The "Heartbreak Kid" Shawn Michaels is a three-time WWF Intercontinental champion...Arrogant, egotistical, and self-absorbed, Michaels is also one of th efinest all-around wrestlers in the world and one of the most popular...Mixes science with arial tactics like few others in the sport...Born in San Antonio, Texas...Was an outstanding high school athlete...Went to wrestling school after graduating from high scool as was trained for a pro career by Jose Lathario...Defeated Art Crews in his pro debut in the Mid-South area in 1985...Traveled to the Central States area and met Marty Marty Jannetty...The twp pf them forged a friendship and agreed that whomever reached a major organization first would call the other...Meanwhile, Michaels won the Sentral States TV title and the Texas All-Star tag team title with Jannetty...Soon after, Jannetty signed with the AWA and called Michaels...The Midnight Rockers were born...They won the AWA tag team titles from Buddy Rose and Doug Sommers on January 27, 1987, in St. Paul, Minnesota...Lost the belts to Boris Zukhov and Soldat Ustinov on May 25 of that year...Regained the belts and feuded with Paul E. Dangerously's "Original" Midnight Express, Dennis Condrey and Randy Rose...Lost the belts to Pat Tanaka and Paul Diamond on March 19, 1988...Both jumped to the WWF in 1989 and renamed themselves The Rockers...Began feuding with Jacques and Raymond Rougeau...Also feuded with The Hart Foundation and Arn Anderson and Tully Blanchard...Shortly after Michaels and Jannetty suffered a SummerSlam 90 loss to Jim Powers and Paul Roma, Michaels underwent surgery on his right knee...On October 30, The Rockers beat The Hart Foundation for the World tag team titles...Days later, however, the decision was reversed because the top rope had been knocked off the cornerpost during the second fall of that match...The Rockers never got over the disappointment of not winning the titles, and dissension arose...Michaels and Jannetty began arguing during matches...The breakup occurred on an edition of Brutus Beefcake's "Barber Shop" when Michaels blindsided Jannetty; shortly thereafter Jannetty left the WWF...In January 1992, Michaels joined forces with "Sensational" Sherri Martel...started feuding with IC champion Bret Hart...Could not wrest the World title from Randy Savage...The Michaels-Sherri breakup occurred at SummerSlam 92 when Michaels caught Sherri flirting with Rick Martel...In October 1992, Jannetty returned to the WWF...Michaels finally won the IC title he had been pursuing for some time when he defeated Davey Boy Smith on October 27, 1992 in Terre haute, Indiana, without Sherri's help...In a subsequent interview, Shawn said Sherri should "sit at home like a woman"...Sherri joined Jannetty...Feuded with Tanaka, who was later joined by Sherri...Lost the IC title to Jannetty on May 17, in New York City during a live broadcast of WWF Monday Night Raw...Michaels had issued a universal challenge to any wrestler during an interview earlier that night...Jannetty, who hadn't been seen in the WWF for a while, came out of the crowd wearing a hodd and answered the call...Regained the title from Jannetty on June 6, 1993, the night he introduced Diesel as his bodyguard...Feuded with "Mr. Perfect" Curt Hennig and lost several matches to him by disqualification when Diesel interfered...Left the WWF in late September when President Jack Tunney stripped him of the Intercontinenatl title for failing to meet unspecified contractual obligations...Razor Ramon won the vacant IC title by beating Rick Martel...Returned tot he WWF in mid-November, calling himself "the undisputed Intercontinental champ"; he even had his old IC belt with him...Michaels (taking Jerry Lawler's place) and his three "Knights" battled Owen, bret, Bruce and Keith Hart in the 1993 Survivor Series...The Harts won in a match best remembered for Owen's turn against Bret...Was one of the last four men remaining in the 1994 Royal Rumble...Meanwhile, a feud developed between Ramon and Michaels over Michaels' claim that he was the real IC champ...Battled Ramon in a thrilling ladder match at Wrestlemania X...Michaels and Ramon bashed each other mercilessly with the steel ladder, and Ramon knocked Michaels off the ladder when all seemed lost and climbed to the top to retrieve his IC belt and the one Michaels brought to the ring...Formed a tag team with Diesel; they were soon granted hots at World tag team champions The Headshrinkers...Meanwhile, Michaels and Diesel denied there were problems between them...On August 28, 1994, one night prior to SummerSlam, Michaels and Diesel defeated The Headshrinkers for the belts...Diesel lost the IC title to Ramon at SummerSlam when Michaels accidentally superkicked him in the face...Tatanka agreed to team with Diesel and Michaels against The Headshrinkers and Lex Luger...Michaels was later sidelined for several weeks with an arm injury...Ramon, Fatu, The Kid, Davey Boy Smith, and Sionne defeated Michaels, Diesel, Jeff Jarrett, Jim Neidhart and Owen Hart at the 1994 Survivor Series...Ramon's team won by countout when the three remaining memebers of Michaels' team tried to stop Diesel from attacking Shawn in the dressing room...The tag titles were declared vacant that night, and Diesel won the WWF title from Bob Backlund on his own three nights later...Michaels offered to sell secrets about Diesel to is former partner's challengers, including Bret Hart...Won the 1995 Royal Rumble even though he was the first man in the ring; he outlasted 29 other wrestlers in an impressive 38 minute 45 second performance...Dumped out Davey Boy Smith for the win...Was thus granted a shot at Diesel at Wrestlemania XI...Got into a shoving match with Roddy Piper on the January 23 taping of WWF Monday Night Raw...Scored several pinfall victories over Davey Boy Smith in the insuing weeks...Introduced "Psycho" Sid Vicious as his bodyguard...Vicious helped Michaels in several wins over Smith, but big Sid's interference at Wrestlemania XI cost Michaels the win. Diesel went on to score the pin at 20:40...One night later on Raw, Michaels proclaimed respect for Diesel and said he would give Visious the night off the next time he faced "Big Daddy Cool"...A shoving match ensued between Michaels and Vicious; Diesel came to Michaels' rescue after Sid power-bombed him three times...Took six weeks off to allow his back and neck to recover...When Diesel suffered an arm injury in May, Michaels took his place in matche sagainst Vicious and defeated him numerous times...A fraw with Kama eliminated both in the first round of the 1995 King of the Ring tournament...Won his third IC belt by defeating Jeff Jarrett on July 23 in Nashville, Tennessee...Beat Ramon in another exciting ladder match at SummerSlam '95...He and Diesel apparently won the tag belts for the second time at the September 24 In Your House, but WWF President Gorilla Monsoon ruled that Diesel's pin on Owen Hart was invalid because hart had been replaced by Davey Boy Smith for that night...Forfeited the IC belt to Dean Douglas when injuries he suffered in a brawl in upstate New York prevented him from defending the title at In Your House on October 22.