of streamers and confetti. What will become of HBK's
reign as the World Heavyweight Champion? Tune in to RAW at 9/8 CT Monday
night on TNN to hear what the champ has to say!
FULL
CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH RESULTS!!!
World Heavyweight Champion Elimination Chamber Match
- Triple H vs. Shawn Michaels vs. Booker T. vs. Rob Van Dam vs. Chris
Jericho vs. Kane
Courtesy: ProWrestlingScoops.com
Eric Bischoff came down to the ring and explained the rules
of the match. Two men start the match while the 4 others are locked in
chambers within the huge structure. Pinfall and submission is how the
match can be won. Chris Jericho came down first to a Saliva performance
from The World; he was put inside one of the chambers within. Shawn Michaels,
Kane and Booker T. were also put inside the Chambers. Rob Van Dam and
Triple H were the first two to start the match off. The bell sounded and
the match was underway. Triple H and RVD locked up and Van Dam backed
The Champion back into the corner and then hit the spinning heel kick
and followed up with an inziguri.
Triple H went for the early Pedigree and RVD back dropped him onto the
steel floor on the outside of the ring, which is level with the ring due
to the Chamber. RVD slammed Triple H into the chain wall and then looked
to the crowd for approval and got it. He fired away at Triple H once he
got up and knocked him to the outside of the ring and then hit the Rolling
Thunder on the steel floor.
RVD got out of the ring and climbed one of the inside chambers with Jericho
inside and was going to leap from it, but Jericho grabbed him through
the chains and stopped him. Van Dam finally broke free and flipped right
onto Triple H and they were both down and out.
They got back in the ring and RVD backed Triple H into the corner and
pressed his boot into the face of the Champion. The timer came on and
the bell sounded, Jericho was allowed into the match. RVD went right after
him and hit him with a sidekick off the ropes and then tossed him onto
the steel floor.
RVD got up on the top rope and missed Jericho but missed him and perched
on the chain wall and then nailed Jericho. Triple then H got up and went
after RVD but then fell down. Triple H and Jericho then went to double-team
RVD. Triple H threw some blows at him and then tossed him onto the steel.
Triple H and Jericho then grabbed each of RVD’s arms and slammed
him into the chain walls repeatedly. They continued the brutal beating
on RVD and then the bell sounded and Booker T was let into the match.
He hit the sidekick on RVD and went for the pin in the middle of the ring.
RVD fired back and nailed him with a martial arts kick and went for the
pin on Booker. Triple H then came over and went after Booker. They dueled
in the middle of the ring and RVD went up top of the inner chamber and
nailed the high-risk move on Jericho in the middle of the ring.
Booker hit the suplex on Jericho in the middle of the ring and went for
the pinfall but he kicked out. The bell sounded and Kane was released
into the match. He came in and leveled Jericho and then went after Booker.
He slammed him into the ringpost. Kane the grabbed Jericho and slammed
him through the glass wall of the inner chamber. In the ring, Booker got
the low blow from the outside and then got Chokeslammed by Kane.
Kane then went back to work on Jericho while Triple H came to and tried
to get back in the action. The bell sounded and the last contender was
let in the match, Shawn Michaels. He came in and nailed Kane with the
flying forearm. Shawn got whipped into the corner and nailed his back
and then Kane went back to Jericho and choked him.
Kane dropped Jericho and then Kane hit the Superkick on Kane. He sat up
and Triple H hit the Pedigree on him. Chris Jericho then hit the Lionsault
on Kane and pinned him to eliminate him from the match.
Jericho and HBK fought on the outside and Y2J slammed Michaels into the
steel chains after clotheslining him to the outside steel. Triple H and
Jericho then went to work on Michaels. They worked him over and he finally
started to mount some offense on Jericho. Y2J hit the back body drop on
Michaels and then they went back to the ring. HBK dropped Triple H and
then got the bulldog from Jericho.
Michaels was a bloody mess at this point. Triple H took out Michaels and
then Y2J tried to get the pin and The Champion pulled him off. Triple
H and Jericho then went at it. Jericho went up top and got caught and
Triple H went for the Pedigree, but he countered and got him in the Walls
of Jericho.
Shawn Michaels connected with the Sweet Chin Music and eliminated Chris
Jericho. He then went right after Triple H with fists to the bloody face.
They exchanged blows and then Triple H hit the spinebuster and HBK kicked
out of the pin.
Shawn went off the ropes and got back dropped onto the outside steel.
Irish whip from Shawn into the steel chains. Triple H fired right back
and got Michaels down and then catapulted him into the inner chamber wall
and HBK went right through the fiberglass wall. Triple H got him back
into the middle of the ring and went for the pinfall but he kicked out.
Michaels fired back and threw some blows and then got taken down again
by the Champ. Michaels tossed Triple H into the chain wall and then tossed
him back in the ring and went up to the top turnbuckle. Shawn then climbed
to the top of the inner chamber and hit the flying elbow smash from the
top of it. Both men were down and Shawn slowly rolled and got up to his
feet.
Shawn went for the Superkick and missed and got nailed with the Pedigree
and kicked out of the pin attempt. HBK got up and Triple H was in disbelief.
He went for another Pedigree and HBK back dropped out of it and hit the
perfect Sweet Chin Music and pinned Triple H to become the new World Heavyweight
Champion. After the match, confetti and streamers came over the arena
in celebration of the new champion.
Winner: Shawn Michaels - New WWE World Heavyweight Champion
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Update
on HBK's Condition
Posted by PWS Journalist Ryan Clark on 08/26/2002
For those wondering, the general consensus backstage
at Summerslam last night about HBK Shawn Michael's' match as amazing.
Several people in the backstage area were very impressed with the performance
of both HHH and HBK. HBK looked almost as good as he did 15 years ago.
Going into the match, many people expected HBK to be careful and watch
his bigger spots that could have resulted in injury. That was obviously
not the case.
As of midnight last night, Michaels was said to be feeling fine backstage
after the show, which is good news.
For those wondering, HBK will be off WWE TV for several weeks. They are
going to play an injury angle with him until his return. (Triple H beating
HBK after the match last night will be the angle so yes, that means no
HBK on RAW tonight)
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Last
match or not, Michaels amazes
by Phil Speer
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UNIONDALE, N.Y. – Aug. 25, 2002 – It was the
kind of match that friends, spouses and parents fly into town to see.
Shawn Michaels and Triple H performed in a contest tonight that neither
one of them – nor, if the fans at Nassau Coliseum are any indication,
the fans – will ever forget.
For the record, Michaels won, but he took a severe beating from Triple
H after the match.
Kevin Nash sat next to his longtime friend, Michaels, as the Heartbreak
Kid received ice on his back after the match.
“It was everything I knew it would be,” Nash told WWE.com about
the match. “It’s not like I’m surprised about how good
it was. I didn’t fly here to watch anything but. It was watching
two of the greats.”
Nash was one of a few dozen Superstars who stopped by to shake Michaels’
hand and express their admiration for his ability and the match. “How
long have you been off?” Chris Benoit came by and asked Michaels
jokingly, implying that HBK’s performance in the match made it look
like he was a full-time competitor, not one who had not wrestled in WWE
since WrestleMania XIV.
Even Triple H expressed his admiration.
“Shawn Michaels proved to the world, to me, tonight, that he’s
the greatest worker possibly there’s ever been,” said the Game,
his face covered in dried blood, in an interview. “To be able to
come back after four years, and look like he never missed a day …
”
Michaels modestly disagreed.
“Oh gosh no. I’ve missed a day,” he said with a chuckle.
“(I’ve missed) 365 days, times four. I’ve gotta tell you
I’m so jumbled right now, it’s hard to accurately describe (what
I thought of the match). I’m very happy with it – that I came
out healthy, the people seemed to like it, everybody back here was pleased.
I’m no longer the guy who comes out of the ring and says, ‘I
can do better.’ I think that was just fine. I’m pleased with
it.
“I’m happy to be healthy, but I don’t really know how it
looked visually. I can’t comprehend that right now.”
Triple H was much more than pleased.“I just had one of the greatest
matches in my life,” he said. “I’m sure I’m going
to be beat up tomorrow. But in the meantime there’s nothing like
being able to go out in front of capacity, sold-out arena and do what
we do. There’s nothing like it. For me to be in a role that is who
I am (an antagonist), I was able to get what I haven’t been able
to get now for about a year and a half, since May of 2001. It was a hell
of a night. Win, lose or draw, I did what I said what I was going to do
– put on the show of shows. Whether you love me or hate me, that’s
what I do.”
During the interview, The Game wore a bandage that was at least six inches
long across his forehead. He said it was too early to tell if he’d
need stitches.
Michaels, meanwhile, said his back was becoming increasingly sore as his
muscles tightened and the adrenaline wore off. And after the beating Triple
H gave him after the match, he won’t be appearing on WWE television
in the immediate future. He certainly won’t be wrestling any time
soon, or possibly ever.
Because his wife, Rebecca, had never seen him wrestle, he flew her to
the show tonight. And because it was such a big match, he also brought
his mother and father. The three watched the match out in the audience,
cheering when HBK took the offensive, chanting “HBK!” when the
crowd did, literally jumping up and down with Michaels won. But Rebecca
also shed a few tears when Michaels took the brunt of a high-impact maneuver;
his mother covered her mouth with both hands.
Michaels jumped off the top rope to the ring-apron area, crashing through
a table. He jumped off a ladder, dropping an elbow on The Game. He took
several chair-shots. He was clobbered with a sledgehammer. In his first
WWE match in four years, with a back that’s surgically fused, did
Shawn take too many risks?
“Of course I’m concerned about (his health), but at the same
time, I was working four years watching him do those things every night,”
Nash said. “He took a couple of risks I wish he wouldn’t of
tonight. But that’s Shawn, and there’s no way he’s going
to go out there and not give it his all. Thank God he didn’t get
hurt.”
Asked if he agreed with Nash that he may have taken too many risks, Michaels
said, “That’s probably pretty accurate I guess. I still only
know one way of doing this. My biggest concern was going out there and
trying to do something too conservative and getting hurt. I don’t
know if that makes any sense. But for me a lot of times if I start giving
things too much thought, that’s when I get hurt.
“It was just that kind of match. Even if I’m not going to do
much, I’m going to try to do something somewhat memorable. I don’t
know what was that big of a risk. The splash through the table -- it’s
not like the move is that tough. You just sort of fall off and fall through
the table. It’s just the impact at the end. The impact at the end
of all the moves hurts, so what are you going to do?”
Michaels said he doesn’t know about his future in the wrestling ring,
and he won’t make any decisions for at least the next few days.
“I’ll see how I feel tomorrow. I have no idea how I’m gong
to feel,” he said. “If I can’t get up and walk, yeah, you
bet it is (my last match). If I feel good, I might be able … I’m
sure it’s my last singles match. I just don’t think I can handle
that on a regular basis.”
Although Triple H doesn’t know if he’ll ever have the opportunity,
he’d love to have another match with Michaels. But he said he went
into the match assuming he wouldn’t.
“I think we both went in with the mindset that this was a one-off
for Shawn Michaels,” Triple H said. “You know, Shawn has a broken
back. If you asked a doctor, he would tell you that Shawn is crazy for
doing what he did tonight. Most people wouldn’t be walking if they
were in Shawn’s position. We went out there with the mindset of,
‘Let’s shoot our wad, because we might not get another one.
And if this is our only opportunity to live the dream with each other,
we better make the most of it.’
“I can’t say this for sure because only the people that watched
it can answer it, but I don’t think we disappointed anybody. I don’t
think anybody who watches that match is going to say, ‘Damn it, I
expected so much more from those guys.’ And if they do, kiss my ass.”
Courtesy
WWE.com
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