Every Impossible Wrestling Return Ranked From Worst To Best

9. Shane McMahon

Ranking Shane McMahon above Bret Hart is sacrilegious and comes with it a deep sense of guilt, but if nothing else, Shane's bump at WrestleMania 37 was very dumb, very painful-looking and thus very funny

A lot of people objectively loved the match with AJ Styles at WrestleMania 33, even if, subjectively, it made zero sense that Shane, a rich brat part-time stuntman, had somehow developed the technical skill with which to take AJ Styles to his limit across nearly 20 minutes. As a dramatic match in and of itself, it worked, but it was profoundly unconvincing as a story, if you care enough to think about it for longer than a minute. The same logic applies to celebrity matches, which are almost always great, but at least a complete novice knows how to throw something resembling a working punch.

Shane was almost objectively great in his logical, natural role as a scared pissant heel in the Graveyard Dogs match that rescued the Undertaker's in-ring legacy.

Elsewhere, he punched people like a jumped-up little toddler enchanted into mimicry by their first glimpse of a boxing match and laboured through terrible, terrible matches in which he drenched himself in sweat and breathed like a pensioner in a high-rise.

Still, it was an impossible return. It was thought for seven "oh sick that's so sick" years that he'd never come back.