Shawn Michaels was involved in an interesting segment on Monday Night RAW this week with the Undertaker. Michaels spoke about his decision to stay retired out of respect for the fans and for the Undertaker. The Deadman responded by saying that Michaels has only stayed retired due to fear. This certainly seemed like the biggest tease that we have ever seen for Shawn to potentially come out of retirement for one more match.
So what is this leading to?
Dave Meltzer addressed the segment on the latest edition of Wrestling Observer Radio (subscribe here). I thought that Meltzer made an interesting point about how the Shawn segment has now impacted the Undertaker-Triple H match moving forward. Here is a quote (via Ringside News):
“The idea in theory would be pushing the Undertaker-Triple H match but when it was over that wasn’t the match that you were pushing. Nobody was coming out of this segment going ‘I can’t wait to see Undertaker and Triple H.’ They were saying ‘I can’t wait to see Undertaker and Shawn Michaels. Which means if anything they weakened Australia.”
He is right. Almost everyone on social media after the segment was talking about a potential match between HBK and the Deadman. This segment felt more like a tease for the future instead of a way to build up the Undertaker vs Triple H. Meltzer further speculated that WWE could do the Undertaker vs Michaels at Wrestlemania 35 or at WWE’s rumored event in Saudi Arabia:
“Shawn’s there anyway and it doesn’t matter but they still made it so the big match isn’t Undertaker vs Triple H. Undertaker vs Triple H is a step to the big match which is Undertaker and Shawn. Perhaps that could be at Mania?”
“But the one they pushed him to wrestle in was the Saudi Arabia show because that’s the real money show but it’s one of those two. It’s awfully early to do an angle for next year’s Mania but it’s not impossibly early it’s been done before.”
Speculation is the key word here. Just thought that there were some interesting points here that I wanted to share. Where do you think this storyline is going? Let me know in the comment section below.
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