Shawn Michaels Gives His Thoughts On His Crown Jewel Return

TheSportster

By Lou Flavius

Published Nov 18, 2018

Shawn Michaels has explained that his decision to come back for Crown Jewel earlier this month wasn't motivated by money.

WWE legend Shawn Michaels has explained that he didn't perform at the recent Crown Jewel event for the money.

The veteran star came out of retirement to wrestle in Saudi Arabia earlier this month, his first in-ring bout in eight years. And he insists it was because of a special request and not financial motivation.

HBK has also pointed out that he could have made more money at WrestleMania this year had he accepted the WWE's offer of a match.

"I'm glad to say that I did it, but I don't want to try it again." Michaels said on a recent episode of E&C's Pod of Awesomeness (h/t Wrestling Inc). "Yeah, yeah, so, look, the one upside is… again, you're always just curious, 'can I do my stuff?' So, technically, yeah, I could go in there and do my stuff and have the young guys work around me and all of that.

"But the 100% only reason I said, 'yes' to this one was, one, it was a special request by other people. And, again, it was a chance… I looked at it like someone is asking the Stones and KISS to come over and just play their greatest hits. That's it.

"Unfortunately, everybody feels like it was all about the money and this, that, and the other. And I mean it respectfully, of course, but, technically, I'd make more money doing a single's match at WrestleMania. Do you know what I mean? Because that brand is bigger. I'm charging more for a single's match! Do you know what I mean?

"But I didn't feel like I was put in a position in this particular match to be that guy. Do you know what I mean? And everything else about working with a younger guy at WrestleMania puts me in a much tougher, more difficult situation performance-wise. And that's something I had been consistent about over the last eight years. I didn't want to be put in that position because I'm good with the performances that I've had at WrestleMania.

"I wanted to end those the way that I ended them. It just happened to be a special thing that again in a million years I didn't think would come up, but it did and that honestly is the only reason why I said, 'yes'."