Michaels notes that he had visited WWE’s Performance Centre a couple of times during vacations to Florida, and he admits that it’s an infectious environment. He was asked by Triple H to be involved there as a trainer, and he’s loved his experience there thus far. He truly feels that he needed some time away from wrestling after nearly 3 decades in the business, but he’s really loving being back in the mix of things now.
He thinks he’s been able to help some talents through studying tape and providing them with some details of his experiences in the business. He truly feels that it’s tough to know how to react to certain things in the business unless you’ve been through those things before. He loves the inclusiveness of the Performance Centre, and it’s very convenient for him since most NXT tapings are based right there in Florida.
Michaels talks about working house shows throughout his career. He notes that a lot of people credit his WrestleMania 10 Ladder Match against Razor Ramon, but him and Ramon had been doing all of those spots night after night at house shows for weeks leading up to WrestleMania. He never wanted to take a night off. X-Pac mentions that Michaels and Flair had amazing matches at house shows leading up to Flair’s retirement match at WrestleMania 24 as well.
Michaels talks about how he was able to have great matches with big men such as Psycho Sid and Kevin Nash. Michaels is always thankful when people praise his work in those matches, but he always enjoyed working with big guys. He thought it was easy to tell a compelling story when he worked with big men.
