Shawn Michaels recently spoke about choosing retirement over working a part time schedule with WWE, here is what he had to say…
On Having the Option of a Part Time Schedule: “WWE would have allowed me to work any kind of way that I wanted. I could have very easily have said, ‘Hey, I’d like to slow down over the next couple of years, do a few things here and there,’ and I think everybody would have been fine with that, but for me, I think that would have probably been harder on me,” Michaels said. “Personally, I think the job would be harder for me to do, personally, on a semi, here and there, in and out type basis.”
On Why He Didn’t Do It: “You have to be careful because if you leave it as an open option, you’re going to be getting calls on a regular basis. Every time somebody gets injured or every time somebody comes up with an idea, the phone is going to be ringing, and you’re going to have to deal with ‘should I or shouldn’t I?’ I didn’t want to run into that. I didn’t want to put myself through that, and I didn’t want to put the company through that.”
