10 Insane WWE Stunts That Were Totally Pointless
8. Glass Acts
It'd be easy to wail "WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?!" with wrist-wringing worry when viewing Shane McMahon's horrifying journey into - and back out of - the King of the Ring 2001 pay-per-view set. The reality of the answer is the one that stops the question even being asked - he wasn't.
'The Money' has equal levels of fire and funds to make such haphazard decisions in his matches that they almost always end as the talking points of a pay-per-view. McMahon is an admirable risk-taker on the grounds that he doesn't have to take risks, but less so in how little consideration it shows for the rest of the card.
On that particular night, it was a triple threat between Stone Cold Steve Austin, Chris Jericho and Chris Benoit that couldn't possibly follow the bloody bump fest, but a concussed Shane and critically acclaimed Kurt Angle had followed the glass attacks up with yet more aching violence en route to their war's grisly finale. The end result was one of huge insignificance just weeks later - Shane was by then a WCW heel against a Kurt-led WWF.
He'd make a habit of this...