10 Times WWE Wasted HUGE Teases
7. The Attempted Murder Of Vince McMahon (2.0)
WWE had no choice to abandon the original Vince McMahon whodunnit.
The company had gone to an awful lot of trouble to sell his 2007 limousine explosion as legitimate, apparently due to orders from the man himself. Bruce Prichard's "I can't be on TV if I'm dead, pal!" line was one of the early Something To Wrestle With poppers, because it spoke to the deranged logic of his former and future boss in a manner that felt entirely believable.
The Benoit family tragedy left nobody any option but to leave such stories well alone. WWE - in all its brokenness in the aftermath - had to be about the escapist entertainment actually escaping anything resembling death.
For about a year.
For the climax (?) of the disastrous McMahon's Million Dollar Mania idea in 2008, Vince booked his character's demise yet again. Having given yet more of his cash away in a bizarre and failed ratings ploy, a smiling-and-waving Chairman was felled by the stage collapsing beneath his feet before the remainder of the MDM structure crushed him.
Not only did we never find out who had yet another attempt on his life, but we never found out the full nature of its failure. McMahon was back in January 2009 without as much as a bruise remaining from the supposedly devastating scene.