It's been nearly five years since WWE Hall of Famer Shawn Michaels wrestled in the squared circle and the "Heartbreak Kid" recently discussed the possibility of returning to the ring.
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Michaels spoke with Between the Ropes to promote his forthcoming "Wrestling for My Life: The Legend, the Reality and the Faith of a WWE Superstar" book and he said people still ask him if he'd ever wrestle again.
"Oh yeah. All the time. All the time," Michaels told them. "If they don't believe, they request that I do. There isn't a time that, every once in a while I will receive a text or someone will make the comment of 'hey, we got this'. Put it this way: it's always there for me if I want it. There's only been probably, I don't know, maybe one time where you go that's actually a pretty good idea. (laughs) But you have to be careful even about saying that, even to acknowledge that is, in fact, a good idea. You have to be quick to follow up with don't get me wrong, I'm not doing it. I have to give you props on a good idea."
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Michaels hasn't wrestled since WrestleMania XXVI when he faced The Undertaker in a career vs. streak match in Arizona in 2010 and came up on the losing end.
Since then, he has made sporadic appearances in the WWE, but never to wrestle a match.
Michaels came closest to a return to the ring when he had a program with Daniel Bryan in 2013 that seemed as though it was going to lead to a match between the two, but never materialized.
"Yeah, I realize that a lot of people certainly got that," Michaels said. "I guess from my perspective it certainly is a good idea but it's one of those ones, I guess from my standpoint, a good idea is one that would really intrigue me. That's not one of those of those ones where you go 'wow, what are the chances of someone coming up with that?' That's teacher - student, that's been done, and again I'm not knocking it, I'm just saying that is not some kind of new, innovative idea. It's just two other guys doing a very rehashed idea but we think they can do it well so it will be fun for us to watch. Certainly at its core it's not a new and fresh idea."
Lastly, Michaels wouldn't touch on any particular idea anyone had for a return that he liked, but did say he's happy with what he's doing now while hinting at the possibility of WrestleMania.
"Well, I don't even want to go down that road because then, of course, people will run with it," he said. "I at least try to do my best to throw my hat in the ring around WrestleMania so people can talk about it and I can get free press. It's irrelevant then. Like I said, most people wouldn't find it interesting anyway. My tastes I guess are not like theirs. When you've done a lot of stuff it's sometimes those out of the box, strange ones that really peak your interest. For me, I give it about two minutes thought and then I move on because I'm very happy with what I'm doing and where my life's at right now."
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