Look at that image. Just look at it. Even if that black-clad figure was a wrestler it would seem an outrageous spot. Now bear in mind that the falling man is actually the boss' son and it begins to boggle the mind. Nowadays Shane McMahon has a reputation for his scary willingness to take some truly crazy bumps, but this is the match where that all began. Scaffold matches have never been held in the WWE; they're too associated with a different level of hardcore wrestling, untouched by Vince even during most extreme peaks of the Attitude Era. Yet his son brought a bump straight out of a scaffold match to PPV in the August of 2000. Shane was playing the heel in a feud with the hardcore division's unsmiling (but unspeakably cool) Steve Blackman. The fans couldn't wait to see Blackman get his hands on his cowardly foe, and finally got their chance at Summerslam. Shane, however, proved himself to be anything but the snivelling weakling he seemed to be. Quickly outmatched in a brawl, McMahon fled up the entrance ramp from a cane-wielding Blackman and scurried up one side of the TitanTron. Steve pursued him and gave several hard whacks to the spine, the last one sending Shane plummeting from a horrible height to the stage below. There was a crash mat in place of course, but had Shane's aim been slightly off there could have been a disaster (not to mention the very real possibility of over-rotating and landing on his neck). Shane's stuntman credentials were confirmed and more crazy bumps would follow, but nothing surpassed this original fall in terms of shock. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiJGVDE2iro
