Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #53374 in Books
• Published on: 2006-11-06
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 352 pages

Synopsis
He is one of the most charismatic showmen ever to grace a WWE ring. He is HBK: The Heartbreak Kid - the most resilient champion in WWE. And pound for pound, he may well be the toughest. He was the first Grand Slam champion - the only competitor to hold every title WWE had to offer at the time. Weighing in at 225 pounds, he was WWE Champion on three occasions, defeating men who were close to twice his size. From the very beginning of his spectacular career Michaels gained a reputation for pushing his body to extremes. He was willing to go the limit: to do whatever he had to do to put on a stunning show - and eventually his body paid the price. In his early thirties, an age when most Superstars are hitting their prime, Michaels had to bow out of the spotlight, plagued by recurrent injuries which had ended - or so he thought - his career. But then, sensationally, after four years out of the ring, in June 2002 'The Showstopper' returned to a rapturous reception from which he has never looked back. This is the full story of his truly remarkable comeback, and of his glittering twenty-year-plus career.

Customer Reviews

A GOOD READ
Heartbreak and Triumph: The Shawn Michaels Story (WWE)
I am not a great HBK fan and that is still the case after reading his book, the start about his family and school years give the book a solid base but once he starts to talk about his wrestling the book becomes very linear and self indulgent. The main problem I had is that he did`nt go into much depth about the wrestling, inside and outside the ring, and you could just feel that he could have told us alot more with a greater detail had it not been published by WWE. His hatred for Bret Hart is also too obvious and reflects in some of his comments and gives the book no real sense of truth. He sums up survivor series 1997 until present day in about 50 pages which just seems lazy . I still enjoyed it but if you are wanting a great book on wrestling see Bret Harts book or Pure Dynamite by Tom Billington they are both less censored the latter especially.

His name is HickenBOTTOM he hee
Well as a wrestler HBK is definately a legend, as a writer he is intercontinental champ...Not quite world heavyweight champ, that honour remains with the nature boy Ric Flair whose book was far superior.
Shawns book is far from poor, on the contrary, but it lacks the gritty balls that Flair's book hung out on display. You see, Shawn is a born again christian, and as a result is not proud of some of the things he did outside the ring, but where as this would have been awesome reading, it is instead hurriedly washed over with little detail. That is my only gripe with the book, because everything else about the wrestling is outstanding.
Reading about the matches brought back the nostalgic feeling i love about wrestling, re-living the matches I grew up watching. And as for the infamous Montreal screw job....Just buy the book and enjoy that trip down memory lane guided by the showstopper himself.
I've got two words for ya BUY IT.

his words dont lie
Shawn michaels may not always get the respect he deserves,some will always blame him for bret harts humilation in montreal,some will say he is too arrogant and some will say he has held the wwe title four times so that doesnt make him a real legend,others will question his years of self destruction while at the same time find fault in his beliefs in God and his new lifestyle,its a hard one to call,but what we have here is a honest account of the mans career from the horses mouth and he spares little in the way of his journey.
His journey is far from trouble free,most of us can recite his career stats no problems but we may not know the pain and self destructive path he followed to get there,painkillers became a large part of his life and that nearly cost him everything,we learn who his best friends are and those he has no time for and of course bret hart is the main focal point in that.
The chapter on the montreal incident is stunning and very honest,shawn does not hide in his role in this and comes out worse than even i thought,he played some part in this let me tell you.
The book is very honest,some would say too honest,if you ever had any doubts that wrestling wasnt fake then you can kick those doubts out the window,hbk tells us all what happens in the build up to a match and more.
If the book had been written before michaels found God then it may have had a more twisted feel perhaps but as it stands michaels embraces the lord when he can here without bashing a bible over our heads as he puts it,this is a great book filled with passion,conviction and honesty,riveting.