Dave Meltzer: “Speaking of Shawn Michaels, in Chicago on December 26 [1998], what happened was Michaels got really racial with a black fan calling him, among other things we can’t print, a monkey and jumping around like a monkey. He said he wouldn’t wrestle unless the guy was thrown out. Some thought this was all an angle as the guy was thrown out, but he came back after the match and his girlfriend, who Michaels was also insulting, was brought backstage.”