12. HBK Breaks His Back
All the way back in 1998, Shawn Michaels was the defending WWE Heavyweight Champion heading into a casket match at the Royal Rumble against The Undertaker. HBK took a back body drop over the top rope and was supposed to land on the other side of the casket but nicked his back on the way down, herniating two discs and crushing a third. Again it didn’t look like much and Michaels said he really couldn’t feel anything different at first, but you could tell right away that something was wrong with The Showstopper even though he gutted it out to finish the match and even managed to defend the title at WrestleMania against Steve Austin a couple months later. Shawn thought the injury was career ending as Michaels was hardly able to move, let alone wrestle. Thankfully, that wasn’t the case as he would return four years later and be better than ever.
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