Shawn Michaels on DX

Tyler Durden

Some interesting comments from HBK re DX on WWE.com

“Well, everybody knows, obviously my faith and becoming born again was the one and only impact on my life,� Michaels said. “A lot of other things changed as a result of that, and I knew there were a lot of questions coming to do with the DX thing. They obviously asked me beforehand what I’d be comfortable with and what I wasn’t comfortable with and I knew this going in. I’ve done my best to stand strong, but I set out some guidelines of things I wasn’t going to do. They slowly try to creep them in and I slowly do my best to fight them off, and they say OK and they back off for a week and then they try to creep back up again.

It’s a non-stop struggle, and everybody’s trying to — You know, this company has a product to put out, obviously DX has sort of an image to uphold. Really, I’ve tried to do my best to do that and still stay true to my beliefs and it’s been difficult. I know that there have been a lot of people who have come down on me and I’ve taken a lot of heat for it; I’m used to that. Thank goodness me getting heat on myself for various reasons is no different now than it was 10 years ago, although it may just come from a different sect or a different group of folks.

There are two roads: a road to righteousness and a road to destruction, and as I’ve always said, I try not to beat anybody over the head with it. But I like to think I’m staying true to my faith.� Hunter said he did his best not to offend Shawn’s sensibilities, but at the same time he had to stay true to who he was. This sounds like marriage counseling. Shawn was not happy with the DX Blowjob BBQ. “I was out of the circumstances that I was not comfortable with. When the show was over, I felt like gosh, it doesn’t really matter if you’re in them or not, Shawn, it still represents you in some way shape or form. Even if people don’t want to recognize it, they have to have to understand that when I’m on TV, I’m someone else.

Now, my Christian brothers and sisters love the faith-based Shawn Michaels, like I was pre-WrestleMania — they like that. But when I do the DX version they say ‘oh well, that’s not good.’ What they have to understand is even the good version that they like, that’s not even who I am in real life. For what it’s worth, I’m a ton more to the right of that, but I can’t come on that strong on TV, because I don’t know if that’s entertaining or exciting to people. I always try to tell people that you can’t get mad at the guy that plays Satan every year at the Christmas pageant and accuse him of backsliding. You know what I mean? The guy’s going in there, he’s got a job to do, he does his role as Satan, and that’s that, and that’s what I do when I come to work.

But I always try to at least leave a glimmer of my faith out there in everything. I guess to answer your question, I try not to use profanity. I try not to do any of the sexual stuff, and more than anything I try not to do stuff that I’d have a problem with my kids watching. But even though I’m not doing any of the mooning, I think it’s still sort of funny. For whatever it’s worth, gosh, maybe I’m not as good a Christian as some folks, but I think as a church we turn a lot of people off because we come across as if we’ve got things stuck in our backside.

I’ve still got a very good sense of humor, you know; I’m one of those joyous kinds of Christians and I think you ought to be able to laugh and have fun. My children don’t watch it (WWE), they’re too young. That isn’t to say that I’m ashamed of my job by any stretch. There are a lot of things that I don’t allow my children to watch or my children to do; they’re children. And that’s my job as a parent is to guide them until the day when they can guide themselves.� Shawn also wasn’t happy with the new DX shirt. “It was a compromise. The first ones that they had were very graphic. And I want to let you know how big a nerd I am: I looked at it and I didn’t even know what it was. My wife had to explain it to me. And I said, ‘oh my goodness,’ so I had to call and say, ‘hey, I don’t know if you guys know this, but I’m the same guy that you do the crosses for,’ and they go, ‘oh we know, we know, this is just an idea that Hunter had and he just wanted us to run it by you,’ and I said ‘it doesn’t work.’ So we came to a compromise, and again, the compromise was the animated figures on the front with the crotch shot, but they didn’t even let me know about the mooning on the back. I’ve been in this business for a long time, so I don’t take anything personally,

I don’t take offense to much of anything, again. It is not supposed to be easy, it isn’t, and I’m cool with that, and we move on. But I think it’s a nice little compromise. So I think it’s more about entertaining. And that’s why I felt like we didn’t need to go in those other areas. And I recognize there’s still some entertainment value to that, but I don’t think you have to go there. Also, trying to stay true to the performer, you know, my character has been based around my faith and my family, not nearly as conservative as I am in my real life, in my personal life, but still staying true to it I thought it was not creatively wise. I mean, all of a sudden, what, am I all of a sudden not married? I all of a sudden don’t care about what my children think? I needed to stay true to my character in that respect, just to stay consistent. Otherwise, I think it insults our fans, and I think our fans are more sophisticated than ever. I think you can’t just all of a sudden walk out and be somebody else the next day.

It’s been an interesting ride, it really has, and it will continue to be that and I want to continue to do the best job that I can and just hope that everyone remembers Jesus saved me. I’m doing my best and I will forever stumble, but because my character does something on TV, try to grasp the fact that in my real life, I’m as committed and devoted and as dedicated to my faith as I possibly can.�

ICEMAN

I'm glad WWE posted these comments as it should help clue in those fans that don't understand why HBK doesn't seem happy doing the DX gimmick. I'd be surprised if DX lasted through the end of the year...especially if HBK still has to get knee surgery. It was nice to see HBK and HHH reunite, but I think both will agree that the "magic" the two had almost 10 years when they formed DX, isn't there anymore, because HBK isn't the same person.

shep1982

i see them lasting .. i see shane turning on his dad at summerslam and shawn getting he knee fixed and being out for a while...so shane and hhh being dx for the rest of the year

Jfreeze101

i really hope that doesn't happen..i rather see an injury angle where umaga takes out hbk and hhh has to go 2 on 1 and eventually hbk comes back and defeates umaga at the next raw ppv

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