10 Most Paused WWE Moments
3. Kevin Owens Headbutts Vince McMahon
This was a wild and ill-advised move for anybody to take, much less a frail-looking Vince McMahon, particularly because it wasn't a move. He ate a shoot headbutt straight to his cobwebbed dome mere months after Katsuyori Shibata was forced to retire, if we're still doing the bad faith WWE is safe actually bit.
It's also wild to look back on footage broadcast just four years ago. At the time, it was thought McMahon looked old. He has aged exponentially in the years since, so much so that his speaking voice is garbled and almost imperceptible. The life has caught up with him, and so, it would seem, have moments like this: a deranged, not-not thrilling angle "worked" with the sort of commitment that would be better for all parties, if he applied it to the booking pencil.
A threatened firing countered a threatened lawsuit to lead to the grisly scene, which ultimately was a chapter in the first of two, f*ck's sake, Kevin Owens Vs. Shane McMahon programmes.
Owens tricked McMahon into the strike, and when burst through his forehead, an internal bruise immediately formed underneath it. The shock warranted the playback in itself, but the preceding moments were paused to check if Vince had subtly opened himself up beforehand to make this very slightly less reckless than it looked.