Bruce Prichard on Triple H vs Shawn Michaels SummerSlam 2002 

Amazing how "one more" one night in August 2002, turned into 8 years of 5 star classics from Michaels on the regular.

Summerslam 2002 still to this day is the best wrestling show I've ever seen

I think 2002 was the last really strong complete year for the WWE

I still remember watching this match. I was absolutely blown away by Shawns performance. He literally hadn’t missed a beat

One of my all time favorite matches!

I remember being so excited by the return of HBK, but I was also really concerned that he'd be a shadow of his former self. He definitely didn't disappoint. My only regret is that he never had another heel run(other than the brief one against Hogan) HBK was a brilliant heel.

Can you imagine Bruce and Conrad being a gimmick tag team?! “In this corner, weighing in at a combined 700 pounds....RUMOR....and... INNUENDO!!!”

True story about that match... I think I was thirteen me and my dad had been watching wrestling for years we'd watch WWF/E on the regular we both thought that match would be bad.. We were instantly hooked.. And one by one my entire family stopped what they were doing and by the end of the match everyone was in the living room watching that match just hooked.

4 and 3 Quarters my ass, that was a 5 star classic

i like the spot when shawn pulled out a ladder from under the ring and he was like......"now what am i gonna do with this??"

Triple h vs Shawn micheals was a great rivalry it made a lot of sense to me seeing how close they were together.

That match was one of that last real great "must see" moments in wrestling. Easily Triple H's best match. Just a masterpiece of story telling.

I was 11 years old when I watched this match back in 2002 with my mom and dad ...

The goat always delivers in a big match!

grew up watching Shawn, definitely as a favourite as a kid and I'd consider it the best come back ever. It was a HUGE surprise.

Shawn was trained for his comeback by personal trainer and wrestler, Prince Fontenot, who ran an independent promotion in San Antonio at the time. Prince, as a trainer, is intense, and he could not only train Shawn in the gym but workout with him in the ring, which is exactly what Shawn needed.

‘Take your pills bruce’ haha

I didn't think Shawn Michaels would make a full-time return to the WWE. He returned for 8 years. I think the second half of his career was better than the first half and he left the business on a high note, and on his terms.

Very poetic of HHH slamming his best friend HBK through a window like Michael's did so many years ago to Janetty

This was in my opinion the last great feud wwe ever produced. It was such a great build up and match.

One of the best matches in WWE history.

First WWE PPV I ever brought. I wasn’t disappointed by any means

That match was one man's love letter and thank you for everything to his brother and best friend that's the only and best way I can describe it absolute magic💯🎯

The Hebner's were selling a unlicensed WWE merchandise out of a shop in Lemay, a township out of St. Louis, MO. I was friends with the shop owner. I live in Lemay.

I can't imagine Shawn's 2 year old son really gave a shit about seeing him wrestle.

My favorite Summerslam match. My favorite Summerslam. Great from top to bottom.

They didn't know what they had. They arguably had the GOAT.

Big Bret fan (was on his side during that feud) but no matter how much I hate shawns out of ring antics, I always am aware that he is one of the greatest of all time. His return easily proves it.

It's not "rumor & innuendo" that HBK showed up to an event pilled out of of his mind in 98, when he himself, as well as HHH, have publicly confirmed that it happened.lol

Legends of wrestling never retire until they die. We all know that.

This is easily the greatest match in WWE since 1997 Bret and Austin

Rock and Austin leave and Triple H has massive backstage stroke. All of a sudden Michaels back mysteriously heals. Call Jesse Ventura, because it’s a conspiracy!

Wonder if Vince ever tried to push Bruce into his pool

Have they done the DX show yet?!

best rivalry ever

Rumor and inneuendo...

Interesting how at the end Bruce says "I do think we've seen Shawn's last match" before listing all the guys he thinks will be back. HBK is just about the only guy in the wrestling business who actually retired when he lost a retirement match. And it was one of the best matches in Mania history.

Possibly the best comeback match of all time? I say it's absolutely the best comeback match of all time. Who's done it better? I was so worried that I'd be disappointed by this match. I didn't know how physically limited Shawn was. In fact, I was sure that it'd be somewhat of a letdown, that after 5 years of inactivity it was physically impossible for Shawn to perform at the level we were accustomed to seeing from him. I was lowering my expectations but still figured that Shawn performing at 50% was still better than 80% of the guys in the business. One thing in particular, when Shawn and Hunter finally made physical contact by brawling at one of the tv appearances leading up to the ppv. Once they were separated, Shawn vaulted over the top rope to hit Hunter on the outside..... and he almost didn't clear the top rope. That worried me. I obviously had nothing to worry about. An absolute classic.

Interesting that at the time, the WWE thought that this would be HBK's last match, yet they let him win. Usually, as has been mentioned by Bruce before, among others, if it's your last match, you normally take the loss.

If jordan was the best in the world in 93 and retired for 2 years and came back and still was the best for another few years...the shawn Michaels is the equivalent to him took 4 years off came back and still had some of the best feuds/matches

The Brian Kendrick should have won that championship scramble

We know how much yoi love the man...its time for a HHH 3/4 hour ahpw of his fued with The Rock and those matches(which rock still calls his greatest EVER) FROM 00-01' needs to be done , conrad... We know your his biggest fan..but we need that..his impact on the business is up there with hogan and others..

If his last match is that tag with hhh with kane and undertaker I'll be disappointed

Maybe on Vince's part firing the Hebner Bros was a flaw but it's not a flaw to just move on after it happens. It's business. Maybe on a personal level he should have felt bad but a business level no.

Anyway chat me up Bruce what's the rumors and inuendo

What the hell is inyouindough? “They say the rumor in inyouindough”

Excellent package and match but one thing always stuck out to me. It was weird to have Triple H pedigree Shawn Michaels, then have Shawn get jumped backstage, then have Triple H be concerned, then have it revealed to have been Triple H who jumped Shawn. Like I said, it was great overall. But that part struck me as odd. It was like they had two reveals in mind but couldn’t decide which to do, so they just did them both.

Shawn was absolutely gorgeous

Well Hebner vs Triple H was the greatest long term feud.

Funny how Shawn’s 2nd retirement ended ... foreign money

Imagine if interviewers only asked stupid fucking questions like this guy. Imagine somebody asking Christian Bale hey remember that whole scene with you in the Joker and then spends 15 minutes describing the scene and then simply ask what did you think of that…What did you think of that angle? Again, he saw Chris Farley and his fake talk show on SNL and decided that’s how to interview people.

This makes me think that Shawn was never hurt with a career ending back pain. That his drug use was the main reason why he stayed out for so long and he only came back when he did because his contract was running out.

I aint gna lie...during this time..amongst all of us watching it and buying the ppvs to see all this..its apparently obvious that it was intended to bury. Its also apparently obvious now that prichard is just being a stooge hoping for that next payday. While it was class of hhh to even work with scott in spite of shitty wcw treatment..he tried. The fact of the matter is this..u picked on scott during his worst wrestling days or some of..and it was still better than it should be...and i aint no scott fan not even then..wcw watchers i watched both btw..hated scott and didnt find baby jacked scott buyable at all. Well i think hhh wouldve been game for wwe any more money..the execs...dropped the ball on more money. Its obvious that there was wcw hate somewhere...heck maybe vince wouldve been onboard. But scott shouldve played heel and did alot of underground wrestling upto. And it wouldve put more money into wwe like it did in his wcw champ days. Steroid scott isnt a babyface character unless its 100%ladies in attendance. Like even if bruce is 100 honest..it still showed how execs in wwe are just screwups. Sad but true.

15 grand a week all through that bad back 4 year period to stop shawn ever going over to wcw as soon as they went out of business and the cheques stop then he got one more in him

Everytime this guy says "Rumours and innuendo" I cringe

Triple HHH isn't worthy of any praise.

How gay was Mr. Hickenbottom back then...

Couldn't stand either one of these guys. KBK's big push really started to turn me off of wrestling.

Am I the only one who thinks Shawn is the most overrated and overhyped worker, ever? Even as a kid his work and selling was so ridiculous that it made it clearly obvious that it was fake af. Couldn't ever get it. Never understood why Shawn was a main eventer, but I'm not in to guys either. I think the gimmick and women who didn't know shit about wrestling bought merch, which translated to a push.