{"id":1439,"date":"2006-08-15T01:18:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-15T07:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=1439"},"modified":"2006-08-15T01:18:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-15T07:18:00","slug":"shawn-michaels-on-the-new-dx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/shawn-michaels-on-the-new-dx\/","title":{"rendered":"Shawn Michaels on the new DX"},"content":{"rendered":"

WWE.com<\/A> has a great interview and story with Tripple H and Shawn Michaels.
\nAs you may be aware, Michaels and HHH have returned to their old days of DX, but Michaels of course has found faith in Jesus since the DX of 1997, when anything and everything was cool.<\/p>\n

While a lot has changed since the origins of DX, one of the key factors in the evolution of DX is Michaels\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 personal faith. HBK is now a born-again Christian, and his faith has changed him in every facet of life. He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll even be the first to tell you that the Shawn Michaels you see in 2006 is a much different man than Shawn Michaels was in 1997.
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Well, everybody knows, obviously my faith and becoming born again was the one and only impact on my life,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Michaels said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153A lot of other things changed as a result of that, and I knew there were a lot of questions coming to do with the DX thing. They obviously asked me beforehand what I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d be comfortable with and what I wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t comfortable with and I knew this going in.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d
\nWhen Shawn Michaels steps through that curtain every night, he becomes the Showstopper. Shawn is an icon in the industry, but these days his reputation with God is much more important to him than anything else. There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a lot of give and take in sports-entertainment, and while Michaels realizes this, he does the best he can to stay true to himself.
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve done my best to stand strong, but I set out some guidelines of things I wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t going to do,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Michaels said candidly. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153They slowly try to creep them in and I slowly do my best to fight them off, and they say OK and they back off for a week and then they try to creep back up again. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a non-stop struggle, and everybody\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s trying to\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6\u00e2\u20ac\u009d
\nShawn took a moment to compose his thoughts before continuing.
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153You know, this company has a product to put out, obviously DX has sort of an image to uphold. Really, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve tried to do my best to do that and still stay true to my beliefs and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been difficult. I know that there have been a lot of people who have come down on me and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve taken a lot of heat for it; I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m used to that. Thank goodness me getting heat on myself for various reasons is no different now than it was 10 years ago, although it may just come from a different sect or a different group of folks. There are two roads: a road to righteousness and a road to destruction, and as I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve always said, I try not to beat anybody over the head with it. But I like to think I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m staying true to my faith.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WWE.com has a great interview and story with Tripple H and Shawn Michaels. As you may be aware, Michaels and HHH have returned to their old days of DX, but Michaels of course has found faith in Jesus since the DX of 1997, when anything and everything was cool. While a lot has changed since … Continue reading Shawn Michaels on the new DX<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-nd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}