10 Times Wrestlers Cried And Made Everybody Feel Really Awkward
2. Stephanie McMahon (Monday Night Raw, 19th January 2009)
Another returnee to this tearful ten, Stephanie McMahon's second appearance is as much down to the angle that would follow Randy Orton's powerful beatdown of her father as well as the tears she shed for him as he lay there concussed.
Despite broadly being a babyface at the time, she'd been a deeply unsympathetic character just minutes earlier in yet another needless castration promo battle with Chris Jericho, but her return to the scene after 'The Legend Killer's dramatic punt to her father's head only made her more insufferable.
It was ironic that her verbiage earlier in the show had been so cutting. Her throaty wails for help as Vince lay grounded sounded as if she'd spent the entire evening gargling razor blades. With the commentators laying off in order to sell the gravitas of the admittedly phenomenal attack, her groaning and gravelly whimpers provided the soundtrack to the striking images and almost took away any seriousness.
Thinking as usual that McMahon plight is something their audience actually shares, Stephanie's pained cries for 'Daddy' instead harked back to a time when she literally fought in sh*t with Trish Stratus over Vince's over-familiar affections. Her tantrum-like tears completely mis-sold an otherwise incredible moment.