10 Things WWE Wants You To Forget About WrestleMania 38

1. Stone Cold Steve Austin's Stunner On Vince McMahon

Vince McMahon Pat McAfee
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There was a lot to love about something that was dubbed the “worst Stunner ever” just seconds after it occurred.

Stone Coke Steve Austin’s reaction, for one, was a WrestleMania moment in and of itself. ‘The Rattlesnake’s beaming glee lit up AT&T Stadium, knowing as it was that his hard yards had been done the night before and the only way to sell the absurdity of Vince McMahon’s catastrophic selling of the move was to p*ss himself laughing.

To a fan, every single person in the building shared the joy. At home, it went a long way to restoring good will after a fairly wretched McMahon/Pat McAfee mini-match threatened to derail it.

WWE - and presumably McMahon himself - didn’t agree. It was sharply cut from the highlights the next night, and will surely meet the same fate on Peacock any day now. To have lived it is to remember the visual forever, but vaults in memory banks over those within Network archives will just have to do.

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