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|billed = Diesel: [[Detroit, Michigan]]<ref name="WWENashBio">{{cite web|url=http://www.wwe.com/superstars/kevinnash|title=Kevin Nash |work=[[WWE]] |access-date=January 18, 2014}}</ref><br/>Shawn Michaels: [[San Antonio]], [[Texas]]<ref name="WWEMichaelsBio">{{cite web|url=http://www.wwe.com/superstars/hbk|title=Shawn Michaels|work=[[WWE]] |access-date=January 18, 2014}}</ref>
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[[Kevin Nash|Diesel]] and [[Shawn Michaels]] formed a [[tag team]], also known as '''Two Dudes with Attitudes'''
== History ==
=== First run (1993–1994) ===
The two first got together in mid-1993, when [[Kevin Nash|Diesel]] became a bodyguard for [[WWE Intercontinental Championship|Intercontinental Champion]] [[Shawn Michaels|Shawn Michaels.]]<ref name="WWENashBio"/> During 1993 and 1994, both
The duo transformed into a tag team when 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>
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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>
The two wrestlers, Michaels and Diesel,
Two Dudes with Attitudes disbanded for a second time after Diesel lost the WWF Championship to [[Bret Hart]] at [[Survivor Series (1995)|Survivor Series]] on November 19, 1995.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wwe.com/classics/titlehistory/wwe-world-heavyweight-championship/304454121|title=WWE World Heavyweight Championship - Bret Hart |work=[[WWE]] |access-date=January 18, 2014}}</ref> On January 21, 1996, Michaels won the [[Royal Rumble (1996)|Royal Rumble]] for a second consecutive year, eliminating Diesel in the process.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wwe.com/shows/royalrumble/history/198811412/mainevent/ |title=1996 Royal Rumble match|access-date=January 22, 2008 |work=WWE }}</ref> After Michaels won the WWF Championship from Hart at [[WrestleMania XII]] on March 31, 1996, Diesel unsuccessfully challenged him at [[In Your House 7: Good Friends, Better Enemies]] on April 28, 1996.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wwe.com/shows/wrestlemania/history/wm12/mainevent/ |title=Shawn Michaels vs. Bret "Hit Man" Hart in a WWE Iron Man Match for the WWE Championship |access-date=January 22, 2008|work=WWE}}</ref> Diesel and Michaels continued to feud until Diesel's departure from the WWF in May 1996.
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