10 Bizarre WWE Scenes You Totally Don’t Remember
1. Fire Alarm!
Kane and Linda McMahon's on-screen travels traversed rarely even when both were featured acts on the WWE televison, but 'The Big Red Machine's 2003 Tombstone seemed needlessly cruel McMahon matriarch's gentle gesture considering how well they appeared to get along when bizarrely featured for a Business Week magazine feature in 2000.
Playing off WWE's "Hot Growth" at the time, the juxtaposition of the silly and serious combining to make the the company such a force made sense before the proto-photoshop staffers got their hands on a 'flame' scheme for the backgrounds of all the images. Kane was an inherently stupid gimmick succeeding in an inherently stupid world that had somehow yet again become a very clever business indeed.
The company's flotation on the New York Stock Exchange forever transformed their model - and made several higher-ups even richer in the process - but came during a time that wrestling as an art form was still viewed as a low-brow passing fad. What better way was there to reflect a necessary adjustment of perceptions than with imagery that shoved the sneering takes right back in the faces of those that felt permitted to ignore the noises the McMahons were making?