10 Ridiculous Stephanie McMahon Ego Trips

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Stephanie McMahon's SmackDown General Manager entrance music let fans know she was 'All Grown Up', which is perhaps why, as head of the creative team at the time, she felt it palatable to script perhaps the most nauseating segment in blue brand history.

Illogical, incongruent and insufferable, the sequence of events that lead to John Cena smacking Stephanie McMahon's a*se highlight all that can go wrong within WWE's sprawling autocratic hierarchy.

A barely-loved babyface, Stephanie strode to the ring as Michael Cole suggested she may be at a personal nadir thanks to Kane's brutal steel stage tombstone to her mother Linda on Monday's Raw.

Luckily as she's hard as nails, the 'Billion Dollar Princess' used the incident to put herself over with the live crowd and screech about treating pay-per-view opponent 'like a b*tch'.

Antagonist rapper Cena interrupted, ostensibly to promote his own high profile clash against The Undertaker, but instead got himself all distracted freestyling about a wet dream he had involving 'Daddy's Little Girl'.

It was cringeworthy. Lowlights included vicious heel Cena losing his concentration staring at her breasts, a inability to avoid onanism at the mere thought of her, and a main event moment where she dared Cena to smack her backside. Doing so triggered celebrations bigger than his WWE Title win two years later.

She wrote it herself. She wrote it, herself.

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