Shane McMahon’s 10 Most Ridiculous Ego Trips
Wonder Boy
How is it that it took four years for people to turn on second generation fraud Bray Wyatt getting away with murder in undeserved spots, but Shane McMahon remains at large nearly twenty years on from his first main roster appearance, hearing cheers in every city he makes a point of delivering a cringeworthy shout out to?
Even Jim Cornette is a fan. Having shared the Sunday Night Heat commentary desk in 1998 with 'Shane O Mac' as well as working extensively with him behind the scenes during their shared spell in Vince's inner circle, the notoriously caustic 'Louisville Lip' noted that he "liked Shane more than most of them. Shane's a good guy, and what an athlete he was." Coming from the man who compared Kenny Omega and Kota Ibushi to Hitler, this was high praise indeed.
Try, if you can, to look beyond the broad brush strokes painted by the 'Boy Wonder' in his promos, matches and segments though. Shane McMahon is a wolf in sheep's clothing, more dastardly than his dad and more cynical than his sister. The lesser-maligned McMahon is the same spoilt rich kid as his sibling, but instead of the wealth and power manifesting as a television character, he's smiling as he lines his pockets with the oh-so-important 'Money'. The word is literally screamed at you as he skips to the ring.
It's Shane's world, we all just get to shuffle around in it. But our feet won't move as quickly as his, obviously.
10. Toe To Toe With Taker
Over a year has passed since Shane McMahon fought The Undertaker for the right to run Monday Night Raw and reveal the incriminating of a mysterious lockbox. Inevitably, he lost, ensuring that the deadly secret remained undisclosed, but he got to take over Monday Night Raw (and eventually SmackDown Live!) anyway because he's the bosses son and that's how it works whether you like it or not.
If reneging on a stipulation wasn't annoying enough, it came after an absurd festival of indulgence dressed up as a competitive battle inside what was once the company's most devastating structure.
As evidenced in his match with Roman Reigns at WrestleMania 33, The Undertaker has to be cast as the tired veteran now because...well, he is. It stretches believability for his character to be competitive against performers half his age and double his skillset, but Shane McMahon was neither of those things.
The insulting spectacle of a millionaire douchebag knuckling up against one of the industry's most esteemed figures was ludicrous, not least considering the fact that Undertaker (only five years Shane's senior) made p*ss easy work of upper card mainstay Bray Wyatt on two separate pay-per-views the previous year and hadn't worked a match since...