Wrestling for My Life: The Legend, the Reality, and the Faith of a WWE Superstar by Shawn Michaels

Author:Shawn Michaels [Michaels, Shawn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook
Publisher: Zondervan
Published: 2015-02-09T23:00:00+00:00

In 2 Corinthians 5:17, Paul writes of Christians, “. . . if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!”

I liked the idea of the old me being replaced, but I understood little about what being a “new creation” meant. What it means, I learned, is that when we confess our sins and accept Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior, we are more than forgiven of our sins. Our lives are also changed. More than that, being a new creation means that we are in the process of being continually changed for the better.

Becoming a Christian doesn’t make us perfect. If that were the requirement, I would have been disqualified a long time ago. God changes us, and then with the guidance of the Holy Spirit, we begin the process of learning how to live life a new way, a way that is more pleasing to God than how we had lived.

I had retired because of my back injury in 1998 and returned to WWE in 2002. But I did not make the decision to wrestle full-time again until WrestleMania 19 in 2003, when I felt certain that God had placed me back in wrestling for a reason.

Vince came up with a storyline for my return in which I would win the World Heavyweight Championship, more as a feel-good story than anything else, and then lose the belt a month later to Hunter. I was fine with the plan, appreciated Vince putting the belt back on me, and went through with it. After losing to Hunter, my next match was against Chris Jericho at WrestleMania 19.

All three of those matches went well, with me far exceeding what I expected from myself after the long layoff. The most difficult thing in wrestling is taking time off, whether because of injury or for personal reasons, and then getting back into the ring. Wrestlers understand showing a little bit of rust in the ring when you return, but you still have to perform at a high level. In my first match back, it was as though I hadn’t missed a day.

Still new in my salvation, I didn’t want to get caught up in everything that goes with being a wrestler again. I was back to headlining pay-per-views, and things were starting to move quickly. I wanted to go home, slow the hamster wheel down a little, and figure out what all was happening. Vince said that he understood, but needed me to cut a promo with Chris. Then I could go home and let him know where I wanted to go from there.

Chris had been in the WCW while I was wrestling, so he and I didn’t meet until I came back. We cut our promo, and I made it back to the locker-room area ahead of Chris.

“My God, did you feel that?” Vince exclaimed.

“Feel what?” I asked.

“Out there. You two. Did you feel that?”

“Yeah, it was really good,” I said.

“Really good?” Vince shot back.

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