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Shawn Michaels on 7pminbrooklyn 
with carmeloanthony and kazeem explained why The Rock vs. HBK never happened at WrestleMania: "He didn't like me."
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"There's a big kerfuffle in the wrestling business about Hunter doing stuff to him and being mean. All of it way blown out of proportion. None of it even accurate, but those were things that when he was younger, he was fed a lot. But later on, and to this day, we get along and we talk about stuff."
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Michaels said the window closed by the time he returned from his back injury: "By the time I came back, he was well off into his Hollywood career."
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Despite the match never happening, HBK said he would pick The Rock over himself: "I can remember seeing him on Saturday Night Live the first time and just thinking, holy cow, this guy's gonna be a huge star."
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#ShawnMichaels #TheRock #WWE #WrestleMania #HBK

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hbk, therock, shawnmichaels, wrestlemania, wwe

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