10 Pointless Acts Of Wrestling Bravery That Were Totally Forgotten
2. The Boy Wonder
As evidenced by the remarkable responses he still receives from audiences today, it is not as though Shane McMahon's stunt matches don't leave behind a reputation that in turn builds anticipation for future clashes.
However, the problem arises when the contest in question, or really, his entire persona, only exists in a world all by itself, making each witless risk more pointless than the last.
This leads to is an endless game of 'can-you-top-this', and whilst the answer is often "yes", it usually means a complete abandonment of the previous feat of jeopardy.
In his 'career', Shane has fallen literally hundreds of feet in total from girders, stages, cages, and cells, suffered chokeslams, angle-slams, and spears through tables, endured countless concussions from moves to the head around metal, wood, and glass (!), and probably hasn't done his back and neck any favours since electing to poach Rob Van Dam's Van Terminator.
Hardly a bastion of knowing when to say "when", Mick Foley fell off or through the Hell in a Cell three times in his career and each carried gravitas for generations. Shane took the biggest fall in Cell history at WrestleMania 32, and it didn't even make for his final big spot of the calendar year.