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How Elvis Inspired Shawn Michaels’s Wrestling Career

The WWE Hall of Famer says he adapted two of his signatures from an unlikely source.

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If you ever wondered about the origin of Shawn Michaels’s signature pose, there was an inspiration behind it.

The pose, where Michaels flexes his biceps while doing a variation of a squat, can be attributed directly to Elvis Presley.

“I stole that from Elvis,” Michaels says.