10 Disturbing Times WWE Flirted With Romance Angles

9. Vince McMahon Wants To Bang His Daughter

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"Style and grace, let me shoot my shot: sit on my face?"

No, not the lyrics to Jim Johnston's 'Welcome To The Queendom', but Vince McMahon actually pitching a romance angle to his own daughter. Vince made love to his wife at the time and nine months later, Stephanie, his own flesh and blood, popped out.

A couple of decades and some change later, and he's asking if he can pen a storyline in which he would be the biological father of her baby.

In 2003, Stephanie fell pregnant in real life, and so Vince, inveterate carny, said "Well we have to make an angle out of this, obviously".

Vince likely pitched this because times were rather desperate. WWE wasn't in significant trouble, but the glory days of skyscraper ratings and household infamy were over. When it was still possible to chase this height of popularity, WWE chased the f*ck out of it. Mock necrophilia? Why not?

And, as it was suggested, incest.

Mercifully, Stephanie rejected the article.

Vince agreed, but put forward a counter offer...

 
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