Two Dudes with Attitudes: Difference between revisions

The duo transformed into a tag team on Michaels and Diesel defeated [[The Headshrinkers]] at a [[house show]] to win the [[World Tag Team Championship (WWE)|WWF Tag Team Championship]] on August 28, 1994 in [[Indianapolis, Indiana]],<ref name="WWETag1">{{cite web |url=http://www.wwe.com/classics/titlehistory/worldtagteam/304454132125 |title=World Tag Team Championship - Diesel & Shawn Michaels |work=[[WWE]] |access-date=January 18, 2014}}</ref> days before interference by Michaels backfired and cost Diesel the Intercontinental Championship at [[SummerSlam (1994)|SummerSlam]] on August 29, 1994.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.wwe.com/classics/titlehistory/intercontinental/322480|title=Intercontinental Championship - Razor Ramon |work=[[WWE]] |access-date=January 18, 2014}}</ref> At [[Survivor Series (1994)|Survivor Series]] on November 23, 1994, Michaels once again accidentally hit Diesel with a superkick. The team subsequently split, vacating the WWF Tag Team Championship.<ref name="WWETag1"/> Three days later, Diesel [[Glossary of professional wrestling terms#Squash|squashed]] [[Bob Backlund]] at a house show to win the [[WWE World Heavyweight Championship|WWF Championship]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wwe.com/classics/titlehistory/wwe-world-heavyweight-championship/304454123|title=WWE World Heavyweight Championship - Diesel |work=[[WWE]] |access-date=January 18, 2014}}</ref>

 

In early 1995, Michaels and Diesel [[Glossary of professional wrestling terms#Feud|feuded]] over the WWF Championship. Michaels won the [[Royal Rumble (1995)|Royal Rumble]] and unsuccessfully challenged Diesel in a title match at [[WrestleMania XI]] on April 2, 1995.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wwe.com/shows/wrestlemania/11/results|title=Full WrestleMania XI Results |work=[[WWE]] |date=November 17, 2011|access-date=January 18, 2014}}</ref> On the April 3, 1995 episode of ''[[WWE Raw|Monday Night Raw]]'', Diesel came to rescue Michaels from an attack by his replacement bodyguard, [[Sid Eudy|Sid]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wwe.com/videos/list-this-hardest-hitting-betrayals-7-sycho-sid-turns-on-shawn-michaels-raw-4395-8186174|title=List This! Hardest Hitting Betrayals #7: Sycho Sid turns on Shawn Michaels - Raw 4/3/95|work=[[WWE]] |date=November 17, 2011|access-date=January 18, 2014}}</ref>