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With Shawn Michaels being inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame this weekend, I thought we’d take a trip back in the way back machine and tackle something I’ve been wondering as of late…was I the first person to do a shoot (i.e. out of character) interview with him?

Let me take you back to the turn of the century, March of 2000. You see, long before I was spitting hot fire on politics, I was writing aboot professional wrestling for a site called ScoopsWrestling.com, under the awesomely awesome moniker of “Freakboy.” My first assignment – interviewing the lead singer of Korn at an independent show in Los Angeles run by a porn company – didn’t work out as well as I had hoped, and I needed something big to make up for it.

This was a few years after Shawn Michaels had retired the first time, and had started the Texas Wrestling Alliance. Four of his trainees had just signed deals with the WWF (one of whom wrestles today as Daniel Bryan) and I said to myself, “Self, you have an expense account at a dotcom that is aboot to go public. Why not fly to San Antonio and interview HBK?”

(Point of information: The dotcom in question – let’s call it HamSandwich.com – actually went public while I was in Texas for $18 a share. By December of that year…$.18 a share).
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