4. Linda McMahon Kicks Her Husband Low (WrestleMania 17)
It took some time, but Vince eventually embraced over-the-top cartoonish supervillainy as his voice, and really, God bless him for it. When Vince gets outlandish, he's one of wrestling's greatest performers, especially from a car-wreck standpoint. In this instance, spiteful Vince told wife Linda that he wanted a divorce in his patented phlegmy grunt. This demand broke Linda's heart, and sent her spiraling into a catatonic state, which Vince maintained by keeping her drugged out of her gourd for months on end. Oh, and he flaunted his torrid affair with Trish Stratus right in front of addled Linda, too. At WrestleMania, it all came back to bite Vince during his street fight with Shane. In a glorious scene, Vince propped up motionless Linda on a chair inside the ring so that she could watch him, through apparently cloudy eyes, assault their son. At one point, he turns his back, and Linda stands up to a deafening roar, revealing that she wasn't drugged up in that moment. Vince turned, and Linda gloriously punted him in the gonads. While most McMahon melodrama is self-serving, this worked beautifully.
Justin has been a wrestling fan since 1989, and has been writing about it since 2009. Since 2014, Justin has been a features writer and interviewer for Fighting Spirit Magazine. Justin also writes for History of Wrestling, and is a contributing author to James Dixon's Titan series.
