Shawn Michaels: 5 things you should know about the Heartbreak Kid

#2 Only WWE loyalist in the NWO

HBK was in the NWO

Back in the glory days of the Monday Night Wars, the NWO had a truckload of members. There were so many people it looked like every time they were cutting a promo in the ring that a battle royal could be starting soon.

But when the nWo debuted in WWE it was because Vince McMahon wanted to crush the company. After all, he created it so he felt the need to destroy it. The initial line up of Hogan, Hall, and Nash didn't last very long and soon dissipated for one reason or another.

There were a couple new members switched into the group in an effort to make it work but nothing quite captured the old feeling of the NWO One of those members for a short time was Shawn Michaels who was never employed by WCW in spite of momentarily toying with the idea of jumping ship during the great battles between Raw and Nitro.