Shawn Michaels praises Undertaker’s AAA work
Shawn Michaels thinks The Undertaker is doing a “fantastic” job behind the scenes in Lucha Libre AAA.
After helping to define WWE in the ring from the 1990s-2010s, Michaels and Undertaker are both now important figures behind the scenes. Michaels is in charge of WWE NXT, while Undertaker is a big part of the AAA creative team. Michaels sees the irony in his former undead rival being so heavily involved in lucha libre, but he’s happy to see Undertaker giving back to the industry.
We joke about that quite a bit,” Michaels told Adrian Hernandez. “Here is this unbelievably stoic figure in his WWE career, and he’s out there with the luchadores and everything else going 100 miles an hour and stuff. But, again, so poetic. He’s doing a fantastic job, and that’s no surprise. He’s the man in so many ways. He’s incredibly bright and, of course, once he started coming around the Performance Center and jumping into [WWE] LFG, much like myself, that love, that itch comes back and it makes you want to be able to give back.
“So he’s, no surprise, doing a fantastic job with AAA. But, no, it is sort of ironic that of all people, the man who was The Undertaker, out there having the lucha libre style being his trademark going forward in his career.”
A new Peacock documentary, titled “The Heartbreak Kid: Becoming Shawn Michaels,” premiered today. It tells the story of Michaels’ wrestling stardom, his battles with addiction, and how he overcame them to get where he’s at now — serving as WWE’s Senior Vice President of Talent Development, Creative. Undertaker was among those interviewed for the documentary.
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