10 Times WWE Successfully Recycled Its Own Storylines
2. A McMahon In Every Corner
It took some fair old gumption of Vince McMahon to book his entire family in yet another WrestleMania blockbuster just a year after offering one "in every corner" of the main event, but an incredible offering with his son Shane yet again made magnificent use of all four.
At WrestleMania 16, Vince, Shane, Stephanie and Linda cornered The Rock, The Big Show, Triple H and Mick Foley respectively. A year later and it was all about them.
'Shane-O-Mac' went to war on behalf of his comatose mother in an effort to neuter his megalomaniacal father after months of physical and emotional abuse. Stephanie was sucked in too, trapped in an unnerving war with McMahon's twinkie-turned-torture victim Trish Stratus over exactly who could lay claim to being "Daddy's Little Girl". The payoff, somehow, was one of the most grandiose in WrestleMania history.
Linda rising from her sedate state to hoof her husband in his grapefruits almost stole the greatest show in company history - a far cry from Vince's swerve-turn 12 months earlier resulting in 'The Great One' dropping a People's Elbow on his daughter.
The McMahons will regrettably always rely on themselves to fix any company ill - this one-two pay-per-view punch was both box office and brilliant.