The long-tenured WWE announcer Michael Cole recently spoke about WWE Hall of Famer Shawn Michaels, whom he believes to have behaved like a “d***” during his first major run as a main-event singles competitor.
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Michael Cole opens up on Shawn Michaels
Back in the 1990s, HBK headlined WrestleMania twice and became one of WWE’s top stars. The two-time WWE Hall of Famer also had a status as someone who was difficult to deal with behind the scenes.
Michael Cole, who began working as a WWE commentator and interviewer in 1997, spoke about Michaels on the WWE Network show Ruthless Aggression. The veteran announcer made the following comment while footage showed Michaels spraying him with water backstage:
“The Attitude Era Shawn Michaels wasn’t a character. That was Shawn. He was a d***,” he said.
Michael Cole went on to praise Michaels, who now works as an NXT coach and trains the upand coming WWE superstars. Cole lavished praised of HBK for caring so much about the future of WWE:
“Shawn will do anything that he needs to do to ensure that sports entertainment goes forward,” Cole said.
