"Looking forward to doing business with you, Shawn"

John Bradshaw Layfield: "Last week I made Shawn Michaels an offer and I have yet to hear back from the Heartbreak Kid. So earlier today I made Shawn Michaels an offer that will be a lot easier to understand. I challenged Shawn Michaels to a street fight tonight. So Shawn, I know you're back there, now what's your answer?

[Michaels' Musik ertönt und er kommt zum Ring, um JBL gegenüberzutreten. Doch bevor der Ringrichter das Match anläuten kann, ergreift JBL noch einmal das Wort.]

Hold on. Hold on, referee. Shawn, you got a choice to make. You can either fight me right here in the street fight or you can do the right thing for you, your family, your extended family and take care of them in a financial crisis. You never dreamed of what happened a year ago today. You see, I know some things, Shawn. Rich people always do. Before this stock market crash, nobody saw it coming - except of course for my wife - but that didn't help you, did it?

You see, I was horting cash, I was putting money in gold while most Americans blindly, stupidly followed the leader, I was making money. In fact, Shawn, I was prospering while you were following the herd losing almost almost... almost everything. Right, Shawn? You lost your 401K, you lost your retirement, you lost your nest egg, you lost your children's education fund. You gotta support your extended family, Shawn, and now you look around, with all this responsibility. And you look at your beautiful wife, she is a beautiful lady, Shawn. You look at your wonderful two little kids and you wonder: How in the world am I gonna send them to college?

Well, I've got an answer. I'm offering you a job. I want you to come work for me. See, there's always alternatives, Shawn, there's alternatives to everything. You can always wrestle. You can wrestle till you're fifty. You might even wrestle till your sixty. In fact, you can be a lot like these has-beens who are disgracing themselves in high school gyms all over the country bragging about their war stories of selling the place out while hawking their eight-by-tens and selling Polaroids. Shawn, you could be that guy - or you could take my offer. Because I promise you this: All the revenue that you're gonna make of your DX T-Shirts will not compare to the offer that I make to you. And while you're sitting there, deciding about your offer, Shawn, I suggest you take a little realistic look in the mirror - a mirror that I would look at if I were you, Shawn, and see what I see right now. And Shawn, that is not exactly a picture of health.

The years haven't been kind to you, have they, Shawn? One more fall, one more Hell in a Cell, one more Ladder Match, one more showstopper at WrestleMania, one more, Shawn, just one more slightly awry bump through a table, Shawn, and you're done. You're done. What else can you really do beside... [HBK-Chants] this?

So that's the offer, Shawn. You get a second chance in life. I'm gonna help you out. I'm gonna help your family out. I'm gonna make sure that your sweet little kids go to college, Shawn. That's what I'm offering you. So now, since you wouldn't answer my offer last week, what's it gonna be now? [JBL nimmt seinen Stetson ab] Go ahead. Go ahead. Ever since I walked out here, ever since you walked out here, ever since this pyro went off, ever since the Showstopper went into the ring, people have been wanting you to kick me in the face. So why don't you do it? Why don't you take that instant gratification? I am gonna give you a free shot, Shawn, right here. Take it. Listen to 'em. Everybody wants it, Shawn. It's what you want. You're twitching, you're begging to pull the trigger, so I tell you right now: TAKE THE SHOT! TAKE IT! [JBL schließt die Augen und wartet ab was Shawn tut, er rührt sich nicht]

The want you, Shawn. They're chanting your name. Do it, Shawn, before it's too late. This is your second chance, but understand this. Understand this, listen to me, not them: If you take this shot, then this offer is off the table - forever. [JBL schließt wieder die Augen, Shawn tut wieder nichts, wendet sich ab und verlässt den Ring, worauf ihn die Fans ausbuhen.]

Looking forward to doing business with you, Shawn."