WWE Hall of Famer Shawn Michaels recently opened up about "Macho Man" Randy Savage wanting to feud with him in the past and leading the locker room in a prayer after Eddie Guerrero passed away.
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Michaels was a young up-and-comer when Savage was in his prime, but Savage's brother Lanny Poffo recently revealed that the former two-time WWE Champion wanted to feud with Michaels in 1994.
Poffo said in an interview that Savage wanted to have a two-year long feud with Michaels in what would have been the last thing he did in his career.
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As it turned out, Savage left for WCW in late-1994 and never returned to WWE in any capacity before his death in 2011. He'll join Michaels in the Hall of Fame this year.
Michaels talked to Newsday to promote his "Wrestling for My Life" book after just recently learning that Savage wanted to feud with him 21 years ago.
"I've only just recently from my Twitter feed learned about that," Michaels told the publication. "I knew absolutely nothing about that. Obviously, that would have been a blast. Gosh, I think that would have helped me immensely at that time. I think there's so much I could have learned and would have learned. But I have to say that's one of those things that's been news to me. I guess all these years later you think, 'Oh, that's nice to know.' I'm flattered. Randy was a very keep-to-yourself kind of guy. And I guess I'm making assumptions, but for him to think I was even ready to do something like that with him, I think is a wonderful compliment, and I'm thankful to have it. I always tell people how he'd give me these short little pieces of advice every now and again. It's nice to know that he thought of me in that respect."
Michaels also touched on leading the WWE roster in a locker room prayer following Guerrero passing away in November 2005 and how people came up to him to talk after many wrestling tragedies.
"Certainly, even prior to that, it was sort of going on. Anytime there was a tragedy or a difficult time, there was always somebody who came and wanted to talk," Michaels said. "And that was a nice thing. I can't say that leading the prayer at Raw after Eddie's death, it's not like I became after that point the pastor, so to speak. I just think through all of that time, it just became a little bit easier for people to talk about those things, to talk about struggles. I'm just thankful that they felt comfortable enough to discuss it with me. I think that part of it is, if you're the first one to step forward and talk about things that are tough, then other people know that it's OK. I certainly didn't want to give the impression that after that prayer, I was the spiritual leader of the locker room. I just think when it came to those issues of one's own mortality, they knew that I was a guy that they could talk to about it. And, I guess, in some respects, I have some insight on it because of, obviously, how my own mortality brought it all about for me."
Lastly, Michaels said that no one had a problem with his backstage prayer sessions after writing in his book that no one was forced to join in.
"I honestly can't remember anybody having any problem with it," he said. "It was obviously something that just came about organically, which was very fortunate. I think if it became something that was almost a scheduled event, that's when it might make people uncomfortable. It was always just something that individuals did if they wanted to. I don't recall a time of someone objecting or being uncomfortable that I could see. Certainly, nobody ever said anything. I remember having conversations with guys who were really at a place where, 'I sort of get the way you feel and there are times that I think about that. But there are some real practical things that don't allow me to go down the same road you're going down.' And I always thought just having that conversation was awesome. I don't think there's anybody that doesn't sometimes struggle with those things. I can't describe to you verbatim those first seven days [of creation]. There are Christians who think there were seven actual days, or that creation was over time. They have answers for dinosaurs and things of that nature. And I don't claim to have any of those answers. And I understand people wanting to have discussions about it. I don't pass myself off as a bible scholar or a pastor or someone who knows all the biblical facts cover-to-cover. I'm just a guy whose life was changed by it. And that's about the extent of it. So I'm not easily offended when people struggle about where they're at with their faith at all."
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