Shawn Michaels Recalls Wrestling Vince, 'Mania 14 Being "The Toughest Day" Of His Career

As we mentioned earlier, The Score Television Network's Arda Ocal & Renee Paquette interviewed future WWE Hall of Famer, Shawn Michaels. Here are some excerpts:

On WrestleMania 14 being the "toughest day at the office" in his career: "Yeah. Yeah it was. I wasn't in a good place physically, obviously. But also mentally. It was just bad, all around. It was the culmination of a lot of things – a lot of bad things. And I would love to tell everybody that I was faking – and fooling – everybody, but it was a pretty rough day at the office, to say the least. And I guess, because I was in such a horrible place at that time, I never really envisioned people really grasping the fact that – 'holy cow man, I don't care if I don't like him, that dude is beating the heck out of himself and he's not in any shape to be doing it'. Over time, people now get it. But when you're doing it, you don't realize that people are sort of uncomfortable watching you while you're doing it."

What he felt when wrestling Vince McMahon at WrestleMania 22: "What I really enjoyed about that WrestleMania is that I didn't feel the pressure as I did in every other one. Because that one wasn't so much – 'hey, Shawn Michaels has got to be Mr. WrestleMania and steal the show' – because I was in there with Vince McMahon, I don't think people expect a phenomenal wrestling match. Just from a pressure standpoint, that being off my shoulders allowed me the fact the enjoy that I was out there with my boss and I get to beat the heck out of him."

You can listen to the full interview by clicking here.

Source: The Score

Chris Listman contributed to this article.