10 Times WWE Forced It Down Our Throats

1. The McMahon Family

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Vince McMahon may make a good argument for being the greatest single performer in WWE history, but the discovery of that fact has done more damage to the company's creativity than most events of the last 25 years. Yes, it gave us the biggest drawing character in company history (Steve Austin), but it also gave us a lifetime of the McMahon Family being all over the product, at all times.

Vince is the be-all and end-all here, the final say, the big bad of WWE booking. How many times has he used that position to position Stephanie McMahon as the saviour of women’s wrestling? How many times has he used it to put Shane McMahon in matches he had no place being in? The McMahons have been positioned as both wrestling’s salvation and its damnation, and only one of those is true.

You don’t need to make a song and dance about the WrestleMania 2000 main event, but it doesn’t hurt. "A McMahon in Every Corner" was the tagline, but the show was more like a bad dream, one where the ruling dynasty was everywhere and anywhere. Fast forward to the present day and they are never that far away, ready to swoop in when ratings fall (ratings always fall) and act as the most important humans on the planet.

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Born in the middle of Wales in the middle of the 1980's, John can't quite remember when he started watching wrestling but he has a terrible feeling that Dino Bravo was involved. Now living in Prague, John spends most of his time trying to work out how Tomohiro Ishii still stands upright. His favourite wrestler of all time is Dean Malenko, but really it is Repo Man. He is the author of 'An Illustrated History of Slavic Misery', the best book about the Slavic people that you haven't yet read. You can get that and others from www.poshlostbooks.com.