WWE legend Shawn Michaels opens up on DX’s ‘old school heat,’ popularity of the crotch chop and more

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Shawn Michaels went from the "Heartbreak Kid" to one of the founding members of one of the most revolutionary factions the pro wrestling industry had ever seen at the time.

Michaels and other members of D-Generation X will be featured on A&E Network’s "Biography WWE: Legends" at 8 p.m. ET. The episode chronicled the start of the faction in the midst of WWE’s (then known as the World Wrestling Federation) Attitude Era to combat their rivals, World Championship Wrestling.

D-Generation X was formed in 1997 with Michaels, Triple H (also known as Paul Levesque) and Chyna (also known as Joan Laurer) as their response to the direction of the company. Michaels and Triple H chose to push the envelope with their personas on and off the screen.

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Kurt Angle and Shawn Michaels. (J. Shearer/WireImage for BWR Public Relations)

X-Pac (also known as Sean Waltman), Road Dogg (also know as Brian James) and Billy Gunn (also known as Monty Sopp) would later become key members of the group.

In a recent interview with Fox News Digital, Michaels said it was a seamless transition to go from his "Heartbreak Kid" gimmick to the "degenerate."

"It certainly was because, as I stated on a fair amount of occasions, it was a part of who I really was at the time," he said. "I was very uninhibited from a performance standpoint. And at that time, there just wasn’t much that I was afraid of and even (Triple H), as everyone knows is probably the most sensible out of all of us, he was also as equally as frustrated and just felt like this was his time and truly felt passionate about the direction we felt the business was going. It