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Can't be arsed quoting all these posts, but here's my 2 cents...
The Michaels knee injury in 1997 was legit. However, he had been working through the injury for a long time and it was nowhere near "career threatening". He conveniently decided he could no longer work through it when he found out he was due to put Bret over for the gold at WrestleMania 13. It was a load of bullshit, but he was actually hurt.
The back injury is 100% legit, the guy had a near five hour operation in January 1999 and was genuinely advised never to wrestle again.
I've heard the story about The Undertaker threatening HBK at WM14 loads of times from various different sources. Apparently, Michaels wanted to put the title on Helmsly on the next night's Raw, which was laughable at the time because Helmsly was NOWHERE near World title material at the time.
It was apparently Vince McMahon's idea to put the European title on Shawn Michaels in England to build a "revenge" PPV for the following April, in which Davey Boy Smith would regain the belt. To me, that's a sound booking plan, so it's probably true. (Then again, this is Vince we're talking about...) Unfortunately the April PPV fell through due to problems with Sky TV, Michaels was injured by then and Davey Boy had quit in the fall-out from the Montreal incident, so it never came to pass.
As for Kurt Angle, that guy has gone completely barmy. I wouldn't believe a word he says nowadays.
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